Jaipur: As many as 27 passengers received burn injuries after a packet of firecrackers caught fire in a moving bus in Rajasthan's Sawaimadhopur district. The private bus was on its way to Indergarh town from Sawaimadhopur city last evening when a packet containing firecrackers caught fire in the bus near Ravajana Doonger, injuring 27 people, police said on Wednesday. The injured were evacuated from the bus and rushed to a...
09:59 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: The government has issued close to 45,000 notices to unregistered telemarketers and disconnected nearly 28,000 telephones till April 24 for sending pesky calls and SMSs using private numbers. "The government is aware that several calls and SMSs are being sent from private numbers... 44,810 notices have been issued to unregistered telemarketers and 27,984 telephones have been disconnected till April 24, since inception of the regulation," Telecom Minister Kapil...
03:36 PM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India or TRAI, which is the apex institution in the country to manage telecom services, has made it mandatory for service providers to provide at least one plan in their postpaid and prepaid offerings with "per second" billing. To make this compulsory, TRAI has made amendments in the Telecommunication Tariff Order. "After this amendment it has become mandatory for service providers to offer in...
02:09 PM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: In an embarrassment for BJP president Nitin Gadkari, a CAG report tabled in the Chhattisgarh Assembly says coal blocks were allocated to his key aide Ajay Sancheti at throwaway prices. Accessed by CNN-IBN, the CAG report accuses Raman Singh administration of causing a loss of over 1000 Rs crore by allocating a coal block in 2007 to SMS infrastructure, a company owned by Sancheti himself. The report states...
06:10 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Mumbai: As part of its efforts to reach out to more people, the anti-corruption movement led by Anna Hazare has introduced an SMS card which will provide subscribers with round the year updates about the campaign. "We have procured one crore cards, each priced at Rs 20 and activists of India Against Corruption are distributing them among people," Hazare's associate Datta Awari said from Ralegaon Siddhi. The SMS card will...
02:27 PM, Apr 09, 2012
New Delhi: Over 36,000 subscribers have been issued notices, and services to 22,000 users has been disconnected for violating norms put in place to curb pesky calls and SMSes, telecom regulator TRAI on Thursday said. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had issued 'The Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations, 2010', which came into force from September 27, 2011. Subscribers can register with the National Customer Preference Register (NCPR)...
10:47 PM, Mar 29, 2012
As one of the finest gentlemen of the gentleman's game calls it a day, presenting a few of Rahul Dravid's quotes that define Dravid, the person and the cricketer. - On the game: The joy of bonding together and striving to achieve a goal is what made cricket special for me. - On starting out: I was like every other boy in India, with a dream of playing for my...
02:41 PM, Mar 09, 2012
Update: A day after this IBNLive story criticising the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways' move making vehicle registration details available via SMS, the service has been restricted to registered mobile numbers only. Unauthorised mobile numbers trying to access the service, get a message that says, "Sorry your Mobile no is Not Authorised for this service." But the Web-based search is still available. New Delhi: Saw someone zipping past in...
10:26 PM, Mar 05, 2012
London: A lot of young people in Britain are being expected by their employers to return to the classroom for unlearning the kind of language they use. Bosses say increasing numbers of young recruits are unable to communicate with customers in formal English. Instead they use "text speak" and litter emails with abbreviations and obscure acronyms, the Daily Express reported on Friday. Senior business figures are urging the British government...
07:24 AM, Feb 25, 2012
New Delhi: So you registered your phone number on the National Customer Preference Register (NCPR) but the unwanted commercial calls and SMSes just didn't stop. So here's what you should do. There are a number of apps available for your smartphone to block unwanted communication but they also sometimes end up blocking important communication. Also simply blocking them via an app, will not deter the unscrupulous telemarketers to continue trying...
07:26 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Hyderabad: Film: 'SMS'; Cast: Sudhir Babu, Regina, Vennela Kishor, Chanti, Priyanka, Hemanth and Rohini; Director: Satya Tatineni ; Producer: Vikram Raju; Composer: Selva Ganesh; Camera: Chitti Babu; Rating: *** 'SMS' is a remake of Tamil film 'Shiva Manasulo Sakthi', which was made with new faces and did well at the box office. Satya Tatineni, who made a mark with his debut film 'Bheemili Kabaddi Jattu' (another remake), has helmed the...
07:20 PM, Feb 12, 2012
New Delhi: In a major relief for business houses, telecom sector regulator TRAI today exempted messages generated by and sent to automated technical systems from the 200 SMS per sim cap imposed to curb pesky telemarketers. "TRAI has received representations from the stakeholders that in view of the limit of 200 SMSes per day per SIM, they are not able to send machine-to-machine and person-to-machine SMSes, which are sent by...
02:24 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: Tightening the noose around pesky SMS senders further, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) issued a directive to telecom companies to block international SMSes as per the rules applicable to SMSes originating within the country. "If any source or number from outside the country generates more than two hundred SMSes per hour with a similar 'signature', the same should not be delivered through the network. However, such...
12:53 PM, Jan 21, 2012
San Francisco: Twitter lashed out at changes Google Inc unveiled for its search engine on Tuesday, describing the changes as "bad" for consumers and for Web publishers. Twitter, a microblogging service which allows its users to broadcast short, 140-character messages to groups of "followers," said Google's changes would make it tougher for people to find the breaking news often shared by users of its service. "As we've seen time and...
09:14 AM, Jan 11, 2012
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh government proposes to make sending of an unwanted message on mobile phone a cognizable offence, Director General of Police DS Manhas said in Shimla on Monday. "There is a proposal to amend the police rule under the State Police Act to declare the sending of unwanted messages on the mobile phone a cognizable offence", he told reporters. Manhas pointed out that unless the affected persons lodge the...
09:10 AM, Jan 03, 2012
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