The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is working on a new feature to enable users to easily turn off user tracking by websites. J Alan Bird, head of business development for W3C — which sets the standards for the Web — said the organization is working on evolving a mechanism that will allow users to […]
Even as India has earned the reputation of becoming the only country with eight different domain names allotted to it, sources revealed that the Tamil language will have the .india domain, written in Tamil. Other languages have opted for .bharat written in the same language. Media reports have pointed out that ICANN, the Internet URL […]
IT and BPO sectors saw the biggest up-tick in hiring during the first month of 2011, according to numbers crunched by Naukri.com, India’s biggest job portal. Hiring in these two sectors jumped by a whopping 11% and 6% in January compared to the immediately preceding month of December 2010, indicating, in Naukri’s opinion, an optimistic […]
Dell Services, the rapidly growing IT services business of Computer maker Dell has picked up Suresh Vaswani, former joint CEO of Wipro, to head the business in India. Vaswani left Wipro in January after a 25-year stint, partly due to the poor performance of the company. India is Dell’s core services hub and is home […]
Six months after most of the senior developers of Mandriva Linux, arguably the most user-friendly flavor of the Linux distribution, left the company, the ‘renegade’ group have announced a new beta release of their Mageia Linux distribution. Mandriva, based in France, had been forced to shrink its operations in France and relocate its development activities […]
Mahindra Satyam, the new avatar of Ramalinga Raju’s Satyam Computer Services will pay $10 million (Rs 46 crore) as penalty to the US stock market watch-dog, the Securities and Exchanges Commission or SEC. It will also have to comply with “certain” unspecified condition, according to a statement issued by the company a few minutes ago. […]
The following are links to the pictures of the first day of Anna Hazare’s fast unto death demanding the passing of the Jan Lokpal bill (and scrapping of the Government’s lame-duck version.) The pictures are being uploaded over the next 1-2 hours. Videos [a total of around a dozen, being uploaded over the next 2-3 […]
These are videos from ground zero (Jantar Mantar Road, New Delhi.) There will be a total of around 12 videos for day one, uploaded one by one. .
The agitation for the passing of the Jan Lokpal bill entered a crucial stage on Thursday, the third day of fasting by Anna Hazare and his aides. Compared to just a few hundred supporters who trickled in on Wednesday, thousands poured in on Thursday to express support. More than a thousand people marched with candles […]
Day four of the Janlokpal agitation saw the Government capitulate even as the movement threatened to disrupt normal life across the country. Reminding political observers of Gandhi’s independence stuggle, spontaneous rallies were held across the country in support of the fasting Gandhian. The government, which tried to toss a ‘fake committee’ to the agitators on […]
India Against Corruption (IAC), the umbrella body spearheading the Jan Lokpal bill agitation, reiterated its opposition to watering down the bill proposed by Anna Hazare. “The Lokpal and Lokayukta, according to the version of the Bill the protestors want, must be completely independent of any governments – on the lines of the Election Commission or […]
Kapil Sibal has denied that his comments — that the Lokpal bill won’t address issues close to people’s hearts — was disrespectful of the bill he is supposed to help frame. Speaking to reporters in Delhi today, he said Lokpal bill will only address the issue of corruption, but the biggest problems facing people in […]
Watch out of Pranab Mukherjee’s Bengali accent — this was the warning from the US embassy Delhi to their headquarters in Washington just before the then defence minister was to visit the country. The detailed biography of Pranab Mukherjee, India’s current finance minister, also reveals the man behind the persona and comments on his tiff […]
Full text of Ambassador David Mulford’s 2005 cable on the ‘Congress Culture’ SUBJECT: CONGRESS CULTURE DEFINES SONIA GANDHI’S ROLE Classified By: DCM Robert O. Blake, Jr. for Reasons 1.4 (B, D) 1.(C) Summary: Since the Congress-dominated government has been in power, there have been widespread allegations by the opposition BJP and media commentators that party […]
Vodafone Essar’s customers have turned out to be the most satisfied with their operator’s network in Mumbai, according to a TRAI survey released today. It found network satisfaction rate at 96% for Vodafone Mumbai, the highest in the city. Vodafone was followed in customer satisfaction by Idea (95%), Aircel (94%) and Airtel (93%). By call […]
Former BJP telecom minister Arun Shourie has countered telecom minister Kapil Sibal’s contention that NDA’s policies resulted in the Tata group “enjoyed the precious government land [with VSNL] without paying a single rupee” for the last nine years. Shourie pointed out that Congress was in power for seven out of the nine years and it […]
After dropping to an alarminng 1,411 adults in 2006, Indian tigers are back with a bang at 1,636, according to the 2010 ‘tiger census’ released today. Including Sunderbans, which was not counted in 2006, it is at 1706 adults. The census is the second ‘scientific’ or double counted census of tigers in India. The first […]
Google street views — which allows users to ‘go down into the street’ when using Google Maps or Google Earth — seems to be on its way to India, according to a sighting of what seems like the ‘Google Car’ on the streets of New Delhi. RTN found a Mahindra Bolero with a five-faced camera […]
The US embassy, which had generally proven itself a capable and astute observer of Indian politics, proved just how disconnected the embassy officials were in their assessment of Narendra Modi. In cables sent immediately after the US refused visa to the Gujarat Chief minister in 2005, the embassy is shown to be in touch with […]
Jairam Ramesh, the flamboyant environment minister is used to hearing others praise him for rejuvenating the environmentalist movement in the country. Sharp and witty, he’s also almost impossible to beat when it comes to repartees and retorts; until on Monday. Ramesh, who introduced Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwali and Water Resources minister Salman […]
