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PM's go-ahead for 3G auction
New Delhi :: India | 3 days ago
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He added that "in a reform initiative, the government has decided that this spectrum will be allocated at a market-determined price rather than an administered one." The Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared the proposal of the Department of Telecommunications...
Tags: India, New Delhi, Sam Pitroda, Mobile phone companies of India, Technology Internet, 3G, Vodafone, Manmohan Singh, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Telecommunications in India, Indian Civil Services, Universal Mobile Telecommunications System, Bharti Airtel, Communications in India, Government of India, Pranab Mukherjee, Ministry of Defence, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam
Delhi blocks EADS proposed joint venture
London :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
Credibility Franco-German aerospace and defence group, and Larsen & Toubro , which was aiming to tap into New Delhi’s growing defence budget. L&T, India’s biggest private defence contractor, had planned to form a joint venture to supply electronic warfare systems,...
Tags: India, joint venture, Foreign Investment Promotion Board, defence contractor, BAE Systems, EADS, defence sectors, New Delhi, United Kingdom, London, Politics, Business Finance, Ministry of Defence, Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, Automobile industry in India, British Aerospace
Bob Ainsworth: You Ask The Questions
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 6 days ago
Credibility This will be the second year in the last three that I have spent more than 183 days outside the UK; this rate of absence from the UK is likely to continue for the majority of my career. My American, Australian and Canadian colleagues do not pay income...
Tags: Afghanistan, UK Armed Forces, Iraq, body armoured, defence secretary, Kabul, Politics, Peter Mandelson, invasion of Iraq, Ministry of Defence, War in Afghanistan, Iraq War, Iraq ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, British Armed Forces, War Conflict
Our Scylla and Charybdis Moment
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 8 days ago
Credibility When the then Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka in an act of infantile spite drastically reduced the security of General Parakrama Pannipitiya, he would not have imagined that the same criminal iniquity would be done unto him barely a year later.
Tags: Rajapakse-Fonseka, General Fonseka, Sarath Fonseka, Gen. Fonseka, Candidate Fonseka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Gotabhaya Rajapakse, Mr. Rajapakse, Sri Lanka Army, Rajapakse Brothers, Sri Lanka, Colombo, United National Party, Sri Lankan people, Politics, Ministry of Defence, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Year of birth missing, Sinhalese people, United People's Freedom Alliance
Navy releases Somali pirates caught red-handed
Brussels :: Belgium | 8 days ago
Credibility Indian Ocean are being routinely allowed to go free by international naval forces despite being captured with their weapons and even holding hostages. Pirates who are seized from the skiffs by the Royal Navy and other maritime forces are pleasantly surprised...
Tags: Royal Navy, Belgium, Brussels, Piracy, United States Navy, Piracy in Somalia, Politics, Combined Task Force 150, Gulf of Aden, Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath, Military of the United Kingdom, MV Faina, Mark Stanhope, Ministry of Defence, First Sea Lord
Official: Cambodian waters still open
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | 9 days ago
Credibility Cambodian coastal waters remain open to Thai fishing vessels, Cambodian Defense Minister Tea Banh said Friday...Prawit Wongsuwan, his Thai counterpart, as the two-day General Border Committee meeting between the two countries ended, the Thai News Agency...
Tags: Cambodian, Thailand, Thai News Agency, Prawit Wongsuwan, defense minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, Cambodia, Phnom Pénh, Cambodian￢ﾀﾓThai stand-off, Kambojas, Prime Ministers of Thailand, Hakka people, Politics, Phnom Penh, Foreign relations of Cambodia, Tea Banh, Phnom Penh riots, Foreign relations of Thailand, Anupong Paochinda, Shinawatra, Constitutional monarchies, Khmer Rouge, Abhisit Vejjajiva, War Conflict, Index of Cambodia-related articles, Wat, Ministry of Defence, Law Crime
Second inquiry for UK troops
London :: United Kingdom | 11 days ago
Credibility The British Ministry of Defence has announced that a second public inquiry into allegations that Iraqis were ill-treated and unlawfully killed by British troops is to be set up under a former High Court judge. The inquiry, under Sir Thayne Forbes, will...
Tags: Iraqi, British Ministry of Defence, Maysan Province, camp abu, danny boy, court judges, abu naji, public inquiry, United Kingdom, London, War Conflict, Iraq ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, Politics of Iraq, Iraq, Occupation of Iraq, Iraq prison abuse scandals, Law Crime, Bill Rammell, Politics, Baha Mousa, Naji, Saddam Hussein, Iraqi insurgency, Post-invasion Iraq 2003￢ﾀﾓpresent, Ministry of Defence, Iraq War
Toll wins $1 billion Defence removals contract
Sydney :: Australia | 12 days ago
Credibility Toll shares were 15 cents higher at $8.39 shortly after the market opened this morning. Mr Little said the contract was for an initial five years, followed by up to four one-year extensions. "The initial five-year period is expected to generate revenues...
Tags: Australian Department of Defence, administration services, relocations administration, removals services, Australia, Sydney, Toll Holdings, Transport in Australia, Ministry of Defence, Business Finance
NRO beneficiaries
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 12 days ago
Credibility Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said the ministers who are facing cases and are beneficiaries of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) would not tender resignations. �Why they should resign?� he asked, adding they would face the courts.
Tags: Pakistan, defence minister, Karāchi, Politics, Pakistan Peoples Party, Zardari family, National Reconciliation Ordinance, Iranian Plateau, Pakistani politicians, Cabinet of Pakistan, Qaim Ali Shah, Waziristan, War Conflict, Sindhi people, Ahmad Mukhtar, Ministry of Defence, Foreign relations of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, South Asia, Bhutto family, Punjabi people, Inter-Services Intelligence, Law Crime
MoD spent £149m on tanks unfit for service
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 13 days ago
Credibility The armoured vehicles will be used in Canada and Britain because they offer insufficient protection against mines in Afghanistan. A defence source described the procurement, at a time when equipment shortages for troops have caused public anger, as a...
Tags: Afghanistan, armoured vehicle, Iraq, Ridgback, Kabul, Ministry of Defence, Tank, Off-road vehicles, Future Rapid Effect System, Modern equipment of the British Army, Politics, Business Finance, Snatch Land Rover, FV430 series, Armoured warfare, War Conflict
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