Supporters gave her the garland to celebrate 25 years of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).The controversial politician – India’s first woman Dalit (formerly “untouchable”) chief minister – champions the cause of the poorest of the poor, and has a huge following among those at the bottom of the Hindu caste system. But she is often criticised for having amassed vast personal wealth.Outrage from opposition parties led to the adjournment of the national parliament in New Delhi on Tuesday.The controversy gives further ammunition to the Congress party-led federal coalition in New Delhi, which is aggressively campaigning to win over the key state of Uttar Pradesh in 2012.
Daylight Saving Time begins today , On Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 2 a.m., Daylight Saving Time begins in the United States.The phrase “Spring forward, Fall back” is best and it will help people understand that during spring the keep the clock one hour ahead and in fall they keep the clock 1 hour back to set it in standard time. Use of Day light Saving
The change to Daylight Saving Time allows us to use less energy in lighting our homes by taking advantage of the longer and later daylight hours. During the eight-month period of Daylight Saving Time, the names of time in each of the time zones in the U.S. (map) change as well. Eastern Standard Time (EST) becomes Eastern Daylight Time, Central Standard Time (CST) becomes Central Daylight Time (CDT), Mountain Standard Time (MST) becomes Mountain Daylight Time (MDT), Pacific Standard Time becomes Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), and so forth.
In 2011 Daylight saving will set into on 2 a.m. March 13 and Fall back on 2 a.m. Nov. 6
For those who are working for US company in india its jolly time you will have all the meeting set 1 hr before so you can go home sooner.
New Secretariat Building Chennai is going to be inaugurated today , the first thing that will come to mind in all chennites mind is traffic diversion , traffic and normal police have already started to bombard the whole city of chennai , I went by the side of the secretariat and the work was still going on previous week or so and they have the inaguration today , i heard they have sepnt almost 2 crore or so as set to complete the building as it was not fully completed . Old Secretariat New Secretariat Traffic Diversion
The suburban police have announced few traffic regulations ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to the city on Saturday.All heavy vehicles coming from southern districts and passing through GST Road and proceeding towards Koyambedu should take the Irumbliyur bridge and Tambaram by-pass road.
Heavy vehicles and private buses from Tambaram should go to the Tambaram-Mudichur junction and proceed to Velachery Main Road.Heavy vehicles from Bangalore highway proceeding to Koyambedu should go via Maduravoyal Saveetha Dental College junction. Vehicles from Poonamallee Road should go via Kumamanchavadi-Mount junction and Maduravoyal bypass road.
The route to be taken by the Prime Minister’s convoy to and from the Secretariat will be closed. Motorists have been asked to start early to avoid inconvenience.
IIP data has come out today and surprisinglly the Industrial production is up by a massive 16.7 % in jan 2010 compared to aropund just 1 % in Jan 2009.
>Manufacturing is the main factor for the growth it has come up by 17.9 per cent during Jan 2010 compared to just 1 % in Jan 2009 Manufacturing ,
>Capital goods is up by 56.2 % against 15.9 %.
>Consumer durables segment zoomed 31.6 per cent against 2.1 per cent.
>No tax for income upto 1.6 lakh.
>For income between 1.6 lakh – 5 lakh tax liability 10%. (old slab was Rs 1.6 to 3 lakh)
>For income between 5 lakh – 8 lakh 20%. (old slab was Rs 3-5 lakh)
>For income above 8 lakh 30% (old slab was Rs 5 lakh +)
>Additional investment of 20K in infra bonds over and above Rs 1 lakh in 80C.
More Updates – Source Hindu— Increase in duty on gold and silver import – Not Good for Gold and jewel stocks.
— Clean energy cess of Rs 50 per ton to be levied on coal produced in India
— 10 per cent central excise duty on all non-petroleum products
— Structural changes in excise duties on cigarettes, cigars and cigarillos – Not good for ITC
— Revenue loss of Rs 26,000 crore on direct tax proposals.
— 7.5 per cent duty on petrol, diesel, crude restored.
— Exempt duty raised for all non-smoking tobacco producs
— Investment linked tax deductions to be allowed to two—star hotels anywhere in the country.
— Fiscal deficit seen at 4.8 per cent and 4.1 per cent in 2011—12 and 2012—13 respectively.
— Surcharge on companies reduced to 7.5 per cent
— Additional exemption of Rs 20,000 for long tem investment in infra bonds
— National Social Security Fund created for workers in unorganised sector with allocation of Rs.1,000 crore
— Government to give Rs.1,000 for each National Pension Scheme account opened by workers in the unorganised sector
— Exclusive skill development programme for the textile sector
— Fifty percent hike in allocation for schemes for women and child development
— Rs.4,500 crore allocated for ministry of social justice and empowerment, a hike of 80 percent
— Rs.2,600 crore allocated for ministry of minorities affairs
— Rs.1,900 crore for Unique Identification Authority of India
— Rs.147,344 crore allocated for defence
— 2,000 youth to be recruited in central paramilitary forces
— Draft Food Security Bill prepared and will be put in the public domain
— Allocation on primary education raised from Rs.26,800 crore to Rs.31,300 crore
— Banking facilities to be provided to all habitations with a population of 2,000 and more
— Rs.66,100 crore allocated for rural development in 2010—11; Rs.40,100 crore for National Rural Employment Scheme; RS.48,000 crore for Bharat Nirman
— Rs.1,270 crore allocated for Rajiv Awas Yojna for slum dwellers, up from Rs.150 crore, an increase of 700 percent with the aim of creating a slum free India.
— Forty—six percent of plan allocations in 2010—11 will be for infrastructure development
— Coal Regulatory Authority to be set up to benchmark standards of performance
— Allocation for new and renewable energy sector increased 61 percent from Rs.620 crore to Rs.1,000 crore in 2010—11
— National Clean Energy Fund to be established
— Rs.200 crore allocated as special package for Goa to prevent erosion and increase green cover.
— Government committed to growth of SEZs.
— Four—pronged strategy for growth of agricultural sector.
— Rs.200 crore to be provided in 2010—11 for climate—resilient agricultural initiative.
— Involvement of private sector in grain storage to continue for another two years.
— In view of drought and floods, debt repayment period extended to June 2010.
— Five more mega food processing projects in addition to 10 existing ones.
— FDI flows in April—December 2009 $20.9 billion.
— FDI policy to be made more user—friendly with one comprehensive document.
— Apex level financial stability council to be set up for banking sector.
— Indian Banking Association to give additional licences to private players.
— Provision for further capital for regional rural banks.
— Roadmap for reducing public debt in six months.
— Implementation of direct tax code from April 2011.
— Government actively engaged in finalising structure of general sales tax regime; hopes to implement it from April 2011.
— Rs.35,000 crore raised from divestment in 2009—10; will be higher in 2010—11.
— New fertiliser policy from April 2010; will lead to improved productively and more income for farmers.
— Economy stabilised in first quarter of 2009—10; strong rebound in second quarter; overall growth at 7.2 and could be higher when Q3 and Q4 are taken into account.
— Export figures for January encouraging.
— Hope to breach 10 percent growth mark in not too distant future.
— Government set in motion steps to bring down food inflation.
— Need to review stimulus package; need to make growth more broad—based.
— India has weathered global economic crisis well; Indian economy in far better position than it was a year ago. In 2009 Indian economy faced grave uncertainty; delay in southwest monsoon had undermined agricultural production.
— First challenge now is to quickly revert to 9 percent growth and then aim for double digit growth; need to make recovery more broadbased.
— Second challenge is to make growth more inclusive; have to strengthen food security.
— Third challenge is to overcome weakness in government’s public delivery mechanism; a long way to go in this.
By 2025, Audi would have done better business in India than in Japan-20000 units per year. A boardmember revealed that the company is fully aware of the growing potential in the Indian market. As a result, there will be more investment and expansion to boost the sale of Audi in India. However the company could [...]
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Harley-Davidson India announced it will bring 12 motorcycles from its 2010 model portfolio to India. The broad selection, with bikes from each of its five model families, will give riders in India maximum choice and opportunity to join millions of Harley-Davidson owners worldwide in pursuit of adventure, freedom and self-expression.
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This is to inform that from January 4th 2009 ,Both NSE and BSE have decided to have the market start opening from 9.00 AM in the morning and have it run until 3.30 PM , this is giving almost 1 hour extra time , this is good news , i always wanted the market to open at 9.00 which will kind of make you busy from 8.30 itself , rather than the normal 9.30 getting rady for the 10.00 clock market , all the TV channels have to change there program timing to adjust to this new change in Market timing , Atleast this New Year 2010 will bring some of the lazy from bed sooner than before who are market watchers.
There is a news release from Bseindia that From December 18th 2009 , which is coming friday , the market will open at 9:45 a.m. and close at 3:30 p.m. This was changed from original timing of 9:55 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.It just the market has been given extra 10 minutes.
Reliance MediaWorks Ltd has informed the market that after getting approval from the Registrar of Companies, Maharashtra, Mumbai,which was applied on october 5th 2009 , finally they changed the company name Adlabs Films LTD to “Reliance MediaWorks Ltd”.
Larsen & Toubro’s (L&T) informed the market that the Infrastructure Operating Company which is a part of its Construction Division (ECC), has won a order ,which is considered one of the largest construction orders in India’s Nuclear Power sector by , the order is valued at Rs. 844 crore from , the order is for construction of the Main Plant Civil works of Reactor 3&4 at Kakrapar Atomic Power Project, Tapi (Gujarat).
Not sure what changed from yesetrday to today , it was down by 493 points yesterday and up by 507 points today , if you sum it up its like no loss no gain.Global markets recovered today and also comments by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday, 3 November 2009, that there are no immediate plans to place curbs on capital inflows.Stock that brought down the index yesterday are all up in green .
State Bank of India has informed the market that they have decided on the Stock Swap ratio for SBI takeover of State bank of Indore . For every 100 shares held in its smallest subsidiary State Bank of Indore , the shareholder will get 34 shares of the SBI.This was after they decide on October 31st that SBI will acquire State Bank of Indore on stock Swap Ratio.
Sensex closed today in deep red down by almost 491 points , BSE 30-share Sensex provisionally lost 558.98 points or 3.52 percent, off 619.76 points from the day’s high and up just 6.74 points from the day’s low.Sensex which was too much volatile opened flat and went down by 100 points and was trying to recover but by noon it started to fall down and closed in deep red.
Mainly Reliance Industries (RIL) slumped over 6% on reports the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has set up a team to examine the expenses Reliance Industries (RIL) incurred on its D6 natural gas field in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin in the Bay of Bengal.Global market was down and it added oil to the market and went down heavily. Top losers Index wide
YSR’s chopper traced at about 74 km or 40 nauticle miles from Kurnool.Just got thios info over the TV ,thats a good sign , but they are telling they cant decide if its a crash land or normal landing .It was on top of a hill. Updated at 9.41 am :
> They have confirmed that the chopper has crashed.
> The chance for survivors is very less (Source:PMO) Latest update as of 10.57 am
>Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy and four others feared dead
>Pilot has used lifeboy soap to rolled down the paper of
the gps coordinate where the ceash landing has happened.
Sensex started the day red playing the same games as the US market and it was proceeding ok and after noon the Market saw some recovery and after european market recovered the sensex turned to green , The sharp slide in the market which started at around 2.30 or so was triggered by the reports that came out in television that the monsoon rains were almost 60 percent lower than normal when measured until 5th August 2009. This will kind of put a big question mark on the economic growth and it might have the government spend more.Finally sensex dropped today by 390 points to close at 15514 , down by almost 2.45 percent .
McNally Bharat Engineering Company Ltd has informed the market that they have received order worth 165 crore from Tata Project for commissioning of stock house package for its Rourkela steel plant. Execution time for the project is 20 months.
Chennai, July 5 Zylog Systems Ltd reported a 33-per cent drop in net profit to Rs 12 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2009 compared with Rs 18 crore for the corresponding period last year and Rs 21 crore for the preceding quarter.
Chennai, July 5 Saksoft Ltd, the Chennai-based information technology service provider, aims to double its revenue to around Rs 250 crore in the next three years. It expects to an employee strength of around 1000 from the present, according to
FMCG and consumer durables companies are excepting continuation of rural employment guarantee schemes in the Budget tomorrow to help boost demand across the country.
Well before sunrise on Monday, a motley crew of about 150 officers will be huddled together in a government building near Parliament House, anxiously awaiting a signal of security clearance.
Equity diversified NAVs ended higher with advance:decline ratio of 226:10, as the benchmark indices closed the last session before the Union Budget on Monday on a strong note.
TTK Prestige has reported a lower net profit of Rs 3.51 crore for the quarter ended March 2009 compared with Rs 4.89 crore for the corresponding period last year. Last year, the profit was higher due to a Rs 2.9-crore income from sale of property
Gandhinagar, July 3State-owned Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Ltd (GACL) said its profit after tax for the financial year ending March 31, 2009 decreased by 14.28 per cent to Rs 192.27 crore compared with the previous fiscal’s Rs 224.08
ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund have approved the following changes under the Schemes in terms of the enabling provisions of the Scheme Information Document of the schemes.
Certainly no fireworks on Wall Street ahead of the July 4, American Independence day holiday because of a small technical problem during the day the NYSE took a very unusual step of closing 15 minutes late on Thursday but that extra trading time did not change the direction of the markets.
The US markets cracked on disappointing jobs data. The benchmark indices slumped nearly three percent each. The SP 500 slipped 2.9% below the psychologically significant 900 level in the final halfhour of trade. The Dow Jones plunged 223.32 points, or 2.6%, to 8,280.74.
Equity diversified NAVs ended higher with advance:decline ratio of 189:41. On the sectoral front, FMCG and pharma funds advanced while banking and technology funds declined.
At 19.03 hrs (IST) The US markets opened lower. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 133.09 points, or 1.57%, to 8,370.97. The Nasdaq was down 33.13 points, or 1.79%, to 1,812.59 while the SP 500 was down 15.50 points, or 1.68% to 907.83.
A team of Kolkata’s industry and corporate biggies, tax experts and an economics talent from IIMC at the ET Pre-Budget Roundtable on boldness that FM should exhibit in his reforms agenda on July 6.
US markets shut in the green but off highs after a barrage of economic reports. In economic news, the June ISM manufacturing index rose to 44.8 from 42.8 in May, slightly higher than expected. The Dow gained 57.06 points, or 0.7%, to 8,504.06.
Equity diversified NAVs ended with positive returns and their advance:decline ratio stood at 204:13. The benchmark indices managed to stay on the higher side in the second half of the trade, amid volatile session. Education, sugar, brokerage and oil marketing companies shares witnessed huge buying interest.
At 19.04 hrs (IST) The US markets opened higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 58.80 points, or 0.70%, to 8,505.80. The Nasdaq was up 12.03 points, or 0.66%, to 1,847.07 while the SP 500 was up 4.98 points, or 0.54% to 924.30.
New Delhi, July 1 (IANS) Just five days before the union budget is to be presented, India Wednesday allowed state-run oil firms to increase prices of transport fuels, resulting in gasoline becoming dearer by Rs.4 per litre and diesel by Rs.2 per litre, following successive increase in global crude prices.
Thiruvananthapuram, July 1 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan Wednesday demanded that the central government immediately withdraw the hike in petrol and diesel prices and provide relief to the common people.
New Delhi, July 1 (IANS) India Inc Wednesday welcomed the government's decision to raise fuel prices, saying the move would help oil companies reduce their huge subsidy burden.
Tech Mahindra's public offer to acquire an additional stake in Mahindra Satyam ended on Wednesday, and analysts said the offer would have received a poor response due to a spike in the share price of the fraud-hit outsourcer.
New Delhi, July 1 (IANS) The three Indian Air Force (IAF) choppers carrying President Pratibha Patil and her entourage had landed without clearance even as an Air India aircraft was readying for take off, an investigation into the near-collision at Mumbai airport has found.
New Delhi, July 1 (IANS) The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Wednesday said the discovery of thousands of bogus employees in the civic body was made possible due to biometric attendance systems.
New Delhi, July 1 (IANS) Common people and opposition parties alike sharply criticised the government for the hike in the petrol and diesel prices announced Wednesday evening.
New Delhi, July 1 (IANS) India Wednesday inked an agreement with Lesotho to provide online education to students of the southern African country, the government said in a statement.
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