In a rare gesture, a big telecom company has lauded the government’s recent changes in telecom policy. The Modi government has, in recent months, cleared long-pending reforms such as allowing the trading of spectrum, cutting levies and initiating rearrangement (harmonization) of spectrum. Usually, the relationship between the government and big operators tends to be strained […]
T-Series has become the first Indian entity on Youtube to get 10 mln (1 cr) followers. “They’re one of the few YouTube channels globally to reach this level, and to acknowledge it, they’ll be awarded a nifty Diamond Play Button for their trophy case,” said Google, which runs Youtube. T-Series was India’s number one record […]
If you’re a regular user of Google Maps for navigation, you might want to update the app quickly before you head out. The latest version of Google News includes spoken warnings about traffic conditions, Google said. Till now, Google used to color code traffic conditions, with red indicating severe congestion and slow moving traffic. “Now […]
The first numbers from this Tuesday’s Democratic Presidential Primary Polls are in and as expected, Hillary Clinton has won the Arizona Primary with an clear margin. However, Bernie Sanders registered a strong win in Utah with about three quarters of the votes in his favor. Arizona accounts for 85 delegates being chosen today, while the […]
Dinkoism, India’s largest parody religion, is holding its first ‘mega congregation’ this Sunday at Calicut in the southern state of Kerala. The religion was floated after rationalists and science activists — tired of holding ‘logical’ arguments with religious fanatics about everything from evolution to abortion to women’s rights — decided exaggeration and caricature was the […]
A Christian man who married a Hindu woman ten years ago has now received a notice from a ‘Special Administrative Tribunal’ of the Catholic Church seeking an explanation. The letter dated six days ago “requests” the man to appear before the ‘tribunal’ to discuss how he ended up getting married and living in a fashion […]
The new Real Estate Regulatory Bill is a step in the right direction, but could end up making property costlier, Neha Hiranandani, director of Mumbai-based House of Hiranandani said. “Though the objectives are noble and correct in the long term, we believe lack of clarity on the various mechanisms proposed will only add to costs […]
India is set to nearly double its solar power generation capacity in the ongoing financial year and comfortably exceed its target of adding 1.8 GW of extra capacity during the year. According to numbers obtained from various government sources, the country is all set to end the current financial year with a total solar power generation capacity of about […]
Kanhaiya Kumar, the president of the students union at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, was attacked today by a person from outside the campus. No details of the attacker has been made available, but according to sources, the attacker was not a student at the university. He is being held by campus security. Kanhaiya […]
The State Bank of India, India’s biggest lender, said India’s news media was flouting established ethical norms in its reporting of the Vijay Mallya episode. The media has been blaming state-owned banks for ‘going slow’ or showing a lack of due diligence when advancing loans to the businessman, who is now known to be in […]
The Government of India has given in-principle approval for setting up Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) in India at a cost of Rs 105 cr (Rs 1.05 bln). “The LIGO-India project will establish a state-of-the-art gravitational wave observatory on the Indian soil in collaboration with the LIGO Laboratory in the U.S. run by Caltech […]
Giving in to a long-standing demand, the Indian government has allowed new gas producers to enter into negotiated pricing deals with their customers subject to certain ceiling tariff. At present, gas prices are fixed by the government through a formula. The policy guidelines would be applicable to future discoveries as well as existing discoveries which […]
Mathrubhumi, Kerala’s second largest newspaper and one of the top ten in the country, was forced to issue an unconditional apology after religious and political organizations held widespread protests outside its offices for publishing ‘blasphemous’ content about Prophet Mohammed. The newspaper had, on Wednesday, printed audience feedback sourced from social media on another of its […]
Bernie Sanders has upset Hillary Clinton, and pollsters, in Michigan, getting 50.1% of the votes vs Hillary Clinton’s 48.1% with 97% of the total already counted. This is very different from how the numbers looked as late as a week ago, when Hillary Clinton had a clear edge over Sanders in the state. A month ago, Sanders […]
Two of the three states where primary polls were conducted by the Democratic Party today to elect their presidential candidate have gone to Bernie Sanders, giving a shot in the arm to the Senator’s campaign. Sanders had managed to pick up only around 40% of the total delegates on Super Tuesday, while Clinton picked up […]
A report by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has revealed that NDTV 24×7 has the highest number of peak-hour advertisements among English news channels in India, followed by Times Now, India Today and CNN-IBN. According to the report, NDTV showed an average of 22.66 minutes of advertisements per hour during the period under survey. […]
The government today issued clarifications on the imposition of income tax when a salaried employee claims his provident fund benefit from his Employees Provident Fund or EPF. It said the new tax has been imposed to discourage people from withdrawing and spending their pension funds Under previous rules, money invested in EPF is not taxed, […]
Tata Motors Limited, India’s largest automobile manufacturer, has become the second Indian company to join RE100 – a global initiative of the world’s most influential companies committed to 100% renewable power. The company, which manufactures a range of commercial and passenger vehicles as well as defence and homeland security vehicles, has set itself the goal […]
It’s perhaps not something that Smriti Irani expected when she was working as a television artist, but the Union Human Resource Development minister has overtaken top Bollywood heroines as far as online search interest is concerned, a day after her emotional speech in Parliament. On Thursday, a day after she answered her detractors and critics […]
A new survey conducted by one of Canada’s biggest colleges has found that many kids and teens are making serious money by posting promotional photos and videos on their well-connected social media accounts. The research, conducted by Centennial College of Toronto, found that some minors earn as much as $10,000 to $20,000 (Rs 6.5 lakh […]
