New project to enable job seekers to register on-line from anywhere to be launched

September 18th, 2009 MUMBAI - Mumbai police on Friday launched a website for senior citizens to ensure their welfare in the backdrop of increasing crime rate against them. The website titled 'Hamari Suraksha' was launched by Police Commissioner of Mumbai, D.

September 7th, 2009 KOLKATA - The West Bengal government on Monday scrapped plans for an IT-related township in the Rajarhat area near Salt Lake City in the wake of a land scam involving land sharks and government officials. The State Government had revealed last month that it had acquired land for the Infosys and Wipro complexes.

August 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's second indigenous nuclear-powered submarine will be ready soon and will take less time from launch to induction than the first one, says a retired Indian Navy officer who was associated with the top secret project since its inception. "The second one will be ready and will take lesser time," Vice Admiral (retd.) Mihir K.

August 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Monster India and ITC e-Choupal have formed an alliance to launch Rozgarduniya.com. This Web site will enable job seekers in rural India, to access and apply for jobs through the ITC e-Choupals.

July 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - To sensitise school students about environment sustainability and instil in them the habit of recycling, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) launched an awareness drive in 30 schools each in the capital and Bangalore Thursday. Sensitisation, Education and Awareness for Cleaner Habitat (SEARCH), as the programme is called, was launched in association with Tetra Pak private limited.

July 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government will modernise employment exchanges to enable job seekers to register online from anywhere and approach any employment exchange, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced Monday. Under the project, a national web portal with common software will be developed.

June 26th, 2009 MUMBAI - Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla on Friday said that the Election Commission of India has demanded a power from the Centre which should authorise it to de-register the political parties not contesting elections. "We have power to register the party but don't have the power to de-register.

April 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India has to build a sustainable micro-entrepreneurship movement, which would transform many of its job seekers into job creators, Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari said here Tuesday. 'Such entrepreneurship, however, needs to be broad-based and supported by the civil society,' Ansari said while addressing a conference on entrepreneurship, jointly organised by the Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust (BYST) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) BYST is a non-profit organisation, which is promoting micro entrepreneurship among the youth.

April 17th, 2009 BEIJING - The World Bank said Friday it approved loans totalling $450 million to finance road and rail projects in central and western China. The bank said $300 million would help finance a 857-km rail line linking Guizhou and Guangdong provinces.

April 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Leading telecom service provider Bharti Airtel Wednesday launched a new offer for its US customers which will enable them to make calls to India at 1 cent per minute using online calling cards. 'With our IndiaOne Offer, we are delighted to take the lead in offering the best value for US to India calling.

March 14th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The Third Front, launched by eight political parties Thursday, will not project any leader as its prime ministerial candidate, the Communist Party of India (CPI) said Friday. 'The Third Front will not project anyone as its prime ministerial candidate,' CPI general secretary A.B.

March 12th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Gujarat Congress is launching an online campaign to register young members as a follow up to party general secretary Rahul Gandhi's whirlwind tour of the state's universities in February. 'The party is setting up 50 internet kiosks across the state to register youth members on the party's website that is under development.

February 28th, 2009 KOCHI - Defence Minister A.K. Antony will Saturday lay the keel of the country's first indigenous aircraft carrier at the Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) here Saturday, an event that will mark a significant upgradation of India's shipbuilding capabilities.

February 5th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - The police in Ghaziabad have handed over their whole original complaint register to a man who had, through the Right to Information (RTI) Act, sought data on car thefts in Ghaziabad. Akash Nagar, a local journalist, presented the register before the media here Friday.

January 19th, 2009 BHOPAL - The Madhya Pradesh government has launched a website to seek ideas from the common people and use them in framing policies to speed up development in the state. 'Let all, be they the youth, women or the senior citizens, send their ideas on how the pace of progress can hasten and our people enjoy a quality life,' an appeal by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan posted on the website said.