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Mobile handsets without unique international mobile equipment identification (IMEI) number are posing a serious security threat to Punjab, which shares international border with Pakistan . The Indian Cellular Association (ICA) has informed the state police and the vigilance department to take appropriate action.

The 550-room Trident hotel at Nariman Point presents a lively picture. Security persons at the main gate have a busily tough time what with the steady stream of guests and visitors checking in.

The CBI has arrested a member of Company Law Board (CLB) R Vasudevan and a company secretary in a case of bribery to the tune of Rs seven lakh for a favourable order.

A recent report conducted across 10 countries has found that the tough times, owing to the global economic downturn, notwithstanding, consumers across the world do not mind spending extra to buy brands with a social conscience.

Online (or web) research is the fastest growing and most impactful factor influencing the way primary market research is conducted, globally.

We look at the general entertainment channel (GEC) space in two ways. There are the GEC one channels, which are the top players and then there is GEC two, which are the smaller channels.

Cost of reaching viewers has gone up
This is pretty much a simple, single point argument. As is well known, general entertainment channels (GEC) space now is a three horse race with Colors taking a solid lead over Zee TV and Star Plus. Colors has crossed 350 gross rating point (GRPs) mark and the other two hover around 240 GRPs.

The turnover in rupee-dollar futures has touched 59.6% of the total over-the-counter forex turnover as per the latest figures available for August this year, according to data available with Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi).

Reliance Infrastructure Ltd on Monday bagged the Rs 780-crore built operate transfer (BOT) project for four laning of the 66 km Gurgaon and Faridabad road.

Factors such as improving employment prospects, conducive investment prospects, rising export orders, continuation of reform stimulus suggest the economic recovery is sustainable and the growth driver during next financial year will shift from government stimulus to private demand, said Nomura in its latest research on Indian economy.

The strike at Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd, one of the country's largest naphtha-based petrochemical unit, continued for the third day, hitting the progress of the Rs 1,230- crore Supermax project.

Reliance MediaWorks operates under three heads: film and media services, exhibition and TV software production.

Not many takers for paid online content in the US A study conducted by Boston Consulting Group has shown varied responses from consumers across nine countries towards the paid content online.

The events on the morning and afternoon of December 6, 1992, that led to the demolition of the Babri Masjid were facilitated by a compliant administration and a political leadership—including LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Vinay Katiyar—that stood barely 200 metres away and did nothing to prevent the kar sevaks from tearing the domes down.

Underlining that bureaucrats helped the then Kalyan Singh government in Uttar Pradesh to subvert the system so that the Sangh Parivar could achieve its goal of demolishing the Babri Masjid, the Justice Liberhan Commission of Inquiry is said to have observed that the infiltration of the government and of the administration by pro-Sangh elements was complete.

Compared to the frequency at which Kashmir hit media headlines—there are very few good books on the subject and fewer address it with a fresh perspective.

The Limits of Influence: America's Role in Kashmir, as the name indicates, is, on the one hand, a historical narrative of how America has not succeeded in exerting influence to resolve the Kashmir issue, and on the other, deriving from the narrative, a prescription for the Obama administration, since "several developments in recent years argue for a active American approach".

Opposition parties tasted sweet victory on Friday as the government buckled under pressure to amend its sugarcane ordinance.

Campaigning for the five-phase Jharkhand elections that begin on November 25 is in full swing, but the two main fronts in the poll fray have not yet named their candidates for the chief minister's post.

Senior ministers of the UPA government got into firefighting mode, working behind the scenes on Thursday to approve critical changes in the sugarcane ordinance issued last month.