More than two years after the US and the the Nuclear Supplier’s Group and years after Indian firms inked deals with French and Russian firms, the US has finally sent a delegation to explore and ink deals with its own firms. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has brought heads and officials from 24 US firms in […]
BSNL’s threat to block calls from private operator networks from reaching its subscribers for their alleged failure to pay dues may lead to a tit-for-tat response from the private operators as well. Reacting to the threat by BSNL to block calls from several leading cellular operators to its network, the Cellular Operators Association of India […]
India lobbied the US against imposing sanctions on Iran for trying to develop nuclear weapons, considered a US suggestion to put troops on the ground in Afghanistan and was concerned about Bangaldesh and the Gulf emerging as new terrorist routes into India, according to Wikileaks documents. The revelations have come in the latest batch of […]
Price rise continued to be high during the third week of January, according to numbers released by the Commerce Ministry on Thursday. The highest price increase was, expectedly, in Onions. Prices were more than double that of the same week a year ago, resulting in a whopping whole-sale price increase of 130% for the vegetable. […]
Wipro posted IT Services revenues of $1.344 billion, a sequential increase of 5.6% and year on year increase of 19.3%. It is slightly lower than those of TCS and HCL Technologies, both of which grew dollar revenues in the 7-8% range. Infosys had grown by around 3% only. In Rupee terms, revenue was Rs 5,949 […]
All three finalists in the National Geographic Bee Championship, one of the most prestigious academic competitions in the world, turned out to be of Indian origin. Rahul Nagvekar beat Vansh Jain of Wisconsin and Varun Mahadevan of California in the finals held on Thursday in Washington. The finals saw US President Barack Obama ask a […]
HP, arguably the World’s largest IT company, has opened two out of the four new IT outsourcing facilities it plans to add in India this year. The two facilities, part of its plan to make India one of its six global hubs for services, will provide Infrastructure (technology) Outsourcing services for HP’s global clientbase, it […]
A year into its African Safari, India’s largest telecom operator Bharti Airtel has won a license to operate 2G and 3G services in Rwanda. Together with the 16 countries inherited from Zain, Airtel will not be present in 17 countries in Africa. Rwanda, located in in central and eastern Africa, has a population of approximately […]
Motorola, on a comeback trail, has launched the Motorola Fire, a 3G Android touch-cum-qwerty phone that can only be described as disruptive technology at an irrestible price. There are, of course cheap Android phones etc., but usually they come from a new or unheard of brand and extract a price in terms of quality, design […]
Not everything contained in the US diplomatic cables leaked by Wikileaks is news. However, many cables are interesting not because they reveal new information about their subjects, but they give a clue about what interests the American government, what it keeps tabs on and how it views developments. The American government has great interest in […]
The unexpected arrest of the former minister and two officials in the 2G scam has caught many by surprise, but for the original 2G scam petitioners in the Supreme Court, the move smacks of political maneuvering under increasing legal, political and public pressure. “I don’t know how serious the investigation is,” said Prashant Bhushan, counsel […]
After Idea slashed its 3G rates, it is the turn of Reliance Communications. The firm has tripled its allowance for 3G data plans of upto Rs 408. However, unlike Idea’s offer, RCom’s 3G offer is only valid till end of October (next month.) Also, unlike Idea, Reliance Communications is not offering cheap rates across all […]
Departing from the noncommittal statements of his predecessor Sharad Pawar, the new food minister KV Thomas has squarely blamed traders and intermediaries for the recent spike in onion and vegetable prices. Thomas, discussing the matter for the first time after taking over as independent minister of state for food, public distribution and consumer affairs, said […]
Lee Kwan-Yew, the World’s longest serving prime minister and the architect of modern Singapore, sees India’s rise as a welcome development, but felt the Indians were a sensitive lot who had to be handled carefully. Lee also expressed his worries about Malaysia, which he called a “divided society” thanks to race politics, according to a […]
Following a telecom ministry directive, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has urged the government to determine the price of extra 2G spectrum through auction if it also cancels licenses of those who have not started operations. In case the government does not cancel licenses of new operators, TRAI suggested fall-back prices that would […]
Model and upcoming actress Arshi Khan was selected and crowned Miss Maharashtra Global Tourism on Saturday 15th February 2014, as part of the ongoing Miss Maharashtra King & Queen 2014 Pageant. She will represent the State of Maharashtra at the Global Tourism event and conference – Miss Global Tourism 2014, to be held in April. […]
India’s largest consumer of diesel generators and its larges tower firm Indus Towers is considering replacing diesel generators with solar panels. The company, jointly owned by mobile operators Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar and Idea Cellular, buys up nearly 35% of all diesel generators made in India. “The initial program will cover 2,500 towers,” said BS […]
The one-month investigation report on the internal goings on in the Department of Telecom during the “2G scam” has implicated many of the top officials in the department during the last five years. The government, which officially received the report from the former Supreme Court judge Shivaraj Patil on Monday, however kept mum on the […]
Alarmed by the increasing number of large projects falling foul of an ‘activist’ environment ministry, the largest industry forum in the country took its gripes right to the doors of the environment minister Jairam Ramesh. However, after holding closed-door discussions with top industry heads from the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), however, said laws are […]
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 93.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2010, a 3.1 percent increase from the fourth quarter of 2009, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. These figures were below Gartner’s earlier forecast of 4.8 percent growth for the fourth quarter of 2010. “Overall, holiday PC sales were weak in many […]
