After nealry 2 months of deliberations, the environment ministry under Jairam Ramesh order the 31-storey Adarsh Co-operative Society building to be demolished. The final order, issued on Sunday, found the Society guilty of “negligence or an act of gross and deliberate misrepresentation” in failing to secure environmental clearance for their building. The order also found […]
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) of government of India has asked state level agencies to report all violations of the coastal buffer zone rules within four months and initiate action in another four. The directive has been issued soon after the coastal management authorities got new powers under the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) […]
Airtel, which announced its first 3g launch on Monday, will charge Rs 675 per month for a decent 1.25 GB of data usage and around Rs 2,000 for 14 GB, according to details released during the Bangalore launch. The rates are slightly lower than those of Reliance Communications for low volume users, but costlier for […]
Sony has become the first computer firm to launch AMD’s Fusion brand in India. The firm, which has been targeting the mass market in India recently, announced a new laptop with the highest powered Fusion chip yet — the E-350 dual core 1.6 GHz processor. The AMD Fusion is a revolutionary design from AMD that […]
The Government may allow FM radios to air news bulletins after the setting up of a sector regulator, according to Arvind Kumar, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Kumar, addressing IACC’s 7th Indo-US Economic Summit, said that the government was afraid that irresponsible reporting can have deleterious impact on the social and cultural fabric […]
Bringing slight respite to the government, the whole-sale food price inflation has slipped to 16.9% for the week ended 1 January, 2011. The indicator, which shows the price rise in food articles at the wholesale market level, was at 18.3% in the preceding week. However wholesale vegetable prices were up a whopping 71% in the […]
Fresh from its introduction of the ‘fusion’ series of CPU-GPU combination chips, AMD has put the technology on embedded systems creating what it called the most power embedded system ever. “This new class of accelerated processor combines more compute capabilities on a single die than any processor in the history of computing and represents opportunity […]
Global IT purchases will grow by around 7.1% in 2011 — slightly lower than 7.2% in 2010 — according to IT market research firm Forrester Research. The forecast is a more subdued one than that of July last year, when the agency had predicted an 8.4% growth. In July, it had also foreseen a growth […]
India seems set of another bumper wheat crop in 2011 as the sown area has increased by 3.2% compared to the winter season a year ago. A total of 29.1 million hectares were sown with wheat for the current winter crop, according to statistics released by the agriculture ministry. The procurement of wheat by the […]
India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by around 8.6% during the year-ending March 2011, while per capital income — an indicator of how rich the citizens are — grew by 6.7% to Rs 3,000 per month per person, according to government’s quick estimates. GDP and per-capita income had grown by 8% and 6.1% during the […]
After sitting on the fence for three years, BBC Worldwide, one of the biggest English entertainment player in the world has decided to launch an India-specific channel. The $1 billion commercial arm of the non-profit British Broadcasting Corporation had added an India entertainment channel to the 41 global ones it already runs. An interview with […]
The year gone by was a gloomy year for the global outsourcing industry when value of new contracts slipped 30%, according to TPI, the largest sourcing data and advisory firm in the world. The biggest fall was witnessed in the BPO space which made up for around 22% of the total publicly disclosed deals tracked […]
Numbers released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India have shown that while many of the new operators have trouble maintaining their newly acquired customers, they have successfully eroded the shares of old operators. The data showed that the new operators faced considerable difficulty in holding on to their new customers. According to the data, […]
World’s biggest anti-virus firm Symantec has warned Indians not to be tricked by new ‘World Cup’ themed viruses. The firm, which routinely monitors trends of how viruses and other ‘malware’ spread, said trick emails urging cricket fans to sign up for free World Cup tickets are best ignored. “One scam that the Symantec Probe Network […]
The first ever case of human infection with Crimea Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) virus in India has been reported from Ahmedabad, the government of India confirmed on Wednesday. The CCHF virus is known to be transmitted among animals through ticks. It does not produce disease in animals but kills from 20% to 40% of humans […]
The United States reassured India that its plan to withdraw its military forces from Afghanistan by 2014 did not mean it was totally abandoning the war-torn country. In a meeting between the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry and the Indian foreign secretary Nirupama Rao, the former reassured the latter that withdrawal will […]
Home Minister P Chidambaram refused to buy blackberry maker Research In Motion’s explanation that the firm cannot expose the data of its corporate clients. RIM had, last week, put its foot down on sharing of enterprise-customer data, pointing out that no enterprise connectivity provider in India allows the government to snoop on their customers’ data. […]
India was sorely disappointed by the Government of Pakistan’s failure to take “visible” steps against the Lashkar e Toiba militants accused in the Mumbai terror attacks, but the US consoled it by pointing out that the Pakistani civilian government was powerless before its own army. According to a US diplomatic cable written in February last […]
Home Minister P Chidambaram came out strongly in support of the Omar Abdullah government’s decision to ‘deport’ BJP senior leaders from Kashmir. The BJP leaders, Arun Jaitley and others, were physically ‘moved’ by the Jammu and Kashmir government yesterday night to Madhopur in Punjab and put up at a rest house. The BJP leaders were […]
Bangalore is the most ‘painful’ city in India to drive in, and the sixth most painful in the World, according to IBM’s fourth Commuter Pain study. The study ranked 20 of the World’s top cities on the basis of traffic jams, driver stress etc.. The worst city in the World to drive in this year […]
