Retail prices increased by 6% in January, compared to the same month a year ago, according to data released by the government today. The increase in consumer prices was higher in rural areas (7%) compared to urban areas (4%), according to the data. As expected, the highest increase was in the prices of vegetables. Veggies […]
Google is the search king, but twitter is not far behind, going by the latest move by Firefox-maker Mozilla Foundation. A month after Twitter ended its search-agreement with Google, it has partnered with the Mozilla Foundation to bring the Twitter search feature to Mozilla Firefox browsers. Mozilla has even launched a special ‘Twitter edition’ of […]
The Central Government has not been able to get a large number of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers to declare their assets, according to numbers from the Department of Personnel & Training. Despite a clear directive to the estimated 5,200 IAS officials — the back-bone of Central government bureaucracy — to declare assets by June […]
After terrain, traffic, landmarks, routes, shops, petrol-pumps etc., Google has now added a ‘weather’ layer to its Google Maps service. Like the other ‘layers’, this one too has to be enabled by clicking and choosing a menu of display modes from the top right corner of the map window. The information displayed at present include […]
India’s major opposition parties, including the right-of-centre Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), the Communists and regional parties have come together to determine the oppositions’ next move on the Anna Hazare agitation. Minutes after both houses of the Indian Parliament were adjourned after a shouting match between the opposition and the governing sides, leaders of opposition parties […]
The government seems to have been taken by surprise by the outpouring of support in favor of anti-corruption crusaders led by Anna Hazare. According to sources, it is considering holding talks with the group once again. Meanwhile, Anna Hazare has been reportedly moved to the Tihar jail after he refused bail conditions including not calling […]
The Delhi Police have detained 1,400 followers of Anna Hazare, police commissioner BK Gupta said. He said Anna has been arrested under the preventive arrest provisions of the Indian Criminal Procedure Code. Anna has been produced before a Magistrate and is currently in a police office. He has been ordered to 7 days in judicial […]
The Government has sent a huge police force to scatter would-be marchers from the Anna Hazare anti-corruption movement in Delhi. According to an appeal by Prashant Bhushan, one of the top leaders of the anti-corruption agitation, many protesters were turning up at the Pragati Maidan metro station in New Delhi for a mach. The Pragati […]
India’s foreign investment continues to gather pace in the new financial year. After growing by 77% in the first two months (April & May), foreign investment has zoomed 310% (four times) in June. Total long term foreign investment (into companies and such like, excluding stock markets), was $5.656 billion in June, against $1.380 billion received […]
Southern states of Kerala and Karnataka are finding it difficult to get rid of the H1N1 virus, with 16 new deaths reported from the two states in June and July. According to central government figures, Kerala reported 174 cases of confirmed H1N1 infections in the two months, while Karnataka reported 34 infections. None of the […]
Maruti Alto K10 created the most amount of search interest on launch, with the Ford Figo following close behind, according to Google India’s Auto Industry Report covering search trends for the industry for the last two years. Surprisingly, it also showed that would-be auto buyers in India are arguably more net-savvy than their counterparts in […]
Nearly 1 in 20 drugs sold in India is of subs-standard quality or downright spurious, according to the latest numbers from the health ministry. According to them, the out of the 49,682 samples of drugs tested during the just concluded financial year (2010-11), 2,372 turned out to be below the required quality. Another 95 samples […]
Reliance Communications has announced a 7-inch Android tablet priced at around Rs 13,000 with discounted 3G data options, making it perhaps the cheapest 3G-enabled tablet in India. UPDATE: Since this model was launched, the Ubislate tab was launched for Rs 4,000 which makes the Ubislate the cheapest and most value for money tablet in the […]
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Scheme, popularly known as the NREGA scheme, seems to have slowing down as allegations over corruption have increased. According to the latest numbers, the last financial year (2010-11) saw a 9.4% dip in the total employment generated through the scheme. However, thanks to an overall rise in costs — […]
ITES, Construction and IT sectors saw sharp declines in recruitment activity in July compared to June as employers seemed to take a ‘wait and watch’ approach, India’s biggest jobs portal Naukri.com said. The biggest slump was seen in BPO (ITES) sector, where hiring dropped 24% in July compared to June. In IT, it was down […]
Mamata Bannerjee may have big plans for her home state West Bengal, but if her record at the Rail Bhawan is anything to go by, a rise in crime levels should come as no surprise. The crime rate on Indian Railways has increased steadily and substantially over the last 2.5 years, when Mamata Bannerjee was […]
Completing its move to a ‘consumer focused’ corporate structure, Bharti Airtel has filled up two slots — one to head its broadband and data service and another to head its DTH and media unit. The new posts, in the current avatar, were created on the reorganization of Bharti Airtel’s internal corporate structure a month ago. […]
The Indian Railways will install audio-video entertainment system in all its trains, starting with the day trains, the Ministry of Railways has said. Currently, audio-video entertainment system such as those in aircrafts are available only in half a dozen trains in the country. All of these, such as the Shimoga-Bangalore Intercity Express and the Bangalore-Mysore […]
Government of India has refused to grant the right to use S Band spectrum to Antrix, the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), making the latter’s deal with Devas Multimedia irrelevant. ISRO-Antrix has already taken millions of dollars from the Bangalore-based firm and is also learnt to have spent considerable amount of […]
Advertisers who are spending their money on QR (quick response) campaigns, using a pictorial code to ‘continue’ an ad or message on a phone or similar device, are not off their mark, according to the latest data from digital research firm Comscore. A study by the agency found that in June 2011, 14 million mobile […]
