
New Delhi: With increasing popularity of high-speed internet services and proliferation of tablets and smart phones, the number of networked devices would double to around 2 billion in the country by 2016, networking company Cisco has said. "In India, there will be two billion networked devices in 2016, up from one billion in 2011," Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast said. Globally, the forecast projects there will be nearly 18.9...

08:54 AM, Jun 04, 2012

Jamshedpur: Tata's JUSCO is a company that takes its Corporate Social Responsibility very seriously. It is the equivalent of a municipal corporation for Jamshedpur, providing 24-hour portable drinking water, uninterrupted power supply and infrastructure for the local population. For the not-so-privileged of Jamshepdur, a regular day begins stocking up drinking water from a tanker. A free service by the Jamshedpur Utilities and Services Company Limited, popularly called JUSCO, the TATA...

09:50 AM, Jun 01, 2012

New Delhi: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Thursday announced the results for the Combined Defence Services (CDS) examination for the year 2011. A total of 356 candidates have qualified for admission to the 133rd Course of Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun; Naval Academy, Ezhimala, Kerala and Air Force Academy, Hyderabad (Pre-Flying) Training Course. The exams were held by the UPSC in September 2011 and the interviews were held...

10:50 PM, May 31, 2012

Oro Valley: The summer travel season has arrived, and with gas prices going down, it's time to plan a road trip. For a Memorial Day weekend trip to Arizona, I checked four free services that provide driving directions - Google, Yahoo, AOL's MapQuest and Microsoft's Bing. I made it from Phoenix's airport to a friend's wedding outside Tucson without getting lost, and I made several sightseeing stops along the way...

10:47 AM, May 31, 2012

Cuttack: Services on Monday clinched the 66th Santosh Trophy after beating Tamil Nadu 3-2 in a pulsating final at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Monday. Services mid-fielder Sanju Subba (45th) scored the first goal - his right footer curling away from Tamil Nadu goalkeeper Akhil Soman. Subrata Sarkar doubled the lead in the 49th minute while VV Farhad tapped it past an onrushing Akhil for Services' third goal in...

09:56 PM, May 28, 2012

The Indian Engineering Services (IES/ES) constitute of engineers that work under the government of India to manage a large segment of public sector economy which constitutes Railroads, Public works, Power, Telecommunications, etc. A combined competitive examination is conducted by the Union Public Services Commission (UPSC) for recruitment to the Indian Engineering Services. The Examination constitutes of a written examination followed by an interview for personality test. The recruitment of qualified...

05:26 PM, May 22, 2012

India has extensive forests which are an important resource. India thus requires scientific management of its forests. The British India Government recognized the need of a premier forest management service and constituted the Imperial Forest Service in 1867. The Imperial Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, presently & popularly known all over the world as FRI was established at Dehradun in 1906. Since then, the training program shifted to Dehradun. The subject...

03:54 PM, May 22, 2012

The Indian Civil Service forms the backbone of the Indian government machinery and constitutes all the major departments which run the state and central administration. The three types of services recruited through the Civil Services Examination are All India Services, Central Services, and State Services. The Civil Services examination is one of the most prestigious examinations conducted by UPSC. Historically it has been of the most sought after career by...

03:45 PM, May 22, 2012

The Union Public Service Commission, popularly known as UPSC, was accorded a constitutional status as an autonomous entity in the new constitution on 26th January, 1950. One of the major functions of the Commission is recruitment to services and posts under the Union through conduct of competitive examinations. The Commission usually conducts a number of examinations every year on an all-India basis for direct recruitment in various fields, such as...

03:36 PM, May 22, 2012

London: A new mobile service will soon give parents control over their children's cellphone use, whom they chat with or text and also allow them to switch off their phones, wherever they are. Mobile phone company Bemilo is offering the service to parents worried about text bullying, sexting and the disruptive use of phones in schools. It will operate on Vodafone network. Campaigners say the phone deal, which is intended...

10:10 AM, May 22, 2012

Patna: Ashish Verma is someone who managed to crack the Civil Services despite being a differently-abled person. Verma has cerebral palsy. Verma couldn't attend coaching classes but overcame all odds to achieve his dreams. The son of a postal officer has never known life without cerebral palsy but this year he cracked the Civil Services exam with the 726 rank and he is now busy celebrating. "It's like a dream...

09:37 AM, May 15, 2012

New Delhi: Bharti Airtel has today launched its 4G services in India's IT hub - Bengaluru. Following the recent inaugural launch of Airtel 4G services in Kolkata, customers in Bengaluru have now become the second in India to have access to 4G LTE technology that is touted to deliver the most advanced wireless broadband experience across the globe. Airtel has also introduced 'Smartbytes' for 4G, thereby allowing customers to buy...

02:58 PM, May 07, 2012

Chandigarh: With happiness writ large on her face Rukmani Riar has realised what she had set out to achieve. Having completed her post-graduation in social entrepreneurship in 2010 and winning a gold medal from The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai she wanted to carry out social service. Her father BS Riar, a lawyer in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, suggested that she should try the civil services if she wanted...

03:36 PM, May 05, 2012

Chandigarh: In states that have been in the news for discriminating against the girl child, two women have done Punjab and Haryana proud by topping the civil services examination and bagging the first and second positions. The first position in the civil services exam has gone to Shena Aggarwal of Yamunanagar in Haryana, while the second position has gone to Rukmani Riar of Hoshiarpur in Punjab. The final results of...

02:32 PM, May 05, 2012

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Friday declared the results of the Civil Services 2011-12 examinations. Shena Aggarwal, an MBBS from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) became the topper. Here's UPSC Civil Services toppers: 1 233541 SHENA AGGARWAL 2 027895 RUKMANI RIAR 3 001804 PRINCE DHAWAN 4 080492 MANGESH KUMAR 5 072543 S GOPALA SUNDARA RAJ 6 040421 GITANJALI BRANDON 7 353082 HIMANSHU GUPTA 8 006368...

05:24 PM, May 04, 2012