India may be advancing on all fronts, but when it comes to choosing a partner for their sons and daughters, even the mothers belonging to India’s urban middle class have extremely traditional views. A survey of 25,000 mothers of would be brides and grooms registered on Shaadi.com found that 67% of them felt that their […]
Worst was being feared and worst has come true. Five days after the helicopter in which Arunachal Pradesh’s Chief Minister, Dorjee Khandu, went missing the debris of the chopper has been located at Lobothang, 4900 metres above sea level. “We have some information that is not encouraging…it is not good news,” said Home Minister P […]
The Congress Party put the blame for the Noida farmers uprising squarely on the UP state government led by Mayawati. Speaking to reporters in the capital, spokesperson Manish Tewari dismissed the suggestion that the delay by the Central government in passing the Land Acquisition Act has contributed to aggravating the plight of the protesting farmers […]
After promising to do so for months, World number 3 PC brand Acer has launched three tablets — 10.1 inch, 7 inch and 4.8 inch. The tablets will have full multi-touch displays and will be based on NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core 1.0 GHz processor. All three will support SIM cards — making them suitable […]
The Telecom Ministry and the Telecom Regulator have crossed swords over the role of state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) in the Rs 60,000 crore ($14 billion) National Broadband Plan. While the Ministry wants BSNL to implement the scheme, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has warned that such a decision may amount to indirect […]
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 […]
India’s second largest industry association, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has lent its support to Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s proposal to allot mines only through bidding, but called it unsuitable for many cases. Under the current system, mines and similar natural resources (except oil blocks) are allotted in a non-transparent […]
India’s exports cgrew 44% in March, the final month of the last financial year. For the full year, the growth was 37.5%, as announced by the government earlier. Export growth was slightly lower than the 50% growth seen during the early part of 2010, but substantially higher than the rates prevalent a year ago. India’s […]
Microsoft, the maker of the Windows Operating system, increased its already high market-share by 0.7 percentage points to 78.6% of the total worldwide operating system market, Gartner said. Total operating system (OS) revenues for Microsoft jumped to $23.85 billion dollars in 2010, higher than the total turnover of most big corporations in the world, according […]
India has fired a salvo at Pakistan after US President Barack Obama confirmed that Osama bin Laden has indeed been shot and killed ‘deep inside Pakistan.’ India’s home minister P Chidambaram (in charge of homeland security) said the development “underlined” India’s position that Pakistan “shelters” terrorists. “We take note with grave concern that part of […]
Reports emerging from Kabul says that a spat between the officers of Afghan National Army (ANA) and soldiers of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) resulted in firing that has claimed some lives and wounded few. In a telephonic interview with the RTN the spokesperson of the ANA,General Mohammad Zahir Azimi confirms the death of […]
After giving hope to anti-POSCO protesters by putting the project clearance on hold, environment minister Jairam Ramesh has abandoned them again, pointing out that the protestors’ resolutions did not have the requisite number of signatures. On April 15, Jairam Ramesh had announced that he intended to put the forest clearance to India’s biggest foreign investment […]
Mageia Linux, the community fork-edition of Mandriva Linux, has announced the second beta edition of its first ever Linux operating system release. The release, available for download here is the last ‘test’ release before the split-away group releases its final Linux distribution. The development has come six months after most of the senior developers of […]
India has more than the usual quantity of water in its mega dams at the end of April, according to statistics released by the Water Resources ministry. The numbers crunched by the ministry shows that at the end of April, the average water level of 81 of India’s biggest dams is around 60% higher than […]
Info Edge, the company behind Naukri.com and one of the few Indian firms to survive the dotcom bust, has announced a Rs 9 crore investment into group-buying portal mydala.com. The investment is the sixth as part of the Info Edge strategy to invest in internet start-ups. “Online deal sites have now emerged as a platform […]
