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New Delhi: Though BSNL is in general meeting the Quality of Service (QoS) benchmarks prescribed by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) but still some complaints of subscribers are received by BSNL on problems faced by subscribers, which are generally attended by the field units promptly. To further improve the QoS, BSNL is also augmenting its network progressively so as to enhance coverage and capacity. BSNL is also optimizing its network continuously for its performance.

New Delhi: TRAI has sent its recommendations on “National Broadband Plan” to DoT on 08th December 2010. The salient features of the TRAI’s recommendations on National Broadband Plan are:

New Delhi: Shri Anand Sharma, Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, while releasing the draft strategy paper for doubling exports, here today, said that India’s exports will touch US $ 450 billion by 2014 and added that the exports during 2010-11 will reach US $ 225 billion. Interacting with the media persons on this occasion, Shri Sharma said this strategy would accelerate the growth of exports so as to keep the trade deficit within manageable bounds. Dr. Rahul Khullar, Commerce Secretary, informed that the strategy paper is prepared mainly for increasing our exports and to double the same by 2014.

New Delhi: International Coal Venture Limited (ICVL) is reviewing several proposals for acquiring coal properties in Australia with a view to examine their suitability and viability. Due diligence is in progress.

New Delhi: Minister for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries, Shri Sharad Pawar has called for evolving global standards to enhance quality and relevance of agricultural education and research in the country.

New York: The United Nations Human Rights Council announced today that it will hold a special session on Friday to discuss the situation in Libya, as calls continue to mount for an end to the use of force against protesters and a peaceful resolution of the crisis in the North African nation.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Will Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee do justice to Kerala in the Railway Budget which is to be presented on Friday? That is the question uppermost in the minds of Keralites.

The timing of the announcement of Mukesh Ambani’s $7.2-billion stake sale in Reliance Industries’ KG Basin-and-beyond oil and gas blocks to British Petroleum was absolutely perfect – the inaugural day of the scam-hit UPA government’s budget session. It served as a great morale booster for the government, which indirectly helped the senior of the two Ambani brothers in bargaining a reasonably good price from BP in exchange of the 30 per cent stake sale in RIL for the oil and gas blocks, ahead of the all-important budget session of Parliament.

The Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has tried to pave the way for a relatively business-oriented budget session of Parliament by conceding at last the opposition demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee to look into the 2G spectrum scandal, Government’s earlier hard line having washed out the winter session. For him, it was as necessary to salvage a Government with a sullied image to rehabilitate itself and re-establish its credentials both at home and abroad as for moving forward with an agenda of reinforced governance.

New York: Deputy Secretary-General of UN Asha-Rose Migiro today underscored the importance of education in raising the status of women in society and called for greater investment in measures to ensure gender equality, deploring the fact that two-thirds of illiterate adults across the world are female.