Move to allow 100 p.c. FDI in retail sector opposed The Hindu | Staff Reporter | It is a tragedy in waiting, say speakers at a roundtable | Second largest sector after agriculture needs to be protected from onslaught of MNCs, they say | Opening up of retail market against the interests of people dependant on it...
PNGRB invites bids for retailing gas in 4 states The Times Of India NEW DELHI: Fresh from receiving full powers, oil regulator PNGRB has invited bids for giving licences for retailing CNG to automobiles and piped cooking gas to households in eight cities in West Bengal, Gujarat, Punjab and Haryana. | The Petroleum an...
Cameron hoping to forge new special relationship with visit to India The Independent | When David Cameron stands on the grounds of India's best-known IT company this week and makes his pitch for building a "new special relationship" between Britain and India, he will no doubt have in mind the thoughts of a previous visitor to the Inf...
Official's plea to cloth merchants The Hindu | Staff Reporter | Vijayawada: Municipal Commissioner G. Ravi Babu urged the Vijayawada Cloth Merchants Association to extend its help in developing the VMC schools here on Thursday. Responding to it, the Association members stated that they would pr...
South Asia Asia Times | By Pepe Escobar | MUMBAI - "Full power" is the new Indian mantra. Delivered not in Hindi, Pali, Gujarati or Malayalam, but in English, with a smile, by the Mumbai taxi driver, the Goan marguerita specialist, the Brahmin in Calicut, the information ...
'Improve facilities at vegetable market' The Hindu | Staff Correspondent | Raichur: Members of the Osmania Vegetable Market Welfare Association took out a procession and staged a dharna here on Friday demanding that the Raichur City Municipal Council improve facilities at the market. | Business at the vegetable market was suspended owing to the protest. The protesters went in a procession from the ...
Monsoon brings cheer to India Inc The Times Of India The smiles were back last week when most of India got its share of monsoon showers, but it isn’t time to celebrate yet. | According to the weather office, India’s monsoon rainfall in the key crop-planting month of July has been normal, recovering sharply after a 16% deficit in June. However, that news only will make India Inc keep its fingers c...
