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| Airtel partners with Google to offer search services on Airtel Mobile | | | |
New Delhi, Nov 30
Bharti Airtel and Google announced a strategic partnership that is expected to set new grounds in mobile search and help redefine the mobile internet in India. As part of the agreement, Airtel will bring Google search to the Airtel Live mobile WAP portal. Google will also incorporate advertising through its Mobile Ads product on the Airtel Live mobile portal.
The Google search engine on Airtel Live mobile portal will enable Airtel users to use the Google search engine to easily access content. Google will power searches on Airtel Live in two areas “on net (rich content on Airtel Live) and off net (Internet on Mobile)”. Airtel Live has over 50,000 exclusive pieces of content including information like news, stock ticker and sports scores and downloadable content like games, music, video clips and wall papers. Also, for customers who access the Internet through their mobile phone, Airtel will bring to them the power of Google in a format that makes mobile surfing an enjoyable experience.
Google will also incorporate Mobile Ads, which are text advertisements... | |
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| Was CBI gagged to cover Jain hawala scam? | | Retired official spills the beans on J&K projects | | |
B L KAK
NEW DELHI, NOV 30
Huge pay-offs were made through the infamous Jain hawala scam channel to clinch contracts for foreign companies for the two hydropower projects in Uri in Kashmir and Dul Hasti in Jammu region. This sensational revelation has been made by BR Lal, a former Joint Director of the CBI. The Jain hawala scam surfaced in 1991.
Lal has claimed that the CBI was gagged to cover the Jain hawalal scam after then Prime Minister, PV Narasimha Rao and close aides of Rajiv Gandhi were implicated. BR Lal has, in his soon-to-be released book titled 'Who owns CBI: The Naked Truth', accused over 100 Indian politicians as well as senior government officials of involvement in mo... | |
| | | | Islamabad upset by foreign observers' support to India | | Spotlights on European Parliament's J&K report | | |
B L KAK
NEW DELHI Nov 30
Anyone or any country or institution discussing or referring to the restive State of Jammu and Kashmir becomes news. No wonder, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament is in news these days, with one party--that is,New Delhi--seemingly satisfied and another party--that is, Islamabad--dissatisfied. New Delhi's satisfaction is the product of pro-India material in the European Parliament's report on Kashmir. And Islamabad's disatisfaction is the outcome of a set of material critcising Pakistan.
The draft report on Jammu and Kashmir is currently being debated by European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee in Brussels. No sooner did Is... | |
| | | | Tainted lawmakers come under scanner | | Move to prevent 'bad' MPs from becoming Ministers | | |
B L KAK
NEW DELHI, NOV 30
Indications are by no means uncertain that the Congress-led coalition government at the Centre will initiate measures to amend laws to keep tainted lawmakers out of the Council of Ministers. According to authoritative sources, President, APJ Abdul Kalam, has taken strong exception to the unwanted encouragement from the powers-that-be at the Centre and in States to tainted lawmakers.
These sources said that the President voiced deep conern at the presence of tainted MPs and legislators in the Councils of Ministers at the Centre and in States during his meeting with the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, on Wednesday. "The two leaders discussed issues of... | |
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