Nokia E6 — the touch-cum-candybar-qwerty phone from Nokia has become cheaper even before it has been launched. While the company announced a “best buy” price of Rs 17,999 for its pre-order customers, Letsbuy.com — India’s specialist digital retailer — has just reduced the price to Rs 16,999 for those who place the pre-order through its […]
UP chief secretary Shashank Shekar has confirmed that Dr YS Sachan, who was found hanging in a jail hospital in Lucknow today morning, was tortured with sharp instruments before being killed. “According to the post mortem (autopsy), there were 9 injuries on his body. Eight of them were made with sharp weapons.. Injuries were found […]
Motorola has just launched its flagship tablet — the Motorola Xoom in India for Rs 38,999. It is the first tablet to offer any real competition to the iPad2 and the first high-end, big screen Android tablet to hit India as well. However, if you are in the market for a great Android tablet that […]
The Supreme Court has issued an order restraining the Chhattisgarh government from recruiting tribal youth in large numbers as ‘special police officers” — a sort of counter-militia against the Maoists. The SPOs were drawn from the “Salwa Judum” or “Peace March” movement started by the State government in 2005. There are between 4,000-5,000 such tribal […]
Bollywood actor Imran Khan has decided to launch a new facebook page to gauge popular support to his recent campaign against what he sees as the interference of the Maharashtra government into personal freedoms. Imran Khan had earlier said that he will lodge a public interest litigation against the move to make it illegal for […]
The Motorola Xoom, the best challenger to Applie iPad2, has been launched in India for a price of Rs 39,000 (Rs 38,999) by Letsbuy.com. The Xoom is the only 10 inch tablet other than the iPad available in India and has features very similar to the iPad, though in some technical ways, Xoom is more […]
The article on Vodafone and Idea entering into a network support deal for 3G services in Delhi, enabling Idea to launch 3G services in Delhi despite not having 3G spectrum has been temporarily taken off on the request of Ms Imprimis PR private Ltd. The firm has claimed that the article detailing how Idea has […]
Proving how important the thousands of crores of rupees meant for the National Rural Health Mission in UP were, the main accused in the murder of two reportedly upright officers has also been murdered. Dr Y S Sachan, Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Lucknow was found hanging in his jail cell yesterday. The Lucknow Police […]
The BJP has come out with an unusually strong response to what it calls reports of attempts of compromise on the issue of Kashmir in the ongoing foreign secretary level talks between India and Pakistan. BJP’s seniormost leader LK Advani said there were reports that India plans to compromise on its stand on Kashmir and […]
Veteran Gandhian and the head of India’s anti-corruption movement, Anna Hazare welcomed the threat by the Congress party to use force against him when he conducts the second round of fast and agitation for a tough ombudsman to fight corruption. In doing so, he seemed to hint at the possibility of the August agitation turning […]
The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court has raised questions about the report on the Lakhimpur murder case by the Uttar Pradesh CB-CID. The CB-CID report ruled out any attempt to rape and pinned the blame of the 14-year-old girl on a police constable Atiq Ahmed Khan. The Court expressed its reservations on the […]
Gandhian anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare will meet with Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi tomorrow as part of his efforts to lobby support for tough anti-corruption organization. “We want all the parties to support us.. We will meet her and ask her, how can we make sure that corruption can be eliminated (through the bill,)” he […]
The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will now have regular meeting with top editors, even as regularly as one a week, according to sources. The first meeting will be held at his house at 4 pm tomorrow. The move has come in the wake of searing criticism of an “absentee Prime Minister”, particularly on the web, […]
J Jayalalitha, chief minister of Tamil Nadu, has pointed towards mid-term national elections in an interview to a TV channel. Speaking to the Times Now channel, Jayalalitha (who likes to spell her name Jayalalithaa,) said she felt there might be changes at the Centre sooner than what everyone expects. The current central government, headed by […]
The Madras High Court has issued notice to the Government of India on taking out the Central Bureau of Investigation from the ambit of the Right to Information Act or RTI. The Cabinet had removed the CBI from within the scope of the RTI a week ago claiming that the RTI petitions seeking information on […]
India, despite having only 10% of its citizens as Internet users, ranked the third globally in seeking identification details of Google users in the second half of last year, according to Google’s transparency report for the period. It made 1,699 such requests to Google in the second half of 2010, a rise of more than […]
Union human resources (education) and telecom minister Kapil Sibal has denied media reports that the Home ministry, in charge of India’s security, has objected the Indian Institute of Science’s agreement with a Chinese telecom company to develop testing standards. Sibal, who brought the Intelligence Bureau (IB) head to a press conference, denied that India’s security […]
A study of 27 paints from India, Bangladesh and Nepal has shown dangerously high levels of lead, according to a report by Toxics Link, the NGO specializing in pollution abatement. The tests were conducted on all the major paint brands in India (and the other two countries). “Overall 63% of the paint samples studied were […]
VMware, the virtualization company owned by EMC, Oracle and Cisco turned out to be the fastest growing business software companies in India, according to Garnter’s assessment of the market for 2010. At 25%, Oracle recorded the fastest revenue growth among the top five firms while IBM ended up as the biggest seller of software to […]
Both the Civil Society and the government seem to be playing the game of brinkmanship, with Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh now saying that the government may deal with Anna in the same way it dealt with Baba Ramdev. “Anna saheb says he will again sit on fast. If he does, he may get the […]
