The Madras High Court has issued notice to the Government of India on taking out the Central Bureau of Investigation from the ambit of the Right to Information Act or RTI. The Cabinet had removed the CBI from within the scope of the RTI a week ago claiming that the RTI petitions seeking information on […]
Owners of high-end Nokia phones (N8, E7, C7 and C6-01) can upgrade their existing operating system to the next version of Symbian — the Anna — free of charge by the end of August, Nokia India said today. The Anna is likely to be the last big upgrade to the venerable Symbian operating system before […]
Despite keeping most of its opinion and suggestions private, the main opposition party, the BJP, seems to be on the side of popular anti-corruption campaigners on the only topic on which it has spoken so far. “It has kept the appointment process under its control.. It has kept the complete majority of the appointment panel,” […]
The Home Ministry headed by P Chidambaram has written to the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), under the Finance Ministry, seeking information about the assets owned by former chief justice of India KG Balakrishnan and his dependents and relatives. The move has come after the Law Ministry said that since the allegations against KG […]
Gopinath Munde, the rebel Maharashtrian leader of the Bhartiya Janata Party has said he does not intend to leave the Bhartiya Janata Party. He has been in talks with Congress and NCP leaders, allegedly to explore the option of joining them, but seems to have found nothing worthwhile to take up in those parties. “I […]
Anna Hazare has rebutted government’s arguments against including all government servants under the upcoming anti-corruption ombudsman, Lokpal. He also reaffirmed that the second round of agitations will begin on August 16. He pointed out that unless all the officials of the Government are brought under the watchful gaze of the Lokpal, India cannot get rid […]
The Mumbai police have arrested one suspect in the investigation of the journalist J Dey, charging him with trying to cheat the reporter by posing as a Government officer. Nihal Tanna has been sent to police custody for three days, during which time he will be interrogated for getting any leads about the murder. He […]
Both the Civil Society and the government seem to be playing the game of brinkmanship, with Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh now saying that the government may deal with Anna in the same way it dealt with Baba Ramdev. “Anna saheb says he will again sit on fast. If he does, he may get the […]
India Against Corruption, the umbrella body spearheading the struggle for a powerful anti-corruption mechanism, has given out a list of areas where the government has simply failed to see eye to eye with them. The requirements that Government has refused are the following, according to the IAC: Including the PM, Judge and MP voting Including […]
The big players of telecom equipment industry, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia Siemens and ZTE saw their India revenues take a big hit in the last financial year due to the controversy over security standards and ‘trap doors’ in Indian telecom equipment last year. Total sales of telecom equipment to mobile operators fell by a drastic 24% […]
Despite a bustling mobile handset market in the country, top Indian phone-brand Nokia failed to grow its revenues during the last financial year, according to the Voice & Data survey of the telecom market for 2010-11. However, number two in the mobile handset market — Samsung — managed to see its revenues grow by a […]
Three days after competitor Futurebazaar.com opened booking for the blackberry playbook, India’s premier digital e-tailer Letsbuy.com too has started offering Blackberry Playbook on its site. The entry model, with 16 GB of onboard memory, has been priced at around Rs 28,000 while the 32 GB model will cost Rs 32,990 and 64 GB will set […]
The Congress side-stepped the controversy over general secretary Digvijay Singh’s comments that Rahul Gandhi is ready to take over the post of the Prime Minister. Party spokesperson Jayanti Natarajan said she saw Rahul Gandhi as the future leader of India, but “Manmohan Singh is our prime minister.” The clarification came after reports that even Rahul […]
The withdrawal of the two Supreme Court judges hearing the Kanimozhi bail plea has once again raised questions about the safety of senior judges who deal with ultra-sensitive cases. The two judges, Justices P Sathasivam and AK Patnaik, withdrew themselves from the case just one working day before Kanimozhi’s bail plea was supposed to be […]
The petroleum minister Jaipal Reddy has refused to respond to the points raised by the draft CAG report, but ridiculed the BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi for being a “headline hunter.” “I would not like respond to the points raised in the draft report. We are to give considered replies,” he said. On the issue […]
The last ten days have been a treat for those looking to upgrade their phone to the latest and greatest in India — seeing the launch of the best of HTC, Apple and Samsung. The three phones represent the next generation of big-screened phones that are unabashedly geared towards media, media and more media. Unlike […]
Petroleum minister Jaipal Reddy has said that the file of the Cairn-Vedanta deal has been sent to the Cabinet for approval. “The group of ministers have given their recommendation.. What the recommendation is, I cannot tell you. But it has been sent to the Cabinet for its final decision.. It has gone to the Cabinet,” […]
India Against Corruption, the grand alliance of NGOs and activists leading the struggle for a strong Lokpal bill, the campaigners welcomed the government’s move to hold an all-party meet on the bill. “We have always been asking for more and more inputs into the process,” pointed out Prashant Bhushan, one of the five representatives of […]
Salman Khurshid, current water resources minister and the former minister in charge of corporate (company) affairs, has denied that his former ministry gave a clearance to Loop Telecom and Essar over the violation of telecom ownership rules. His clarification has come in the wake of Loop Telecom, one of the firms being probed by the […]
An improvised explosive device, a sort of a crude bomb, has been found in the Kanchenjunga Express at the Guwahati railway station in Assam. Police described the device as “powerful” programmable timer device, planted inside a tiffin carrier. The police have disabled the bomb. The bomb was found at the peak hour on the station. […]
