Weeks after popular outrage over the brutal rape and murder of a student in Delhi, the government has increased the punishment and widened the scope of anti-harassment legislation in several laws. Insertions include new definitions of what constitutes sexual harassment, specifying punishment for throwing acid, use of hidden camera to record women’s private acts, stalking, […]
Google India has launched its free video-conferencing tool, Google Hangouts, to users of Gmail in India. Earlier all videoconferencing in Gmail, google’s free email service, used to happen on a “peer to peer” basis. In other words, the video call would go straight from one user to another, like a phone call. With Hangouts, the […]
Ever wondered what happened to ‘advanced search’ on Facebook? Ever wanted to find all those from your home town in your current city, or a list of everyone on Facebook who is working in your company? You are in luck because the new ‘graph search’ from the social networking leader lets you do just that, […]
With one month to go before the end of the current year, the government of India has projected a GDP growth rate of 5% this year, down from 6.2% last year, according to its latest numbers. Presenting India’s budget for 2012-13, former finance minister Pranab Mukherjee had said that India’s GDP will grow by 7.6 […]
The Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar has scalded the Finance Ministry’s decision to withdraw the Income tax concession given to Special Economic Zones (SEZ.) Khullar said the move is akin to changing the policy “midstream” and will affect the sentiments towards investing in India. “It is one issue to hurt people who have already taken the […]
The Congress led government of Kerala seemed to be softening its stand on re-investigating Rajyasabha deputy chairman PJ Kurien’s culpability in the infamous Suryanelli rape case even as pressure mounts. Asked why the government was stonewalling requests for a new investigation into Kurien’s alleged role in the rape-saga, chief minister Oommen Chandy said: “Who has […]
Telecom companies in India continued to purge inactive subscribers in December, with Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Communications losing 16 million, or about 12% of its mobile subscribers, during the month. The trend has been continuing since June this year, when India’s total mobile subscriber base hit a record of close to 935 million, or about 77% […]
If you needed a reminder of who actually rules the Indian stock markets, yesterday’s sale of 78.3 crore shares of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) was as good as any. Nearly all the shares were bought by institutions and foreign investors, including banks and mutual funds, and very little by ordinary investors. According to the […]
The Suryanelli rape case has again burst into the headlines in Kerala with a private news channel running video footage of a conversation with one of the judges in the High Court panel that let off all but one of the dozens of accused in the case. Basant is shown as asking a reporter of […]
The government of India on Tuesday gave the industry a glimpse of what is in store under its ‘New Telecom Policy’ of 2011. According to people who were present in a round table conference organized on Tuesday, telecom minister Sibal reiterated that he will indeed carry out all the reforms he had promised when he […]
Growth of the Indian retail industry, which includes biggies like the Future Value Retail (Big Bazaar), Reliance, Aditya Birla Retail, Landmark Group (Max) and Tata’s Infiniti Retail, is likely to slow down in 2013 due to the reduced purchasing power of consumers, the India Ratings unit of Fitch said. It warned that consumers in India […]
Close on the heels of the quad-core Karbonn S1 Titanium, competitor Spice has launched a dual-core phone with a 5.3 inch display with qHD (quarter HD) resolution. Priced at Rs 14,000, the device is remarkable only in that it has a larger than usual display, though the Karbonn A30 has an even bigger 5.9 inch […]
Tamil Nadu, including Chennai, has the highest number of 3G-enabled towers in India, while Delhi has the highest 3G penetration in India, according to official numbers. In fact, at present, Delhi has more 3G towers than Maharashtra (which, in telecom license area, excludes Mumbai, but is still 206 times bigger than the national capital.) The […]
After being postponed seven times over two months, one of the strongest Linux operating systems – Fedora – has released its latest version — Fedora 18, or the Spherical Cow. The biggest attraction about the release probably that it’s finally out. Unlike the six months that it usually takes, the release has taken about eight, […]
Google has launched its third annual science fair for children and the deadline for submissions is April 30. As always, the Google Science Fair 2013 will also have two rounds. The first round will be in June when 90 regional finalists will be selected – 30 from the Americas, 30 from Asia Pacific and 30 […]
Falling commodity prices will slightly improve profit margins, while overall revenue in Indian corporate sector is likely to have increased 11-13% in the last three months of 2012, Crisil Research said. Crisil’s forecast is neither too gloomy, nor too rosy, as it points to strong volume growth only in 11 out of 28 key sectors […]
After close to two years, Acer, the world’s fourth largest PC brand, has introduced a tablet to the Indian market – the Iconia B1. The tablet is only likely to appeal to those who want to use it indoors (or where Wifi is available), and want a portable tablet of 7 inches, and fails to […]
PJ Kurien, deputy Rajya Sabha chairman and a prominent Congress leader from Kerala has found himself in the middle of a raging media storm in Kerala, with a TV channel running an interview with the victim of the infamous Suryanelli gang rape case. The victim, who was 16 years old at the time of the […]
If you felt your recent flight landing at Tirupathi was a bit shaky, you may not have been totally wrong. According to the list of disciplinary actions taken by the Airports Authority of India (AAI), firefighting personnel were found handling air traffic control at the Tirupathi airport during a checking earlier this year. According to […]
China and India will be the hottest markets for mobile advertisements in the immediate future as an exploding smartphone and tablet population in these countries are targeted by brands, Gartner has predicted. The research agency also admitted that the growth of mobile advertisements has been faster than it initially anticipated, partly due to the rapid […]
