Tense faces abounded at the Congress offices in the state after it was able to post just a 2-seat majority in an election that was supposed to be a walk-over. Oommen Chandy, the chief ministerial candidate of the UDF (headed by Congress) and KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala said the party will hold an enquiry into […]
After Uninor, Reliance and Tata too have thrown their weight behind the telecom regulator’s proposal to examine whether 20 paise per minute is the right price for connecting a call from one network to another. The charge, called termination or interconnect charge, is paid by one network to another when handing over a call to […]
Indian IT majors like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL and Cognizant continued their fast ascent in the global IT industry, rising fast in the ranks of world’s top IT firms in 2010, with Cognizant the clear leader in growth. The biggest jump in rank among India’s top five IT firms was done by HCL Technologies — […]
The results of the Assembly elections in the states of Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Assam have started trickling in. The first lead has been announced in Badagara Assembly constituency in Calicut, where the UDF (Congress-Muslim League) is leading. There are a total of 140 seats in Kerala, 234 in TN, 294 in West […]
Congress led UDF or United Democratic Front had a slight set back as the early leads were coming out, but bounced back later on. Even as leads have been announced in nearly all the 140 seats, Congress led UDF seems to be set for a win with a slim majority of 10 seats. Latest resultsKerala […]
The exit pollsters have been proved right in West Bengal, with Mamata alliance sweeping the early leads from West Bengal. 108 out of the 135 leads are with Mamata Bannerjee’s Trinamool Congress party and others. Exit polls have indicated a 200+ tally for Mamata out of the total of 294 seats. The Left, led by […]
The Public Accounts Committee Chairman and BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi launched a scathing attack on the Congress Party for trying to sabotage the Public Accounts Committee — the Parliamentary Committee that examines the government’s expenditure and revenue. Joshi accused senior Congress ministers of plotting to disturb and over-turn the functioning of the Public Accounts […]
Kerala chief minister VS Achutanandan has won comfortably in the Assembly election at Malampuzha constituency in Palakad district of Kerala. He won by more than 17,000 votes, one of the highest majorities in the election. Achutanandan is leading a resurgent left alliance in Kerala, is ending up with around 66 or 67 seats out of […]
Offence is the best way to defence. This is what Pakistan has decided to do after coming under heavy international criticism for its failure to track the Al Qaeda Chief,Osama Bil Laden,who was hiding very close to the capital Islamabad. The Abbatabad mansion, where Osama has been living for the last five years, is just […]
Fruit prices continued to trend uncomfortably upwards during the third week of April, according to the wholesale price data released by the government. While overall primary article (food and fuel) prices remained higher by around 12% compared to a year ago, fruit prices were up nearly 33%. Primary article price rise has remained in the […]
All the major enterprise software vendors increased their revenues in 2010, but Oracle grew substantially faster than others like IBM, Microsoft and SAP, according to Gartner. The overall enterprise market itself grew by $20 billion — a healthy 8.5% — to hit $245 billion, thanks in part the $6 billion jump in Microsoft’s revenue in […]
Coming down heavily on the Income Tax Department for not being fast and on time for submitting the papers related to the investigation into the 2G scam in the Apex Court, it said no matter how big and wealthy the accused are no body should be spared. “The IT department must be quicker. This is […]
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 […]
