It has been nine years since India signed this important convention against corruption, but it is unfortunate that on ground the situation remains unchanged as no action has been taken.
Warning that time was running out to preserve the Ganga, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday pulled up state governments for tardy performance on sewage treatment and asked them to take action against industries polluting the river.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Monday sought permission from the Centre to carry out a Rs 2,400-crore special road corridor development project to effectively deal with Naxalism, besides requesting for a helicopter to carry out swift air operations.
Google's social networking site Orkut on Thursday banned a community named as Indian Mujahideen following the serial blasts in the national capital on September 13.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Wednesday told operators Etisalat DB and STel to continue offering services till June 2, the limit specified by the Supreme Court for expiry of their licences.
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Corporate etiquette trainer Shital Kakkar Mehra identifies the challenges facing young Indian professionals and tells us why one should not feel guilty about making investments on one's attire and communication skills for success in career.
Social networking giant Facebook has hired an engineering student here for a fat annual pay package of Rs 1.34 crore, one of the biggest offers made to alumnus of any technical institution of the country.
'Bolstering India's conventional military capability against China is in America's strategic interest,' says military historian Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Radhakishan Damani is the only billionaire to see his wealth grow by around 20% during the lockdown.
Gopalakrishnan, who is the immediate past President of CII, is the Chairman of the summit.
LinkedIn claims that having a profile picture can get you '21x more profile views and 9x more connection requests'.
PlanCom makes presentation with secretaries of key ministries in tow.
Israel on Sunday resumed its military offensive on Gaza after Hamas militants continued to fire rockets rejecting a 24-hour humanitarian truce requested by the UN as the 20-day conflict killed 1,050 Palestinians and 46 Israelis, including an Indian-origin soldier.
The international operations of Air India seem to be the main attraction for IndiGo, which has also flagged concerns about some foreign overseas airlines being allowed "disproportionate access" to the Indian market.
Swarnalata Patel from Novato, California, USA tells us why she quit using the popular social networking site.
Xi and Modi met soon after their arrival at a summit of the BRICS group of emerging powers. Xi said the two countries should join hands in setting global rules and suggested he attend the November meeting of the 21-nation APEC in Beijing, as well as take part in Chinese-led regional initiatives.
The Bihar government has decided to develop the road connecting Bodh Gaya to Patna into a four-lane express highway with funding from the Japan International Cooperation Agency, officials said on Saturday. "The proposed project of widening of the 110-km stretch between Bodh Gaya to Patna and developing it as a four lane express highway is ready and work will begin soon," said an official in the Chief Minister's Office. At present, the road only has two lanes.
Reader Girish spotted Orkut Buyukkokten Founder of Orkut.com at Google Inc, Mountain View, California in January 2008.
An International Policy Network report in 2010 found that seven per cent of drugs bought from wholesale traders were substandard, and 3.6 per cent of the drugs from traders contained no active ingredient whatsoever.
Patanjali doesn't employ any fancy managers with MBA degrees.
During her tenure, Facebook's users in the country have grown from 8 million to 138 million, making India its second largest market after the US
Admitting that the 'memogate' scandal has raised questions about the strength of Pakistan's civilian government and the influence wielded by the powerful military, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said it was "ridiculous" to link President Asif Ali Zardari to the controversial note. questions. It doesn't take much to be able to raise those questions," Khar said. She was responding to a query about the 'memogate' controversy.
The letter was jointly written by Bharti Enterprises Chairman and Group CEO Sunil Bharti Mittal, Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla and Vodafone Group Plc CEO Vittorio Colao.
Facing serious financial turbulence, Kingfisher Airlines has sought government help for a bailout even as it continued its flight curtailment spree for the fifth consecutive day on Friday and its stocks plummeted by over 19 per cent to an all-time low but recovered slightly later.
Awfis stands out for its 'ambience' and 'ease of doing business'.
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Pakistan on Friday said Afghanistan should properly check its facts before making allegations that a plot to kill Afghan President Hamid Karzai was hatched on its soil. The Afghan intelligence agency said on Thursday that it had thwarted a plot to assassinate Karzai by arresting a bodyguard and five persons with links to the Haqqani network and the Al Qaeda. Officials said the plot had its origins in Pakistan's Waziristan tribal region.
India has conveyed to the United States that countries with a "determined position to fight terror" cannot be selective in their approach in dealing with the menace and have to fight the scourge together "across the board".
'What made him different was that he was not a banker at all by temperament.' 'He was a businessman, a typical lalaji at that.' 'He had to win at any cost.'
While most banks in India store all this data on Indian servers in their core banking systems, the current directive addresses new-age payment and fintech companies operating in the space
Sheela Bhatt visits a large urban basti a mere 20-minute drive from the prime minister's home to discover a story of grim struggle in the time of lockdown.
This court artist sketch shows Mohammed Haneef, who was granted bail by the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday in Brisbane, Australia.
America's Federal Bureau of Investigation has started inquiry into allegations that media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp tried to hack into the phones of 9/11 terror attack victims, media reports have said.
As television channels flashed news about the Mumbai blasts and phone networks choked, netizens from across the country joined hands on social networking sites offering help to the victims in every possible manner.
A day after the United States moved to suspend $800 million military aid to it, Pakistan Army on Monday claimed that it would continue to conduct operations without American assistance, even while saying it had no official intimation of Washington's decision.
Twenty-five Egyptian officials of the erstwhile Hosni Mubarak regime have been charged for their role in an attack on pro-democracy protesters in Cairo in February in which assailants on horses and camels charged into crowds.
Over the last few days there has been a constant scrutiny over Facebook having access to your SMS. Buried within the latest update for Facebook's Android app is a feature that is causing growing concern among some users.
Corporates, realtors, and even IPL fixing -- the tentacles of the hacking network, whose alleged member was nabbed by a agencies of India, US, Romania and China on Friday, run broader than anticipated, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
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