One side Anna Hazare is fighting against corruption, and on the other hand a surprising statement came from the Indian Army Chief.
General VK Singh has recently said in an interview that he was offered a bribe of around Rs 14 crore by an equipment lobbyist as a move to have a tranche of 600 sub-standard vehicles of a tender made cleared for purchase.
Further, Army Chief told media that 7,000 of such vehicles are already being used by the Indian Army and had been sold in past many years at exorbitant prices.
Army Chief V K Singh was talking to a daily newspaper, ‘The Hindu’.
Having unclear outlook, the Indian software companies are facing a difficult situation for a slower pace of outsourcing contracts in 2012.
While the quarterly earnings this week has kicked off by the IT companies because of the lingering debt crisis in Europe, their biggest market after the United States, their outlook is hazing.
However the bigger rival of Tata Consultancy Services Ltd , Infosys Ltd, the country’s No.2 software services exporter and third-ranked Wipro Ltd , they get three-quarters of their revenue from the United States and Europe.
The research firms Gartner Inc revealed a statement, Global spending on IT will raise at the slowest pace around 3.7 percent against its earlier estimate of 4.6 percent in three years in 2012 as Europeans, worried about the region’s sovereign debt crisis are cutting back on investments.
Salman Rushdie, the famous writer, is being used as a political weapon in Uttar Pradesh when the Darul-Uloom Deoband’s demand to ban the entry of Salman in the country.
Rushdie, writer of “The Satanic Verses” book, earned the wrath of Muslims worldwide for his book. The writer is scheduled to presented in the January 20-24 [Jaipur Literature Festival] in Rajasthan’s capital.
But the request for canceling Salman’s visa to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi had attended by Maulana Mufti Abul Qasim Nomani, the Deoband chief. In his statement, he said, “In case of no response from the UPA government, the Darul-Uloom Deoband will take appropriate action.”
“In view of the UP assembly election, the entry could generate reaction. The Jaipur programme should be cancelled,” Rasheed Masood who is the newly-inducted Congress working committee member informed.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s “foreign origin” has been sloping down along with ridiculed Rahul Gandhi’s prime ministerial ambitions by Bal Thackeray, the Shiv Sena chief.
Talking to reporter in an interview, Thackeray said that Sonia was a foreigner. “What love will she have for this country and what is her contribution here,” he asked while defining party mouthpiece ‘Saamna’.
Speaking Sonia as a foreigner, having no harm on her reputation, he confined, “You see what is going on in the country. There is controversy over the Army chief’s age and the matter is in court. Whose reputation is in jeopardy? There is no question of Sonia’s reputation as she is a foreigner.”
Apart of it, his verbal attack also put on Rahul, for whom Thackeray said, “He was born yesterday and wants to be prime minister today. Is the PM’s post up for auction?”
A strong attack has made over the Punjab polls to Congress as harassment, while Malwinder Singh, younger brother of the party’s state unit chief Captain Amarinder Singh, quit the outfit.
On Saturday after being denied a ticket in favour of Amarinder’s son Raninder, Malvinder, 67, joined archrival Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD).
In fact, like his brother Amarinder, Malvinder is an Army Captain. Before joining Congress in 1977, he served the forces for 12 years.
However Malwinder has never fought an election. He has taken a decision as like former Punjab finance minister Manpreet Badal who had rebelled against his uncle, Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal and left the party to float his own outfit for one and a half ago.
A source reported that Sukhbir Badal , SAD president represented Malwinder virtually as a trophy for him while he entered into SAD yesterday.
According to the latest Business news, the Auto Expo 2012 is on and all the major companies are ready to showcase their products.
In addition to this, the Auto Expo Suzuki Motorcyles has recently announced to unveil two-wheelers.
Interestingly, Suzuki Motorcycles has unlike its more prevalent models in the west; the company has rolled-out a 125cc Scooter, the Swish and 110cc motorcycle, the Hayate at Auto Expo 2012.
Moreover, the 100-125cc segment is more than 70 percent of the Indian motorcycle market as well as the company wants to be a strong player in this category in the country.
On the other hand, the 150cc plus category is expanding at a very higher rate also commands more margins.
According to the latest report, the 11th Auto Expo has been started in the national capital from today and the country’s biggest car company Maruti Suzuki has come up with its new compact SUV XA Alpha as the car-manufacturer targets new market in India.
Moreover, at the launch of new compact car, Maruti Suzuki Managing Director and CEO Shinzo Nakanishi said, “India is on course to become one of the top automobile economies of the world, powered by the middle class and continued government support. Customers will become more and more sophisticated.”
Further talking to media, Mr. Nakanishi said, “The choice of automobile will be dictated more and more by the way of life of customers. We will launch new products and create new categories to their choice.”
As per his statement, the car company plans to increase the range of its K-series engine, along with diesel cars.
According to the report, Actor Pooja Bedi who was a participant of Bigg Boss season 5 reality show, was initially asked by Bigg Boss to perform on the finale of Bigg Boss 5 recently has been asked by Bigg Boss 5 to keep away from the grand finale.
On the micro-blogging site of twitter, Pooja Bedi posted “Have been informed by the channel that I’m not to attend finale, despite it being mandatory in my contract.”
This shows that Pooja Bedi has not invited to Bigg Boss Finale. However on October 2 last year, she entered into the Bigg Boss house and was evicted towards the end of November.
She says she has been asked to refrain from attending the grand finale of Colors’ reality show Bigg Boss 5, in which she was a participant.
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