Kanimozhi’s lawyer Ram Jethmalani has said that she will appeal the judgement to deny bail in the High Court of Delhi. The details of the judgement has not been given out, with the judge OP Saini simply saying “bail plea has been dismissed,” after walking into the Court at 2:30 pm. Jethmalani said the appeal […]
Rehman Malik, Pakistan’s Interior Minister has urged people to not jump to conclusions about who was behind the attack on PNS Mehran , but described them as ‘fair and sharp-featured.’ He also seemed to hint at state-supported groups. Malik said none of the attackers were arrested alive, but the forces found three bodies. He also […]
India has gained the ignominious distinction for being the World’s biggest sender of phishing emails, according to this year’s IBM X-Force Report. Phishing mails try to trick the reader into parting with details such his phone number, bank passwords, credit card number etc by pretending to be an official mail from a bank, the government […]
The Britain-based Vodafone group has estimated that the Essar group may have to pay $1 billion (Rs 4,500 crore) out of the $5 billion it receives from Vodafone as tax to the Indian authorities, depending on the outcome of various cases in Indian courts. The British operator, which announced a 16.2% increase in year on […]
Nokia’s global mobile phone marketshare slipped by 5.5% year-on-year in the first quarter of this year, IT market research firm Gartner Inc has reported. It fell from 30.6% a year ago to 25.1% during the three months ended March 2011. Apple, HTC and Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE were the only big brands that saw […]
Special CBI judge OP Saini said bail is being denied to Kanimozhi, daughter of DMK leader Karunanidhi, so as to prevent any chance of witnesses in the case being influenced. “Considering the magnitude of the crime, the nature of the allegations, …there is no doubt that the accused have not made a case for bail..,” […]
DMK leader Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi will spend another week in Tihar jail as the Delhi High Court has adjourned her bail plea to May 30. The development is mixed news for Kanimozhi as the order setting aside the application for May 30 has come just one day after similar pleas by 5 co-accused were rejected […]
India has taken its total aid commitment in Africa to $5.7 billion over the next three years, prime minister Manmohan Singh said in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Abbaba moments ago. India had last month taken the overall aid to Afghanistan to $2 billion. Singh, who was participating at the Indo-African summit in the East […]
Vodafone Essar, the Indian unit of the world’s biggest telecom company Vodafone, has moved from an operating loss to an operating profit during the year ended March. Announcing its global results in London today, the Group said that it made a profit of 15 million British Pounds (Rs 110 crore) after accounting for operating and […]
Google’s Android operating system became the World’s top smart-phone operating system during the first quarter of the year, overtaking Nokia’s Symbian, according to the latest numbers from Gartner. The confirmation from Gartner has come after a tight fight between the two OSes during the last quarter of 2010, when another agency, Canalys, said Android had […]
DMK Patriarch M Karunanidhi has been caught in a catch-22 situation after the arrest of his daughter Kanimozhi. Most senior leaders have reached the party headquarters and gone into a huddle to determine their next step. While, on an emotional level, both the leader and most of DMK’s rank and file want to ‘take revenge’ […]
A day after environment minister and IITian Jairam Ramesh rued the quality of research and faculty at India’s premier technology and management educational institutions, he got support from human resources minister Kapil Sibal. Sibal, talking to the media, pointed out that Indian IITs and IIMs — on which many Indians feel proud — are not […]
The Delhi High Court explosion was caused by an unidentified package left near the Ford Figo car, and not inside the car as suspected earlier. Dharmendra Kumar, Commissioner for Law and Order in Delhi said the suspected package was left near the car and may have contained explosive substance. “The Forensics team are on their […]
The Congress led UDF government will swear in on Wednesday in Kerala, UDF Convener PP Thankachan said. Thankachan also said that the selection of Oommen Chandy as the head of the coalition has been unanimously approved by the all the parties in the United Democratic Front. There are likely to be 21 Ministers — the […]
India’s ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has exempted the solar PV farms coming up in the country from having to seek environment clearance. India is in the midst of a massive program to increase its grid-connected solar power generation capacity from around 20 million watts at the end of the 2010 to 20,000 million […]
J Jayalalitha, who is being sworn in as Tamil Nadu’s new chief minister, is unlikely to join the Congress-led UPA at the Centre any time soon, according to sources in Chennai. While Sonia Gandhi has already invited the AIADMK supremo for ‘breakfast’ and congratulated her on her victory over Congress ally DMK, the feisty former-actress […]
Embattled Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa has claimed support from 121 MLAs out of the total 224 members in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. Yeddy, as he is popularly known, is on his way to the national capital Delhi where he plans to speak to the Prime Minister and the President of India. All BJP MLAs […]
The Supreme Court has again pulled up the agencies investigating the 2G scam — this time the Income Tax department under the Ministry of Finance. Disappointed with the “slow progress” of the probe into upstream investors of companies that got the controversial licenses in early 2008, the Court asked the agency to speed up its […]
The government will auction five more wireless broadband spectrum slots increasing the total wireless broadband players from 3 to 8 by the next year, going by what telecom minister Kapil Sibal told an international conference in Geneva today. Sibal, speaking at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva, said the total wireless […]
Despite strong reservations from the Telecom Regulator, telecom minister Kapil Sibal has said that the state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) will be tasked with creating a massive optic-fibre network across the country. Speaking at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva today, Sibal said that “initially,” BSNL will be in charge of […]
