Posts Tagged ‘India’

Indian Airlines Directed To Publish Tariff Structure On Website For Transparency

AHN News Staff New Delhi, India (AHN) – The Indian Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has asked all the Indian airlines to make their airfares public by putting up the relevant information on their respective websites. The airlines have been given a 48-hour deadline to comply with this instruction. The Government wants to ensure [...]

India Set To Possess Nuclear Triad Capability By 2012

AHN News Staff Mumbai, India (AHN) – India is set to gate-crash into the exclusive three-member club of nuclear triads by 2012 with its first nuclear submarine, INS Arihant, which is to be commissioned in either late 2011 or early 2012. Arihant means “destroyer of enemies” in the Hindi language. Only three countries in the [...]

J&K CM Complains To PM Against Army ‘Interference’

AHN News Staff Srinagar, India (AHN) – Chief Minister of the beleaguered Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, has written a complaining letter to the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against the Indian Army’s very public criticism of his government and constant interference into the state policy issues. Omar’s letter to the PM [...]

India still in high growth phase

India is the world’s second fastest-growing major economy. View full post on All Stories

Dubai’s Airport In Overdrive As It Arbitrages Between East, West

The Media Line Staff Dubai, United Arab Emirates Michael Grubb – Dubai International Airport, the largest in the Gulf, is outpacing the world aviation industry’s recovery this year as it capitalizes on its role as a pivot for business travelers arbitraging between a struggling Europe and the burgeoning economies of Asia. But analysts warn that [...]

Indian Women Banned From Using Cell Phones To Prevent Inter-Caste Marriages

Ayinde O. Chase – AHN News Editor Muzaffarnagar, India (AHN) – Council members in a northern Indian state have banned unmarried women from carrying mobile telephones. The measure was enacted to put an end to number of inter-caste illicit romances. The Baliyan council in Uttar Pradesh state decided to act following news that dozens of [...]

India, Russia Look Beyond Comfort Zone Ahead Of Medvedev’s Dec Visit

AHN News Staff New Delhi, India (AHN) – India and Russia, who have been friends since the days of India’s first prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, are now ready to go beyond the traditional bilateral issues of military, space and strategy. This was the unanimous feeling emerging out of a recent meeting between India’s External [...]

India’s for-profit microfinance industry is in crisis

MADOOR, India – India’s rapidly growing private microcredit industry faces imminent collapse as almost all borrowers in one of India’s largest states have stopped repaying their loans, egged on by p View full post on All Stories

Mahindra Satyam Q2 profit narrows over Q1

Mahindra Satyam saw its current fiscal second quarter profit narrow from the first quarter as wage hikes squeezed margins, as it released quarterly results for the first time since it was hit by India’s biggest corporate fraud in 2009. View full post on All Stories

India To Name Pakistan As Fake Currency Offender In FATF, IMF

AHN News Staff New Delhi, India (AHN) – India is going to launch a diplomatic offensive against Pakistan for the latter’s alleged involvement in printing fake Indian currency notes (FICNs) to “overthrow” the Indian economy. The Indian government is soon going to take up the case of FICNs with various financial agencies around the world, [...]

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