Salman Khurshid, current water resources minister and the former minister in charge of corporate (company) affairs, has denied that his former ministry gave a clearance to Loop Telecom and Essar over the violation of telecom ownership rules. His clarification has come in the wake of Loop Telecom, one of the firms being probed by the […]
Symantec was the biggest anti-virus vendor in 2010, according to the latest numbers from IT market research firm Gartner, even as small competitors nibbled away at bigger brands’ businesses during the year. Against a 12% increase in overall security software (anti-virus) market, Symantec was able to increase its revenues by just 5.8%. It was followed, […]
Around 23% of the respondents have been victims of cyber attacks, according to the latest survey from Microsoft India. 19% per cent users reported email account hacking. Indians, one of the most prolific cell phone users, are also equally ‘addicted’ to the Internet. The survey found that around half of India’s Internet users spent close […]
Jairam Ramesh, union minister for environment and forests, has rejected two projects in Kerala including a controversial proposal to install camouflaged turbines under Kerala’s biggest waterfalls known as Athirapilly. He also rejected permission to set up an international cricket stadium in Kochi. However, Jairam Ramesh approved seven projects, including the much-awaited Vizhinjam port project, infrastructure […]
The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) has urged the Congress party to rein in its ministers and leaders from making baseless charges and instead take action to address the concerns of the people on corruption. RSS Spokesperson Ram Madhav was responding to statements, both by ministers such as Pranab Mukherjee, P Chidambaram etc.. as well as […]
The mother of the 14 year old girl alleged to be raped and killed by policemen in Lakhimpur in UP, has alleged that she was offered Rs 5 lakhs in return for his silence on the issue. She, however, did not clarify who offered the bribe. The woman, Fatima, refused to quieten down and reiterated […]
Under attack from various quarters for rising Maoist violence and other reasons, the home minister P Chidambaram today brought out numbers to prove that the violence was actually falling. After a review meeting with the chief ministers of Orissa and Chhatisgarh, Chidambaram brought out numbers to point to a drop in violent incidents involving left […]
The second post-mortem report on the 14-year-old girl from Lakhimpur has confirmed murder, but neither confirmed or denied rape, according to early reports. The result is likely to create even more pressure on the authorities to act fast to find the culprits — suspected to be among the Policemen in the Lakhimpur Police Station. The […]
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has offered the family of the murdered 14-year-old girl in Lakhimpur to have a CBI investigation into the whole matter. “I would like to assure the family that if they want an investigation by the CBI or any other agency, my government will not be opposed to it,” she said. […]
The Congress Party has asked for a CBI enquiry into the death of a 14-year-old girl in Lakhimpur in UP. The girl, whose body was found hanging from a tree in a Police Station compound, has been confirmed as murdered by the second post-mortem analysis conducted earlier in the day. Mayawati Government has also ordered […]
Etisalat and LG have teamed up to deliver Internet and videos through LG’s new range of Internet-enabled TVs. The agreement is primarily targeted at the Middle East market, where Etisalat is a big player. The new LG TVs, also available in India, contain built in mini-computers inside them that allow the TV to be used […]
The government yesterday refused to hand-over the audio recordings of the meetings of the drafting committee for the Lokpal bill when five of the ten members demanded it, the Civil Society leaders participating in the Lokpal bill drafting committee said. They also said that the Government ministers did not discuss any point, but “simply announced […]
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the organization behind standards such as WiFi, Wimax and hundreds of others, sees Solar energy as becoming the cheapest power source in ten years. The organization, which is increasing its focus on Solar this year through the setting up of a journal and experts groups, is one […]
India will move to a system of graded certification of movies, instead of the current regime of cutting of scenes, Rajiv Takru, an official of the ministry of Information & Broadcasting said at a conference today. Speaking at Samvaad 2011 in Mumbai, Thakru also said that the government may change the name of the Central […]
Indian foreign minister SM Krishna has reassured Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi that the Indian government is tracking Chinese activity on the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra on the other side of the border. He, however, assured the chief minister that the Chinese have claimed they are not damming the waters for diversion, but only for power generation. “We […]
The Uttar Pradesh CB-CID, the top investigating agency under the state government, has pointed its fingers to two cops for direct involvement in the murder of the 14-year-old girl whose body was found in a police station in Lakhimpur in UP. In an interim report submitted to the government, the CB-CID ruled out actual rape, […]
Moser Baer Solar, the largest Indian photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturer and part of the Moser Baer optical media group, has tied up Munro Distributing Co., one of the top solar equipment distribution firms in the US. Munro will offer Moser Baer’s solar modules and sue them in its designs of commercial turnkey solar PV systems, […]
Barely two weeks after the Russian operator MTS slashed STD charges to around 27 paise per minute (half paise per second,) Uninor has followed suit, though only in the Mumbai circle for now. However, unlike MTS customers, Uninor customers will have to pay an extra Rs 36 per month for availing of 30 paise per […]
The Russia-based operator MTS, which created a flutter by halving its standard call rates to half a paisa per second recently, has now offered free data modems (data cards) for those who pay three months’ bill in advance. The scheme is available for those who choose either the Rs 699 per month scheme or Rs […]
The Civil Society leaders under Anna Hazare attacked the government’s latest position that the Prime Minister should not be included under the scope of the anti-corruption ombudsman, the Lokpal. “Under the Indian constitution, only the President of India enjoys an exemption from prosecution.. If you want to take him out, you will have to amend […]
