Welspun Solar Madhya Pradesh Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Welspun Renewable Private Limited, has won the largest solar power contract in Indian history. The company, part of the formerly textile-oriented Welspun group, won a contract for setting up a plant that will generate 125 million watts (megawatt or MW) of power. In comparison, […]
All three finalists in the National Geographic Bee Championship, one of the most prestigious academic competitions in the world, turned out to be of Indian origin. Rahul Nagvekar beat Vansh Jain of Wisconsin and Varun Mahadevan of California in the finals held on Thursday in Washington. The finals saw US President Barack Obama ask a […]
Reliance Communications too has jumped in to the ‘make 3G affordable’ bandwagon – introducing two new plans for low to medium data users on its USB ‘netconnect’ dongle. The new plans offer 1 GB 3G data for Rs 250 per month and 2 GB of 3G data for Rs 450 per month. They are exactly […]
In what is likely to be the first step in turning around the embattled state airline Air India, the civil aviation minister has set up a committee to come up with a list of routes that need to be eliminated. The move, coming in the wake of a crippling pilot’s strike, is intended to cut […]
The Telecom Regulator has rejected the Government’s proposal to move the sunset for analogue cable from 2013 to 2015. In a letter sent to the ministry of information and broadcasting, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said the ministry’s concerns on the availability of set-top-boxes can be addressed if imports of the same are […]
Norway, Switzerland, France, Sweden and Denmark are the top five future destinations for medium and large datacenters in the EMEA region, according to research firm Canalys. On the other end of the spectrum, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Hungary are at risk of not being able to provide enough energy to meet the demands of datacenters. […]
The Nokia store on Indiatimes has removed the Rs 29,999 price tag on Nokia 808 Pureview, with Nokia calling it a dummy price. The 41-megapixel Pureview 808 is the most sophisticated camera phone ever invented and can capture details that a human eye cannot easily see. It had announced earlier this month that the phone […]
The Samsung Galaxy S3 will be priced at Rs 43,000 in India, in line with its pricing in Europe (600 euros or Rs 42,000 plus). While fans may be disappointed at the high price, it may be noted that the rupee depreciation is the primary factor behind the high cost. The S2, the previous version […]
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has pulled up operators Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular for imposing discriminatory charges on new operators to deliver their SMS to Bharti and Idea subscribers. The Authority has asked the two to immediately comply with the law which requires any ‘inter connect’ charge to be transparent and equitable […]
Many big Indian companies will take a huge hit from the rupee hitting an all-time low, while it may be good news for IT, BPO and export companies. The Indian Rupee (INR) fell to Rs 54.51 per dollar, down 22% from January 2011. As SMC Global Securities points out, this is going to make it […]
Gold prices in the domestic market may cross Rs 30,000 per 10 grams ($55,555 per kg) during the June-August quarter registering a strong recovery on account of myriad reasons ranging from slowdown in inflow by foreign institutional investors (FIIs), rising headline inflation, rupee depreciation, growing signs of fatigue in the realty sector to pent up […]
Videocon, the latest entrant into India’s DTH market, today claimed that it is now offering the highest number of true HD channels in India. The company made the claim as it added six more HD channels to its bouquet, taking the total Asli HD channels on its platform to 19, according to the company. True […]
Logitech, estimated to have nearly half of India’s PC peripherals market, said it will increasingly focus on ‘living room’ products such as ‘TV peripherals’ as its core market of assembled PCs shrinks. The firm, which refuses to share its India-specific numbers, said it has achieved sales of around 4 million pieces of ‘pointing devices’ or […]
Bharti Airtel’s cut in 3G data rates has caught the headlines, but Airtel’s 3G is still more expensive than the pre-existing plans offered by some other operators. For example, Airtel’s plan is offering 300 MB of 3G data for Rs 100. In comparison, MTNL offers 1 GB of data for Rs 76 (weekly) and Rs […]
Trade and Industry minister Anand Sharma has spoken out in uncharacteristically blunt terms against a Parliamentary Committee report suggestion on the policy for land acquisition for industries. The report had suggested excluding “manufacturing and industrial activity” and public-private project (PPP) from the definition of ‘public purpose’ for land acquisition. The recommendation, if accepted, would make […]
The Aditya Birla Group today announced that it has agreed to take a 27.5% stake in Living Media India Ltd. (India Today Group), through a private investment company. This brings the multi-national conglomerate into the company of others like Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries and the Anil Ambani Group that have significant investments in the media […]
In what may be good news for thousands of fans of Mandriva Linux, the company behind the operating system has decided to set up an independent community to lead the development of the operating system. Mandriva Linux, formerly Mandrake Linux, had stopped coming out with regular updated versions of the popular operating system late last […]
More than half of India’s wells have higher-than-permitted levels of iron, while about one in six have higher than allowed levels of fluoride, according to data from the Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) of the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. The numbers, updated as of April 2012, also show the real extent of arsenic […]
Indian and Indian origin kids dominate yet another annual Google Science Fair, sweeping 18 out of the 40 places in the 13-14 year category this year. Indian kids accounted for all 13 nominations this year from the APAC region, which includes China, Australia and Japan. In all, 90 students worldwide qualified for the Science Fair, […]
Idea has cut prices of its low-use 3g data plans, following a recent cut in 3g tariffs by competitor Airtel, even as it seems to have steeply increased prices in some plans. The price cuts are very similar, if not the same, as those implemented by Bharti Airtel last week. For starters, Idea has reduced […]
