Patna: Vijay Kumar was severely beaten up and later died late on Thursday at Seura village in the Shahpur Patori area of Samastipur, about 100 km from state capital Patna, by owner of the orchard Ramvilas Rai and his son Sadhua Rai, according to police. "My son's only crime was that he plucked a few mangoes from the orchard for which the father-son duo beat him to death," the boy's...
09:44 AM, May 26, 2012
Badaun: Two members of a family were killed and two others injured in a clash over plucking of mangoes in Nagariya Hardaspur village near Badaun in Uttar Pradesh, police said. SSP Ratan Kumar Srivastava said that following a tiff over plucking of mangoes by children, rival groups got entangled in a major brawl in which one faction used their licenced firearms. Omkar (50) and his son Ramvir (19) succumbed to...
01:16 PM, May 11, 2012
BANGALORE: It is this time of the year, when we eagerly wait for the arrival of the King of the fruits. Juicy and succulent, Indian mangoes are arguably one of the best tropical fruits found anywhere in the world. In fact, mangoes account for approximately half of all tropical fruits produced worldwide. However, with the delayed arrival and steep prices of some of the Southern varieties in India, consumers are...
08:45 AM, May 02, 2012
Lucknow: The famous 'dussheri' belt of Uttar Pradesh has a new offering this summer - 'Akhilesh aam', a new variety of mango named after the state's youngest Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. Grafting expert and Padamshree horticulturist Haji Kaleemullah Khan, who had earlier launched mangoes in the name of cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, Bollywood actress Aishwarya and Congress President Sonia Gandhi, has come up with 'Akhilesh aam' this season. Khan said he...
01:56 PM, Apr 30, 2012
HYDERABAD: The King of Fruits tryst with Hyderabad is set to continue into the second year running, with the statewide Mango Mela, organised by the Deparment of Horticulture in association with the Economic Committe of Exhibition Society, to be held here at the Nampally exhibition grounds from April 14 to May 13.And while the first edition last year was all about creating improved market access for the mango farmers in...
10:04 AM, Apr 11, 2012
Summer is almost upon us. And that means only one thing: Mangoes! The early alphonsos hit the streets of Mumbai mid-February and in Gujarat in the last week of February. This year, because of the extended winter, the harvest has been delayed; expect the fruit to be available freely starting April"a good two-week delay. Down South, matters are not much better with Cyclone Thane playing its part. On the whole,...
11:09 AM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: The embattled Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia announced the release of its first Windows Phone powered devices - Nokia Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 - in India on Monday. Nokia has not yet announced any prices for the devices in India but revealed that they will be available in the Indian market by mid-December. The Nokia Lumia 800 looks very similar to its N9 handset. It features a...
12:50 PM, Nov 14, 2011
New Delhi: Struggling Finnish handset giant Nokia is expected to unveil its first Windows Phone handsets this week. The three new phones are the Nokia 800, the Sabre and the Ace. Nokia could unveil the new devices at its annual Nokia World trade show in London this week. According to reports, these new handsets from Nokia will go on sale from November. Nokia 800 is said to have an 8...
01:07 PM, Oct 24, 2011
Hong Kong: Microsoft Corp, which has been trailing Apple Inc and Google Inc in the fast-growing smartphone market, will launch Mango-powered handsets from top makers including Nokia and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd in coming weeks, a senior executive said on Thursday. "As the price comes down, emerging markets do become a huge opportunity, but also the existing markets in western Europe and the US, because as the price point comes...
09:58 AM, Oct 20, 2011
On this episode we talk about the recent BlackBerry outage and review the new phone from Windows, The Windows Phone 7.5 version or Mango. ...
04:22 PM, Oct 15, 2011
New Delhi: Microsoft has launched its new Windows Phone operating system (OS) - codenamed 'Mango' - in India. The new OS has the rich and dynamic user interface - 'Metro' - of Live Tiles and Hubs that enables users to quickly find, connect and consume the content that they care about the most. In this OS, the conventional application icons have been replaced by Live Tiles on the Windows Phone...
05:09 PM, Oct 12, 2011
New Delhi: HTC unveiled its first Windows Phone OS 7.5 (codenamed 'Mango') powered smartphone the HTC Radar in the Indian mobile market on Tuesday. Powered by a 1GHz processor, the phone has an internal storage space of 8GB and has 512MB of RAM. Priced at Rs 25,490, the phone has a 3.8-inch touchscreen with 480x800 resolution. It sports a 5 megapixel rear camera with f/2.2 aperture lens and a front...
03:21 PM, Oct 12, 2011
London: Actor Hugh Jackman, who has played the mutant character in the X-Men franchise, confirms its sequel The Wolverine will go on floors this October. "We shoot in October, so it will probably come out in a year after that. That's usually around the timeline," contactmusic.com quoted him as saying. According to reports, Christopher McQuarrie has written the script while James Mangold of the fame Knight & Day is likely...
01:33 PM, Jul 01, 2011
Kovalam: It's not always easy to do so, but Pakistani journalist-writer Mohammed Hanif of A Case of Exploding Mangoes fame has turned his mind off the grim truths confronting his country with a love story that touches on terror and trauma. An extract from Hanif's new novel, Butt and Bhatti was published in the Pakistan Granta 112, a special issue of the magazine devoted to the country. The roller-coaster tale...
03:55 PM, Oct 06, 2010
Around 100 tonnes of mangoes from Malda will be sold at several food courts in South Africa during World Cup. ...
09:36 AM, Jun 12, 2010
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