New Delhi: Just a few days after Samsung launched their long awaited smartphone, the Galaxy S III, they've gone ahead and released the source for the Android 4.0 OS being used on the device. The phone comes pre-installed with ICS but it's not one of the first smartphones to have it. However, the fact that developers can download the source code and modify it to their liking is an interesting...
08:32 AM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: A move is afoot in the government to make corruption in private sector a penal offence with imprisonment up to seven years for the offenders. The government has proposed to make bribery in private sector - both giving and accepting it - a criminal offence by amending the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The draft Indian Penal Code (Amendments) Bill, 2011, circulated to States and Union Territories by the...
12:52 PM, May 27, 2012
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev The Man: The founder of Isha Foundation loves his motorbikes, is as comfortable in jeans as in yogic garbs, and competes with businessmen on the golf course. His methods for self transformation are drawn from tradition. A regular speaker at the annual World Economic Forum at Davos. He says that businesses need to be governed by a simple set of rules where everyone knows what can be...
11:29 AM, May 24, 2012
Dumka: Jharkhand Deputy Chief Minister Hemant Soren was on Monday granted bail after he surrendered before a local court in connection with a model code of conduct case. Soren surrendered before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Balmukund Rai and moved for bail, which was granted immediately. The case pertained to a model code of conduct case slapped against him under the Representation of People's Act during the 2009 Assembly...
03:02 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday got relief in a case of alleged violation of election code by a court in New Delhi which said there was not enough evidence to proceed against her, after which the police withdrew the complaint. Metropolitan Magistrate Vijeta Singh declared as "dismissed and withdrawn" the complaint in which the Chief Minister was accused of violating the model code of conduct in...
02:02 AM, May 10, 2012
Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda suffered injuries after the helicopter he was travelling in crashed. ...
09:58 PM, May 09, 2012
Chandigarh: The Haryana Government on Wednesday defended its dress code orders issued recently by the Women and Child Development Department that asked its employees to wear "decent" clothes at work. The order issued on April 18 by the Department's Superintendent on behalf of the then Director Renu Phulia with regard to wearing of "decent clothes in the office" said, it has been observed that some officials (both males and female)...
06:50 PM, May 09, 2012
Chandigarh: The Haryana Women and Child Department has issued a dress code for its women employees, according to which, they would not be allowed to wear jeans and t-shirts to work. According to the new dress code, the women employees can only wear salwar kameez and sarees to work. Jeans and t-shirts have been branded as 'indecent clothing' by the Haryana Women and Child Department and decent clothes include only...
09:08 AM, May 09, 2012
Panaji: The state Election Commission has issued a notice to Manohar Parrikar-led government for violating model code of conduct, imposed due to the impending June 2 Cortalim by-poll. Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar had recently announced that the state will not go ahead with the proposed marina project in Sancoale village, which lies in Cortalim Assembly constituency. State cabinet had also announced regularisation of workers employed for eradicating malaria. Goa's joint...
11:29 PM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: Controversies over land acquisition and labour unrest involving big businesses have prompted the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to come up with a "code of ethics" for corporates. A draft report in this respect has been submitted to the NHRC by New Delhi-based Institute of Corporate Sustainability Management (ICSM) Trust and has been perused by the Commission. NHRC had commissioned a study - 'Developing Code of Ethics for...
11:50 AM, Apr 29, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court will on Thursday decide on a plea filed by the Delhi Police to withdraw a poll code violation case of 2008 against Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Metropolitan Magistrate Vijeta Singh had reserved the order on April 9 saying she was 'prima facie' satisfied that the plea for withdrawal of the case was maintainable and could be heard upon. The court had also reserved its...
06:43 AM, Apr 19, 2012
Singapore: Non-Resident Indian (NRI) industrialists in Singapore have expressed apprehensions about the proposed Direct Tax Code (DTC), which may tax their properties and foreign currency deposits in India. "Such new taxes will discourage NRI's participation in the Indian economy," said R Narayanamohan, chairman, Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI) after addressing a seminar on India's Union Budget 2012-2013 in Singapore. Though the new tax code awaits legislative approvals...
04:03 PM, Mar 23, 2012
San Francisco: Microsoft's process for sharing information about security vulnerabilities in its products came under fire Friday after a roadmap for exploiting a severe, recently discovered flaw appeared on a hacking website in China. The guideline, known as "proof-of-concept" code, most likely leaked from one the more than 70 security companies that get advance warnings from the company about major new holes, according to the researcher who found the flaw....
12:03 PM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: Ahead of the Budget, a key Parliamentary panel scrutinising the Direct Taxes Code (DTC) is likely to recommend raising of income tax exemption limit to Rs 3 lakh and tax breaks on investments to Rs 2.5 lakh. "There is a consensus among the members that annual tax exemption limit be raised to Rs 3 lakh," sources said after the meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance chaired...
04:56 PM, Feb 24, 2012
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