India’s old-world and “capacity-constrained” bureaucracy is the biggest impediment to improving relations its relationship with the US, US embassy officials told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a briefing paper prepared for her July 2009 visit. According to the Peter Burleigh, the in-charge of the American Embassy in New Delhi, even as the defence forces […]
EvoTV, the Android-based streaming TV box from Amkette, has added support for the Times Group’s BoxTV – an online movie and video service. With the addition of the BoxTV app, EvoTV users can now watch scores of movies available BoxTV, such as Aashiqui.in, in their EvoTV. EvoTV is arguably India’s most popular independent Internet TV […]
Some among Kashmir’s seperatist leaders felt that Afzal Guru, convicted by the Supreme Court to death for his part in the Indian Parliament attack of 2001, should hang, but did not dare say so openly. In a private conversation after the Supreme Court confirmed Afzal’s death sentence in 2006, Goeffrey Pyatt, the in-charge at the […]
India’s biggest industry association, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has lauded the passing of the Companies Bill in Parliament today. The bill has many provisions that bring Indian corporate laws and regulations in line with what is in vogue in more developed economies like that of the United States and Europe. It protects employees’ […]
David Mulford, the US ambassador to India from 2004 to 2006, sent a piercing assessment of India’s political situation, including a description of the ‘sycophancy’ inside the Congress Party. The 2006 assessment was sent soon after the Supreme Court quashed a move by former Congress leader and then Bihar Governor Buta Singh to dismiss an […]
CRISIL has cut its estimate for India’s GDP growth rate to a decade-low of 4.8% for the current financial year ending March 2014, but it has pointed to a strong performance by agriculture. It warned that the infrastructure, capital goods, automobiles and real estate sectors are in for a tough time this year. “Agriculture is […]
Third-party datacenters will overtake captive datacentres in growth over the next three years, according to CyberMedia Research. In a new report, the agency also puts the size of the India Data Center Services at Rs 11,800 crore. Data centres are buldings that host thousands of computers that are used to process large amount of data […]
Men may mock fairness ads targeting them, but underneath their pretensions, they all want to look good, according to India-based marketing-research firm NeuroFocus. “Males are restrained from expressing this deep seated need as a result of centuries of social conditioning, but there is clearly a primal drive to be perceived as desirable,” it said, announcing […]
Speaking for the first time on the issue of corruption after the agitation of the social activist Anna Hazare, Indian Prime Minister,Manmohan SIngh, talked about tough legislative and political action to combat the menace of corruption. Underscoring the present mood and anger of the nation against corruption Singh admitted that there is little tolerance among […]
The United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen has accused Inter Service Intelligence(ISI) of Pakistan for having close relation with the Haqqani terrorist network which is believed to be behind most of the attacks on foreign installations and individuals in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Talking to Pakistan based English daily Dawn,the […]
A new GreenPeace study has targeted India’s diesel-addicted telecom industry, estimating that it contributes around 2% of India’s green house gas emissions. The telecom towers and networks consume around 2 billion litres of diesel a year, release 5,600,000,000 kg of Carbon Dioxide or equivalent heat-trapping gas per year. “We expect the ICT sector to play […]
Taking a potshot at rival Dish TV, Tata Sky has launched five more Asli (or true) HD channels, emphasizing that they are shot with real HD cameras. The new channels include Star Plus, Star Gold, Star Movies, Star World and National Geographic Channel and cover news and regional content also, it said. Tata Sky had […]
The biggest filer of technology patents in India is not an Indian firm, but the US chip-maker Qualcomm, India’s Controller General of Patents and Trademarks, PH Kurian has revealed. Kurian said IT and telecom companies accounted for 5,500 of the 39,500 patent applications filed in 2010-11 in India, but only 150 of these applications came […]
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has dismissed the “fabrications and concoctions” being circulated on social media about the new tariff rules that will come into effect on December 29. In a statement, the regulator countered two broad concerns on the upcoming tariff scheme — that consumers will have to pay far more to watch their […]
Important recommendations made by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Wednesday. Reduce VAT on mobile handsets, increase duty on imported handsets Service providers to declare their carbon footprint half yearly, cap placed on power consumption of mobile towers Operators should reduce Carbon emissions by 8% by 2012-2013, 12% by 2014-2015, and 25% by 2018-2019 […]
IMD expects monsoon to be normal this year for June to September. It sees a very low probability of seasonal rainfall to be deficient. Rainfall, on an average will be 98% of long period average, from 91-2000. IMD said the cooler than normal summer or intermittent rainfall in North India has not been correlated with […]
Jairam Ramesh’s environment ministry has said that it will await the decision of the Bombay High Court before proceeding with the demolition of the Adarsh Society building in Mumbai. Responding to the decision by Bombay High Court on Wednesday to take more time to arrive at a judgement, the ministry said it too shall wait […]
After setting itself a modest target of growing its exports by just 15% to around $200 billion, India beat the target by a margin of 23%. In the end, the rising goods exports also helped bring down the trade deficit — the shortfall between exports and imports — to just $104.4 billion against the upper […]
Gartner, one of the world’s top two IT forecasters, warned of a slowdown in computer sales this year after disappointing data for the March quarter. Against an expected 3% growth (compared to March quarter of 2010,) it found a decline of 1.1% in the preliminary numbers this year. “Although the first quarter is traditionally a […]
Mandriva, formerly known as Mandrake Linux and one of the most user friendly flavors of the operating system, has released the second beta of its 2011 edition, the first after most of the development activity shifted to Brazil late last year. Mandriva’s parent company, which had been facing financial problems, moved to Brazil and shut […]
