Worldwide mobile advertising revenue will reach $3.3 billion in 2011, more than double the $1.6 billion generated in 2010, said technology market research firm Gartner. It will reach $20.6 billion by 2015, with search and maps leading from the front, it added. In comparison, global (PC) Internet advertising is estimated to be worth around $50 […]
The petroleum ministry has confirmed receiving a report from the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on alleged irregularities in the oversight maintained over the administration of oil blocks under private companies. The Times of India had, in its story today, reported that the CAG has unearthed alleged favoritism towards Reliance Industries, owned by billionaire Mukesh […]
Genpact, India’s biggest BPO company, emerged as the top real estate buyer in the National Capital in the first quarter of 2011, according to a compilation put together by international real estate firm Knight Frank. Big leases by IT and BPO firms in the beginning of the year propped up the market, which is in […]
An official from the US embassy at Islamabad was so ruffled by the harsh reactions of Pakistani foreign and defence experts to the Indo-US nuclear deal that he suggested a new name for the conference in a bitter account of his ‘travails’. “…the conference should have been billed ‘Seminar on U.S.-Indian Perfidy (untrustworthiness)’” the official […]
DMK Supreme M Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi has appealed to the Supreme Court for bail, two days after the Delhi High Court rejected her bail. The Delhi High Court too had rejected her bail on the same grounds as it has for others in the 2G scam case — magnitude of the offence and the possibility […]
The National Commission for Women — a statutory body tasked with protecting women’s rights — seems to be going after the Mayawati’s BSP government in UP again. The Commission, which sprung into action soon after the police crack-down in Bhatta Parsaul as well — has accused Mayawati of ignoring the suffering of her people. “We […]
Baba Ramdev’s condition has worsened further. “He is suffering from dehydration.. His weight has come down by five kilogram… It has gone down by 1.5 kg since we have been examining him,” said the doctors examining Baba Ramdev. “He has to break his fast immediately.. He must be moved to the hospital for cardiac monitoring..” […]
The Supreme Court of India has adjourned to Monday Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi in the 2G scam case. The decision means that DMK Supremo Karnunidhi’s daughter will remain in the Tihar jail for at least another week, unless the Court adjourns it again. She is accused in a Rs 50,000 crore telecom scam case. The decision […]
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam (DMK) is considering pulling out its ministers from the central council of ministers even as rival Jayalalitha is all set to meet UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. DMK, however, is unlikely to withdraw support for the Government as doing so may bring it down and result in a nation-wide general election. DMK […]
Reliance Big TV has become the first external operator to get hold of Star TV’s bouquet of five ‘asli’ HD channels. ‘Asli’ HD, trademarked by the Rupert Murdoch owned Star group, refers to content that is actually shot on HD cameras and not processed into HD from ordinary signals. Unlike ‘upscaled’ channels, content originally shot […]
The Commonwealth Games controversy may have hit the headlines last year, but replies to an RTI application by activist Subhash Chandra Agarwal have revealed that the then sports minister Mani Shankar Aiyer had raised a red flag way back in 2007. The maverick Congress leader, who has often been sidelined inside his own party due […]
Sri Sri Ravishankar, founder of the Art of Living movement and an exponent of Yoga and spiritual leader, said Baba Ramdev continues his fast inside the hospital in Haridwar. There were reports that Baba has been injected with glucose to prevent his condition from worsening. Sri Sri’s comments have added to the uncertainty about Baba’s […]
Greenpeace announced that its talks with Airtel over replacing diesel generators with solar other renewable power have broken down. The talks were announced about two weeks ago when Greenpeace activists held talks with Airtel after an abortive attempt to climb on Airtel’s headquarters and paint anti-diesel slogans across its office. “..the senior management representatives of […]
Bharti Enterprises said it will sell its entire interest in its two joint ventures with AXA, both Life and General Insurance, to Reliance Industries Ltd, controlled by Mukesh Ambani. “Currently, the financial services ventures do not fit into Bharti’s long term growth plans. Bharti intends to use the proceeds from selling off its interests in […]
The Hill Township being put up by the Lavasa Corporation literally had it coming in the last three months as it had been criticised multiple times by the expert appraisal committee (EAC) — the top advisory body within the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). Despite a seemingly conciliatory tone adopted by the EAC three […]
The Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) — the body of GSM telcos — has promised to come out with a clear roadmap for moving its members off diesel-powered towers, a day after environmental organization Greenpeace accused its leader Airtel of dodging its environmental obligations. Late last month, Greenpeace activists had made an attempt to […]
In this season of popular action, the POSCO site in Gobindpur in Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district is emerging as the latest flash-point between the masses and the government. According to the latest reports, nearly 2000 villagers protesting the acquisition of betel farm lands have formed a human chain to prevent the district administration from acquiring their […]
BJP has warned that the Congress government is working itself into the same paranoia that gripped it just before Indira Gandhi imposed the National Emergency in 1975. Party Spokesperson pointed out that statements from the home minister — portraying peaceful protests against corruption as a threat to Parliamentary democracy and calling them political blackmail, destabilization […]
India, a country of 1,210 million people, has only 18.5 million IP addresses that it can use, the IT and telecom secretary R Chandrasekhar warned today — the World IPv6 days. Chandrasekhar pointed out that the country — which already has more than 11 million broadband users (estimated to consume around 7-8 million IP addresses) […]
A survey of hiring managers in IT companies across the country has found them to be very bullish, despite fears of an inflation-triggered slowdown. Most of the respondents believe that their employee head-count will jump by around 11-15% this year — indicating strong growth in hiring. “36% expect this figure to be as much as […]
