The victory of the Congress in Kerala is likely to prove a crown of thorns for the party. Not only has the election been very poor for Congress as a party — subtracting from its moral leadership — but its allies have already indicated that they plan to drive a hard bargain. Two allies of […]
The Left Democratic Front, led by CPIM, may wait for Congress to ‘mess up’ instead of trying to aggressively woo small parties from the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) in Kerala, according to early indications. With 46 seats with the CPIM and 58 seats with the Congress party, both can try to attract small parties […]
The Indian Civil Services Exam too seems to be going the way of the other prestigious all-India entrance exams such as the Common Aptitude Test (CAT), meant for MBA admissions. According to the results of last year’s Civil Services Exam announced today, Engineers increased their domination of the results. In the latest results, engineers account […]
Kerala chief minister VS Achutanandan said CPIM, despite being the biggest party in Kerala, will not stake claim to form the government and blamed communal forces for working against him. “There is no need. We don’t have the numbers to rule,” Achutandan, widely credited with the unexpectedly good performance by the left in the assembly […]
Dish TV may have increased their ‘HD’ channel count to 30, but Anil Ambani’s Reliance Big TV has just upscaled their entire 250 channels into HD, the company said. Though only around half a dozen channels being beamed in India have an HD version, some Indian DTH providers have been providing dozens of HD channels. […]
Tense faces abounded at the Congress offices in the state after it was able to post just a 2-seat majority in an election that was supposed to be a walk-over. Oommen Chandy, the chief ministerial candidate of the UDF (headed by Congress) and KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala said the party will hold an enquiry into […]
After Uninor, Reliance and Tata too have thrown their weight behind the telecom regulator’s proposal to examine whether 20 paise per minute is the right price for connecting a call from one network to another. The charge, called termination or interconnect charge, is paid by one network to another when handing over a call to […]
Indian IT majors like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL and Cognizant continued their fast ascent in the global IT industry, rising fast in the ranks of world’s top IT firms in 2010, with Cognizant the clear leader in growth. The biggest jump in rank among India’s top five IT firms was done by HCL Technologies — […]
Soon after the Adarsh land scam in which defence land was hand over to a housing society by officials who also flats in the building, Defence minister AK Antony has announced a massive audit exercise to check defence land utilization. The Defence forces, under the Director-General of Defence Estates (DGDE), has nearly 17 lakh acres […]
India has come out with details of a suspected ISI officer named Major Iqbal who is reported to have been named by the US government in its second charge-sheet on the Mumbai terror attacks in a Chicago Court. In an extra-ordinary step, the home ministry (under the leadership of P Chidambaram) issued a statement giving […]
India’s electronic chip market — an indicator of overall electronics consumption — grew by a whopping 28% in 2010 — according to research conducted by the Indian Semiconductor Association and Frost & Sullivan. The consumption of electronic chips — almost none of which is produced in India — rose from $5.1 billion in 2009 to […]
Spurred by intense competition, India’s DTH or direct-to-home market grew by a whopping 22.4% in just the last three months of 2010, numbers from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India have revealed. The growth is the fastest rate of growth for the industry in several quarters and seems to indicate that the DTH industry — […]
Responding to calls to relook at negotiations with Pakistan after the death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, the Congress Party has said that it too favored negotiations only after Pakistan comes clean on support to anti-India terror groups. “Support for negotiations is predicated on the fact that Pakistan stops support to terrorists and terror […]
Even as the government prepares an ambitious broadband program, Internet penetration in India is slowing down, according to TRAI numbers. Rate of growth of Internet connections (including slow connections) fell to just 4.4% during the December quarter, or 23% compared to the last three months of 2009. According to the latest data, India – which […]
Google’s Android operating system, which overtook Symbian to become the number one smartphone platform in December quarter, increased its lead over others in the March quarter, London-based Canalys Research said. India, along with China and South Korea were the best performing markets in terms of growth for smartphones, registering 100% or higher growth. Android, which […]
Offence is the best way to defence. This is what Pakistan has decided to do after coming under heavy international criticism for its failure to track the Al Qaeda Chief,Osama Bil Laden,who was hiding very close to the capital Islamabad. The Abbatabad mansion, where Osama has been living for the last five years, is just […]
Fruit prices continued to trend uncomfortably upwards during the third week of April, according to the wholesale price data released by the government. While overall primary article (food and fuel) prices remained higher by around 12% compared to a year ago, fruit prices were up nearly 33%. Primary article price rise has remained in the […]
All the major enterprise software vendors increased their revenues in 2010, but Oracle grew substantially faster than others like IBM, Microsoft and SAP, according to Gartner. The overall enterprise market itself grew by $20 billion — a healthy 8.5% — to hit $245 billion, thanks in part the $6 billion jump in Microsoft’s revenue in […]
Coming down heavily on the Income Tax Department for not being fast and on time for submitting the papers related to the investigation into the 2G scam in the Apex Court, it said no matter how big and wealthy the accused are no body should be spared. “The IT department must be quicker. This is […]
Reacting strongly to the Indian Army Chief Gen VK Singh’s comment that India is “competent” to carry out the Abootabad kind of operation as America did, Pakistan Foreign Secretary, Salman Bashir said that if any country in South Asia tries to indulge into unilaterlism it will face severe consequences. Without naming India but hinting clearly […]
