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 […]
Even as wholesale price inflation, as measured by the Wholesale Price Index or WPI declined in April, experts have raised questions about the upward revision of earlier data. According to numbers released today, inflation in the country came down marginally to 8.66% in April from 8.98% announced for March last month. However, the government also […]
The petroleum ministry has hit back at detractors pointing out that the Rs 5 per litre hike in the price of petrol was only half of what was actually required. It claimed that even after the hike of Rs 5 per litre, state-owned oil companies continue to lose another Rs 4.58 per litre. “Loss” by […]
A delegation of senior National Democratic Alliance, including BJP leaders Lal Krishna Advani, Sushma Swaraj and JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav met the Prime Minister to request the recall of Karnataka governor HR Bhardwaj. The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assured them that he will not take any ‘unconstitutional step’ irrespective of what is contained in the […]
The Centre for Science and Environment, one of India’s foremost environmental groups, welcomed the Supreme Court’s move to ban controversial pesticide Endosulfan today. It also accused two Committees preferred by the Government, the O P Dubey committee and the C D Mayee committee, of manipulating ‘facts’ to favor continuance of the use of Endosulfan in […]
The state elections of 2011 has been remarkable for a variety of reasons — the fall of a 34-year old Communist government in West Bengal, the resounding signal sent by the Tamil Nadu electorate that corruption will not be condoned and the not-quite-there victory of the Congress in Kerala. While the first two have been […]
The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), India’s second biggest industry association, said that Mamata Bannerjee’s victory in Bengal may bring back West Bengal’s lost status as one of India’s industrial hubs. FICCI, which normally restrains itself from commenting on changing political fortunes, said it “strongly welcomes” the transition of power in […]
The next time you are prompted to enter your facebook or twitter password after clicking on some nice ad, make sure the location bar of the browser says ‘facebook.com’ or ‘twitter.com.’ Gone are the days of alluring emails asking you to part with your bank account details to claim your million dollar prize, cyber criminals […]
On the second day of his official tour of Afghanistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sought to reassure the Afghani lawmakers that India did not want to ‘impose’ its views on the country, and was interested only in ‘friendship.’ In his brief address to the join session of the two houses of Afghani Parliament, Singh mentioned […]
Oommen Chandy is all set to be Kerala’s next chief minister as the Congress ‘High Command’ Sonia Gandhi is expected to have lent her weight to his candidature, even as his rival Ramesh Chennitala withdrew from the race. Senior Congress leaders Mohsina Kidwai and others are expected to touchdown in Trivandrum by 1 pm with […]
Kerala chief minister VS Achutanandan has won comfortably in the Assembly election at Malampuzha constituency in Palakad district of Kerala. He won by more than 17,000 votes, one of the highest majorities in the election. Achutanandan is leading a resurgent left alliance in Kerala, is ending up with around 66 or 67 seats out of […]
The Public Accounts Committee Chairman and BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi launched a scathing attack on the Congress Party for trying to sabotage the Public Accounts Committee — the Parliamentary Committee that examines the government’s expenditure and revenue. Joshi accused senior Congress ministers of plotting to disturb and over-turn the functioning of the Public Accounts […]
Congress and Muslim League led United Democratic Front or UDF is heading towards a slim majority in the Kerala State Assembly. With leads from all 140 seats announced, UDF is likely to end up with 71 seats — just 1 seat more than the required 70 seats. The Kerala results are highly unexpected, as the […]
A new Gartner survey in the US, UK, China, Japan, Italy and India has exploded the myth that people find an LCD screen more tiresome than paper to read off. The survey came up with surprising results that indicate that reading on a tablet — such as the iPad — ranks the same for most […]
Tamil Nadu assembly elections too have seen a neck and neck early lead position oscillating between the DMK and AIADMK alliances. The DMK alliance had 19 seats while Jayalalitha’s AIADM had 30 seats. Opinion pollsters have been divided about the fate of the state, with some predicting a Karunanidhi’s DMK while others favoring AIADMK.
Intel has opened more cards on its $7.7 billion acquisition of anti-virus vendor McAfee. The two firms on Tuesday announced a new business line that seeks to address the biggest concern the emerging cloud architecture — security. Under the cloud architecture, a company moves most of its storage and compute power to a distant location […]
Congress led United Progressive Alliance are heading towards victories in 3 of the 4 major states whose results are being announced today. BJP ally, All Indian Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam or AIADMK, led by Jayalalitha, is likely to win the other big state — Tamil Nadu. In Tamil Nadu, Jayalalitha is likely to have an […]
Three exit poll surveys predict the results of Kerala, West Bengal, Assam and Tamil Nadu HEADLINES TODAY -ORG West Bengal Total seats — 294 Mamata+ — 210-220 Left+ — 65-70 Tamil Nadu Total seats — 234 DMK-Cong+ — 122 (115-130) AIDMK-BJP+ — 113 (105-120) Voteshare DMK-Cong+ — 48% AIDMK-BJP+ — 47% Kerala Total seats — […]
Tamil Nadu is emerging as the only piece of bad news for the Congress alliance as BJP ally, Jayalalitha led All Indian Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam (AIADMK) is heading towards a nearly assured win. After seeming neck and neck in very early trends, AIADMK has now notched up nearly double the seats of rival Karunanidhi’s […]
The Congress alliance in Kerala got a large part of their votes from the Syrian and other Christian voters, according to Asianet CFORE post poll survey. The Christians, particularly the Syrian Christians, emerged as the most coherent and cogent voting force — directing a whopping 75% of their votes to Congress alliance. Christians make up […]
