Proving how important the thousands of crores of rupees meant for the National Rural Health Mission in UP were, the main accused in the murder of two reportedly upright officers has also been murdered. Dr Y S Sachan, Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Lucknow was found hanging in his jail cell yesterday. The Lucknow Police […]
The Congress Party has asked the opposition party BJP to “let go” off the report by the Public Accounts Committee on the 2G scam. Spokesperson Manish Tewari made the call on a day when a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee — the statutory Parliamentary body in charge of keeping a watch on government expenditure […]
Maria Susairaj, who completed her 3 year jail term for helping dispose of the body of slain Neeraj Grover, has denied that she cut her formers lover’s body into pieces. In a press conference, her advocate showed the photograph of the recovered body which showed the body more or less intact. “This photograph is part […]
Gartner India, the local unit of the global IT market research agency, seemed to be not so hopeful about the chances of the just unveiled Blackberry Playbook in India. The biggest downside, as has been pointed out by overseas reviewers, seems to be its inability to connect to a 3G or cellular network without help […]
The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will now have regular meeting with top editors, even as regularly as one a week, according to sources. The first meeting will be held at his house at 4 pm tomorrow. The move has come in the wake of searing criticism of an “absentee Prime Minister”, particularly on the web, […]
Microsoft Windows lost a big chunk of the global browsing market, according to the first report from Google on web trends. The survey, based on data from “hundreds of thousands” of websites that use Google’s free Analytics (web tracking) service, shows Windows dropping by a whopping 5.1 percentage points in its share of browsing computers. […]
Gone are the days when the top priority of IT heads in companies used to be topics like ‘virtualization,’ ‘business analytics’ etc.. This year in Asia, they are worried about — yes, Cloud, and of course, mobile, according to the results of Gartner’s ‘Executive Program Agenda Survey.’ Interestingly, Asian CIOs (IT heads) are also reporting […]
The IEEE, World’s largest professional association that has invented standards like WiFi may be the one to solve one of the biggest challenges in the emerging Cloud computing economy. Unlike the current business software vendors such as SAP, Oracle, IBM etc., providers of equivalent cloud versions do not provide an easy way for their individual […]
The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court has raised questions about the report on the Lakhimpur murder case by the Uttar Pradesh CB-CID. The CB-CID report ruled out any attempt to rape and pinned the blame of the 14-year-old girl on a police constable Atiq Ahmed Khan. The Court expressed its reservations on the […]
The BJP has come out with an unusually strong response to what it calls reports of attempts of compromise on the issue of Kashmir in the ongoing foreign secretary level talks between India and Pakistan. BJP’s seniormost leader LK Advani said there were reports that India plans to compromise on its stand on Kashmir and […]
Gandhian anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare will meet with Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi tomorrow as part of his efforts to lobby support for tough anti-corruption organization. “We want all the parties to support us.. We will meet her and ask her, how can we make sure that corruption can be eliminated (through the bill,)” he […]
The Supreme Court has slammed the Central Government for failing to take effective steps against black money and appointed its own special investigation team headed by two retired judges. The team will be comprised of Justices Jeevan Reddy and MB Shah and will direct the investigation independently. The Supreme Court is has been hearing a […]
UP chief secretary Shashank Shekar has confirmed that Dr YS Sachan, who was found hanging in a jail hospital in Lucknow today morning, was tortured with sharp instruments before being killed. “According to the post mortem (autopsy), there were 9 injuries on his body. Eight of them were made with sharp weapons.. Injuries were found […]
Nokia has finally released the X7 smart phone — its latest device aimed at the large-screen multimedia market — in India, pricing it at just under Rs 23,000. The device, however, is likely to get substantially cheaper in the coming weeks and months as its specifications are not up to those of other phones in […]
Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalitha has criticized the Army for shooting down a 13 year old boy. She rejected the Army’s contention that they mistook the boy for a possible terrorist, with the CM saying that the Army should have been able to distinguish between a boy and a terrorist. “”The Army jawan (soldier) […]
Despite a bustling mobile handset market in the country, top Indian phone-brand Nokia failed to grow its revenues during the last financial year, according to the Voice & Data survey of the telecom market for 2010-11. However, number two in the mobile handset market — Samsung — managed to see its revenues grow by a […]
The Home Ministry headed by P Chidambaram has written to the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), under the Finance Ministry, seeking information about the assets owned by former chief justice of India KG Balakrishnan and his dependents and relatives. The move has come after the Law Ministry said that since the allegations against KG […]
Gopinath Munde, the rebel Maharashtrian leader of the Bhartiya Janata Party has said he does not intend to leave the Bhartiya Janata Party. He has been in talks with Congress and NCP leaders, allegedly to explore the option of joining them, but seems to have found nothing worthwhile to take up in those parties. “I […]
Anna Hazare has rebutted government’s arguments against including all government servants under the upcoming anti-corruption ombudsman, Lokpal. He also reaffirmed that the second round of agitations will begin on August 16. He pointed out that unless all the officials of the Government are brought under the watchful gaze of the Lokpal, India cannot get rid […]
The Mumbai police have arrested one suspect in the investigation of the journalist J Dey, charging him with trying to cheat the reporter by posing as a Government officer. Nihal Tanna has been sent to police custody for three days, during which time he will be interrogated for getting any leads about the murder. He […]
