6 in 10 US voters want a woman Prez

     New York: Over six in 10 voters across the United States believe that the country would be ready for a woman president by 2008. According to a report in the New York Daily News, 53 percent of the voters think New York Democratic Party Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton should try for the job. Citing a nationwide poll carried out by the Siena College Research Institute and sponsored by the Hearst Newspapers, the NYDN report found that 81 percent of the voters surveyed said they would vote for a woman as president, while 62 percent said the country is ready for a woman president; and 67 percent said a female president would be better than a male chief executive in handling domestic issues. In the Siena poll, 60 percent of voters said they expect a woman to be on the Democratic ticket for president in 2008. Only 18 percent of voters said they expected the 2008 Republican ticket to be headed by a woman. The telephone poll of 1,125 registered voters was conducted between February 10 and 17 with a sampling error margin of plus or minus three percentage points.

Reliance, other telecom operators in CBI net (Go To Top)

     New Delhi: The CBI has launched an inquiry into the alleged scam involving hundreds of crores in rerouting of international calls. CBI will probe top telecom operators including Reliance Infocomm. Department of Telecom and its PSUs have imposed stiff penalties and have launched a major crackdown, which has been challenged by Reliance Infocomm. The probe has been started by the CBI suo motto. It has asked the concerned authorities to furnish relevant details of international telecom traffic, which is alleged to have been rerouted as local calls to avoid payment to levy to telecom PSUs, informed CBI officials. CBI came through the case while investigating the case illegal telephone exchanges, which were busted in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh recently during the agency's special drive on February 2.

     According to the CBI, during its investigations into the functioning of illegal exchanges in some of the Southern states, the agency found that some private telecom companies and some officials of Department of Telecommunications were involved. The companies had been asked to provide relevant details to the Economic Offences Wing of the CBI. However, no case has been registered against Reliance or any other company. On February 8, Reliance Infocomm said that the re-routing of international calls was entirely legal. The telecom major said so while justifying its stand before the telecom tribunal, TDSAT. Reliance Infocomm has earlier said to the Department of Telecom (DoT), that there is no justification in DoT's decision to impose penalty, as there was no violation of any of the licence's clauses. While, the government in its counter affidavit, early February, had accused the telecom company of violating the license by illegally routing international calls as local ones to avoid payment of levies to the telecom PSUs. Government has also said that the private telecom operator had misrepresented the facts. A counter-affidavit was filed by DoT responding to the petition filed by Reliance Infocomm, which challenged the penalty of Rs 150 crore imposed on it.

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