7 September 2013

Indian IT bellwether Wipro Ltd has tied up with the US-based Kana Software to provide customer service solutions to its global insurers through a joint development centre, the company said Saturday.

6 September 2013

CAIRO: Egypt's army-backed government has dissolved the Muslim Brotherhood as a registered non-governmental organisation, the state-run Al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Friday, pressing a crackdown on deposed President Mohamed Morsi's movement.

6 September 2013

LOS ANGELES: Sunil R Kulkarni, a prominent Indian-American lawyer, has been appointed as a state judge in Northern California, becoming the first South Asian to assume the position. 

5 September 2013

Kerala government has launched "e-payment gateway" system enabling people to pay various utility bills and access government department services online.

5 September 2013

MUMBAI: Bimal Jalan, a former RBI governor, will head an external committee that will screen applications for new banking licence. The announcement was part of a blizzard of steps announced by Raghuram Rajan on Wednesday evening shortly after taking charge as RBI governor. New banking licences would be issued by the end of January 2014, while the central bank is also contemplating 'on-tap' issue of licences, Rajan said.

5  September 2013

NEW DELHI: Deepak Sandhu, who has been an information commissioner for the last four years, on Thursday became the first woman Chief Information Commissioner of the country.

5 September 2013

MUMBAI: In yet another technological improvement and upgradation, Indian railways has now decided to install a new fuel-saving device called Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) in diesel locomotives which will result in saving of more than Rs 20 lakh per locomotive annually.

5 September 2013

Teacher's Day is being celebrated across the country today to commemorate the birth anniversary of former president and eminent scholar Dr Sarvepalli Radhakhrishnan.

5 September 2013

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama's request for speedy congressional backing of a military strike in Syria advanced in the Senate on Wednesday, hours after the president left open the possibility he would order retaliation for a deadly chemical weapons attack even if Congress withheld its approval.

5 September 2013

MUMBAI: Indian railways will install fire and smoke detection system on air-conditioned coaches. The system is capable for checking and giving alarm to passenger during initial stages of fire, thereby giving valuable time for shifting to safe areas and evacuation. 

4 September 2013

NEW DELHI: The long-pending Pension Bill, a key economic legislation assuring minimum returns to subscribers, was approved by the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, with the government saying it is based on the principle that "you save while you earn".

4 September 2013

SHIMLA: The Himachal Pradesh Cabinet today approved the draft HP Lease Rules, 2013, after scrapping the provision for sub-leasing and permitting granting of land on lease only in those cases where no alternative private land was available.

4 September 2013

Raghuram Rajan on Wednesday took over as the new governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Rajan, 50, an economics professor who also served as chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, took charge from D Subbarao.

4 September 2013

NEW DELHI: In a bid to realize India's solar energy potential through research and innovation, the government on Tuesday approved a proposal to set up an autonomous institution - National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE) - in Gurgaon.

3 September 2013

The Cabinet on Tuesday approved the India-Abu Dhabi bilateral air services agreement enabling their airlines to fly 50,000 seats each week, up from the current level of 13,700.