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  • MCD polls: BJP ahead in all three municipal corporations of Delhi
    Posted Date : 17-Apr-2012 , 11:28:22 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    BJP was today ahead in all the three municipal corporations of Delhi as counting of votes progressed for the polls held two days ago. The counting for 272 wards is taking place in 33 centres across the city. Polling for all the 272 wards spread in three civic bodies -- East, South and North -- w...

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  • Petrol pumps strike on April 23
    Posted Date : 17-Apr-2012 , 08:20:59 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Over 40,000 petrol pumps across the country will shut their outlets on next Monday to press their demand for raising their commission on petrol by about 27 paise per litre and diesel by 14 paise per litre as recommended by an official panel. The association wants the government to implement the ...

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  • Enforcement Directorate calls Vodafone for 2001-07 spectrum details
    Posted Date : 14-Apr-2012 , 08:47:02 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Vodafone India managing director Marten Pieters and sought a lengthy list of documents from the company as part of its probe into the alleged irregularities and losses in the allocation of airwaves when BJP-led National Democratic Alliance was in power.It...

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  • Infosys holds back pay hikes, for now
    Posted Date : 14-Apr-2012 , 02:25:59 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

     Infosys, the IT bellwether, delivered a shocker on Friday when it announced to its shareholders that there would not be any increment for the time being for its 149,000 employees.Infosys failed to meet its own growth guidance for the just concluded quarter and has given a lower-than-expec...

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  • Jan IIP data revision totally baffling: Finance Minister
    Posted Date : 13-Apr-2012 , 03:43:44 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Terming sharp revision in the industrial production data as "totally baffling", Finance MinisterPranab Mukherjee today said he has asked the authorities concerned to look into the issue. "I can understand if there is error in calculating 0.1 per cent of 0.2 per cent, but from 6.8...

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  • Cabinet okays Public Procurement Bill to bring transparency and efficiency in mechanism
    Posted Date : 13-Apr-2012 , 07:47:27 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The United Progressive Alliance government has given its go-ahead to a law that seeks to regulate all state purchases above 50 lakh to bring transparency and efficiency in graft-laden procurement mechanism. The union cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh approved the Public Procurement ...

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  • SC upholds constitutional validity of RTE Act 2009
    Posted Date : 12-Apr-2012 , 02:56:52 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Supreme Court today upheld the constitutional validity of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009, which mandates 25 per cent free seats to the poor in government and private unaided schools uniformly across the country. The apex court clarified that its judgement will come into force from today ...

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  • India launches 4G mobile services
    Posted Date : 10-Apr-2012 , 07:52:13 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal today launched the country's first ever fourth generation mobile services in Kolkata. Today's launch is a major milestone for India and Bharti Airtel as it will result in India becoming one of the first countries in the world to commercially deploy the cutting-edge techn...

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  • Tech Mahindra-Satyam aims at 10,000 new hires this yea
    Posted Date : 10-Apr-2012 , 03:02:45 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The combined entity resulting from the merger of Tech Mahindra Ltd andSatyam Computer Services Ltd may hire as many as 10,000 new employees in the current fiscal year, said Vineet Nayyar, CEO of Tech Mahindra. “We are trying to secure more efficiencies internally, we’ll see how it ...

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  • Bullion traders and jewellers call off 21-day strike on assurance from FM
    Posted Date : 06-Apr-2012 , 06:22:17 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Agitating bullion traders and jewellers on Friday called off their 21-day strike after an assurance from Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee that the government will consider their demand for rollback of excise duty on unbranded jewellery. "We have decided to suspend the strike till May 10," All I...

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  • 10-yr-old files RTI on Mahatma Gandhi's father of the nation status
    Posted Date : 03-Apr-2012 , 04:37:48 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    A query posted by a 10-year-old girl under the Right to Information Act (RTI) regarding father of nation status to Mahatma Gandhi has raised a piquant situation before the government. In February this year, Aishwarya Parashar, a class sixth student, sent an RTI application to the central public inf...

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  • Goa slashes petrol prices by 11 rupees from today
    Posted Date : 02-Apr-2012 , 04:02:17 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Petrol has become cheaper in Goa by eleven rupees a litre from today. It will now be available at 54 rupees per litre. A notification to this effect has been issued by the state government. This follows an announcement made by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar in the state assembly on March 26 wh...

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  • Centre stays hanging of Balwant Singh Rajoana, assassin of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh.
    Posted Date : 28-Mar-2012 , 07:49:08 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Centre on Wednesday stayed the hanging of Balwant Singh Rajoana, assassin of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh, reports said. The Chandigarh trial court on Tuesday had returned the death warrant of Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted for assassinating former Punjab chief minister Beant ...

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  • Now, have an enemy list on your Facebook account
    Posted Date : 27-Mar-2012 , 03:01:41 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Facebook is not just about reaching out to friends but also foes as a new application allows you to add enemies to your profile. EnemyGraph is a new application, available for free to all Facebook users, which lets you add enemies to your Facebook profile, including real victims from your friends l...

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  • I was offered Rs 14 crore bribe: Army Chief General VK Singh
    Posted Date : 26-Mar-2012 , 09:39:44 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Startling revelations came from the Indian Army Chief. General VK Singh said that he was offered a bribe worth Rs 14 crore by an equipment lobbyist in order to have a tranche of 600 sub-standard vehicles of a particular made cleared for purchase. General Singh also said that 7,000 of those of which...

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  • Govt not listening to people’s voice: Anna Hazare
    Posted Date : 25-Mar-2012 , 11:05:00 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    With anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare all set to observe a day-long fast at Jantar Mantar on Sunday to press for strong Lokpal and whistle-blower protection bills, all eyes are on Delhiites as to whether they will come forward in huge numbers to support the fight for Lokpal Bill. Before lea...

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  • Bill seeking to give woman share in husband's property approved
    Posted Date : 24-Mar-2012 , 07:30:35 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Friday approved a Bill seeking to give a woman a share in her husband's property . Apart from giving women the right to their husband's property, the Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010, also aims at giving rights to adopted chil...

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  • Cabinet clears 7% DA hike for central govt employees
    Posted Date : 23-Mar-2012 , 09:45:40 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Giving relief to its employees and pensioners from inflation, the central government on Friday announced a seven percentage point increase in dearness allowance (DA) which will cost the exchequer an additional Rs 7,500 crore.The new DA rate of 65 per cent of basic pay against 58 per cent earlier wil...

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  • Divorce to get easier, faster
    Posted Date : 22-Mar-2012 , 08:30:00 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The government is working to make laws friendlier to help unhappy couples get divorce faster. The government wants changes in the Hindu Marriage Act of 1955 and Special Marriage Act of 1954 to provide ‘irretrievable breakdown of marriage’ as a new ground for parting ways. As a now a mini...

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  • Mukul Roy to be sworn in as Railways Minister today
    Posted Date : 20-Mar-2012 , 08:13:18 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    After forcing the government to secure the resignation of railway minister Dinesh Trivedi, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday persuaded Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to induct Mukul as the new Cabinet minister. Roy will be sworn in at 10 am on Tuesday, hours before the commencemen...

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  • After tax blow, Get ready for fuel price hike
    Posted Date : 19-Mar-2012 , 08:30:07 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Oil companies are considering an increase — a substantial one at that — in the prices of automobile and cooking fuels as early as next week after the budget session goes into a break on March 30. It will be another piece of bad news for consumers hit by costlier products and services fol...

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  • Won’t resign unless given in writing by Mamata, says Trivedi
    Posted Date : 17-Mar-2012 , 10:22:32 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi says, he will not resign unless given in writing by Mamata Banerjee. He said he has a Constitutional duty to pilot the Railway Budget he had presented in Parliament. He said, there will be a discussion on Monday and he has to answer the discussion on railway budget.Tr...

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  • Sachin Tendulkar finally hits 100th international century
    Posted Date : 16-Mar-2012 , 05:42:09 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Indian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar, treated like God by his fans, ended the long and tiring wait for his 100th international century on Friday at Dhaka's Shere Bangla National Stadium. Tendulkar, the leading run scorer in the history of both Test and one-day cricket, achieved the mo...

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  • Union Budget Focuses on Rationalisation Measures in Indirect Taxes
    Posted Date : 16-Mar-2012 , 03:18:01 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Presenting the General Budget for 2012-13 in LokSabha today, the Union Finance Minister ShriPranab Mukherjee has announced various rationalization measures like - Excise duty rationalized for packaged cement, whether manufactured by mini-cement plants or others. - Levy of excise duty of 1 ...

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  • Dinesh Trivedi says he has not resigned yet
    Posted Date : 15-Mar-2012 , 11:12:02 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

      Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi, whose removal has been demanded by his party leader andTMC boss Mamata Banerjee, on Thursday said he has not resigned as yet. It was earlier reported that Trivedisent his resignation to the Prime Minister. News channels on Thurs...

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  • Bombay High Court dissolves Shirdi temple trust
    Posted Date : 15-Mar-2012 , 08:16:45 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

     The Bombay High Court on Tuesday disbanded the 15-member committee of the Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust, which manages the affairs of one of the richest temples in India-the Saibaba temple at Shirdi. Hearing a public interest litigation filed by two Shirdi residents, which said th...

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  • E-courts to hear tax cases via webcast
    Posted Date : 15-Mar-2012 , 08:14:12 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The unending wait for justice due to the huge backlog of cases may continue. But if the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has its way, there could be some relief, finally.   The ITAT is mulling e-courts, or simply hearing of cases through webcast, to clear the backlog of cases in smaller t...

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  • India set for high growth trajectory: Govt
    Posted Date : 12-Mar-2012 , 09:31:55 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The government is confident that it will soon steer the country back to the high growth trajectory of eight to nine percent. Addressing joint Session of Parliament, the President Mrs. Pratibha Devisingh Patil said that the country's economy grew at a handsome rate of 8.4 percent in 2010-11, but it h...

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  • Govt committed to pass Lokpal Bill to curb corruption: Bansal
    Posted Date : 12-Mar-2012 , 09:30:29 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal has said that the government is committed to pass an effective and powerful Lokpal Bill to curb corruption in the society. Replying to questions at a press conference in New Delhi today, Mr Bansal said, the government wants to pass the Bill durin...

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  • Annual Function & Winners of CASANSAAR 20-20 Chess Tournament
    Posted Date : 12-Mar-2012 , 10:57:39 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The second annual award function of casansaar duly held on 11th of March, 2012 at the Instittute of Engineering was really successful. The honorable chief guest of the ceremony was CA Ved Jain ji. The function was hosted by CA Lavina Bajaj.   CA Vivek Khurana founder and CEO of casansaar.co...

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