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 […]
Barely a month after taking charge as the chief minister, Mamata Bannerjee has issued an ordinance taking back 400 acres out the total 1000 acres given to Tata to build the Nano factory in Singur. The ordinance marks the carrying out of one of her biggest promises to the electorate in Bengal during the just […]
Arguably India’s most effective writer on the Mumbai underworld, journalist J Dey has been shot dead by suspected underworld operatives near his home in Powai, Mumbai. Jyotirmoy Dey, who spent most of his reporting career bringing out scintillating accounts of the goings on in the Mumbai underworld for the Indian Express in Mumbai, was working […]
Baba Ramdev launched a blistering counter attack after the Congress party attacked him personally, questioning the source of his funds for setting up the tent and other facilities. “They are trying to scare me. I am not afraid of anyone, I am not afraid of death.. If I were, I would not have set up […]
Civil Society members of the Lokpal drafting committee — headed by Anna Hazare — are drafting a letter to Committee chairman Pranab Mukherjee asking him to spell out clearly what the Government wants from the Lokpal bill. The civil society members may even boycott the entire Committee if the government fails to respond to the […]
Tahawwur Rana, the doctor alleged to have helped David Headley in carrying out the Mumbai terrorist attack, pretended to be or was actually unable to remember the names of the organizations such as Lashkar e Toiba, Jamaat ud Dawa etc.. when talking to the FBI. The Government of US played back the tape of FBI’s […]
BJP leader in Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj has attacked Congress leader Digvijay Singh for making fun of BJP after its leaders dance at Raj Ghat, the final resting place of Mahatma Gandhi, after a demonstration. She pointed out that she joined a party of dancers at 2 am in the morning, after all the protests […]
Five days after the devastating attack on the German soldiers in the northern Afghanistan in which two combatants were killed, six soldiers got injured today in a bomb attack on their convoy. So far there is no report of any fatal casualty. German soldiers are posted in the North of Afghanistan,which was supposed to be […]
Baba Ramdev has offered to withdraw his agitation if the government declares the illicit money stashed by Indians in foreign bank accounts as a national asset. “They have indicated verbal agreement. If they are willing to accept this demand, we will withdraw the agitation,” he said. He added that he is willing to temporarily set […]
Former IPS officer and civil society leader Kiran Bedi has said that the civil society movement for Janlokpal will officially seek permission for Wednesday’s fast near Jantar Mantar in Delhi. Jantar Mantar is the official protest venue for political groups, and Baba Ramdev was criticised by the Government for not holding his dharna there. However, […]
India’s decision to buy 10 large cargo aircraft from the US for $4-5 billion will sustain nearly 23,000 jobs in the US, the American ambassador to India Timothy J. Roemer said. “This is indicative of the growing military and humanitarian ties between our two democracies. From joint training exercises to defense sales and ship visits, […]
Kiran Bedi, former IPS officer and one of Anna Hazare’s Lieutenants, blamed India’s opposition parties for failing to take up the issue of corruption and pointed out politics is not the preserve of those who seek to monopolize it. She said that people like herself and Anna Hazare were forced to take up the issue […]
Baba Ramdev may get most of his demands met by the government even before he starts his fast in less than 24 hours from now. According to sources, the Government is keen to present him with an ‘action plan’ at the venue of his planned fast, which is due to start tomorrow. The marathon meetings […]
Congress spokesperson Digvijay Singh said the agitation by Baba Ramdev was broken up as he did not have the permission to undertake a fast. “He was given permission only for conducting a Yoga-camp… Instead, he was inciting the people… He’s talking to us calmly in Claridges Hotel, but immediately goes to the Maidan and incites […]
The Civil Society leaders led by Anna Hazare and company have decided to go on with the planned fast on Wednesday in an effort to turn up the heat on the Government. Shanti Bhushan, co-chair of the bill drafting committee, said that the civil society members will continue to participate in the meetings only if […]
Only 4% of the enterprises (companies) in India have taken advantage of cloud computing, with the SaaS market reaching Rs 465 crore this year, according to Cyber Media Research. “This is expected to rise to 6.8% for all large and mid-size enterprises in the country by 2012,” it predicted. The key SaaS applications that showed […]
Delhi High Court has poured water over Kanimozhi’s hopes of walking out of jail this summer, rejecting the bail on the same grounds as it has for others in the 2G scam case. Kanimozhi had appealed to the High Court after her application for bail was rejected by OP Saini, the special CBI judge hearing […]
