The war for tablets just got hotter, with Big Bazaar group’s futurebazaar.com starting to take orders for the Blacberry tablet ‘Playbook.’ The announcement has come three days after futurebazaar’s rival, Letsbuy.com had announced opening of pre-orders for Playbook’s rival, the Flyer from HTC. The Playbook, a seven-inch ‘professional’ counterpart to the iPad, was announced a […]
The petroleum ministry has confirmed receiving a report from the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on alleged irregularities in the oversight maintained over the administration of oil blocks under private companies. The Times of India had, in its story today, reported that the CAG has unearthed alleged favoritism towards Reliance Industries, owned by billionaire Mukesh […]
The number of customers putting in requesting for porting number from one operator to another has reached 85.4 lakh or about 1.45% of India’s total active subscriber base, three months after it was introduced. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said the highest number of requests came from Gujarat and Rajasthan, at 8.34 lakh […]
India, a country of 1,210 million people, has only 18.5 million IP addresses that it can use, the IT and telecom secretary R Chandrasekhar warned today — the World IPv6 days. Chandrasekhar pointed out that the country — which already has more than 11 million broadband users (estimated to consume around 7-8 million IP addresses) […]
Barely a month after taking charge as the chief minister, Mamata Bannerjee has issued an ordinance taking back 400 acres out the total 1000 acres given to Tata to build the Nano factory in Singur. The ordinance marks the carrying out of one of her biggest promises to the electorate in Bengal during the just […]
Reliance Big TV has become the first external operator to get hold of Star TV’s bouquet of five ‘asli’ HD channels. ‘Asli’ HD, trademarked by the Rupert Murdoch owned Star group, refers to content that is actually shot on HD cameras and not processed into HD from ordinary signals. Unlike ‘upscaled’ channels, content originally shot […]
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam, one of the core supporters of the UPA government at the Centre, has called for an emergency meeting tomorrow to discuss latest political events. The call has come after DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi, Kanimozhi, was denied bail by the Delhi High Court. Kanimozhi, close to Karunanidhi’s heart, will spend most of […]
Baba Ramdev’s condition has worsened further. “He is suffering from dehydration.. His weight has come down by five kilogram… It has gone down by 1.5 kg since we have been examining him,” said the doctors examining Baba Ramdev. “He has to break his fast immediately.. He must be moved to the hospital for cardiac monitoring..” […]
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam (DMK) is considering pulling out its ministers from the central council of ministers even as rival Jayalalitha is all set to meet UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. DMK, however, is unlikely to withdraw support for the Government as doing so may bring it down and result in a nation-wide general election. DMK […]
In this season of popular action, the POSCO site in Gobindpur in Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district is emerging as the latest flash-point between the masses and the government. According to the latest reports, nearly 2000 villagers protesting the acquisition of betel farm lands have formed a human chain to prevent the district administration from acquiring their […]
The National Commission for Women — a statutory body tasked with protecting women’s rights — seems to be going after the Mayawati’s BSP government in UP again. The Commission, which sprung into action soon after the police crack-down in Bhatta Parsaul as well — has accused Mayawati of ignoring the suffering of her people. “We […]
BJP has warned that the Congress government is working itself into the same paranoia that gripped it just before Indira Gandhi imposed the National Emergency in 1975. Party Spokesperson pointed out that statements from the home minister — portraying peaceful protests against corruption as a threat to Parliamentary democracy and calling them political blackmail, destabilization […]
A survey of hiring managers in IT companies across the country has found them to be very bullish, despite fears of an inflation-triggered slowdown. Most of the respondents believe that their employee head-count will jump by around 11-15% this year — indicating strong growth in hiring. “36% expect this figure to be as much as […]
Letsbuy.com, the online e-tailer with a reputation for bringing out the latest tech-toys to India, has launched the HTC’s first tablet — the Flyer — in India. The 7-inch Android 2.4 device has been priced at Rs 37,499 by the online retailer and has been launched in India within two weeks of its Singapore debut. […]
The UP Government has filed police complaint against an inspector and two constables belonging to the Lakhimpur police station where a 14-year-old girl was found raped and murdered. Police officials said the case has been filed since the crime scene was found to be altered and modified. “Whenever any crime happens, the crime-scene must be […]
Arguably India’s most effective writer on the Mumbai underworld, journalist J Dey has been shot dead by suspected underworld operatives near his home in Powai, Mumbai. Jyotirmoy Dey, who spent most of his reporting career bringing out scintillating accounts of the goings on in the Mumbai underworld for the Indian Express in Mumbai, was working […]
The Hill Township being put up by the Lavasa Corporation literally had it coming in the last three months as it had been criticised multiple times by the expert appraisal committee (EAC) — the top advisory body within the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). Despite a seemingly conciliatory tone adopted by the EAC three […]
The Commonwealth Games controversy may have hit the headlines last year, but replies to an RTI application by activist Subhash Chandra Agarwal have revealed that the then sports minister Mani Shankar Aiyer had raised a red flag way back in 2007. The maverick Congress leader, who has often been sidelined inside his own party due […]
Greenpeace announced that its talks with Airtel over replacing diesel generators with solar other renewable power have broken down. The talks were announced about two weeks ago when Greenpeace activists held talks with Airtel after an abortive attempt to climb on Airtel’s headquarters and paint anti-diesel slogans across its office. “..the senior management representatives of […]
Bharti Enterprises said it will sell its entire interest in its two joint ventures with AXA, both Life and General Insurance, to Reliance Industries Ltd, controlled by Mukesh Ambani. “Currently, the financial services ventures do not fit into Bharti’s long term growth plans. Bharti intends to use the proceeds from selling off its interests in […]
