L K Advani
I have been asked to share my vision for India. I must confess that I am a little wary of talking about the so-called ‘Vision Thing’ at a time like the one we are now passing through, which is truly extraordinary in the history of India and the world. Vision refers to the future, which some people can present in beautiful, lyrical phraseology. However, it is the present that demands our most immediate attention.

Political Desk
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has amended the All India Radio Code allowing political advertisements. Accordingly, such advertisements will be allowed to be carried on All India Radio.

This would include FM radio also since they too adhere to the AIR Code. Such advertisement shall be subject to pre-broadcast scrutiny by the Election Commission of India/authorities under the Election Commission of India during the period when model code of conduct is in operation.

The new Blog service launched by hyperwebenable.com provided free website to the bloggers. It provides complete domain name to the blog (yoursitename.com) rather than sub domain (yourname.freeblogservice.com) unlike the other blog services. This
company, based in the Silicon Valley, offers it's customers technological expertise and state of the art service to enhance traffic to blogs, and more customers to advertisers.

Beside offering these services for free, HyperWebEnable, also features:

- Free website of your choice;
- 1GB of free web space;
- Unlimited Band Width;

Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed has been invited by President of European Parliament (EP) Hans-Gert Pottering for a meeting to discuss Hindu issues and promote interfaith dialogue.

Business Desk
In a sincere attempt to take up their share of social responsibility for a safer Mumbai, BPL Mobile, Mumbai’s leading mobile service provider, had teamed up with Hyderabad based IMImobile to help Mumbai Police track drunk drivers. Within two months of having being rolled out, the service has already proved its efficiency to serve the Mumbai Police.

Business Desk
Dr. Ashwani Kumar, Minister of State for Industry had an extensive discussion with the Apex Industry Associations, representatives of various bodies of Chambers of Commerce, and over 21 sector specific associations regarding the global financial crisis and its implications on the Indian industry, here today.

Business Desk
mjunctionedge - the content and conference division of mjunction services limited, India’s largest eCommerce company, promoted by SAIL and TATA Steel in association with Metal Bulletin Events, London, is organising the 3rd Indian Metals Conference, a two day conference on the metals industry from 19-20th November 2008 at Trident Hotel, Mumbai.

Business Desk
Customer Equity Solutions (CEQUITY), a new age data driven marketing services company, has launched India’s first on - demand Direct Marketing services platform – CEQUITY ACE. Cequity ACE is an easy to use plug & play platform that can accelerate the direct marketing capabilities of any organization. It is a simple drag & drop analytics application and campaign management solution.

Business Desk
In a first of its kind initiative, BPONews is to organise an 'authentic high tea' to unravel a forum (BPO Un’Conference) to answer the undercurrent brewing in the BPO industry for long. It is attempt to get together decision makers from the BPO (and allied) businesses to meet once a month. The meeting is expected to serve to network for business as well as discuss problems in the BPO business while attempting to uncover new areas.

Business Desk
IDS Softwares Pvt. Ltd. (IDS), global leader in providing integrated IT solutions for the hospitality industry, today announced the opening of a new regional office in Egypt. The Cairo office will now offer second line support to the North African countries and also be responsible for active marketing of IDS products in the region. While first level of support will be handled at the local level, the second level will be at Egypt.

Political Desk
Lausanne, fifth largest city of Switzerland, has said "no" to the request of naming a street after peace icon Mahatma Gandhi.

Declining a plea of Gandhi Monument Council, which is formed of interfaith clergy and is headquartered in USA, to name one of major Lausanne streets after great leader Mahatma Gandhi, Lausanne Mayor Daniel Brelaz said, it "…does not suit to our rules in this field."

Travel Correspondent
Egencia, an Expedia, Inc. company, today announced the launch of its service in India. Companies doing business in India now have access to fully localized service and content combined with Egencia’s innovative suite of online booking and travel management tools. A strong in-country account management team provides dedicated client service 24/7.

IT Correspondent
Along the lines of its tradition of superior services to customers all over the world, Recorders.com begins sales and shipping of recently launched Dragon Medical 10 from its seven strategically located warehouses.

Dragon Medical 10 is claimed to be the best selling, the fastest and most reliable real-time medical speech recognition software in the world. With an enhanced accuracy of over 20%, the software is claimed to recognize dictation two times faster than its previous versions.

Lifestyle Desk
If you crave the charm and elegance of the Old World in your home, look no further than Regent Antiques of London for your inspiration. Whether your taste is English or Continental, ornate or minimalist, this spectacular website has something for you.

The site displays items from a wide range of categories. Superb photography highlights every detail of the piece and easily allows one to image its impact in their home.

IT Correspondent
Verdurez has launched a social networking website for men and women of Indian origin aged 55 and above living in India and abroad. The aim of the website is to help senior Indians lead a more enriched life and to help them keep pace with the fast changing world around them.

Lifestyle Desk
Often old memories about school and college haunt us. Most of us are so busy in life that hardly we manage time to communicate or party together. Eduinfo.com is an online education based directory portal. Recently, it has upgraded its alumni directories and the spokesperson from the company addressed journalists shared plenty of information regarding this all new alumni directories.

Business Desk
Integrity Financial AZ announces today the the launch of their new Web site, http://www.IFAZLLC.com, that aims to convince clients about security they can earn by investing with the company.

In an environment where investors are feeling insecure and scared about Wall Street, the IFAZ LLC is boasting about retaining 99 percent of their clients. They claim that renewal of accounts by clients even after maturity is an indication of their trust on the company.

IT Correspondent
GAO RFID Inc. (www.GAORFID.com) has announced its new release of a high frequency (HF) Rugged Handheld Reader/Writer (GAO 243013). The handheld Reader is designed for information management, and data collection and data transfer. It is an ideal solution for access control, asset tracking, warehouse management, and livestock tagging.

Business Desk
This Autumn the sound of crunching leaves has been overshadowed by media reports of crunching credit, however, despite this thoughts are rapidly turning to the excitement and expectation of the Christmas season. This year the UK-based online clothing brand klever kloggs has sought to help ease the financial burden on households across the globe by being among the first to announce their Christmas sale.

Business Desk
CII notes a revival in IIP growth during September 2008 at 4.8% compared to August IIP growth of 1.4%. While September 2008 IIP growth is more, the overall IIP growth for first 6 months of 2008-09 at 4.9% compared to 9.5% during the corresponding period last year is an indication that we are experiencing decline in industrial growth, said CII in a press statement issued here today. A bigger concern is the secular decline in the three month moving average of IIP growth.