Telecom regulator TRAI on Monday proposed setting up of a National-Do-Not-Call Registry to save millions of phone users the bother of unsolicited calls from telemarketing executives.
Telecom companies will have to set up a mechanism to receive a request from subscribers who have opted for the Do-Not-Call service, TRAI said in a statement.
The Authority has also proposed a penalty of Rs 500-1,000 a call for those telemarketing companies, who call up subscribers who have opted for the Do Not Call facility.
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TRAI to disconnect 'pesky' calls
April 24, 2007, 9:24 amState rolls out red carpet for Japan
April 24, 2007, 9:19 am
THE irony could not have been starker. The $69-billion dollar giant Matsushita, famous for its National and Panasonic brands, today announced that it has taken over one of the Indian super brands Anchor Electricals, by acquiring 80 percent stake for Rs 2,000 crore. Anchor was controlled by Gujarati businessman Jadavji Shah Anchor Wale.
Even as that announcement was made in Osaka, Japan, around the same time, nearer home, corporate Gujarat was organising a press meet in Ahmedabad to welcome the considerably large amount of investment by Japanese companies in the State.
Captains of industry from Gujarat, flanked by Narendra Modi’s officialdom, told mediapersons that “due to conducive atmosphere created by the dynamic leadership of the Chief Minister” a number of the Japanese companies had evinced interest in port and power sectors.
They were briefing newsmen after a 43-member business delegation led by Modi returned after a week-long (April 15-21) trip to Japan.
Modi, along with his chief secretary and other senior officials, had taken 36 representatives of Gujarat Inc. with him to “introduce Gujarat” to Japanese businessmen. These included the who’s who of Gujarat industry like Nirma CMD Karsanbhai Patel, Adani Group Chairman
Gautam Adani, Reliance Group President Parimal Nathwani, Sanghi Industries MD Ravi Sanghi, Essar Group Resident Director Jayesh Buch and Arvind Mills MD Sanjay Lalbhai.
The trip, said D Rajagopalan, Principal Secretary, Industries, resulted in the signing of an MoU between Japan External Trade Organisation and Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation for facilitating establishment of exclusive Japanese industrial estates in Gujarat.
The Japanese have been offered more than 1,000 acres of land near ports like Hazira, Dholera, Pipavav, Mundra and so on, said Rajagopalan, adding that Gujarat was the only state in the proposed Delhi-Mumbai dedicated freight corridor to offer both entry and exit points due to its excellent ports facilities.
The Japanese are coming, confirmed Nathwani. At least two trade delegations from Japan are expected in near future, one from the Governor of Hiroshima to study possibilities of investment in the coastline and the other from land, infrastructure and transport ministry.
Members of the delegation told mediapersons that they visited several key projects with the objective of replicating them here. These included Tokyo-Osaka Bullet Train, Kidzania Children Park and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and Museum. While a super express train is a remote possibility between Ahmedabad and Mumbai, Lalu Yadav willing, children’s parks will fulfil the fantasies of several realtors, the class, which has made more money than anyone else in recent years.
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Even as that announcement was made in Osaka, Japan, around the same time, nearer home, corporate Gujarat was organising a press meet in Ahmedabad to welcome the considerably large amount of investment by Japanese companies in the State.
Captains of industry from Gujarat, flanked by Narendra Modi’s officialdom, told mediapersons that “due to conducive atmosphere created by the dynamic leadership of the Chief Minister” a number of the Japanese companies had evinced interest in port and power sectors.
They were briefing newsmen after a 43-member business delegation led by Modi returned after a week-long (April 15-21) trip to Japan.
Modi, along with his chief secretary and other senior officials, had taken 36 representatives of Gujarat Inc. with him to “introduce Gujarat” to Japanese businessmen. These included the who’s who of Gujarat industry like Nirma CMD Karsanbhai Patel, Adani Group Chairman
Gautam Adani, Reliance Group President Parimal Nathwani, Sanghi Industries MD Ravi Sanghi, Essar Group Resident Director Jayesh Buch and Arvind Mills MD Sanjay Lalbhai.
The trip, said D Rajagopalan, Principal Secretary, Industries, resulted in the signing of an MoU between Japan External Trade Organisation and Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation for facilitating establishment of exclusive Japanese industrial estates in Gujarat.
The Japanese have been offered more than 1,000 acres of land near ports like Hazira, Dholera, Pipavav, Mundra and so on, said Rajagopalan, adding that Gujarat was the only state in the proposed Delhi-Mumbai dedicated freight corridor to offer both entry and exit points due to its excellent ports facilities.
The Japanese are coming, confirmed Nathwani. At least two trade delegations from Japan are expected in near future, one from the Governor of Hiroshima to study possibilities of investment in the coastline and the other from land, infrastructure and transport ministry.
Members of the delegation told mediapersons that they visited several key projects with the objective of replicating them here. These included Tokyo-Osaka Bullet Train, Kidzania Children Park and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and Museum. While a super express train is a remote possibility between Ahmedabad and Mumbai, Lalu Yadav willing, children’s parks will fulfil the fantasies of several realtors, the class, which has made more money than anyone else in recent years.
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IIMs may go ahead with admission
April 24, 2007, 9:17 am
WITH the Supreme Court rejecting the plea of Human Resource Development Ministry to vacate the stay on OBC quota, while agreeing to examine the request to refer the quota issue to a Constitution Bench, it is expected that the Ministry of Human Resource Development would soon issue a fresh directive allowing educational institutions to go ahead with the admission process for the academic year 2007-08, which was stalled by the directives issued by the Ministry on April 5 and April 19 last.
“The picture is now clear, the Supreme Court has anyway made it clear that the stay on OBC quota is not an interim one but final as far as the admission for 2007-08 is concerned. Now we expect the Ministry to issue a fresh directive within a couple of days, allowing us to go ahead with admission for the current academic year,” said Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad director Bakul Dholakia.
“I am yet to get in touch with directors of other Indian Institute of Managements or the Ministry,” Dholakia said, adding that after a couple of days, he and his counterparts from other Indian Institute of Managements would meet to decide upon the next course of action.
“The matter will come up again for hearing only in August. Therefore, it will be safe to assume that the Ministry will withdraw the directive stalling the admission process,” said Ashok Shah, Public Information Officer of Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad.
The earlier directives from the Human Resource Development ministry, issued on April 5 and April 19 to withhold the admission process at Indian Institute of Managements came with the hope that the ministry would get succour from the apex court. Respite denied, the Ministry now has to take a quick decision regarding the admission process.
“Like last year, this year, too, we would have announced admission for 250 seats,” said Shah, adding that with an additional 6 pc OBC quota and corresponding increase of general seats, the institute would have announced admission list for 280 seats. But with the current order from the apex court, it will now go with its earlier decision of 250 seats, Shah added.
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“The picture is now clear, the Supreme Court has anyway made it clear that the stay on OBC quota is not an interim one but final as far as the admission for 2007-08 is concerned. Now we expect the Ministry to issue a fresh directive within a couple of days, allowing us to go ahead with admission for the current academic year,” said Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad director Bakul Dholakia.
“I am yet to get in touch with directors of other Indian Institute of Managements or the Ministry,” Dholakia said, adding that after a couple of days, he and his counterparts from other Indian Institute of Managements would meet to decide upon the next course of action.
“The matter will come up again for hearing only in August. Therefore, it will be safe to assume that the Ministry will withdraw the directive stalling the admission process,” said Ashok Shah, Public Information Officer of Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad.
The earlier directives from the Human Resource Development ministry, issued on April 5 and April 19 to withhold the admission process at Indian Institute of Managements came with the hope that the ministry would get succour from the apex court. Respite denied, the Ministry now has to take a quick decision regarding the admission process.
“Like last year, this year, too, we would have announced admission for 250 seats,” said Shah, adding that with an additional 6 pc OBC quota and corresponding increase of general seats, the institute would have announced admission list for 280 seats. But with the current order from the apex court, it will now go with its earlier decision of 250 seats, Shah added.
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