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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 […]

Soon after the Adarsh land scam in which defence land was hand over to a housing society by officials who also flats in the building, Defence minister AK Antony has announced a massive audit exercise to check defence land utilization. The Defence forces, under the Director-General of Defence Estates (DGDE), has nearly 17 lakh acres […]

India has come out with details of a suspected ISI officer named Major Iqbal who is reported to have been named by the US government in its second charge-sheet on the Mumbai terror attacks in a Chicago Court. In an extra-ordinary step, the home ministry (under the leadership of P Chidambaram) issued a statement giving […]

Spurred by intense competition, India’s DTH or direct-to-home market grew by a whopping 22.4% in just the last three months of 2010, numbers from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India have revealed. The growth is the fastest rate of growth for the industry in several quarters and seems to indicate that the DTH industry — […]

Responding to calls to relook at negotiations with Pakistan after the death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, the Congress Party has said that it too favored negotiations only after Pakistan comes clean on support to anti-India terror groups. “Support for negotiations is predicated on the fact that Pakistan stops support to terrorists and terror […]

Google’s Android operating system, which overtook Symbian to become the number one smartphone platform in December quarter, increased its lead over others in the March quarter, London-based Canalys Research said. India, along with China and South Korea were the best performing markets in terms of growth for smartphones, registering 100% or higher growth. Android, which […]

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 […]

Reports emerging from Kabul says that a spat between the officers of Afghan National Army (ANA) and soldiers of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) resulted in firing that has claimed some lives and wounded few. In a telephonic interview with the RTN the spokesperson of the ANA,General Mohammad Zahir Azimi confirms the death of […]

After giving hope to anti-POSCO protesters by putting the project clearance on hold, environment minister Jairam Ramesh has abandoned them again, pointing out that the protestors’ resolutions did not have the requisite number of signatures. On April 15, Jairam Ramesh had announced that he intended to put the forest clearance to India’s biggest foreign investment […]

Mageia Linux, the community fork-edition of Mandriva Linux, has announced the second beta edition of its first ever Linux operating system release. The release, available for download here is the last ‘test’ release before the split-away group releases its final Linux distribution. The development has come six months after most of the senior developers of […]

India has more than the usual quantity of water in its mega dams at the end of April, according to statistics released by the Water Resources ministry. The numbers crunched by the ministry shows that at the end of April, the average water level of 81 of India’s biggest dams is around 60% higher than […]

Info Edge, the company behind Naukri.com and one of the few Indian firms to survive the dotcom bust, has announced a Rs 9 crore investment into group-buying portal mydala.com. The investment is the sixth as part of the Info Edge strategy to invest in internet start-ups. “Online deal sites have now emerged as a platform […]

India’s biggest industry body, the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) has criticized the raising of interest rate by the Reserve Bank today, pointing out that the relentless inflation is caused by factors external to India. The Reserve Bank, in charge of controlling price rise by managing the amount of money pumped into the market, raised […]

Eight international soldiers and one contractor were killed in a fight at the Kabul airport today.Some sources say that six were killed. A gunman wearing the uniform of an Afghani pilot came into an argument with soldiers of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) early in the morning around 11 o clock local time (06.30GMT) […]

Word of God Fellowship Inc, a controversial Christian evangelistic group with a global TV empire, has been given approval today to set up a fully owned Indian company to redistribute TV channels in the country. The Fellowship, led by Christian evangelist Marcus Lamb and his wife Joni Lamb were in the news four years ago […]