The prime accused in the Delhi gangrape-cum-murder Ram Singh was found hanging in Tihar jail in the early hours of Monday. ...
06:33 PM, Mar 11, 2013
The digitisation change in the Indian TV landscape brings to fore Darwin's theory of natural evolution by natural selection. Natural selection is a gradual, non-random process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population as a function of differential reproduction of their bearers. ...
12:34 PM, Jan 11, 2013
The one thing that can be said with certainty about the state of the publishing industry in India is that nothing can be said with any certainty. After 1972, when the government commissioned the National Centre for Applied Economic Research to do a survey of book publishing in India, there has been no systematic study, so we have no reliable stats at all. ...
01:07 AM, Jan 10, 2013
There has been a lot of momentum behind e-commerce businesses in India over the past two years. In terms of investments, the sector has had a roller-coaster ride from very high valuations to what can now be called muted interest. I explore some of the key challenges Indian e-commerce players will need to navigate in 2013. ...
03:36 PM, Jan 09, 2013
Many years ago, more than I am willing to recount or reveal, I was returning from a school trip. The bus that had taken us primary school students of an 'English-medium' school pulled over outside the school, next to anxious parents waiting to receive their children. My mother also stood there, arms stretched out, calling out in her tongue/my tongue (Sindhi), "Ach, putta." I remember feeling some heat on my...
03:15 PM, Jan 09, 2013
A Cnet report confirms that Facebook is slowly pulling its Questions feature out of the picture. A Facebook representative said that the decison has been made so that Facebook could focus on other things. The Questions feature will be unavailable for user access soon, it will still be available on Groups and Pages. Facebook Questions, which was launched in beta in 2010, allowed users to ask their friends and other...
12:22 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Less than two weeks remain for the 2012-2013 tourism season to open and one luxury liner has already scheduled a stopover at Vizhinjam, but the infrastructure at the existing tiny port here still leaves much to be desired. Though the Ports Department had announced plans to develop the two wharves here last year, nothing has come off it. Which means, this year too, visiting liners, even the smaller ones,...
02:00 PM, Sep 17, 2012
Jaipur: Alleging that all questions related to coal department have been removed from Parliament website, the BJP on Sunday accused the Congress of trying to hide the truth about the coal scam and said it will lodge a complaint with Rajya Sabha Chairman. "Congress party is now trying to hide the truth about coal scam and have removed all questions related to coal department from Parliament website, this shows their...
10:49 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Mumbai: The city cops are being bombarded with questions in the aftermath of the horrific violence on August 11 in South Mumbai. That the department was caught off-guard is evident in the number of casualties " many of them cops " including two deaths, large-scale destruction of public property, and the few arrests that have been made so far. On behalf of all peace-loving Mumbaikars (is there any other kind),...
05:01 PM, Aug 16, 2012
In the second of the series, Five Questions - we pose five questions on the legal aspects of the recent controversy over the Indian government's attempts at censoring content on the Internet to lawyer Sajan Poovayya. Poovayya is the managing partner at Poovayya & Co, a full-service law firm based in Bangalore and his areas of expertise include IT, Internet regulation and telecommunication. 1. Is India trying to emulate China...
04:03 PM, Jan 16, 2012
London: When going for a job interview, candidates mostly expect questions pertaining to technical knowledge in the field, past history and so on, but tech giants are now resorting to ask 'odd' questions to test applicant's thoughtful approach to problem-solving, career experts say. "Would Mahatma Gandhi have made a good software engineer?" was one such question asked during an interview at Deloitte. Technology firms dominated this year's list of the...
04:35 PM, Jan 03, 2012
In the first of a new series on IBNLive - Five Questions - we posted five pertinent questions to the struggling Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia. Viral Oza, director - marketing, Nokia India answered on the company's behalf. Here are Nokia's answers to IBNLive's Five Questions: Q1. When can Indian consumers expect the Nokia Asha series in the market? While Nokia cannot share specific details with respect to the date...
01:11 PM, Dec 27, 2011
Mumbai: Actor visited the jawans in Himachal for a Diwali special show; ends up playing rugby, dodging ex-lover queries, and doing the towel dance. Last week, actor Ranbir Kapoor visited the picturesque town of Nahan in Himachal Pradesh to interact with soldiers posted at the Para Battalion, for a Diwali special episode that a national channel will air. Says a source, "Ranbir loved interacting with the soldiers. They are all...
06:35 PM, Oct 16, 2011
Kathmandu: When Nihita Biswas Sobhraj made entertainment history Monday night by becoming the first contestant from Nepal to take part in Indian TV channel Color's reality show 'Bigg Boss 5', back home in Kathmandu her family's moment of pride turned into shock and consternation at the first barrage of questions raining down on the 23-year-old. "I was shocked," said Nihita's mother Shakuntala Thapa, a senior lawyer practising at Nepal's Supreme...
05:30 PM, Oct 03, 2011
Rajdeep Sardesai in a special interview with Anna Hazare, in which Hazare answers questions asked by the citizens of India. ...
08:19 PM, Apr 10, 2011
US President Barack Obama faces tough questions from the youngsters of Mumbai. ...
08:29 PM, Nov 07, 2010
New Delhi: With an aim to bring about greater accuracy and international standards to the Common Admission Test (CAT), the agency organising the examination has planned to introduce different sets of question papers from this year. "Each question paper will be a little different from the other, but its evaluation would be done on the same scale," Managing Director of Prometric, Soumitra Roy said. "Since each question paper will be...
11:07 AM, Aug 29, 2010
Baig made it in the non-fiction list and Mueenuddin topped the fiction list. ...
12:06 PM, Jul 24, 2009
A sting operation showed MPs taking cash to ask questions in the House. ...
08:37 PM, Feb 26, 2009
Your answer can make or break your chances of landing your dream job. ...
10:35 PM, Oct 08, 2008
