External Affairs Minister Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna,who reached Kathmandu today on a three day trip to Nepal, reiterated India’s commitment for a democratic and stable Nepal. In a statement he said that “I would like to convey to the leadership of Nepal that India is committed to working with the people of Nepal for a democratic, […]
While the world is focused on the global Outsourcing market (in which India has a 60% share,) the domestic market in India has jumped by a whopping 29% in one year, research firm Gartner said. It further predicts the market will jump another 23% to hit #1.4 billion (Rs 6,400 crore) by the end of […]
The Jharkhand Police is probing the leak of the state budget to the media even before it was announced in the Assembly, Pranab Mukherjee, minister of finance at the Centre, has told a Parliamentary Committee. Responding to a query by the Committee, Mukherjee said the Ranchi Edition of Dainik Jagran newspaper had published details of […]
A quiet digital revolution is on in the countrysides and bylanes of India. Despite having one of the world’s lowest PC penetration (at just 1%), hundreds of millions of Indians are logging on to the Internet through their humble, tiny mobile phone. The latest ‘state of the mobile web’ report from Opera, whose browser accounts […]
The Indian Premier League or IPL, the country’s most successful domestic sports event, has broken its exclusive deal with Google-owned Youtube and decided to partner with Bennet, Coleman & Company’s Indiatimes as well for the current season. Google had managed a unexpectedly successful debut for the first live webcasting of any major sports event in […]
An important new recommendation made by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) may unleash the era of the “small scale” or “boutique” telecom brands in the country. It will also offer a way for the new telecom operators — who don’t have the appetite or funds to start operations in India’s hyper-competitive mobile market […]
Fruits and Petrol led the items seeing highest rise in wholesale prices during the first week of April, according to the latest data released by the government. Price of fruits went up by 25% compared to the same week a year ago, while petrol prices were up 22%. Overall, inflation in primary articles — which […]
Gaz guzzling SUVs giving 5 km to the litre may soon become a thing of the past in India, as the government prepares to notify India’s first fuel-efficiency norms in a few days. Even before the notification, however, the norms are under fire from environmentalists. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has termed the […]
Traditional outsourcing firms, such as Infosys and TCS, may need to pay attention to the ‘depth’ of their professionals as companies are increasingly disappointed with outsourcing partners and are mulling going back to captive centres, according to a report. According to a report on the ‘re-emergence’ of the captive center by Forrester Research, more and […]
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is working on a new feature to enable users to easily turn off user tracking by websites. J Alan Bird, head of business development for W3C — which sets the standards for the Web — said the organization is working on evolving a mechanism that will allow users to […]
Even as India has earned the reputation of becoming the only country with eight different domain names allotted to it, sources revealed that the Tamil language will have the .india domain, written in Tamil. Other languages have opted for .bharat written in the same language. Media reports have pointed out that ICANN, the Internet URL […]
IT and BPO sectors saw the biggest up-tick in hiring during the first month of 2011, according to numbers crunched by Naukri.com, India’s biggest job portal. Hiring in these two sectors jumped by a whopping 11% and 6% in January compared to the immediately preceding month of December 2010, indicating, in Naukri’s opinion, an optimistic […]
Dell Services, the rapidly growing IT services business of Computer maker Dell has picked up Suresh Vaswani, former joint CEO of Wipro, to head the business in India. Vaswani left Wipro in January after a 25-year stint, partly due to the poor performance of the company. India is Dell’s core services hub and is home […]
Six months after most of the senior developers of Mandriva Linux, arguably the most user-friendly flavor of the Linux distribution, left the company, the ‘renegade’ group have announced a new beta release of their Mageia Linux distribution. Mandriva, based in France, had been forced to shrink its operations in France and relocate its development activities […]
Mahindra Satyam, the new avatar of Ramalinga Raju’s Satyam Computer Services will pay $10 million (Rs 46 crore) as penalty to the US stock market watch-dog, the Securities and Exchanges Commission or SEC. It will also have to comply with “certain” unspecified condition, according to a statement issued by the company a few minutes ago. […]
The following are links to the pictures of the first day of Anna Hazare’s fast unto death demanding the passing of the Jan Lokpal bill (and scrapping of the Government’s lame-duck version.) The pictures are being uploaded over the next 1-2 hours. Videos [a total of around a dozen, being uploaded over the next 2-3 […]
These are videos from ground zero (Jantar Mantar Road, New Delhi.) There will be a total of around 12 videos for day one, uploaded one by one. .
The agitation for the passing of the Jan Lokpal bill entered a crucial stage on Thursday, the third day of fasting by Anna Hazare and his aides. Compared to just a few hundred supporters who trickled in on Wednesday, thousands poured in on Thursday to express support. More than a thousand people marched with candles […]
Day four of the Janlokpal agitation saw the Government capitulate even as the movement threatened to disrupt normal life across the country. Reminding political observers of Gandhi’s independence stuggle, spontaneous rallies were held across the country in support of the fasting Gandhian. The government, which tried to toss a ‘fake committee’ to the agitators on […]
India Against Corruption (IAC), the umbrella body spearheading the Jan Lokpal bill agitation, reiterated its opposition to watering down the bill proposed by Anna Hazare. “The Lokpal and Lokayukta, according to the version of the Bill the protestors want, must be completely independent of any governments – on the lines of the Election Commission or […]
