New Delhi: Telecom regulator TRAI said it will take tough measures within a few days to curb the menace of unsolicited communications.
"In the next few days, tough measures will be taken," TRAI Chairman Rahul Khullar told PTI after meeting top industry officials here on the issue. He said stringent action will also be taken against unregistered telemarketers.
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11:08 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi government's 181 helpline for women in distress, which was launched in the wake of the December 16 gangrape, has received over two lakh calls in the last four-and-half months. Officials said most of the calls received by the round-the-clock help line were related to stalking, eve-teasing, obscene calls and facing sexual abuse and domestic harassment. The helpline was launched on December 31, 2012 to help women...
02:35 AM, May 17, 2013
Mumbai: Shuttlers will be allowed two challenges when badminton uses technology to rule on contentious decisions for the first time at next month's Indonesia Open, the governing body of the sport said. The system, featuring ultra-slow motion cameras, will allow players to review line calls and umpire overrules, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) said in a statement. "Challenges must be made immediately after the shuttle has landed and the call...
02:33 PM, May 07, 2013
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy on Monday warned of initiating action against those making fake calls to the recently launched 'Dial 100 system', an emergency response number. Of the 50,000 calls made to the 'Dial 100 system', about 20,000 have turned out to be fake, Reddy told reporters in Hyderabad adding, "...So far, it is due to ignorance. Henceforth, we will have to come down...
01:37 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Kuala Lumpur: Badminton is set to follow tennis and football by introducing technology to review disputed line-calls, officials said on Wednesday in an attempt to ease one of the sport's major flash-points. A test set-up will be used at next month's Sudirman Cup in Malaysia before the new system goes live at the Indonesian Open in September, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) said in a statement. "What we are doing...
06:30 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Kanpur: At least 16 persons, including a teenage boy, have been arrested, for allegedly making crank calls to police control room meant for emergency response for locals. According to SSP Yashashvi Yadav, control room was receiving various fraud calls from quite some time from pranksters, who were giving false information about accidents and fire incidents and some even demanded that officials sing a song for them. "Following these repeated calls...
03:45 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Just four phone calls are enough to reveal your personal information, MIT researchers have warned. A new study led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that data derived from mobile phone networks, using just the location of radio masts, could identify the about a vast majority of people from just four pieces of information. ...
03:30 PM, Mar 26, 2013
The CBI has registered a case against Bharti Airtel and Tata Communications Ltd for allegedly violating norms set down by the telecom department. The CBI claims it found that the companies had an arrangement with Singapore Telecom for international call facilities. ...
11:32 PM, Feb 24, 2013
Taking strong exception to certain private FM radio stations making unsolicited calls to people and invading their privacy, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has asked these operators to refrain from such pranks. ...
09:18 PM, Feb 12, 2013
They were happily married until one day his wife left him and flew to Mumbai and to harass her, this 33-year-old man started making prank calls to police claiming the woman was an associate of the now hanged terrorist Afzal Guru. ...
05:32 AM, Feb 12, 2013
Bharti Airtel, India's top mobile phone carrier, said it has raised voice call prices to account for rising costs, sending shares of telecommunication companies higher as investors bet that rivals will follow the market leader. Idea Cellular, country's No 3 carrier by revenue and No 4 by customers, also said on Wednesday it had effectively raised voice call prices in some parts of the country after withdrawing promotional offers. It...
07:03 PM, Jan 23, 2013
The Mumbai police on Saturday arrested a 19-year old youth who used to make hoax calls to airline companies seeking release of the now executed 26/11 Mumbai terror attack convict Mohammed Ajmal Kasab. ...
01:52 AM, Jan 20, 2013
Pooja Bhatt has been receiving obscene and threatening calls from an unidentified man. ...
04:01 PM, Jan 09, 2013
Jacintha Saldanha, a 46-year-old nurse of Indian origin in the UK, reportedly committed suicide after falling victim to a prank by Australian radio jockeys Mel Greig and Michael Christian of 2Day FM. Greig and Christian impersonated the Queen and the Prince of Wales to extract information about the health of the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton. Should the media shut out such hoax calls or is it a stray case...
03:08 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Helsinki: Orange, the mobile brand of France Telecom, launched a global free calling and texting application on Thursday, in direct competition with services such as Skype, WhatsApp and Viber. Telecom operators around the globe have suffered as free calling and texting services have proliferated over the past few years. The apps allow users to communicate without using their voice or text allotments, leading some operators like KPN to complain about...
04:50 PM, Nov 22, 2012
New Delhi: After announcing the launch plans for its new BlackBery 10 smartphones, Research In Motion seems to have another treat for BlackBerry users. According to The Verge, RIM will add BBM Voice to BlackBerry Messenger. "BBM 7.0 will move away from just text with the addition of BBM Voice - free Wi-Fi calling between all BlackBerry Messenger users." The open beta starts today and interested users can test it...
03:02 PM, Nov 14, 2012
When I started reading, 'A Monster Calls' by Patrick Ness, I did not imagine that I would be so taken in by the story, that I would be impacted by its plot to this extent, that I would cry at the end of the book or for that matter not stop thinking about it. I rarely cry when I read books but some of them just compel me to because...
02:17 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Mumbai: It was a manic Monday for railway cops. A passenger, who claimed he had overheard two persons scheming about planting bombs on local trains and rail platforms, called up the Government Railway Police (GRP) helpline number. GRP officials say they immediately alerted Railway Protection Force (RPF). CCTV footages were checked from possible locations. We detained two passengers at Thane on the basis of the description provided by the caller,...
03:15 PM, Aug 14, 2012
Mumbai: Tata Docomo, the unified telecom brand of Tata Teleservices, announced a tariff plan at Rs 899 for its postpaid customers with unlimited calls both on the local and national network. "For a fixed monthly rental of Rs 899, a customer can avail of unlimited number of local and national calls on any mobile or fixed-line network across the country. This is for the first time any operator is offering...
10:40 AM, Jul 16, 2012
New Delhi: Former BJP leader Sanjay Joshi on Monday claimed that he was receiving threat calls. He wrote to Home Minister P Chidambaram and the Delhi Police Commissioner, urging them to investigate the matter. Sanjay Joshi quit the BJP last month citing pressure from Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, whom he often criticised. The two BJP leaders apparently did not see eye to eye. Joshi was removed from the BJP...
11:37 AM, Jul 09, 2012
