Vodafone Essar’s customers have turned out to be the most satisfied with their operator’s network in Mumbai, according to a TRAI survey released today. It found network satisfaction rate at 96% for Vodafone Mumbai, the highest in the city. Vodafone was followed in customer satisfaction by Idea (95%), Aircel (94%) and Airtel (93%). By call […]
Former BJP telecom minister Arun Shourie has countered telecom minister Kapil Sibal’s contention that NDA’s policies resulted in the Tata group “enjoyed the precious government land [with VSNL] without paying a single rupee” for the last nine years. Shourie pointed out that Congress was in power for seven out of the nine years and it […]
After dropping to an alarminng 1,411 adults in 2006, Indian tigers are back with a bang at 1,636, according to the 2010 ‘tiger census’ released today. Including Sunderbans, which was not counted in 2006, it is at 1706 adults. The census is the second ‘scientific’ or double counted census of tigers in India. The first […]
Google street views — which allows users to ‘go down into the street’ when using Google Maps or Google Earth — seems to be on its way to India, according to a sighting of what seems like the ‘Google Car’ on the streets of New Delhi. RTN found a Mahindra Bolero with a five-faced camera […]
The US embassy, which had generally proven itself a capable and astute observer of Indian politics, proved just how disconnected the embassy officials were in their assessment of Narendra Modi. In cables sent immediately after the US refused visa to the Gujarat Chief minister in 2005, the embassy is shown to be in touch with […]
Jairam Ramesh, the flamboyant environment minister is used to hearing others praise him for rejuvenating the environmentalist movement in the country. Sharp and witty, he’s also almost impossible to beat when it comes to repartees and retorts; until on Monday. Ramesh, who introduced Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwali and Water Resources minister Salman […]
The Department of Telecom has sought a review of the Wimax franchisee agreements inked by BSNL with private companies. It has sent a letter to the BSNL board earlier this month, a DoT official said on the sidelines of the EliteX 2011 event in New Delhi. He said the company has been given a month […]
Jairam Ramesh, minister for environment and forests, has asked Delhi and Haryana to stop passng the buck on taking responsibility for cleaning up the Yamuna. The Yamuna has already seen thousands of crores of rupees being spent in “attempts to clean up,” but remains as polluted as before. Most of the money, critics say, has […]
India will spend Rs 200 crore over the next five years to study the impact of aerosols, particularly black carbon or soot, on climate change. It will include increasing the number of observing stations from 36 to at least 60. India already has a head start in the study of the impact of black carbon […]
India, which cannot manufacture even a single electronic chip, has one of the world’s largest chip-related industry, according to the latest study by the Indian Semiconductor Association. The chip-related industry is worth around $7.5 billion and will reach $10.2 billion in two years, said the Association in the first of its kind estimate of India’s […]
Snapdeal.com has launched a same day delivery service which will allow consumers to get products ordered from Snapdeal to be delivered on the same day. All orders booked by or before 1PM will be attempted to be delivered on same day, Snapdeal said. The move comes a month after Amazon India announced a next-day-delivery scheme […]
The bail plea of Prabhat Sharma, the Tata Steel official who has been booked for abetment to suicide, will come up for hearing in the Vasai sessions court on the outskirts of Mumbai tomorrow. The case was filed after Charu Deshpande, an ex-journalist who joined Tata Steel, committed suicide. It has been alleged that he […]
Vodafone Essar continues to hold on to its lead in the Mobile Number Portability statistics, according to the latest data shared by the Cellular Operators’ Association (COAI), the GSM interest group. Vodafone, which has been leading the list of ‘net gainers’ — operators who have seen more people join them than leave them — continued […]
Shopyourworld.com, a website that sells imported items in India, has become the first to launch Google’s Motorola Moto G smartphone in India, marking the return of the brand after a long hiatus. Motorola was once the number two mobile brand in India, ahead of Samsung and LG, and behind Nokia. However, the company, which was […]
Infosys Ltd reported an impressive set of numbers of Friday, sending not just its own stock, but also those of other IT companies such as Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, HCL Technologies Ltd, Wipro Ltd also up by 1-2%. But a closer look reveals that Infosys’ performance does not hold very bullish outlook for the rest […]
Warning against ‘agents of the Congress and the BJP’, the Aam Aadmi Party has called upon social activist Anna Hazare to give up his fast and join the electoral movement. “While expressing our full support for the cause for which Anna is fasting, we call upon him to give up his fast and join the […]
Bharti Airtel Ltd said it has raised a further 250 million euros (Rs 2,100 cr) by reopening an earlier bond issue, preparing itself for the upcoming spectrum auction. Airtel has already raised 750 mln euros from the bond issue in December. Bharti is expected to bid aggressively for spectrum in the coming auction, and has […]
While housing prices in some markets in the country may see a correction, overall, property prices are not in a bubble situation, Keki Mistry, CEO of the Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) of India said. Mistry, leading one of India’s biggest housing loans provider, did not seem overly worried about the possibility of a correction […]
Loop Mobile has chosen the unexpected option of not participating in the upcoming spectrum auction, even though its spectrum and license will expire in November. That means the company is taking a big risk as the mobile operations were valued at about $0.8-1.0 billion in 2005 when it changed hands from long-time promoter BPL’s TPG […]
There seems to be no respite in the offing for India’s real estate sector at least during the first half of the calendar year 2014, believe majority of players in the realty sector, highlighted the ASSOCHAM survey. ASSOCHAM survey covered about 1,000 developers, real estate brokers and agents, property consultants and senior officials of various […]
