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Nokia 5800 Price

The retail price for Nokia 5800 phone is expected to be around $400, without any subsidies or taxes, so depending on the preferred carrier, the price might have a wide range.

Nokia Introduces Its First Touch-Screen Phone

By Michael Todd
14:35, October 3rd 2008

The world’s biggest mobile phone maker, Nokia, presented its newest release, the company’s first ever touch-screen device. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is expected to provide a true competition to Apple’s iPhone and also its iTunes service.

The device offers 8 Giga Bytes of memory, which will come in handy combined with the unlimited music downloads offered by the company’s Comes With Music program. Its users will be able to download music from the archives offered by Warner Music Group, Sony BGM Music, Universal Music and EMI Group. (more…)

Editorial Desk

10/3/2008

Finally the announcement that over 50 lakh government employees would be receiving 40 per cent of their arrears amounting to Rs 11,600 crore on account of the Sixth Central Pay Commission recommendations has sent cheer amongst the automobile industry. It has been learnt that enquiries from government officials have already started pouring in at the dealer’s end. It is widely expected that a number of leading companies like Hyundai, General Motors, Maruti Suzuki, etc will be chalking out customised strategies to entice the aforesaid segment for buying their models. Research has clearly indicated that most of the government employees’ families have never deemed it necessary to buy a car, but an aggressive marketing as well as a personal touch base by auto companies base may tilt the market dynamics in their favour. (more…)

October 3, 2008

New Delhi (PTI): IAF chief Fali Homi Major on Friday vehemently denied reports of armed forces defying government over pay commission issues, even as he termed the Cabinet’s approval for creation of 1,896 new posts as a “motivator” for all in the services. (more…)

October 3rd, 2008 – 5:02 pm ICT by ANI –

By Praful Kumar Singh

New Delhi, Oct 3 (ANI): The Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Fali H Major, on Friday said the Armed Forces have not breached any discipline by publicly airing their grievances over the anomalies in the Sixth Pay Commission report.

I as the Air Force Chief and other two chiefs have gone through the sixth Central Pay Commission report and put forward the issues which we wanted the government to redress, Air Chief Marshal Major told reporters ahead of the 76th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the IAF. (more…)

Press Trust Of India
New Delhi, October 01, 2008

Defence Minister A K Antony on Wednesday said there were no differences between the government and the armed forces over the 6th Central Pay Commission (CPC) report.

His statement comes in the wake of the defence forces’ signal to its 1.5 million personnel on the “anomalies” in the CPC, asking them to “be patient in the larger interest of the Services,” which was seen as an act of defiance of the Cabinet decision to implement revised pay scales from September 1. (more…)

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Maruti a star

Maruti A-Star by November

Bangalore: The latest passenger car from Maruti Suzuki, the one litre A-Star model is expected to cost about Rs 4 lakh (ex-showroom) and will be launched during mid-November.

An official with Maruti Suzuki told newspersons that the A-Star will also be exported under the Nissan badge to Europe and the Middle East and will be called Pixo. Nissan can also sell the same car in India as well under a different brand. The new car is also perhaps the only model in the world, which will have 750 variants as it will be sold across 151 countries including Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Asia and Africa, the official said. (more…)

jmet 2009

Joint Management Entrance Test 2009 (JMET 2009) is the first step in the process of admission to the TWO YEAR FULL TIME Postgraduate Degree Programmes in Management offered by IITs for the academic year commencing July/August 2009.

Currently IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, and IIT Roorkee offer Programmes in Management. (more…)

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Now some great news for the employees of autonomous bodies, quasi-government organisations and statutory bodies. The government of India has decided to extend the benefit of Sixth Pay Commission recommendations to employees of autonomous bodies, quasi-government organisations and statutory bodies. As per the news, the benefit would be extended to employees of all such organisations whose basic pay and emoluments are similar to those payable to central government employees. Wikipedia on Sixth Pay Commission.Autonomous Bodies Quasi-Government Organisations Statutory bodies Sixth Pay Commission What about those employees whose pay scales are NOT identical to those of the central government employees? In those cases when the pay scales are not identical, the department or bodies would constitute a “separate group of officers”. The financial advisor of the respective department would be involved in the group as the representative of the finance ministry. (more…)