New Delhi: Datawind, the maker of low-cost Aakash tablets, said it has shipped to the government all the 1 lakh units completing the deal after almost two-and-a-half years that was marred by glitches. Datawind had won the contract to supply 1 lakh unit of Aakash tablets priced at USD 49.98 apiece in 2011, translated into a price of Rs 2,276 at that time. "We have supplied all units of Aakash...
11:16 AM, May 02, 2013
Amritsar: A pall of gloom on Thursday descended on Sarabjit Singh's native Bhikhiwind village as soon as the news of his death in a Lahore hospital spread with villagers closing all shops to protest the deadly attack on him. Locals of the sleepy border village started to throng Singh's house as soon as they got the news about his death. However, Singh's family member are camping in Delhi since Wednesday...
11:12 AM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: Announced last month, the Samsung Galaxy Win is now available on the e-commerce site Snapdeal.com for Rs 17,900. The website lists that the phone will be delivered in three business days. The phone has a 4.7 inch WVGA TFT LCD display and runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Powered by a 1.2GHz quad core processor, the Galaxy Win has 8GB of internal storage. Its memory can be expanded up...
04:48 PM, May 01, 2013
Chicago: A 2-year-old girl born without a windpipe now has a new one grown from her own stem cells, the youngest patient in the world to benefit from the experimental treatment. Hannah Warren has been unable to breathe, eat, drink or swallow on her own since she was born in South Korea in 2010. Until the operation at a central Illinois hospital, she had spent her entire life in a...
02:26 AM, May 01, 2013
Bhubaneswar: A day after the state government giving the go-ahead, the Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of Crime branch of Odisha Police on Tuesday registered a criminal case against the Saradha Group which allegedly duped gullible investors in Balasore and Puri districts. A team of the EOW on Tuesday rushed to Balasore and recorded statements of certain depositors at the district police headquarters in the Northen Odisha town. "We have registered...
10:55 PM, Apr 30, 2013
The Supreme Court has said that the details in the CBI affidavit on the coal scam are 'very disturbing'. "There has been a massive breach of trust that has shaken our foundation," the apex court said. The court said sharing information with the government has shaken the entire process. ...
01:25 PM, Apr 30, 2013
New Delhi: Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has confirmed on Twitter that the poster which is doing rounds on internet is indeed of his forthcoming film 'Ugly'. The film stars Ronit Roy, Tejaswini Kolhapure and Vipin Sharma in the lead roles. ...
12:07 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Mumbai: Jet Airways on Monday said its promoter and chairman Nareh Goyal will bring down his stake in the company to 51 per cent to meet the Sebi requirement of 25 per cent floating shares. The airline has decided to give three director posts to Etihad Airways following the stake sale deal last week, it told exchanges in a filing. However, it is learnt that one of the three Etihad...
09:26 PM, Apr 29, 2013
I believe in discovering books on my own. I do not believe in recommendations because I am scared that most people do not know what I love to read or do not care to ask. It is a fact. Most people just put a book in your hands and tell you, "You must read this." There is nothing more to that interaction. And yet there are times when I am...
04:03 PM, Apr 29, 2013
London: Still to win any trophies with Tottenham, Gareth Bale collected the top two awards in English football on Sunday to cement his status as one of the sport's most talented players. The Wales forward was voted player of the year and the young player of the year by his fellow professionals in English football. "It's a massive honor," said Bale, who was also voted player of the year in...
09:02 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Music directors: Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravijiani Singers: Hard Kaur, Udit Narayan, Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravijiani, Sukhwinder Singh, Neeti Mohan Rating: 3 out of 5 The music album of director Sonam Nair's movie 'Gippi' has five tracks. Popular musical duo Vishal-Shekhar have made it a point to deliver songs that not just capture the fancy of the young crowd with their beats, but they also give a lot of importance to...
05:15 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: The newly formed Indian women's doubles team featuring Ashwini Ponnappa and Pradnya Gadre defeated England's pair of Lauren Smith and Gabrielle White 19-21, 22-20, 21-11 to enter the second round of India Open here on Wednesday. In another match, Jwala Gutta and Prajakta Sawant lost to Misato Aratama and Megumi Taruno of Japan 19-21, 10-21 to crash out of the event. Ponnappa and Gadre made some unforced errors...
03:49 PM, Apr 24, 2013
The U.S. government filed court documents on Tuesday laying out its case against cyclist Lance Armstrong, who is accused of defrauding the Postal Service by taking millions of dollars in sponsorship money while flouting professional cycling rules by doping. The U.S. Department of Justice said in February it would join a whistleblower lawsuit brought in 2010 by Armstrong's former teammate, Floyd Landis, and on Tuesday filed its formal complaint. Armstrong...
10:07 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Mumbai: One of the most controversial changes Microsoft made to Windows in its latest iteration - Windows 8 - is the removal of the Start button and menu. According to The Verge, the company wants to bring it back with Windows 8.1, which is also known as Windows Blue. While the button will make its comeback, the Start menu itself will still be absent. Hitting the start button will result...
03:39 PM, Apr 23, 2013
London: The London Marathon runners fell silent at the start line Sunday in memory of those who died in the Boston bomb attacks. Amid tightened security to reassure the racers and crowd, there was a 30-second silence just before the start of the men's elite race and mass start at 10am. Many of the 36,000 fun-runners, athletes and fundraisers wore black ribbons in a show of solidarity with those affected...
11:44 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Barcelona: Spain won a reverse singles match and a doubles match to beat Japan 4-0 in their Fed Cup World Group playoff on Sunday. Carla Suarez downed Ayumi Morita 6-3, 7-5 to give Spain an insurmountable 3-0 lead before doubles pair Anabel Medina and Lourdes Dominguez polished off Misaki Doi and Shuko Aoyama 6-4, 7-5 in a dead rubber. Suarez, who won Spain's first point by defeating Doi on Saturday,...
08:03 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: Trade analyst and film journalist Taran Adarsh has tweeted Rajinikanth's new look in his forthcoming film 'Kochadaiyaan'. Soundarya R Ashwin is the director of the film while Deepika Padukone is the heroine. ...
06:19 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Dubai: Cheteshwar Pujara and Ravichandran Ashwin were the only two Indian cricketers to figure in the ICC's latest Test rankings in batting and bowling respectively. While Pujara retained the number seven position with 777 ranking points in the batting chart, Ashwin was static at number six in the bowling list with 757 points to his kitty. The batting was headed by South Africa's Hashim Amla, followed by Shivnarine Chanderpaul and...
02:26 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Banka: Madhya Pradesh police have reached Bihar's Banka district to arrest a man accused of raping a five-year-old girl in Siwni district in that state. The MP police with the help of district police raided the house of the accused in Dhibra village, but could not find Firoz (35), Banka Superintendent of police Pushkar Anand said. The joint police team had brought the father, mother and wife of the accused...
02:00 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New York: Microsoft is working with manufacturers to produce a line of small touch-screen devices powered by Windows, apparently intended to compete with 7-inch tablets like the iPad Mini and Amazon Kindle Fire. Peter Klein, Microsoft's chief financial officer, told investors and analysts on a conference call Thursday that the new devices will be available in coming months at competitive prices. Microsoft Corp. is struggling to extend its software into...
01:35 PM, Apr 20, 2013
