It's been the year of Bengali filmmakers it seems. Apart from Anurag Basu's 'Barfi' being named as India's official entry to the Oscars, filmmakers Sujoy Ghosh and Shoojit Sircar too have managed to set the box office ringing with their films that have a Bengali touch. ...
11:40 PM, Oct 04, 2012
Stockholm: Hackers have struck at least two Swedish government-affiliated websites, shutting down one of them in a denial-of-service attack and leaving links to profane messages on the other. The attacks come just days after police on Monday raided a Stockholm-based webhosting company, PRQ, and a video was posted on YouTube - allegedly made on behalf of the hacker group Anonymous - warning Swedish authorities of repercussions. Police spokesman Anders Ahlqvist...
10:18 AM, Oct 04, 2012
Washington: The White House's computer system was targeted in a cyber attack, a senior administration official said on Monday, but no classified systems were breached. There is no evidence that data was taken in the incident, the official said, adding that the attack was identified early and did not spread. The attack was described as "spear phishing," the term for an attempted penetration using fake emails from a trusted sender,...
07:02 AM, Oct 02, 2012
Islamabad: Five prosecution witnesses on Saturday testified before a Pakistani anti-terrorism judge about the training of the terrorists who carried out the November 2008 assault on India's financial hub of Mumbai, official sources said. The witnesses, including intelligence operatives and officials of the Federal Investigation Agency, appeared before Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman of the Rawalpindi-based anti-terrorism court and recorded their statements during proceedings held behind closed doors at Adiala Jail. Sources...
04:53 PM, Sep 29, 2012
Sivakasi: In yet another case of fire in the cracker-making hub of Sivakasi, at least three people died on Friday. The fire broke out on Friday morning in a house resulting in the tragedy. Even though the fire was put out quickly, three people had already died. Earlier, on September 5 as many as 39 persons were killed and 49 injured when fire broke out in a private cracker factory...
12:03 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Mumbai: Sales representatives for Abbott Laboratories Inc's Indian subsidiaries know what it takes get a doctor to prescribe the drugs they market: a coffee maker, perhaps, or some cookware, or maybe a vacuum cleaner. These are among the many gifts for doctors listed in an Abbott sales-strategy guide for the second quarter of 2011, a copy of which was reviewed by Reuters. As laid out explicitly in the guide, doctors...
06:29 PM, Sep 26, 2012
New Delhi: Samsung Android smartphone users are advised to be extra cautious while clicking any links. Security experts have found Samsung smartphones vulnerable to remote attacks, allowing hackers to remotely wipe out all data. The Internet is abuzz with reports, which claim that a single line of code can wipe all data on certain Samsung smartphones running Google's Android OS. According to CNET, apart from the Galaxy S III, "the...
02:36 PM, Sep 26, 2012
New Delhi: The country's largest car maker, Maruti Suzuki India, on Tuesday reached a wage settlement agreement with its workers at its Gurgaon plant, under which the employees will get an average salary hike of Rs 18,000 per month spread over three years. Under the three-year agreement, to be implemented with retrospective effect from April 2012, the workers will receive 80 per cent of the increased salary in the first...
08:05 PM, Sep 25, 2012
Virudhunagar: As many as 233 firecracker units in Virudhunagar district were being issued show-cause notice by the district administration for violations. Also, the licenses of 48 units were suspended so far, said R Raju, District Revenue Officer of Virudhunagar. In the wake of the fire tragedy at a cracker unit in Mudalippatti village near Virudhunagar that claimed 39 lives, the State Government intensified inspections of cracker factories located in the...
12:33 PM, Sep 25, 2012
London: In a security breach, three Indian diplomatic bags containing 6,000 visa stickers have been stolen in London during transit from the airport to the Indian High Commission. The High Commission was informed on September 3 that four Category 'B' diplomatic bags, including three bags that contained 6,000 visa stickers, had been stolen during transit from the Heathrow airport to India House in Aldwych, central London. The fourth stolen bag...
04:50 AM, Sep 22, 2012
Chennai: The IT and ITES sector in Chennai, which remained unaffected by the Bharat Bandh on Thursday, was likely to take a hit in the next few days due to the ongoing strike by private water tankers association, said a highly placed source from the sector. The strike began on Monday night after revenue officials seized five water tankers on charges of operating without valid papers. A P Narayanaswamy, secretary,...
01:51 PM, Sep 21, 2012
Bangalore: The Indian Air Force (IAF) will soon open bids for heavy-lift helicopters and flight fueling tankers and finalise bids for 22 Apache attack choppers, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne said on Thursday. "We are going to very shortly open bids for 15 heavy-lift helicopters and six flight fueling tankers. We are also negotiating for the Apache 22 attack choppers, as the bids have already been opened," Browne...
01:10 AM, Sep 21, 2012
New Delhi: Actor R Madhavan has finally realised that he needs to lose weight to save his lover boy image. He looked almost double the size of Bipasha Basu in his last release 'Jodi Breakers'. The actor lately posted pictures of his new look on Twitter. ...
02:48 PM, Sep 20, 2012
London: At the King Ecgbert School in Sheffield, teens who go to the loo are never really alone, video cameras are inside all 12 bathrooms. Citing findings gathered via freedom-of-information requests, privacy activists on Wednesday identified King Ecgbert as one of more than 200 high schools across Britain that have installed surveillance cameras in bathrooms or locker rooms. The group behind the report, Big Brother Watch, said a powerful watchdog...
04:24 AM, Sep 13, 2012
New York: GoDaddy, one of the world's biggest Internet hosting companies and website registration companies, blamed technical problems for a nearly six-hour service disruption that affected some of its more than 10 million customers on Monday. Sporadic outages throughout the day were caused by "a series of internal network events" that corrupted data in the company's networking equipment, interim Chief Executive Scott Wagner said in a statement. Go Daddy spokeswoman...
11:06 AM, Sep 12, 2012
New Delhi: India has approved eight foreign investments in drugmakers worth $333 million in total, signalling the finance ministry may be winning a battle to open up the country's fast-growing markets and giving a boost to global drugmakers hungry for growth. As a condition of its approval, however, the government said the foreign companies including US-based Pfizer and Germany's B-Braun would have to continue producing cheap drugs and maintain spending...
03:20 AM, Sep 12, 2012
Florida: A Florida company said on Monday that its files - not an FBI agent's laptop - were hacked by a renegade group that released Apple product identification data it claimed to have obtained through a breach of the nation's top law enforcement agency. "We want to apologize, announce what happened and set the record straight," said Paul DeHart, chief executive officer of software company BlueToad Inc, told Reuters. FBI...
10:54 AM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: Housewives may soon start getting monthly salaries from their husbands with the government mulling a proposal which would make it mandatory for men to share a certain percentage of their income with their wives who stay back and do household chores. The proposal is being considered by Women and Child Development (WCD) ministry for socio-economic empowerment of homemakers. "We have got a survey conducted on this theme and...
05:57 PM, Sep 09, 2012
Sivakasi: Images of the recent accident in Sivakasi are still fresh. But locals here seem to have resigned themselves to a fate of playing with fire. Rajeshwari lost here husband and son in a similar accident three years ago. Her elder son still works at one of the fireworks factories and has no choice. Rajeshwari says, "It's a necessity to do the job. He didn't know anything else but this....
09:10 PM, Sep 07, 2012
New Delhi: Bipasha Basu does not mind being known for her sexy looks and seductive husky voice but the actress says she is done being just an eye candy and wants to do meatier roles. The 33-year-old said that from now on she wants to star in films which will earn her the respect as an actor. "I know I look good. The regular adjectives that come my way- sexy,...
03:27 PM, Sep 06, 2012
