India's national animal the tiger glares at you from Google India's home page on India's 64th Republic Day. ...
12:17 AM, Jan 26, 2013
New Delhi: The doodle on the Google India home page on Children's Day has been created by Arun Kumar Yadav, a class 9 Kendriya Vidyalaya student from Chandigarh. Arun was selected as the winner from amongst 13 finalists chosen from over two lakh entries from more than 1000 schools across 60 cities in India. The Doodle 4 Google winning entry featured on the Google India home page on November 14...
06:22 AM, Nov 14, 2012
New Delhi: Google India has announced Arun Kumar Yadav, a class 9 student of Kendriya Vidyalaya from Chandigarh, as the winner of the Doodle4Google 2012 competition. The winning Doodle titled 'India - A Prism if Multiplicity' will go live on the Google (India) homepage on November 14, National Children's Day. The Doodle will also be featured on a special colour pack and drawing book by Classmate. All the finalists will...
05:22 PM, Nov 12, 2012
Lucknow: An Uttar Pradesh IAS officer, Shashi Bhushan Lal Susheel has been arrested for allegedly harassing a Google India executive. A case has been registered against him in Lucknow. He will be produced in court on Monday. The IAS officer has been arrested under bailable offence. The incident happened on the Lucknow Mail on Sunday night. The Google executive was travelling with her mother-in-law on the train. However, the IAS...
12:37 PM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: Google India has blocked access to an anti-Islam film that has triggered violence in many countries and led to the killing of the US ambassador in Libya, the government said on Sunday. Strongly condemning all acts that disparage religious beliefs and sentiments, official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs Syed Akbaruddin said India was in touch with US authorities on the issue. "The Ministry of External Affairs...
08:09 PM, Sep 16, 2012
New Delhi: Google has often been ranked as one of the best places to work. This reputation has been earned largely due to amenities offered to employees, such as laundry, dry cleaning and automotive services, swimming spas, gourmet meals, on-site massage and free on-site doctors. Now we can also add post-death benefits to the list. In an interview with Forbes, Google's Chief People Officer Laszlo Bock said that the Internet...
03:20 PM, Aug 10, 2012
New Delhi: The objectionable content case against Facebook, Google and 17 other social networking sites comes up at a Delhi court on Friday. The Department of Telecommunication is expected to submit an Action Taken Report. In the previous hearing the judge had rapped the petitioner for not listing the company names of the offending websites properly. Vinay Rai had filed a criminal complaint against 21 websites alleging that the posts...
07:41 AM, Jun 08, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court, hearing a civil case against various social networking sites for allegedly displaying objectionable content, on Thursday slapped a fine of Rs 200 on a petitioner for seeking an urgent review of its order which dropped the names of Google India and others from the suit. Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh slapped the fine on petitioner Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi for making the plea without any...
09:35 PM, Apr 19, 2012
New Delhi: The Google India's name was on Friday taken out from the suit for trial of various social networking websites for allegedly hosting offending contents, after it was pointed out to a Delhi court that it is merely a software developing firm. Administrative Civil Judge Praveen Singh dropped the case against Google India agreeing with its plea that it does not operate any social networking website. The court also...
11:50 AM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has issued a foreign exchange violation notice to internet giant Google for alleged irregularities in transfer of funds to its foreign entities. The Directorate has asked the Indian arm of the company to explain to it all the permissions the company has obtained from RBI in this regard and its source of income in the country along with I-T returns filed earlier. "We have an...
05:42 PM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: Facebook and Google, which are facing a lawsuit in India for allegedly hosting offensive content, are fighting back a case that has fired up a debate over Internet censorship in democratic India. And is there a balance that can be struck between the freedom of speech and controlling objectionable content. Petitioner Vinay Rai who filed a criminal complaint in Delhi's Patiala court against twenty networking sites, including Facebook,...
10:11 PM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: Google India, which along with 20 websites is facing criminal case for allegedly hosting objectionable materials, on Monday told the Delhi High Court that blocking them was not an option as a democratic India does not have a "totalitarian" regime like China. "The issue relates to a constitutional issue of freedom of speech and expression and suppressing it was not possible as the right to freedom of speech...
07:51 PM, Jan 16, 2012
New Delhi: A hundred and fifty five thousand Indian kids tried drawing a logo or doodle for Google this year. The theme set by Google was 'India's gift to the world'. The drawings were screened by the JJ School of Art in Mumbai and finally put up for voting online. Artists who draw doodles for Google professionally were also called in to judge the logos made by the children. Google...
07:44 AM, Nov 10, 2011
New Delhi: Varsha Gupta, a Class III student from Ryan International School, Greater Noida, was chosen as the winner of this year's Doodle4Google competition organised by Google. Varsha's winning doodle, titled 'Indian Musical Instruments' will appear on the Google India homepage on Children's Day - 14th November 2011. Explaining her doodle, Varsha writes, "India is a land of different cultures. In India, music plays a very important role. India has...
05:50 PM, Nov 09, 2011
New Delhi: Google India on Wednesday announced the launch of a countrywide initiative to help small and medium businesses (SMBs) in India to go online with a free website. The Google-led 'India Get Your Business Online' initiative offers a free .in domain name and hosting for the first year along with free custom email addresses and 365-day support. Google's aim is to break down barriers that stop small businesses from...
12:34 PM, Nov 02, 2011
New Delhi: Internet giant Google's long awaited and very ambitious project Streetview is ready to map and explore everything on Indian streets with its new application Google Streetview. This software will show you everything from a high rise to a small restaurant. Google Streetview unlike Google earth allows you a 360 degree view of your favourite street. The sophisticated cameras mounted on this vehicle continuously takes photos of a particular...
07:34 AM, Jun 02, 2011
New Delhi: Internet giant Google's long awaited and very ambitious project Streetview is ready to map and explore everything on Indian streets with its new application Google Streetview. This software will show you everything from a high rise to a small restaurant. Google Streetview unlike Google earth allows you a 360 degree view of your favourite street. The sophisticated cameras mounted on this vehicle continuously takes photos of a particular...
07:34 AM, Jun 02, 2011
The search engine giant has unveiled its tool for searching information about products and shopping online. ...
06:11 PM, Mar 30, 2010
