Breaking his silence on the Singur row, Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata said on Thursday, he is “doing everything possible” to launch Nano car as planned.
He will meet the PM in the evening at 6.30pm as a part of the delegation visiting Siam with him.
Meanwhile, in the run-up to the crucial talks to resolve the […]
Boeing Company aircraft assembly workers voted overwhelmingly to strike for the second time in three years but union leaders agreed to hold off on the walkout for 48 hours at the request of Washington Gov Chris Gregoire and a federal mediator.
The vote late Wednesday was 87 percent in favor of a strike that was to […]
Today’s world has some of the most advanced telecommunications technology available at our fingertips. Unfortunately, this has generally weaved a massive web of information that is hard to present in any coherent matter. Writing down all your possible contact numbers and addresses just makes things awkward and drawn out. Amongst friends, it isn’t a big […]
Will Spore be the biggest thing to hit the gaming world since Doom? Electronic Arts dearly hopes so. The long-awaited game by Sims creator Will Wright has so much hype surrounding it that anything less than a home run will be a disappointment, say game-industry watchers.
Michael Pachter, an analyst with Wedbush Morgan Securities, told The […]
The number of people signing up for jobless benefits declined last week, the third straight drop from a six-year high reached earlier this month, the government said Thursday.
Applications for unemployment benefits dropped to a seasonally adjusted 425,000, down 10,000 from the previous week, the Labor Department reported. That was a slightly better figure than the […]
The Asia-Pacific region is the world’s largest broadband market with 39 percent of the total, the largest mobile phone market with 1.4 billion subscribers and claims 42 percent of the world’s Internet users, a UN report revealed Monday.
By mid-2008, China and India alone had over 600 and 280 million mobile phone subscribers respectively, representing nearly […]
Impressed by the monorail systems he has seen in places like the Sentosa amusement park in Singapore, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad is set to replicate the transport system in his home city Patna as well - and has already got the initial survey conducted by the railways.
On the minister’s directions, the consultancy arm of the […]
Indian construction firms, eager to raise capital but gripped by soaring interest rates, costly raw material and lower stock valuations, are seeking to sell stakes in infrastructure projects they hold in their books.
Many construction firms, working on infrastructure projects on a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) basis, may reboot their business model to raise capital to fund future […]
The worst of the global financial crisis is yet to come and a large US bank will fail in the next few months as the world’s biggest economy hits further troubles, former IMF chief economist Kenneth Rogoff said on Tuesday.
“The US is not out of the woods. I think the financial crisis is at the […]
The Government will take a view on recommendations of the B K Chaturvedi Committee in next few months, Petrol Minister Murli Deora said.
We will take a view in due course, he told reporters after brainstorming meeting with oil companies CEOs in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Some of the recommendations like shift in methodology for calculating fuel […]