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   News Analysis - June 8, 2006

 

    India is 4th Attractive Investment Destination (June 08, 2006)
    A global survey has ranked India as the 4th most attractive investment country and while it showed a diminishing interest in call centers in India without suggesting reasons for the decline, it was still the most preferred location for call centre and back office activities..<More>

    ICA Predicts Large Telecom growth (June 08, 2006)
    The Indian Cellular Association (ICA) of India says that the nation has the potential to manufacture around 100 to 110 million handsets or 10 per cent of the world’s requirements by 2010 and is set to become an export hub for mobile phones. <More>

    Minister Wants Quota in Private Sector (June 08, 2006)
    Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Meira Kumar struck an ominous note that businesses must create a reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the private sector voluntarily in the near future as "Time is running out.”<More>

    Central Tobacco Authority Being Planned (June 08, 2006)
    Federal Minister of Health Anbumani Ramdoss said that a Central Tobacco Authority (CTA) with unprecedented powers to implement the provisions of the Tobacco Act is being planned and revealed in the next couple of months.<More>

    India, Oman Want to Improve Military Ties (June 08, 2006)
    India and Oman expressed keen interest to improve their military ties through increased interaction between their respective armies that would include exchanging observers to military exercises and sending more officers to Army schools in India.<More>

    US Convicts Lashkar Operative (June 08, 2006)
    The US government succeeded in convicting a 11th suspect in what it calls the “Virginia jihad network” when it found a third-grade teacher guilty of aiding the Lashkar-e-Toiba.<More>

    India Promises Help to Nepal (June 08, 2006)
    Reinstated Nepal Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss economic and military aid and calibrate response to the threat from Maoist terrorists choking the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) and the country.<More>

    Signs of Iran Standoff Easing (June 08, 2006)
    Major world powers seem to be backing off their vociferous demands on long-term moratorium on uranium enrichment by Iran and asking only for suspensions during talks after their fully undisclosed offer seem to have got Iran’s attention.<More>

    The CIA Terror Web (June 08, 2006)
    European Human Rights watchdog Council of Europe accused 20 countries, including many in Europe, of colluding with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to create secret prisons to transfer terror suspects and use torture as means of interrogation.<More>

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