The government has extended the deadline for electronics manufacturers and importers to get safety certifications for their products due to delays at the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). The original deadline was July 3, after which products that did not meet the safety norms were not to be sold. “Department of Electronics and IT shall […]
Third-party datacenters will overtake captive datacentres in growth over the next three years, according to CyberMedia Research. In a new report, the agency also puts the size of the India Data Center Services at Rs 11,800 crore. Data centres are buldings that host thousands of computers that are used to process large amount of data […]
Men may mock fairness ads targeting them, but underneath their pretensions, they all want to look good, according to India-based marketing-research firm NeuroFocus. “Males are restrained from expressing this deep seated need as a result of centuries of social conditioning, but there is clearly a primal drive to be perceived as desirable,” it said, announcing […]
Speaking for the first time on the issue of corruption after the agitation of the social activist Anna Hazare, Indian Prime Minister,Manmohan SIngh, talked about tough legislative and political action to combat the menace of corruption. Underscoring the present mood and anger of the nation against corruption Singh admitted that there is little tolerance among […]
The United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen has accused Inter Service Intelligence(ISI) of Pakistan for having close relation with the Haqqani terrorist network which is believed to be behind most of the attacks on foreign installations and individuals in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Talking to Pakistan based English daily Dawn,the […]
Cairn India, India’s biggest private oil producer, has sought government permission for increasing its capacity from 160,000 barrels to 350,000 barrels. The London-controlled firm, which approached the environment ministry for the nod, has been told to come back with the comments of the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons, under the ministry of petroleum and natural gas. […]
HCL Technologies, India’s fifth largest IT services provider, posted a moderate increase in revenues of 33.5% year on year and 5.8% quarter on quarter to $ 915 mn. Revenue growth has decelerated on a quarter on quarter basis, compared to the 9% jump exhibited in the September quarter. However, due to the same reasons of […]
The Indian economy is shifting into high gear, going by the four-fold increase in acquisitions and mergers reported by FT-owned Merger Markets. Value of mergers and acquisitions were up 271% in the three months ended March this year, hitting $18.3 billion. The value is second highest quarterly M&A size in Indian history, and second only […]
Mirroring the recovery in the enterprise software market, HCL was able to get a higher share of its income from ‘custom application services’ — creating software tailored to individual companies — compared to before. Against 29.9% contributed by this segment a year ago, it accounted for 32% during the March quarter. Custom application development is […]
Amidst allegations and counter-allegations, the Orissa government has accused anti-POSCO activists of forging documents to claim rights over the disputed land. In a report forwarded by the Orissa government to the environment minister Jairam Ramesh, Narayana Jena, collector of Jagatsinghpur district, question the integrity and character of the leaders of the protestors. “The Palli Sabha […]
Attrition at HCL Technologies jumped during March quarter, hitting nearly 8.8% during the quarter, or 35% on an annualized basis, raising concerns. The attrition levels have been around 25% (on an annualized basis) for most IT majors over the last several quarters. The company hired 7,534 employees during the quarter, but 6,381 employees left the […]
After coming under fire from transparency activists, including Anna Hazare, the Election Commission of India seems to have given in to the demand for paper-backed election instead of purely electronic recording of votes. The Election Commission had come under fire after Hari Prasad, an activist was arrested for securing an EVM from Mumbai in his […]
After two successive failures of the GSLV mission last year India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV_C16) has placed successfully a remote sensing satellite,Resourcesat-2 into orbit on Wednesday.The latest satellite will study and help in managing natural resources along with two nano satellites. ISRO’s (Indian Space Research Organization) homegrown workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle placed in […]
The Centre government owned Pawan Hans Helicopters has abandoned plans for starting a sea-plane service due to “lack of interest” from the Union Territory government. Responding to a query by a Parliamentary Panel on the delays in starting the service, the ministry of Civil Aviation said the firm has put the plans on hold. “Despite […]
The department of telecom, government of India has issued another 7 show-cause notices to telecom operators asking why their licenses should not be canceled. However, unlike the 69 such notices issued four months ago, the new notices have been issued for complete failure to meet the norms requiring operators to start operations in time. The […]
India looked with suspicion at China’s establishment of Naval bases along the African coast in the name of fighting pirates, and felt the US climbdown over the USS ‘Impeccable’ incident of 2008 was unhelpful. The USS Impeccable, an unarmed surveillance ship of the US Navy, was repeatedly harassed by Chinese naval and other ships and […]
Canadian smartphone maker Research in Motion, which makes the blackberry mobile phones, seems to have succeeded in convincing the Indian government that it has been “singled out” in India’s quest for statutory monitoring. Telecom Secretary R Chandrasekhar said the government does not want to “single out” any one company and that he believes the issue […]
Indian Government had lost all hope of ever seeing the Indo-Iranian gas pipeline come into existence, but kept up the pretense of negotiations to keep Muslims and the Left happy, according to a US assessment. According to a cable sent in early 2007, the ministry of petroleum and natural gas headed by Murli Deora (described […]
Five corporate honchos are going to be the new occupants of Delhi’s Tihar Jail. With the Special Court hearing the cases related to the scam in the allotment of the 2G spectrum rejecting the bail pleas of the corporate bigwigs, the five could be spending their time in the capital’s central jail. The corporate executives […]
Sunita Narain, founder of the Centre for Science and Environment, has congratulated Jairam Ramesh for taking Bamboo off the ‘timber list’ and allowing people to cut and transport it more easily. Ramesh has, over the past several days, sent letters to state chief ministers clarifying that bamboo was a grass and not a tree and […]
