After terrain, traffic, landmarks, routes, shops, petrol-pumps etc., Google has now added a ‘weather’ layer to its Google Maps service. Like the other ‘layers’, this one too has to be enabled by clicking and choosing a menu of display modes from the top right corner of the map window. The information displayed at present include […]
India’s major opposition parties, including the right-of-centre Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), the Communists and regional parties have come together to determine the oppositions’ next move on the Anna Hazare agitation. Minutes after both houses of the Indian Parliament were adjourned after a shouting match between the opposition and the governing sides, leaders of opposition parties […]
The government seems to have been taken by surprise by the outpouring of support in favor of anti-corruption crusaders led by Anna Hazare. According to sources, it is considering holding talks with the group once again. Meanwhile, Anna Hazare has been reportedly moved to the Tihar jail after he refused bail conditions including not calling […]
The Delhi Police have detained 1,400 followers of Anna Hazare, police commissioner BK Gupta said. He said Anna has been arrested under the preventive arrest provisions of the Indian Criminal Procedure Code. Anna has been produced before a Magistrate and is currently in a police office. He has been ordered to 7 days in judicial […]
The Government has sent a huge police force to scatter would-be marchers from the Anna Hazare anti-corruption movement in Delhi. According to an appeal by Prashant Bhushan, one of the top leaders of the anti-corruption agitation, many protesters were turning up at the Pragati Maidan metro station in New Delhi for a mach. The Pragati […]
The main opposition, Bhartiya Janata Party, has mocked the government’s defence of cracking down on Anna Hazare’s anti-corruption protests. Senior leader and leader of the opposition Arun Jaitley mocked the argument that Hazare was arrested because he refused to limit his supporters to 5,000 in number. Jaitley said the Congress Party led government is crushing […]
Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravishankar has expressed his reservations about the Government’s political judgement and called its actions arrogant and out of touch. “It is unimaginable that a popular movement is being blocked like this,” Ravishankar, one of the founding members of the India Against Corruption alliance, said. “So many blunders are being committed. The […]
BJP president Nitin Gadkari, in a grand press conference attended by most senior leaders, has accused the Congress Party led government of slipping into an emergency mentality. BJP, which does not agree with several of the protesters demands as well, asked Congress to respect other people’s right to popularize their opinion, even if they are […]
ITES, Construction and IT sectors saw sharp declines in recruitment activity in July compared to June as employers seemed to take a ‘wait and watch’ approach, India’s biggest jobs portal Naukri.com said. The biggest slump was seen in BPO (ITES) sector, where hiring dropped 24% in July compared to June. In IT, it was down […]
Mamata Bannerjee may have big plans for her home state West Bengal, but if her record at the Rail Bhawan is anything to go by, a rise in crime levels should come as no surprise. The crime rate on Indian Railways has increased steadily and substantially over the last 2.5 years, when Mamata Bannerjee was […]
Completing its move to a ‘consumer focused’ corporate structure, Bharti Airtel has filled up two slots — one to head its broadband and data service and another to head its DTH and media unit. The new posts, in the current avatar, were created on the reorganization of Bharti Airtel’s internal corporate structure a month ago. […]
The Indian Railways will install audio-video entertainment system in all its trains, starting with the day trains, the Ministry of Railways has said. Currently, audio-video entertainment system such as those in aircrafts are available only in half a dozen trains in the country. All of these, such as the Shimoga-Bangalore Intercity Express and the Bangalore-Mysore […]
Government of India has refused to grant the right to use S Band spectrum to Antrix, the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), making the latter’s deal with Devas Multimedia irrelevant. ISRO-Antrix has already taken millions of dollars from the Bangalore-based firm and is also learnt to have spent considerable amount of […]
Advertisers who are spending their money on QR (quick response) campaigns, using a pictorial code to ‘continue’ an ad or message on a phone or similar device, are not off their mark, according to the latest data from digital research firm Comscore. A study by the agency found that in June 2011, 14 million mobile […]
Motorola, the US brand that was second only to Nokia in the Indian market before its US parent got caught in financial troubles, has taken a first step towards reclaiming its place in the Indian market. Though it has been launching some high-end phones, such as the Milestone, Droid and the Xoom tablet, Motorola was […]
After revolutionizing the netbook market, AMD’s new Fusion chips are all set to extend their magic to mainstream laptops. Two vendors, Toshiba and Lenovo, have released the first ever laptops built on the new AMD Fusion Llano platform (A series) — bringing high-end graphics to entry-level notebooks. AMD Fusion is noted for its ability to […]
As part of the government’s efforts to forge an alliance with opposition parties against the mass movement led by Gandhian Anna Hazare, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee told members of the Parliament that the government was opposing Anna to save their rights. Talking before the actual introduction of the bill in Lok Sabha today, Mukherjee said […]
After much anticipation and suspense, Samsung has finally launched the most awaited Android tablet in India, its new Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9 inch versions. As forecast by RTN, Samsung launched the two products at a glittering ceremony in the capital, graced by bollywood star Lara Dutta. The pricing of the bigger tablet has come […]
Mobile phone manufacturers and cellular service providers have opposed many of the key recommendations of the government of India’s Inter-Ministerial Committee on the harmful effects of mobile radiation on human health. The Committee started its work after an experts panel pointed to possible negative effects of cell-phone radiation on human health. Though microwave radiation, such […]
The BJP tried to shoot down the introduction of the Government’s version of the Lokpal bill in Lok Sabha today, on the issue of excluding the Prime Minister under the Bill. The BJP’s motion, however, was defeated by voice vote and permission was granted by the Speaker for the introduction of the bill in the […]
