Digvijaya Singh, Congress general secretary said about the decision of Team Anna to form a political party that this only depicts that their “movement against corruption has failed.” Digvijaya Singh welcomed this move of Team Anna by saying that in India everyone has a right to form a political party. But he added
Indian sports and controversies are like best friends. Controversies appear out of nowhere every time for India. This time it happened at Olympics in boxing. Asian Games gold medalist boxer, Vikas Krishan was declared as the winner on Friday in the pre-quarterfinals of the welterweight class. But later India suffered a huge
Meanwhile when US is waiting for its Mars Curiosity Rover to land on Mars on 5th August, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has confirmed that it plans to send an orbiter to Mars in 2013. It would be another step forward for Indian space programs which have made giant leaps during the recent years
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) left ONGC behind on Wednesday and became India’s most valued firm. RIL managed to command the highest market value of Rs 2,44,101 crore, as per data available from BSE. ONGC dropped to third place in the market evaluation list after its shares fell by 1.94 percent.As
Last night around 2:30 AM, almost whole Northern India got surrounded by darkness as the Northern Grid collapsed. Eight states were hit hard by the power failure and people had to spend the night and morning without electricity. The power failure affected train services, Delhi Metro and water supply across
Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh took jocular swipes at the huge annual funds allocated to the defence ministry. Recently drinking water and sanitation department tied up with DRDO to set up bio-digestor toilets in 1,000 village panchayats across the country. Jairam Ramesh said that just the cost of a single Rafale fighter could make
Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest businessman, in December 2010 circulated a 36 page handwritten memo to executives describing his plans about building one of the world’s most advanced telecommunication networks. This memo was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Mukesh Ambani’s memo described a 4G wireless service with 99.99% network availability, integration with
Indian scientists are working on an ambitious and unprecedented project to build computer models to remain one step ahead of monsoon. These supercomputers will predict the movements of erratic monsoons weeks before. This would be a great help to Indian economy and to hundreds of millions of people directly dependent on Agriculture
Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) are very efficient and are popular in cities but these are toxic. That’s why government is promoting LED (Light Emitting Diode) lights. These are not only safe to dispose as they don’t contain mercury, then are even more efficient than CFLs. But LEDs are not as popular
Finance ministry has announced that employees earning upto Rs 5 lack per year, now need not file incom tax returns from this year. This exemption from filing Income Tax returns is applicable only if “the total income of the employee does not exceed Rs 5 lakh … (and) the annual interest
Shiva Thapa is the youngest Indian boxer to qualify for Olympics. He was earlier involved with athletics and football but he joined boxing after getting inspiration by watching Mike Tyson on TV. Shiva Thapa is 18 (56kg) and got his London ticket by winning gold medal at the Asian Olympic Qualifiers
The poor woman from Bihar’s Araria district has gone missing after it made into news that she had sold her month year old son for Rs 62 only to a Nepalese couple. Political war has started in the state and opposition parties have started firing on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
A group of students from SRM University won second prize in a competition held last month. They successfully launched CanSat, a model satellite to read atmospheric conditions. The American Astronautical Society (AAS) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) organized the competition called Planetary Atmospheric Entry Vehicle at Texas. It
According to a UN report, major global companies have India as their third favored destination after China and US. It is expected that investment flows can increase by over 20% this year and the next. The FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) flow in India has risen by 30% to around $32 billion in
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as already faced a lot of disgrace by being termed as a robot, remote controlled, puppet and a lot more. After facing such criticism from his fellow countrymen, outsiders are also hitting him now. He has long been lauded for his pivotal role in liberalising the Indian economy.
There may be lack of jobs in India or anti-outsourcing policies coming up in USA. Still there are opportunities. For skilled and talented Indians looking for work, there is a new and interesting vast market out there called freelancing which is blooming and paying well. The global online market is
Ramilaben Govindbhai Patel has never been to any kind of college but at the age of 43, she still makes more money than many CEOs make. She made a total profit of Rs. 1.10 crore during the year 2011-12. And the interesting part is that she made all this money
Akhilesh Yadav, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday,took back his decision of allowing all MLAs to purchase cars worth up to Rs 20 lakh from the local area development fund. Within a period of three weeks, it’s the second time he has been forced to revoke his decision within
The discovery of God Particle for the understanding of formation of universe has an interesting connection with India. A large number of Indian scientists from Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), Kolkata, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, Harishchandra Research Institute, Allahabad and Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, were involved in the experiment over
The Union Tribal Affairs Ministry today called the anti-Naxal operation that took place in Chhattisgarh completely unacceptable and targeted the state’s BJP government. In total, 19 people were killed in this operation which are suspected to be common villagers. The Tribal Affairs minister, V Kishore Chandra Deo has said about raising
This operation has been described as a great success in the battle against Naxalism. On Friday, CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) and the state police of Chhattisgarh killed 19 people. Officials say that all these people were Naxals. But there are a series of challenging allegations by opposition parties and
When the common man is already dying under the burden of inflation and corruption, the new service tax regime will make it more difficult for him to survive. The government of India is rolling out a new tax regime based on negative concept list. The definition of ‘Services’ has been
The time of booking of Tatkal tickets is revised by the Indian Railways. The changes will take effect from 10 July. This has been done in order to prevent touts from cornering tickets. Now the booking of Tatkal tickets would be allowed only one day in advance. And the booking will
Arvind Kejriwal, Team Anna member, today said that Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi was protecting his cabinet colleagues by not allowing prosecution against them. When asked if Narendra Modi is corrupt too, Kejriwal said, “I don’t have evidence which shows that Modi is corrupt, but at least Modi is protecting his cabinet colleagues,
Today, P A Sangma virtually dared UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee for a debate ahead of presidential polls, saying democracy needs debate. In a democracy, people have the right to choose their leader and there should be a debate as economy is sinking and scams are growing. Sangma said, “Who is responsible for all this