State Owned Telecom Giant BSNL has banned Chinese Vendors Huawei and ZTE from bidding for its Rs 2,000-crore contract for supply of 55 lakh GSM lines for its Northern and Eastern zones. BSNL has confirmed that only three Western vendors — Ericsson, Nokia Siemens and Alcatel Lucent — can participate in the bidding process.
Indian Industrialist are not happy with the Government decision. As products from western vendors are much more expensive than Chinese vendors. According to Indian Government directive, equipments from Chinese Vendors can not be installed in circles …

Bollywood filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra has revealed plans to make a biographical film on the life of Indian ace athlete Milkha Singh ( The Flying Sikh ) .
According to Mehra, Mr.Singh iis providing full cooperation and is involved in the ground work of Film. Milkha Singh has also confirmed the news and is happy that Bollywood is doing efforts to inspire the younger generation.
“There is so much darkness in today’s society. The youngsters today are looking for too much and, here in our backyard, we have something. There are …

Shahbaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab Province of Pakistan has created a buzz in Pakistan politics by making a statement that Punjabi Taliban (terrorists) should not carry out any attacks in Punjab. The political leaders and publish of Pakistan is stunned, as this statement clearly implies that Taliban can continue their activities in the rest of country.
The chief minister, Shahbaz Sharif, also said that the terrorism in Pakistan is the result of the wrong policies of Musharraf regime and the country was now paying a heavy price for those …

UPDATE – I got a call from MR. Vishwas of Link Intime Mumbai and everything is resolved now. After getting the response, I found that the fault was of my Bank and not of Link Intime.
I take my words back and really liked the quick response of Link Intime. Also on the top of it , Mr Vishwas gave me his mobile number in case I face any problem. it was really nice of Him. Also Sure I’m going to meet the guy if I visit Mumbai any time in …

According to UK newspaper The Telegraph, UN Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change’s (IPCC) claim about snow melting on mountain was copied from a Geography’s Student essay which was published in mountaineering magazine.
This is the third goof up made by IPCC which came in to light in last two weeks. In 2007, the IPCC had stated that observed reductions in mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and Africa was caused by global warming and it referred to two papers as the source of the information.
But according to The Telegraph, …

India’s biggest Local Search Justdial is successful in Obtaining an injunction against Infomedia 18 Information portal Askme. Justdial alleged Infomedia for copying up their complete database for their latest Information Portal Askme.in thereby infringing Just Dial’s copyright in its valuable database.
Justice Indermeet Kaur has granted an exparte injunction against Infomedia 18, restraining them from infringing Just Dial’s copyright and from running the website askme.in till the next date of hearing.
Court has also appointed two lawyers as local commissioners to seize hard disks and other storage media from Infomedia offices …

A group of Indian Publishers have moved to Newyork district Court against Google Book Settlement’s (GBS 2.0) and filed allegation of copyright violation against Internet Gaint.
Siddharth Arya, the legal counsel for IRRO(The Indian Reprographic Rights Organisation ) said ” Google has scanned millions of books of Indian authors without taking any kind of permission from the author which is a clearattempt to turn copyright law on its head,”
The IRRO is an organisation owned by authors and publishers which include Star Publications Pvt. Ltd., Abhinav Publications, Daya Publication House …

According to an official Report, China had grabbed a substantial amount of Indian land over the last two decades along the line of Actual Control . The report was released in recent meeting at Leh, which was attended by officials from the Jammu and Kashmir government, Ministry of Home Affairs and Army.
It was agreed in meeting, that there is difference of area in maps of various agencies and a proper and adequate mapping of area is needed. Everybody agreed on the fact that, We are going back from …

Sikhchic.com has announced Manmohan Singh , Saran Singh and Harvinder Singh Phoolka as the Chic Sikhs of 2009. According to SikhChic team that they had received around 100 nominations worldwide for this contest from their readers which make the process very difficult. Finally the Sikh Chic Team declared Manmohan Singh , Saran Singh and Harvinder Singh as winners of Chic Sikh 2009.
These winners were declared on their Image worldwide , The contributions they made towards Education and Justice, and how they are as a Sikh.
S.Harvinder Singh Phoolka

S.Harvinder …

Allahabad High Court upheld the life imprisonment of Constable Tilak Ram awarded to him by sessions court in Meerut on July 30, 2007 for Killing Six Sikhs during 1984 Sikh Genocide.
Tilak Ram was deployed at police station in Baghpat on Nov5,1984 where he killed Six sikhs inside the police station for getting security from the mob who was trying to kill them.
As per the Case , Tilak Ram opened fire from his service rifle on six Sikhs — Sardar Bal Krishna, Harjeet Singh, Karnail Singh, Jogendra Singh, Pala and …