Daily Newsletter | Monday, January 09, 2017 | | | Wary of China, India offers Akash missile systems to Vietnam | | India is now actively discussing the possible sale of the indigenously developed Akash surface-to-air missile systems to Vietnam, even as the two countries steadily crank up their bilateral military ties with a watchful eye on a confrontational China in the Asia-Pacific region. |
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| Railways readies plans to brand trains, stations | | The railways has readied a plan to brand trains and stations to augment revenues without raising passenger fares or freight rates.The proposal is ready and is expected to get the approval of the railway board next week. |
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| Fuel pumps say no, then yes to card payments | | There was some relief on Sunday night after banks agreed to defer their decision to charge 1% transaction fee on card payments at petrol pumps from Monday. The move had prompted dealers to say they would stop accepting plastic money unless a mechanism to compensate them was also put in place. Petroleum dealers have now said they will accept cards till January 13. |
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| | FIR registered against RLD leader for poll code violation in Mathura | | Mathura administration has registered a FIR against the district president of RLD, Ramveer Singh Bharangar, for organising an election rally for Ajit Singh's son, Jayant Chaudhary, without taking permission from the administration. Interestingly, the organisers for the rally had arranged "item dances" for the crowds in violation of model code of conduct (MCC). |
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| | Fall in iPhone sales: Apple CEO Tim Cook gets a salary cut | | Apple penalized CEO Tim Cook for the iPhone maker's first sales slump in 15 years with a 15% pay cut. Cook still did extremely well, with a compensation package valued at $8.7 million for Apple's fiscal year that ended Sept. 24, according to a regula... |
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| | Bopanna-Nedunchezhiyan clinch Chennai Open title | | Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut defeated Russian Daniil Medvedev 6-3, 6-4 to win the singles crown while India's Rohan Bopanna and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan beat compatriots Purav Raja and Divij Sharan 6-3, 6-4 to lift the Chennai Open doubles title Sunday. |
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| 'Captain' Dhoni's last hurrah, Yuvi to get some match-time | | Having manfully shouldered the responsibility of captaining India for close to a decade, it will be one last time that a team list will find the word 'skipper' alongside MS Dhoni when he leads India A in the first warm-up game against England on Monday. |
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| | | Actor’s actor Om Puri redefined idea of male lead | | Om Puri, whose haunting eyes and deafening silence captured the history of violence endured by an ordinary tribal in Aakrosh (1980) and whose portrayal of an upright cop simmering with coiled rage in Ardh Satya (1983) vaulted him to the pantheon of cinema’s finest performers, passed away on Friday. |
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