A new Gartner survey in the US, UK, China, Japan, Italy and India has exploded the myth that people find an LCD screen more tiresome than paper to read off. The survey came up with surprising results that indicate that reading on a tablet — such as the iPad — ranks the same for most […]
Congress and Muslim League led United Democratic Front or UDF is heading towards a slim majority in the Kerala State Assembly. With leads from all 140 seats announced, UDF is likely to end up with 71 seats — just 1 seat more than the required 70 seats. The Kerala results are highly unexpected, as the […]
Intel has opened more cards on its $7.7 billion acquisition of anti-virus vendor McAfee. The two firms on Tuesday announced a new business line that seeks to address the biggest concern the emerging cloud architecture — security. Under the cloud architecture, a company moves most of its storage and compute power to a distant location […]
Tamil Nadu assembly elections too have seen a neck and neck early lead position oscillating between the DMK and AIADMK alliances. The DMK alliance had 19 seats while Jayalalitha’s AIADM had 30 seats. Opinion pollsters have been divided about the fate of the state, with some predicting a Karunanidhi’s DMK while others favoring AIADMK.
Three exit poll surveys predict the results of Kerala, West Bengal, Assam and Tamil Nadu HEADLINES TODAY -ORG West Bengal Total seats — 294 Mamata+ — 210-220 Left+ — 65-70 Tamil Nadu Total seats — 234 DMK-Cong+ — 122 (115-130) AIDMK-BJP+ — 113 (105-120) Voteshare DMK-Cong+ — 48% AIDMK-BJP+ — 47% Kerala Total seats — […]
Congress led United Progressive Alliance are heading towards victories in 3 of the 4 major states whose results are being announced today. BJP ally, All Indian Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam or AIADMK, led by Jayalalitha, is likely to win the other big state — Tamil Nadu. In Tamil Nadu, Jayalalitha is likely to have an […]
The Congress alliance in Kerala got a large part of their votes from the Syrian and other Christian voters, according to Asianet CFORE post poll survey. The Christians, particularly the Syrian Christians, emerged as the most coherent and cogent voting force — directing a whopping 75% of their votes to Congress alliance. Christians make up […]
Tamil Nadu is emerging as the only piece of bad news for the Congress alliance as BJP ally, Jayalalitha led All Indian Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam (AIADMK) is heading towards a nearly assured win. After seeming neck and neck in very early trends, AIADMK has now notched up nearly double the seats of rival Karunanidhi’s […]
Reacting strongly to the Indian Army Chief Gen VK Singh’s comment that India is “competent” to carry out the Abootabad kind of operation as America did, Pakistan Foreign Secretary, Salman Bashir said that if any country in South Asia tries to indulge into unilaterlism it will face severe consequences. Without naming India but hinting clearly […]
Sectarian violence continues to claim innocent lives in the Sunni dominated Pakistan. News reports emanating from the South western city of Quetta in Pakistan say that the Shia minority suffered a casualty in a blast in the city. There are conflicting reports about how the killing took place- one say that a gun man started […]
Members of Indian Parliament (MPs) can now spend Rs 10 lakhs a year from their discretionary development fund to donate tri-cycles and artificial limbs for differently abled persons, breaking from the earlier ‘social facilities only’ stipulation of the scheme. This is the first amendment which allows MPs to directly spend MPLAD funds on individuals. Under […]
Partisan politics has come to haunt the Paliamentary Committee set up to probe the 2G spectrum scam. Congress today demanded the removal of Yashwant Sinha, former finance minister and BJP leader, on the grounds that he has a ‘prejudiced mind.’ Congress alleged that Sinha has decided the issues even before a single sitting of the […]
Outsourcing industry is facing tremendous pricing pressure, going by the findings of Everest Group’s quarterly outsourcing and offshoring report. According to it, the total amount of work under BPO deals that were renewed or renegotiated increased 14% in the three months from December to March, but the total value of these contracts fell by 17%. […]
According to a US monitoring group the Al-Qaeda has confirmed the death of its leader Osama Bin Laden in a statement posted on jihadist website. According to some news agency the Al Qaeda has vowed to take revenge for the killing of his leader and said that his blood won’t be “wasted. Osama was killed […]
Many may be happy to hear about the death of Osama bin Laden, but few would be happier than Internet criminals and scamsters, according to Internet security companies. Not only have they infected the website of Abottabad-based techie Sohaib Athar (which was widely linked by news media,) but they are also entrapping many users with […]
India may be advancing on all fronts, but when it comes to choosing a partner for their sons and daughters, even the mothers belonging to India’s urban middle class have extremely traditional views. A survey of 25,000 mothers of would be brides and grooms registered on Shaadi.com found that 67% of them felt that their […]
Worst was being feared and worst has come true. Five days after the helicopter in which Arunachal Pradesh’s Chief Minister, Dorjee Khandu, went missing the debris of the chopper has been located at Lobothang, 4900 metres above sea level. “We have some information that is not encouraging…it is not good news,” said Home Minister P […]
The Congress Party put the blame for the Noida farmers uprising squarely on the UP state government led by Mayawati. Speaking to reporters in the capital, spokesperson Manish Tewari dismissed the suggestion that the delay by the Central government in passing the Land Acquisition Act has contributed to aggravating the plight of the protesting farmers […]
After promising to do so for months, World number 3 PC brand Acer has launched three tablets — 10.1 inch, 7 inch and 4.8 inch. The tablets will have full multi-touch displays and will be based on NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core 1.0 GHz processor. All three will support SIM cards — making them suitable […]
The Telecom Ministry and the Telecom Regulator have crossed swords over the role of state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) in the Rs 60,000 crore ($14 billion) National Broadband Plan. While the Ministry wants BSNL to implement the scheme, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has warned that such a decision may amount to indirect […]
