India's new Railway Minister C. P. Joshi leaves the Railways Ministry after taking charge in New Delhi on May 13, 2013. Road Transport and Highways Minister C. P. Joshi has taken charge of the Railways Ministry, while Kapil Sibal has been made the Law Minister following the exit of Pawan Kumar Bansal and Ashwani Kumar from their respective posts.
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal has stolen the thunder from his other ministerial colleagues on Women's Day. If Finance Minister P Chidambaram made news and drew initial applause from UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj and Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar by announcing an all-women bank, Sibal has gone a step ahead by quietly working on an all-women post office. The post office was inaugurated today at Shastri Bhawan in New Delhi.
Various public sector banks, departments and ministries have been vying to draw attention with liberal splurging on big advertisements in various publications for what they call a noble cause: giving a sense of pride to women and raising awareness to treat them with dignity and respect. It's a different matter though that the morning headlines in prominent dailies painted a scary picture on the issue of women safety in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR).
In this backdrop, no one can be particularly sure of the driving idea behind Sibal's all-women post office at Shastri Bhawan, adjacent to Parliament and one of the most secure places in the national Capital. Shastri Bhawan houses around a dozen department and ministerial offices of the Union government. High and mighty ministers have their offices and the place is under 24X7 strict vigil of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). Delhi Police provide the outer ring vigil.
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal today said the government will try to start national free roaming for customers before October this year.
Trai has floated a consultation paper on it (national free roaming). So when Trai's recommendations come and after that, we will try to start free roaming before October, Sibal told reporters on the sidelines of the launch of National Internet Registry (NIR) here.
In December, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) had floated a pre-consultation paper seeking inputs from stakeholders on tariff for national roaming services.
New Delhi: Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal today said the government will try to start national free roaming for customers before October this year.
Trai has floated a consultation paper on it (national free roaming). So when Trai's recommendations come and after that, we will try to start free roaming before October, Sibal told reporters on the sidelines of the launch of National Internet Registry (NIR) here.
Kapil Sibal, India's minister of Communications and Information Technology, speaks during a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on February 14, 2013. Sibal spoke about the present conditions of the information-communication industries in India.
New Delhi: Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal has written to a committee of state finance ministers asking them to declare mobile phones and tablets as goods of special importance under Central Sales Tax Act, which may lead to the gadgets becoming cheaper by 7-8 percent, sources said.
Considering the huge potential that mobile phones and tablets have in transforming the overall development of the country...Sibal has requested that the Empowered Committee of the State Finance Ministers may consider the proposal to declare mobile phones and tablets as goods of special importance under the CST (Central Sales Tax) Act of 1956, a source said.
The committee is headed by Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Sushil Kumar Modi.
