New Telecom Policy: No more roaming charges

Yahoo! India Finance, On Monday 10 October 2011, 4:18 PM

Telecom minister Kapil Sibal unveiled the draft National Telecoms Policy 2011, containing new rules for the sector. This new policy would replace the existing framework that has been in place since 1999.

In a move that could help ease pressure on big carriers that have been rapidly adding users to increasingly crowded airwaves, India's new telecoms policy will allow carriers to share and trade spectrum.

The draft plan also advocates one nation, one license across services and service areas; this would imply that roaming charges would soon be done away with.

The policy proposes to introduce a stronger customer grievance redressal mechanism, recognize telecoms as an infrastructure sector giving it tax concessions, and extend preferential status to 'Made in India' hardware products.

It will also include a policy for allowing operators to exit the market, telecoms minister said, which could eventually lead to consolidation in an industry where more than a dozen players compete, keeping tariffs and margins low.

India's new telecoms policy will focus on building access in rural areas and promoting the domestic production of equipment, Sibal said.

India decided to overhaul its decade-old rules for the industry after alleged rigging in the grant of licences in 2007/08 came to light late last year, which the CAG said could have cost the government as much as $39 billion in revenue.

The policy will focus on convergence of TV, internet and internet services. Broadband download speed will be revised to 512 kbps vs 216 kbps. Sibal said that the government will audit the use of spectrum.

Careful :: Facebook tracks what you do online even when you're logged out

An Australian technologist has claimed that Facebook can track the web pages you visit, even when you are logged out of the social networking giant.

According to Wollongong-based Nik Cubrilovic, when the user is logged out of Facebook, rather than deleting its tracking cookies, the site merely modifies them, maintaining account information and other unique tokens that can be used to identify its users.

This simply means that any time you visit a web page with a Facebook button or widget, your browser is still sending personally identifiable information back to Facebook.

"Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit," Cubrilovic wrote in a blog post.

"The only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser, or to use a separate browser for Facebook interactions," he added.

Hyderabad: Ex-cricketer Azharuddin’s son critically injured in road accident

Hyderabad: Ajmal-ur-Rahman, nephew of former Indian captain Mohammed Azharuddin, died here while the cricketer's son Mohammed Ayazuddin is fighting for his life after an accident early on Sunday, police said.

Rahman, 16, and Ayazuddin, 19, met with the accident on the city's outskirts.

Ayazuddin, an upcoming cricketer, was riding a sports bike with his cousin when he lost control and fell down near Poppalaguda on the Outer Ring Road.

Ayazuddin and Rahman were rushed to Apollo Hospital in Jubliee Hills at 9.45 am, according to a medical bulletin.

"Both of them were brought with cardiac arrest to the hospital. A team of doctors worked on them. After one-and-a-half hour of efforts, Ajmal could not be revived and was declared dead," it said.

According to head of emergency medicines of the hospital Mahesh Joshi, Ayazuddin responded to resuscitation measure and was taken for emergency surgery to stop bleeding in his chest.

"He (Ayazuddin) also sustained injuries in kidneys. His condition is critical. He is on ventilator and his blood pressure is being supported with a high dose of medication," the bulletin said.

A multi-speciality team of doctors is closely monitoring his parameters in Intensive Care Unit.

Rahman was the son of Azhar's sister and grandson of former MP Khaleel-ur-Rahman.

According to police, Ayazuddin was driving Suzuki GSX R1000 with his cousin riding pillion. The youngsters, who were said to be race bike enthusiasts, were riding on the Outer Ring Road though two-wheelers are barred from doing so.

Azharuddin, who was away in London, is rushing back to Hyderabad.

Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, state Congress Chief Botsa Satyanarayana, Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, Secunderabad MP Anjan Kumar Yadav and cricketer V.V.S. Laxman reached the hospital.

Ayazuddin is a second year B.Com student at St. Mary's College.

Ayazuddin is the second of Azharuddin's two sons from his former wife Naureen, whom he divorced to marry former actress Sangeeta Bijlani.

Azharuddin, who played 99 Tests and 334 One-Day Internationals for India, was banned for life in 2000 following allegations of his involvement in match fixing.

The former cricketer joined Congress party before 2009 elections and was elected to the Lok Sabha from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh.

I Think You and All Political Parties are Blind

Imphal, Manipur: On the world's longest hunger strike, Irom Sharmila has completed ten years of fasting over human rights abuses in Manipur and promises to continue.

Silently but forcefully, she is highlighting the rarely reported decade-long insurgency in Manipur and the government's response to it with Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), something she opposes.

Irom Sharmila Chanu is a poet, a writer and an activist. She was brought to the jail ward of Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital at the age of 27. Now ten years have passed in solitary confinement.

In the year 2000, she had pledged a fast-unto-death against the imposition of AFSPA in Manipur. She was arrested and since then kept in custody - force fed with a tube.

When we met her, a cheerful Irom Sharmila seemed more determined than ever to continue with her fast. She, however, did not wish to talk much.

NDTV: In Manipur ten years back, there was a 27-year-old girl who sat in Malom for a protest. Ten years later, what do you see when you look back?

Irom Sharmila: Let us realise why we are here in this world. How and when we will go away from here? This is our duty to just self-realise.

This was a rare interview opportunity for both of us. But the one-hour, so hard-earned, was spent mostly in edgy silence. As if she was asking, 'I am living the struggle...I am living my protest...what more can my words give you that my life already doesn't?'

Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/manipur-irom-sharmila-completes-10-years-of-fasting-64358&cp

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హెచ్చరిక.

Reduce child labor

Child labor is a conspicuous problem in India. Its prevalence is evident in the child work participation rate, which is more than that of other developing countries. Poverty is the reason for child labor in India. The meager income of child laborers is also absorbed by their families. The paucity of organized banking in the rural areas creates a void in taking facilities, forcing poor families to push their children in harsh labor, the harshest being bonded labor.

India against corruption

India Against Corruption (IAC) is a citizen's movement to demand strong anti-corruption laws. Lokpal bills were introduced several times since 1968, yet they were never passed by the Indian Parliament. After a fast by veteran social activist Anna Hazare and widespread protests by citizens across India the Government of India constituted a 10-member Joint Committee of ministers and civil society activists to draft an effective Jan Lokpal Bill. The primary focus of IAC movement is to ensure a strong Lokpal bill. The IAC is a strictly voluntary organization and its participants are bound by the IAC code of conduct.