The CBI has replied to the recent Supreme Court on its question about where the money allegedly paid to Kanimozhi as a bribe is located and how much is the loss caused by the 2G scam. According to the 80-page affidavit filed by the CBI in the Supreme Court today, the Rs 214 crore bribe […]
The Civil Society said that the core points of disagreements with the Government could not be resolved in today’s meeting of the Lokpal Drafting Committee, but some more areas of divergence have come up today. “The disagreements remain as disagreements,” Arvind Kejriwal, one of the five Civil Society members on the Committee. The new disagreements […]
Dell, India’s biggest computer brand, has taken the extra-ordinary step of tweaking its first phone before launching it here. The Dell Aero, launched on Letsbuy.com, has been upgraded from Android 1.5 to Android 2.1 (Eclair) before being launched in India. The phone will debut in India at the lower end of the big screen Android […]
BJP leader and chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of the Parliament — which examines the revenue and expenditure of the government — Murli Manohar Joshi has urged the petroleum ministry to reply to the draft report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) as soon as possible. He questioned the statement by […]
LG Optimus 2X is fast emerging as the most affordable dual-core, large-display multimedia phone. The Optimus 2X, the country’s first dual core phone, seems to be finding a spot just below the technically most advanced phones in the market today — the Samsung Galaxy S2 and the HTC Sensation. While the above two are beefier […]
Symantec was the biggest anti-virus vendor in 2010, according to the latest numbers from IT market research firm Gartner, even as small competitors nibbled away at bigger brands’ businesses during the year. Against a 12% increase in overall security software (anti-virus) market, Symantec was able to increase its revenues by just 5.8%. It was followed, […]
The petroleum ministry has confirmed receiving a report from the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on alleged irregularities in the oversight maintained over the administration of oil blocks under private companies. The Times of India had, in its story today, reported that the CAG has unearthed alleged favoritism towards Reliance Industries, owned by billionaire Mukesh […]
Genpact, India’s biggest BPO company, emerged as the top real estate buyer in the National Capital in the first quarter of 2011, according to a compilation put together by international real estate firm Knight Frank. Big leases by IT and BPO firms in the beginning of the year propped up the market, which is in […]
An official from the US embassy at Islamabad was so ruffled by the harsh reactions of Pakistani foreign and defence experts to the Indo-US nuclear deal that he suggested a new name for the conference in a bitter account of his ‘travails’. “…the conference should have been billed ‘Seminar on U.S.-Indian Perfidy (untrustworthiness)’” the official […]
Reliance Communications, the telecom firm from the Anil Ambani group, emerged as the operator with the highest number of subscriber additions during April this year, according to a report by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). The company beat Vodafone, which held the top-spot during March, as well as others like Idea and Bharti. […]
The global semiconductor and electronics industry has weathered the Japanese earthquake without much damage, IT market research firm Gartner said. In its update on the market for semiconductor capital equipment (equipment used to make chips,) it said that it has not had to revise its projections for the market downwards, as feared in the aftermath […]
Uninor, the subsidiary of Norwegian telecom operator Telenor, has crossed the 25 million subscriber mark, the firm said, adding that it now had a market share double that of all the other new operators put together. Uninor had started operations in December 2009 and 2010 in most of these circles and its closest competitor from […]
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has accused the national rights commissions — the National Human Rights Commission and the National Commission for Women — of acting like opposition parties. Her comments have come after the National Commission for Women and National Human Rights Commission jumped into the controversy of a group of policemen allegedly raping […]
The education minister Kapil Sibal has expressed ‘sorrow’ at the high minimum marks posted by colleges as entry criteria for under graduate courses in Delhi and promised action. “I am extremely sad at the situation.. This is an irrational way to look at education, we will not let this method go on,” Sibal said, adding […]
India and Russia have announced that they have decided to start negotiations to draw up a trade agreement between the two nations. The agreement has been termed as a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement, which indicates that it won’t be as radical as a Free Trade Agreement, but slightly short of it. Such agreements bring down […]
The mother of the 14 year old girl alleged to be raped and killed by policemen in Lakhimpur in UP, has alleged that she was offered Rs 5 lakhs in return for his silence on the issue. She, however, did not clarify who offered the bribe. The woman, Fatima, refused to quieten down and reiterated […]
Days after Google announced it has started its effort to introduce 3-D ‘walk through’ maps for Indian cities, it’s biggest competitor in India – MapmyIndia.com – has opened up its fine-grained map to the public for free. The new maps, available on maps.mapmyindia.com, will show right up to the house number in its free version. […]
In what may prove to be a breakthrough in the investigations into the murder of journalist J Dey in Mumbai, the Mumbai police are learnt to have picked up three men. Two have been picked up from Dongri in South Mumbai and one from Pune. All three are alleged to be working for Chhota Shakeel, […]
NMDC, the country’s largest iron ore producer and Russian steel maker OJSC Severstal to float a 50:50 joint-venture company that would set up a five million tonne steel plant in Bellary, Karnataka, at a total cost of Rs 9,000 crore. Initially the plant will have a capacity of two million tonnes per year and will […]
Around 23% of the respondents have been victims of cyber attacks, according to the latest survey from Microsoft India. 19% per cent users reported email account hacking. Indians, one of the most prolific cell phone users, are also equally ‘addicted’ to the Internet. The survey found that around half of India’s Internet users spent close […]
