The consumers of Bharti Airtel in Delhi faced problem on Thursday as there was disruption in the company’s network in the evening due to some technical problems. The subscribers were complaining that they were not able to make or receive calls.
Bharti Airtel had 7.98 million customers in Delhi on March 31, 2011. Even Delhi police officers who are using Bharti Airtel connection faced problems. Some people spent anxious moments as they were not able to call their dear ones. “I have been trying to call my husband for the last two hours and am not able to reach him. He doesn’t have an alternate number. He usually calls me when he leaves office and today I have not received a call from him,” said a housewife. “An unforeseen technical outage had affected services on some of our circuits,” said Bharti Airtel.
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HRD body for promotion of research, tech
Age Correspondent
New Delhi
May 5: Union human resource development ministry has decided to constitute an advisory committee for the promotion of Research and Technology in Universities and other higher education academic institutions. The committee will also advise the government on how to attract bright young persons to a career in science and technology. Official sources stated that the step comes days after Prime Minister’s scientific advisor, C.N.R. Rao, made several recommendations to the government for improvement in higher education system in the country.
The HRD ministry has proposed the names of Prof. Roddam Narasimha, Prof. Ashutosh Sharma, Dr M.K. Bhan, Dr Anil Kakodkar, Prof. A.K. Sood, Prof. Vijay Raghavan, Prof. V. Kannan and Prof. Baldev Raj as members of the committee. Sources stated that the committee will advise the government on the state of research in science and technology in universities and other institutions. “The committee will also advise on future trends in research and mark the areas of priority for the higher educational institutes,” sources stated. It will guide the government on the investments required for strengthening research in higher educational institutions.