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 […]
Owners of high-end Nokia phones (N8, E7, C7 and C6-01) can upgrade their existing operating system to the next version of Symbian — the Anna — free of charge by the end of August, Nokia India said today. The Anna is likely to be the last big upgrade to the venerable Symbian operating system before […]
Despite keeping most of its opinion and suggestions private, the main opposition party, the BJP, seems to be on the side of popular anti-corruption campaigners on the only topic on which it has spoken so far. “It has kept the appointment process under its control.. It has kept the complete majority of the appointment panel,” […]
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 […]
It’s something we always knew, but just in case you wanted confirmation — mobile browser firm Opera has just delivered it — Facebook is the new Orkut for Indians. Orkut, which unexpectedly became a hit in India (and Brazil) has found its going tough of late, particularly as users are spending more and more time […]
Government of India has indicated a softer stand on the demands of the Civil Society activists on Lokpal. Home minister P Chidambaram, attended a press conference on Lokpal today, said he did not consider a fast by Anna Hazare after August 15 as an inevitability. “Why do you consider it as inevitable?.. We will present […]
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 […]
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 […]
Google, which has a track-record of coming out with innovative ways to promote itself, has launched an ad-campaign with a twist in India. The online web search engine, which dwarfs most of the brick-and-mortar companies of the World with its $35 billion revenue, has based its biggest TV campaign in India on real life stories. […]
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NDA leader and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has denied that the BJP-led opposition at the centre is playing dirty politics on the issue of the Lokpal bill. He denied the Congress’ accusation that the BJP led National Democratic Alliance is opposed to the strict anti-corruption law proposed by the campaigners led by Anna Hazare. […]
In a huge relief to ordinary mobile customers suffering from unwanted “value added services,” the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has made a written request from the consumer mandatory for the starting of value added services. Value added services (VAS) are those which are in addition to the normal SMS and voice calling facility. […]
G’Five, the biggest Chinese brand of mobile phones, has emerged as the fastest growing top-10 mobile brand in India last year, followed by Blackberry maker Research In Motion or RIM. The numbers, released by the Voice & Data magazine, also points to local brand Micromax as having held on to its position as Number 3 […]
In a sign of increasing business confidence, Gartner Inc, the market research agency, has raised its growth forecast for 2011 for the third time due to a stronger-than-expected bounce-back in the IT market. It’s first guidance, made last year, was for a 3.5% increase in IT spending this year. It hiked the forecast to 5.1% […]
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has suggested a new colour-coding scheme for recharge coupons as well as forcing telecom operators to offer “itemized billing” to prepaid customers as well. According to the suggestions, made in two draft laws put up for consultation today, the TRAI has suggested that there should be only three […]
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 […]
India Against Corruption, the umbrella body spearheading the struggle for a powerful anti-corruption mechanism, has given out a list of areas where the government has simply failed to see eye to eye with them. The requirements that Government has refused are the following, according to the IAC: Including the PM, Judge and MP voting Including […]
The big players of telecom equipment industry, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia Siemens and ZTE saw their India revenues take a big hit in the last financial year due to the controversy over security standards and ‘trap doors’ in Indian telecom equipment last year. Total sales of telecom equipment to mobile operators fell by a drastic 24% […]
Despite a bustling mobile handset market in the country, top Indian phone-brand Nokia failed to grow its revenues during the last financial year, according to the Voice & Data survey of the telecom market for 2010-11. However, number two in the mobile handset market — Samsung — managed to see its revenues grow by a […]
The Home Ministry headed by P Chidambaram has written to the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), under the Finance Ministry, seeking information about the assets owned by former chief justice of India KG Balakrishnan and his dependents and relatives. The move has come after the Law Ministry said that since the allegations against KG […]
