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 […]
Three days after competitor Futurebazaar.com opened booking for the blackberry playbook, India’s premier digital e-tailer Letsbuy.com too has started offering Blackberry Playbook on its site. The entry model, with 16 GB of onboard memory, has been priced at around Rs 28,000 while the 32 GB model will cost Rs 32,990 and 64 GB will set […]
The Congress side-stepped the controversy over general secretary Digvijay Singh’s comments that Rahul Gandhi is ready to take over the post of the Prime Minister. Party spokesperson Jayanti Natarajan said she saw Rahul Gandhi as the future leader of India, but “Manmohan Singh is our prime minister.” The clarification came after reports that even Rahul […]
The withdrawal of the two Supreme Court judges hearing the Kanimozhi bail plea has once again raised questions about the safety of senior judges who deal with ultra-sensitive cases. The two judges, Justices P Sathasivam and AK Patnaik, withdrew themselves from the case just one working day before Kanimozhi’s bail plea was supposed to be […]
The petroleum minister Jaipal Reddy has refused to respond to the points raised by the draft CAG report, but ridiculed the BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi for being a “headline hunter.” “I would not like respond to the points raised in the draft report. We are to give considered replies,” he said. On the issue […]
The last ten days have been a treat for those looking to upgrade their phone to the latest and greatest in India — seeing the launch of the best of HTC, Apple and Samsung. The three phones represent the next generation of big-screened phones that are unabashedly geared towards media, media and more media. Unlike […]
Petroleum minister Jaipal Reddy has said that the file of the Cairn-Vedanta deal has been sent to the Cabinet for approval. “The group of ministers have given their recommendation.. What the recommendation is, I cannot tell you. But it has been sent to the Cabinet for its final decision.. It has gone to the Cabinet,” […]
India Against Corruption, the grand alliance of NGOs and activists leading the struggle for a strong Lokpal bill, the campaigners welcomed the government’s move to hold an all-party meet on the bill. “We have always been asking for more and more inputs into the process,” pointed out Prashant Bhushan, one of the five representatives of […]
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 […]
An improvised explosive device, a sort of a crude bomb, has been found in the Kanchenjunga Express at the Guwahati railway station in Assam. Police described the device as “powerful” programmable timer device, planted inside a tiffin carrier. The police have disabled the bomb. The bomb was found at the peak hour on the station. […]
If the Congress is in a mood to share some of the flak for ‘blocking’ a strong Lokpal through an All Party meet, the opposition seems to be in no mood to share the burden of resisting an increasingly focused anti-corruption movement. The Congress, after a brainstorming session of the top leaders at the PM […]
Finally, the grand-daddy of mobiles phones for Indians, Nokia, has come out with a phone that will have even the staunchest Galaxy or iPhone fan skip a heart-beat. The N9 is undoubtedly Nokia’s best phone to-date and suddenly catapults it into the league of big-screen phone makers like Samsung, HTC and Apple that ‘have it.’ […]
Former Water Resources minister and Congress leader Saifuddin Soz has urged the Government of India to push for a joint committee to the activities on the Chinese section of the Brahmaputra. Soz said that he has noted the assurance of the foreign minister SM Krishna on the matter, but would still prefer to have a […]
Santosh Hegde, Karnataka Lokayukta and one of five people representing the people’s movement against corruption on the Lokpal panel, has again reiterated his stand that the issue of the Prime Minister’s inclusion under the Lokpal may be a diversion tactic. He pointed out that the way the Congress and the Government have suddenly highlighted the […]
Nokia, the Finnish mobile phone brand that enjoys tremendous brand value in India, may finally be getting its act together in the mid-range. The company today remains unassailable only in the low-range, and has seen its share of the market relentlessly chopped away in both the mid-range and the high-end of India’s mobile phone market. […]
India Against Corruption, the umbrella body led by Anna Hazare fighting for the creation of a strong Lokpal, has called the current controversy over the inclusion of the Prime Minister under Lokpal authority a diversionary tactic and a trap. The organization, on its facebook page, called it a red herring — a diversionary tactic used […]
Some Asian countries seem to have left the Western countries in terms of smartphone adoption, according to the latest numbers from Canalys — a digital market research agency. The numbers revealed that a whopping 61% of all phone sold in Singapore last year were ‘smartphones’. And just in case you were wondering if these were […]
In an attempt to buy time, the Government of India has decided to delay the Monsoon session of Parliament by two weeks. The move will help the Government thrash out all the formalities of framing the Lokpal bill. It was earlier scheduled to convene the Parliament by mid July and present the draft Lokpal bill. […]
