Having upgraded its urban network to high-speed CDMA, Reliance Communications today announced it is drastically cutting the tariffs in non-urban areas — which are still on the older CDMA technology. In such places, consumers can have unlimited internet access for just Rs 169 per month, about one tenth of the rate that existed before today. […]
India’s trade deficit for the first eleven months fell to $ 97.1 billion from $100.2 billion registered during the same period a year ago, thanks to booming exports and a dip in oil imports. India’s exports continued their outstanding performance in February, rising 50% during the month. During January too, exports were up by more […]
After Raja and ISRO, the Comptroller & Auditor General of India (CAG) has chosen a much more glamorous victim for its latest enquiry. According to the audit report released today, most Indian film personalities and producers are less than completely truthful when it comes to declaring their income and paying tax. The CAG came to […]
The state of Bihar as emerged as the state with the most ‘out of control’ population growth, according to the Census 2011. It also reaffirmed its place as the state with the worst socio-economic indicators in India. According to the census, not only does Bihar have the fastest growing population of all the states in […]
Yet another Wikileaks cable focusing on the personality of Rahul Gandhi has the potential to stir trouble for the grand old party of India. Showing the distance traveled by Rahul Gandhi in five years, the cable expressed widespread disappointment at the young Gandhi’s political and social skills in 2005. Known to be an introvert, the […]
The full text of the Wikileaks cable talking about Rahul Gandhi’s initial hiccups 1. (C) Summary: Rahul Gandhi, the heir apparent of the Gandhi family dynasty, has made a number of gaffes, suggesting an uneven start to his active political career. During a series of “”roadshows”” meant to jump-start the Congress campaign in ongoing Uttar […]
If you can count then count this number -1,210,193,422.Staggering by any standard. This mind boggling figure is India’s population strength in 2011. 1.21 billion is the provisional population data released by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. That means 181 million more people on earth or one more Brazil in the planet. This […]
The US ambassador David Mulford criticised the Congress government for making its bureaucracy more “difficult to deal with” than it was during the Vajpayee years. Mulford, who felt that “the Nehru dynasty needs to become more like the Tata dynasty,” criticised Manmohan government’s “Brezhnev-era controls on its people of which Indira Gandhi would have approved.” […]
The Congress Party’s swerve towards populism, as exemplified its ‘aam admi’ campaign and a flurry of schemes such as the 100-day employment guarantee scheme paradoxically owe its origin to the BJP’s own failures, Goeffrey Pyatt, the in-charge at the US embassy in Delhi pointed out in 2006. Pyatt was quick to spot the decisive move […]
Senior Congress leader and Information & Broadcasting minister Ambika Soni has defended her appointment of Bharatnatyam dancer Leela Samson to chair the Censor Board. Soni said she wanted someone who would not have any “conflict of interest” in the position and would be free to cut out any offending bits from the movies. “During my […]
Analjit Singh, Chairman of Max India Group, dispelled suggestions that he was not paid his due share when Britain’s Vodafone Plc increased its stake in the company’s Indian arm to 100%. Singh said his stake was routed through various companies that in turn had debt obligations. As such, he explained in a statement, the amount […]
Indian IT professionals are likely to earn less dollars per hour this year as some IT companies have opted to compete by passing on the benefits of rupee depreciation, DHL said, quoting Crisil Research. Billing rates are likely to fall to 74.7 dollars (Rs 4,600) per hour for onsite workers, while they are likely to […]
Tata Consultancy Services, which employs nearly 2.85 lakh people, said it would set up the world’s largest corporate training center in Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, overtaking Infosys’s Mysore training campus in size. The 6.1 million square feet facility will be able to train 15,000 people at the same time. Infosys has a Rs 260 crore corporate […]
Flipkart has launched arguably the best convertible laptop-cum-tablet device in India – the HP Pavilion Touchsmart 11-H009TU. The Touchsmart 11-H009TU will compete against the Asus T100, which was launched two months ago. However, the two are quite different, though technologically of the same era. First, the Asus model costs only around Rs 33,000, while the […]
Snapdeal.com has launched a same day delivery service which will allow consumers to get products ordered from Snapdeal to be delivered on the same day. All orders booked by or before 1PM will be attempted to be delivered on same day, Snapdeal said. The move comes a month after Amazon India announced a next-day-delivery scheme […]
The bail plea of Prabhat Sharma, the Tata Steel official who has been booked for abetment to suicide, will come up for hearing in the Vasai sessions court on the outskirts of Mumbai tomorrow. The case was filed after Charu Deshpande, an ex-journalist who joined Tata Steel, committed suicide. It has been alleged that he […]
Vodafone Essar continues to hold on to its lead in the Mobile Number Portability statistics, according to the latest data shared by the Cellular Operators’ Association (COAI), the GSM interest group. Vodafone, which has been leading the list of ‘net gainers’ — operators who have seen more people join them than leave them — continued […]
Shopyourworld.com, a website that sells imported items in India, has become the first to launch Google’s Motorola Moto G smartphone in India, marking the return of the brand after a long hiatus. Motorola was once the number two mobile brand in India, ahead of Samsung and LG, and behind Nokia. However, the company, which was […]
Infosys Ltd reported an impressive set of numbers of Friday, sending not just its own stock, but also those of other IT companies such as Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, HCL Technologies Ltd, Wipro Ltd also up by 1-2%. But a closer look reveals that Infosys’ performance does not hold very bullish outlook for the rest […]
Warning against ‘agents of the Congress and the BJP’, the Aam Aadmi Party has called upon social activist Anna Hazare to give up his fast and join the electoral movement. “While expressing our full support for the cause for which Anna is fasting, we call upon him to give up his fast and join the […]
