Articles: Asghar Ali Engineer - His life was Gentle; and the Elements…
Region: IndiaWell I will never forgive myself, if I don’t pen an obit on revered Islamic scholar Asghar Ali Engineer who passed away recently in Mumbai. I first met him at AMU Aligarh in early eighties where I was an undergraduate student of History. He was lecturing at the Kennedy Hall and some friends told me about his. My knowledge about Islamic history was zero and I just curiously went to hear him. He was quoting from the Islamic literature his speech bounced over my head but I am inde... more
Views: 280Mamta Kulkarni’s Life, Another Dirty Picture in Making
Region: IndiaBollywood’s siren of the 1990’s Mamta Kulkarni who was lost in this lonely planet for some time has finally been discovered to be living in Nairobi, Kenya. The heartthrob of millions of youth of her generation has converted to Islam and is living with her husband Yousuf alias Vicky Goswami, a drug lord, who after serving prison sentence in Dubai has moved to Nairobi. It is said that Mamta had a big role in Vicky’s release as she married him while he was servi... more
Views: 2073Reliance Gearing up to Enter India’s Defence Sector
Region: IndiaReliance Industries Limited (RIL) is gearing up to enter the defence space of India by investing and signing new deals with global market players to procure offset management of defenceequipments. With reports floating that there are apparent changes happening in the country’s defence procurement by giving more prominence to private sector companies, MukeshAmbani led RIL is already setting the sails according to the winds. Reliance already has set up Reliance Aerospace Technolo... more
Views: 771Reliance Jio Infocomm Zeroes Down on Key Pacts For its 4G Services
Region: IndiaReliance Jio Infocomm, the telecom arm of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has cleared its mode of operation by finalizing on the key pacts that will drive the company once 4G services are rolled out all over the country. It has decided on the key agreements with its technology partners and device manufacturers prior to the launch of its 4G services. Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and managing director of RIL has said that the project has acquired the basic infrastructural requirement for its launc... more
Views: 716KG-D6 Basins To Get A Boost Of $5 bn From RIL
Region: IndiaMukesh Ambani led Reliance Industries Limited (RIL ) is going to invest $5 billion for the development of the oil and gas fields in KG-D6 blocks located near Bay of Bengal. This investment will be used by a series of projects that will cumulatively result in higher output of natural gas and oil from these basins. In the annual report of 2012-2013, MukeshAmbani said, “We are planning to invest in a series of projects to develop around 4 trillion cubic feet of discovered natural gas re... more
Views: 179Election Commission must step in to clean-up Indian Politics
Region: IndiaThere is a widespread concern about the prevalence of corruption in the country. Corruption is happening because many corrupt persons and criminals are contesting the Assembly and Parliament elections and thus becoming people’s representative which they are not rightly so. It’s because many of them get elected due to their money power and muscle power. It is thus a national need to de criminalise politics, which can happen only by preventing corrup... more
Views: 475Reliance Jio Infocomm, Vodafone and five others bunch up to build undersea cable system
Region: IndiaVodafone Group Plc and Reliance Jio Infocomm have formed a consortium along with a group of telecom carriers to set up an undersea cable system to connect Southeast Asia with the Middle East, across the Indian Ocean. This 8,000-km-long Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG) undersea cable system will also have connections that would reach out to India and Sri Lanka. Other telecom carriers who joined forces include Dialog Axiata from Sri Lanka, Omantel, Etisalat from the UAE and Telekom Malaysia Bhd. ... more
Views: 578LADAHK INCURSIONS – CHINA – SRI LANKA AXIS MESSAGE TO DELHI TO SLOW DOWN FOLLOW UP PRESSURE ON U
Region: IndiaLADAHK INCURSIONS – CHINA – SRI LANKA AXIS MESSAGE TO DELHI TO SLOW DOWN FOLLOW UP PRESSURE ON UNHRC RESOLUTIONS Proloy Bagchi characterized Delhi’s UNHRC vote against Sri Lanka’ as most muddled to cause China’s instant response in Ladakh.. The Colombo rumour mill in has it that though Delhi did not expect China to act this speedily on India’s Northern borders to support Colombo and restraint Delhi’s pressure on SL over implementing the UNHR... more
Views: 1265Reliance Jio Infocomm to Achieve Complete Connectivity by Signing Another Deal
Region: IndiaThe launch preparations of 4G services (high speed and voice services over fourth generation telecom networks) by Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) are in full throttle. Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Jio Infocom will sign an intra circle fibre pact with Reliance Communications. This pact will inundate RIL with complete connectivity in larger cities. Under this pact, RIL will have access to over 50,000 towers across the country. According to current plans, the high speed and voice data servic... more
Views: 272Role of Media in Reporting Terrorism
Region: IndiaIt’s not even full four months gone and India has witnessed two bomb blasts in a short interval in 2013. The first was in Hyderabad on February 21 and the next one was in Bangalore on April 19. Both the events have come a long way since the days of the Khalistan and Kashmir related terrorism of the 80s and the 90’s. The Kandhar hijacking in 1999, Parliament attack in 2001 and Mumbai attack in 2008 are some of the landmarks in terror cases in India. The hist... more
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