Bangalore: The Congress on Wednesday promised interest-free loans to farmers, free laptops to pre-university students and rice at Re one per kg to BPL card holders if it came to power in Karnataka, where Assembly elections will take place on May five.
Interest-free loans up to Rs two lakh and on three per cent interest up to Rs five lakh, establishing of a Rs 1,500 crore natural calamity relief fund and supply of three-phase quality power for eight hours continuously per day were some of the highlights of farmer-friendly programmes in the manifesto, released by Defence Minister AK Antony.
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03:52 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Bhubaneswar: A teacher was arrested on Tuesday in Odisha's Sambalpur district for molesting an eight-year-old-girl in the school classroom, police said. The 28-year-old offender, an art and crafts teacher in a private school at the district headquarters town of Sambalpur, about 320 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, allegedly gave the students some drawing assignments and started watching an obscene video on his laptop. After finishing her drawing, the girl went...
04:40 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Odisha government on Sunday launched State Youth Policy with provisions of free laptops for students belonging to tribal, dalit and BPL categories besides scholarship provision for ST and SC girls who want to study technical subjects. "To bridge the digital divide all the meritorious students at plus two level will be provided with free laptops. Under this initiative, special focus would also be given to girls and students belonging...
03:58 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Wishtel has launched a convertible tablet laptop named "IRA Capsule". It has a 10.1-inch LED multi-touch capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 1024x786 pixels, and runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. ...
02:09 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Lenovo India has launched the ThinkPad Twist, its new convertible device which can be used as a tablet or a laptop. It offers a quick conversion to a stand or tent mode where the laptop becomes a media presenter, giving a multimedia experience in the boardroom or a coffee shop. ...
06:11 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Nearly a year since the Samajwadi Party came to power in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is fulfilling his promise and has begun distributing laptops to about 10,000 students in Lucknow. ...
05:02 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday launched free laptop scheme for intermediate pass students as promised in the manifesto during assembly elections in 2012. "There is no difference in the words and act of Samajwadi Party. We made efforts to fulfill our promises within a year," Yadav said while launching the scheme at a function here. He said when the project was being prepared, people said it would...
01:29 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Violence broke out on Saturday at the Allahabad University campus with two groups of students hurling crude bombs at each other and indulging in heavy stone-pelting during distribution of forms for a Uttar Pradesh government's scheme for free laptops. ...
05:23 PM, Mar 09, 2013
The prices of the Chromebook Pixel, which Google is building without a partner, start at $1,299. ...
06:43 AM, Feb 22, 2013
They will cost the Uttar Pradesh government a whopping Rs 2,800 crore and their distribution is set to begin, but each of the 1.5 million recipients of the free laptops being given to school-leavers will have no doubt where they came from - what with tamper-proof images of ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav son and and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on their covers. ...
04:25 PM, Feb 20, 2013
Slumping personal computer maker Dell is bowing out of the stock market in a $24.4 billion buyout that represents the largest deal of its kind since the Great Recession dried up the financing for such risky maneuvers. ...
09:34 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Top chipmaker Intel Corp on Monday announced shipments of a new low-power chip and showed off next-generation ultra thin laptops and convertible tablets in its latest bid to prove that the struggling PC industry still has a bright future. ...
03:51 PM, Jan 08, 2013
Air travellers can now enter airports by showing a soft display of air tickets on their smart-phones, tablets and laptops. ...
01:46 PM, Jan 01, 2013
Air travellers can now enter airports by showing a soft display of air tickets on their smart-phones, tablets and laptops. ...
10:51 AM, Jan 01, 2013
Kaushik Ganguly, who directed movies like 'Arekti Premer Golpo' and 'Laptop', is making a film on the life of Subir Banerjee, the child artist who played the role of Apu in Satyajit Ray's 1955 classic 'Pather Panchali'. ...
12:50 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Google said it will offer a steep educational discount on Series 5 Chromebooks from Samsung Electronics. ...
02:45 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Agra: Come Diwali, and traders now have newer gods to pray to: computers, laptops, iPads and mobile phones. Yes, the customary prayers to Lord Ganesha and Goddess Lakshmi still take the pride of place, but with changing times, Diwali puja has taken newer forms. "Computers, mobiles and laptops have become the most integral part of business in India," BC Bhartia, national president of the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT),...
10:42 AM, Nov 13, 2012
New Delhi: Personal computer maker Asus India said that it expects to garner 7 per cent market share of the country's laptop and netbook market. "Size of India laptop and netbook market is around 5 million unit per annum. We expect to have 7 per cent of the market share by end of this year," Asus' Managing Director for System Business Group Alex Huang said. To achieve this, he said,...
12:36 PM, Nov 08, 2012
