Doordarshan is setting up a free high-definition (HD) broadcasting system in the four cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai, the ministry of information and broadcasting said. Free terrestrial broadcasting of HD-quality TV channels is likely to be a novelty in a country where nearly 99% of the people watch low-definition (SD or standard definition) […]
It’s not just the youth, but also the labor class that Bharti Airtel wants to make life easy for with India’s first classifieds service for manual laborers and other blue collar workers. Called ‘saral rozgar’, the service allows “skilled, semi-skilled and un-skilled manual laborers” to register themselves on a voice-based service and get work. Workers […]
Stuxnet, widely believed to be a virus released by the Israeli government to neutralize the Iranian nuclear program, has been infecting computers in India, according to the ministry of IT and Communications. It however clarified that the virus — that hampers the functioning of Siemens industrial controllers used in the Iranian nuclear programe — has […]
There are some product launches that make you go, why? The India launch of Nexus 7 by Google is one such. Let’s see why it doesn’t make much sense in a market like India’s. First, why do people buy tablets? They buy them primarily as media consumption devices. In other words, to see videos, browse […]
Has the government gone back on the main reform involved in the Telecom Policy 2012 announced a year ago — delinking spectrum from license? It would seem so, going by the latest decision by the Telecom Commission to charge the price of spectrum also when giving out telecom licenses. It was more than a year […]
The next financial year is going to be better than the current year ending March, India’s biggest IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) said at an analysts’ conference. Growth this year, however, would be slower than usual because of various factors such as uncertainty in the two main markets of the United States […]
The Congress-led government has again refused to press for a ‘Uniform Civil Code’ — a body of laws relating to items like marriage, inheritance etc. that apply to everyone in India irrespective of their religion, language etc.. Currently, such items are broadly dependent on which community or religion one belongs to, with separate laws for […]
If you are planning to break up with your partner, better change the passwords of your Facebook, email and even banking accounts – according to the findings of a new survey by McAfee. The online survey, involving more than 1000 people in India, found that found that about 3 in 4 (74%) individuals regularly check […]
Hilton Worldwide, one of the world’s biggest hotel chains, has opened its seventh hotel in India’s national capital region of Delhi (NCR). The Garden Inn will be Hilton’s 12th hotel in India, and is located in Gurgaon, a satellite city of Delhi home to the biggest number of IT companies in North India. The 201-room […]
The government of Kerala again refused to order a new investigation into the role of Rajya Sabha chairman PJ Kurien in the Suryanelli case after CP Ramaraja Prema Prasad, secretary in the law ministry, said the new revelations do not justify a new inquiry. “Factually or legally, there are no sufficient grounds to order further […]
TRAI Chairman JS Sarma denied CNBC TV18’s report that the regulator has just recommended cancellation of 69 2G licenses. He said the body has not taken any such action. “I don’t know what CNBC is trying to do,” he said when asked about the report. TRAI had, a day after the CAG report indicting A […]
India’s oil import bill continued to remain near record levels in January, and imports of non-oil items too gained pace, taking the trade deficit to the unhealthy $200 billion mark this year. India’s oil bill rose 7 percent in January to $15.6 billion. The increase was 12.3% in rupee terms, as the value of the […]
A vast majority of salaried class people employed in a host of trade and industry sectors want the Finance Minister Mr. P Chidambaram to raise the exemption limit of income tax to at least Rs 3 lakhs and increase deductions such as medical and educational allowances in the Union Budget so that they are left […]
Global payments company Visa Inc has tied up with India’s ICICI Bank to introduce a ready-made ‘mobile money’ solution targeting mobile operators, smaller banks etc.. The solution, which will enable smaller banks and operators compete with the likes of ‘Airtel Mobile Money’ and Oxicash, has got its anchor tenant in the form of Maxis-owned Aircel […]
India has been dragged into a tough diplomatic situation with the former president of Maldives Mohamed Nasheed and 12 members of parliament from his party rushing to the Indian embassy in the island nation, seeking protection. Maldivian police forces are standing outside the Indian embassy, urging the politicians to get out of the embassy and […]
It has been a year since Indian and foreign media reported that India’s procurement of 12 VVIP helicopters from Italy’s Finmeccanica through Britain’s Agusta Westland was being probed for corruption by magistrates in Italy. Yet, the government did not order any inquiry despite the Italian investigation. It was in February 2012 that Italian media reported […]
Cheap and Samsung never go together, at least in the Indian market. The Korean company enjoys the perks of being a premium brand, next only to Apple, in the Indian mobile and tablet market. While that has ensured that the Indian market remains profitable for Samsung, it has also opened up a large gap in […]
The Suryanelli case has taken yet another turn with the arrest of Dharmarajan, the only person who was convicted in the case and who accused Rajya Sabha deputy chairman PJ Kurien of involvement in the rape case. Dharmarajan had jumped bail soon after being convicted in 2001 for traficking the girl for prostitution and other […]
Giving into a long-time demand from users, Google News has now enabled users to totally filter out, or ‘ban’, news sources that they don’t like. The feature, introduced without any fanfare, works using a ‘slider’ system for signed-in users, and can be accessed by clicking on the ‘gear wheel’ icon on the top right of […]
The Suryanelli rape case took yet another turn on Monday morning with Dharmarajan, the key and only person in the scandal who was convicted in the case, saying that he had taken Congress leader PJ Kurien to the Kumili guest house where the girl was kept. Rajyasabha deputy chairman PJ Kurien was not named in […]
