'Sheila Ki Jawani' item number has not just set the ball rolling for the upcoming release 'Tees Maar Khan' but also opened up the battle for the best item song of the year. Now the race is between 'Sheila Ki Jawani' and 'Munni Badnaam Hui' from the film 'Dabaang'. ...
05:16 PM, Dec 10, 2010
Mumbai: Actor Akshaye Khanna, who plays a funny overdoing actor in Tees Maar Khan, would come as a jolt to the audience, says director Farah Khan. "He is playing a bad actor in the film. He is playing a superstar but with full acting in it. He has worked so freely in the film that he is going to be the surprise factor of the film," Farah told in an...
03:56 PM, Nov 15, 2010
Honolulu: The Social Security numbers, grades and other personal information of more than 40,000 former University of Hawaii students were posted online for nearly a year before being removed this week, The Associated Press has learned. University officials told the AP that a faculty member inadvertently uploaded files containing the information to an unprotected server on November 30, 2009, exposing the names, academic performance, disabilities and other sensitive information of...
12:17 PM, Oct 29, 2010
New Delhi: After missing three deadlines, mobile number portability (MNP), which allows subscribers to retain numbers even after changing service operators, will be rolled out in November, Telecom Minister A Raja said. "November 1 onwards, MNP would be operational partially... First, we wanted to inaugurate in Haryana," Raja told reporters on the sidelines of an event organised by BSNL in New Delhi on Tuesday. He also said that in the...
10:26 AM, Oct 27, 2010
On Face the Nation tonight we ask whether the Unique Identification Scheme violate democratic rights. ...
07:10 AM, Sep 30, 2010
The whole idea of UID is to provide an identity to people in villages, tribals and migrants, says UIDAI Aadhaar Chairman Nandan Nilekani. ...
11:15 PM, Sep 29, 2010
Tembhli: Kantibai Nigude of Tembhli village of Maharashtra's Nandurbar district, is the first Indian to get a Unique Identification Number. For Kantibhai, the joy of getting it from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi is more than understanding the benefits of the identity - atleast for Wednesday. 'I am very happy because the PM and Sonia Gandhi have given the first UID number to me. They are...
09:23 PM, Sep 29, 2010
Tembhli: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi handed out the first set of Unique Identification Number to tribals in Tembhli village of Maharashtra's Nandurbar district on Wednesday. Ten tribals from Tembhli village got their Unique Identification Numbers (Aadhaar) from Singh and Sonia. They were randomly selected by the Nandan Nilekani-headed Unique Identification Authority of India. "It is our ambitious project. Every Indian should get an identity. It...
02:15 PM, Sep 29, 2010
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launches UPA-2's most ambitious project on Wednesday - the Unique Identity Number (UID), the first of which will be issued in Nandurbar in Maharashtra. The first UID card will be handed out by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi at the Thembli village in Nandurbar district of Maharashtra. Welcome to Tembhili village in the most backward Nandurbar district of Maharashtra. Only...
09:13 AM, Sep 29, 2010
New Delhi: With the launch of the 'Aadhaar' number on September 29, India will become the first country in the world to implement a biometric-based unique ID system for its residents on a national scale. The national launch of Aadhaar will herald a new chapter in the efforts of the government in enabling inclusive growth and bringing in greater efficiency and transparency in governance. Aadhaar has the potential to fundamentally...
08:53 AM, Sep 28, 2010
New Delhi: The telecom regulator on Thursday said mobile number portability (MNP) will be implemented nationwide from Oct 31, ruling out any further delay. The MNP is a service that allows a mobile user to change his operator while retaining the number. "There will be no further delay in the implementation of MNP," Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Chairman J.S. Sarma said here. The Department of Telecom (DoT) Wednesday...
12:01 AM, Aug 13, 2010
Mumbai: A National Emergency Telephone Number - 2611 - has been mooted by a Pune-based Telecom engineer as a versatile communication platform during emergency and disaster management in the country. Dial 2611, a National Emergency Telephone Number system (NETNS,) is designed and developed as a nationwide single telephone number assigned to integrate local, regional and national help lines and is easy to remember, Dinkar Borde, a scientist and an innovator,...
11:13 AM, Aug 10, 2010
Infosys founder Nandan Nilekani heads the UID project that aims to roll out 16-digit unique number by 2011. ...
06:06 PM, Jul 12, 2010
Chandigarh resident Narinder Singh Shergill is the first one in the region to break the record. ...
01:02 PM, May 24, 2010
The ceremony will be attended by Bharti CEO Sunil Bharti Mittal. ...
06:10 PM, Mar 29, 2010
The service is expected to find mention in the Rail Budget. ...
04:53 PM, Feb 15, 2010
Says UID would help millions avail services they are entitled to. ...
11:50 AM, Feb 14, 2010
State governments, banks pulled in to help 'massively complex project'. ...
09:48 PM, Dec 16, 2009
