Malaysia has approved 2,000 applications by the Indian community for Malaysian citizenship and permanent residents.
At a dinner last night organized by Malaysian Associated Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (MAICCI) Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak said, “The applications were approved since the applicants has been loyal to this country and some had been waiting for many years to become Malaysian citizens”.
He further said that Indians had worked hard to earn a decent leaving and had ...
India’s largest listed retailer Pantaloon Retail Ltd said its board has approved spinning off its Big Bazaar and Food Bazaar operations and all related formats into a wholly-owned subsidiary to raise funds. In a statement on Friday, the board also approved consolidating Pantaloon’s holdings in Future Capital Holdings and insurance joints venture firms into a single entity.
Pantaloon runs 119 Big Bazaar stores in India and plans to have 275 stores by 2014.
Former IB chief appointed as northeast interlocutor
Home Minister P. Chidambaram announced at his monthly assessment press conference on Friday that former Intelligence Bureau (IB) Director P. C. Haldar, a 1970 batch Bihar cadre IPS officer has been appointed interlocutor for talks with three militant outfits, Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel), United People’s Democratic Solidarity and the pro-talks faction of National Democratic Front of Boroland.
The announcement comes close on the heels of the ...
Former United States President George W. Bush supported India’s claim for a seat in the United Nations Security Council as the country has arrived as ‘a strong democratic country’.
‘We must see the possibility of a seat for India in the united nations security council. India has arrived as a strong democratic country in the world. It is a tolerant, peaceful and multi-religious democracy’, he said at the HT Leadership Summit on Saturday.
The former President also said, ‘India has a leadersh...
June Middleton, a Melbourne woman who contracted polio at the age of 22 and spent 60 years of her life in an iron lung died at Thornbury Nursing Home on Friday. She was 83. She made to the Guinness World Records in 2006 for spending the longest time in an iron lung.
According to News.com.au reports, she celebrated 60 years with friends and her dog, Angel, by her side at her home at Yooralla’s Ventilator Accommodation Support Service (VASS).
Mexican actress Salma Hayek regrets the moustache she grew to play Frida Kahlo in the film ‘Frida’. According to imdb.com reports she feared that she wouldn’t be able to pull off the artist’s look if she faked a hairy top lip so she started shaving her face to have bristles grow back thick and darker. But now she can’t keep them away. She said, ‘Now I’m all messed up, because in real life, I have a moustache if I don’t wax’.
Matthew Anderson, 32, an IT expert from Scotland, has denied sending out a computer virus which allows him to spy on strangers using their webcams. He appeared at Southwark Crown Court in Central London. He is accused of spreading millions of ‘Trojan’ bugs which could control computers. It’s alleged that he conspired with another man in 2005 and 2006.
After 1st November, 2009, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has decided that no prepaid mobile connections should be issued and existing prepaid SIM cards should not be renewed in Jammu and Kashmir.
The move comes after reports that militants were getting mobile SIM cards on fake documents. Proper verification is not being done while providing prepaid mobile connections by the service providers or vendors. Fake documents or identity numbers are reportedly used by the vendors in case of prepa...
Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile operator joins tariff war introducing pay-per-second plan, called Freedom Plan on Friday across the country.
Airtel customers will be charged one paise per second for all local and STD calls to Airtel numbers and 1.20 paise per second for local and STD calls to other networks, in this plan. An Airtel statement said the plan will be available initially only to prepaid subscribers of Airlel. This will be one of the tariff plans besides other existing ones.
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In the wake of ongoing demonstration by students to protest against the murder of a final year BSc student, Shahnawaz over road rage, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) was closed today, with immediate effect till further orders.
A senior district administration official said that all the students have been asked to vacate the hostels and Rapid Action Force has been deployed in and around the university campus as a precautionary measure.
AMU students have been protesting since Monday.The ...
