Govt penalises Israeli defence firm for graft

In a first, India has seized a bank guarantee worth Rs 224 crore furnished by an Israeli defence vendor for breach of integrity pact after the company was blacklisted for alleged involvement in......

MOD blacklists foreign arms vendors without citing charges

To date none of the companies that Defence Minister A K Antony publicly named have been told the charges against them, nor has any CBI charge sheet been filed. Ajai Shukla reports For years,......

'He is wired!'

A month ago I was returning to St Louis, MO,from Louisville, KY. My flight was at 2.30pm and due to the orange alertI figured that I had better be at the airport at leasttwo hours before my......

Alert: Part-time mgt courses in Delhi

TheInternational Management Institute, New Delhi,approved by AICTE, invites applications for its Three Year Part-Time (Evening) Post-Graduate Programme in Management (2004-2007.Eligibility:......

E-commerce steals the show at B-school campuses

Last year, Accenture was the top recruiter at IIM-B E-commerce companies, which merely registered their presence on campuses until last year, have given business schools -- even the premier ones --......

Blacklisting companies? What the govt must do

Every government and organisation has a blacklist of companies and people whom they would rather avoid. Their reasons could be political or commercial. Some such lists are kept a secret and need to......

Private firms to arm police with modern weapons

The ministry of home affairs has turned to India's private sector to arm the police forces with weapons needed to respond to terror attacks like 26/11. On December 21, MHA promulgated a draft Arms......

FM radio, music industry out of tune on royalty

The battle between music companies and FM radio channels over royalty payments has come out in the open with last-minute mediation by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) failing to......