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Smart Phones From Sony – Making News

Tue, 22 May 2007 23:03:25 -0600

The P1 from Sony Ericsson comes with all the makings of a perfect mobile. Complete with Opera 8, Stereo Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity supporting VoIP will make this little gadget a fast mover from the shelves.

Read More at...
http://gadgets.in/content/view/96/58/

SACHHAR COMMITTEE REPORT: APLOY TO WEAKEN INDIA FURTHER ?

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:16:26 -0700

SACHHAR COMMITTEE REPORT, ON THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF MUSLIMS IN THE COUNTRY:

The Sachhar Committee Report has not done justice to the phenomenon and manifests subjectivity and irrationality in its approach and recommendations.

The Constitution of India, as adopted since its threshold, year 1950, has provided equal opportunities to all, irrespective of their cast, creed and gender.

Lord Wavel, the then Viceroy of India, in October 1945, from his Simla seat announced the intent of the British Government that decided to free India, and called the then Indian leaders to meet me, to decide about the respective modalities.

Semiconductor Manufacturing- India Jumps into bandwagon. New Policy to pull in more than US$10B investments.

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:31:19 -0700

India has recently opened up for possible large scale semiconductor manufacturing. Though India has been leading in the are of chip design it lacked manufacturing facilities. Its one of the fastest growing markets for electronic equipment and hence semiconductors.

The Union Govt released an investor friendly Semi Conductor Policy on 22nd February, doling out a capital subsidy of up to 25% (22% if the unit is in an SEZ). The subsidy offered is in the form of tax breaks and interest-free loans. The Fab units located in SEZ would have the additional operating benefits under SEZ Policy! This is expected to fire up the competition to set up foundries in India. The exponential growth in mobile phone services, broadband, IP TV, digital cameras, MP3 Players, gaming devices etc is at present fully dependant on imports of semiconductors.

DolBajao.com-Desi Stories, Videos, Deals and more..

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:11:41 -0700

Check out this newest entrant in 'digg' like Socal Bookmarking area for interesting and exciting Indian stories.

DolBajao.com is a good 'India Centric' Social Bookmarking site Catering to Indians worlwide. It gives the “real power to the people” in deciding what should be published with a mission to “Spread clean and fun Indian Content on the internet!”.

DolBajao.com is a web service that allows anyone to submit a link to a news article, a YouTube Video, a great Deal, a bollywood story that will be reviewed by all and will be promoted, based on popularity, to the main page. Users can submit and play embedded videos, images etc.

IndiaSphere - Pulse on the Indian blogosphere

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:31:16 -0700

IndiaSphere is a new web 2.0 site tracking the Indian blogosphere. The main site is an aggregator of popular Indian social sites and compilation of recent posts from popular Indian blogs sorted by category.

There is a top blogs section where bloggers can submit their own blogs. The high ranking blogs that show potential will be considered to be added back to the main aggregator.

Traffic rules in India: Is anyone listening?

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:37:45 -0700

Traffic on Indian roads is a hallucinatory potion of sound, spectacle and experience. Road accidents in India are on rise. What makes travel on Indian roads so heart-rending most of the times?

HAVING A HEALTHY disregard for the impossible: Indian Traffic

The line says it all. Many enthusiasts have come and gone with a dream in their eyes and that is to revive the Indian traffic scenario but they were undervalued because they lacked that je ne sais quoi.

Some eye-opening statistics:

6 per cent of the world’s deaths during road accidents happen in India. (While India has only 1 per cent of the world’s vehicles)

Hyderabad HOT Outsourcing Hub

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:33:08 -0700

Hyderabad has seen tremendous development over the last few years. Microsoft, IBM, Perot, Accenture, CA, HP, Templeton, Goldman Sachs, Google, Dell, Motorolla, Oracle, GE, Adobe, Sun, McAfee, Pacific, Unisys, USi, Cisco, Ericsson, Norton, Nokia, Sierra, Flextronics are only few of the international companies now in Hyderabad. Read more (www.exclventures.com) and monitor new projects including the GIGANTIC 90 Story Tower coming up in Hyderabad!

There are hundreds of NRIs and expatriates now working and buying luxurious properties. The upcoming international Airport, Express Highway to Airport, exploding growth in areas like Hitec City and Guchiboli has changed the face of the city!!

Richard Stallman Visits NIT Hamirpur

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:32:37 -0700

Richard Stallman, the celebrated founder of the GNU, FSF, author of many programs including the EMAC and what not, made a visit to NIT Hamirpur to give a lecture on " Software and Freedom". This is one of his first visit to a technical institution in the country. Read more aboutthe visit here.http://www.himvani.com/news/index.php?s=richard+stallman&searchbutton=Go%21

The Many Faces of India

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:19:19 -0600

Found this interesting collage prepared by an Indian on The Many Faces of India. It depicts photos from various aspects of India, including rural India, Indian cities, pictures from the Indian film industry, photos of Indian roads/traffic, Indian economy, photos of Indian IT leaders, etc.

It's really a treat to see, and makes us all feel proud to be Indian.

You surely must be joking Mr. Prime Minister

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:06:29 -0600

Manmohan Singh addressed the nation today with a speech, so rabid and full of oft repeated and done-to-death cliches of building the so called modern India.

Even though he talks about building "An India that is united in thought, not divided by religion and language. An India that is united in our Indianness, not divided by caste and region.", he is all for providing caste based reservations in our institutes.

Mr. Prime Minister, if its not so much to ask, please give us a break.

Justice For Priyadarshini

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:03:51 -0600

Though I know he is the man who committed the crime, I acquit him, giving him the benefit of the doubt.' Thus spoke Delhi's Additional Sessions Judge G P Thareja on December 3, 1999. He was delivering the verdict in the case of the rape and murder of Priyadarshini Mattoo.

Ten years after Priyadarshini Mattoo was raped and murdered by one Santosh Kumar Singh, the culprit still roams free and is infact a practicing lawyer in Delhi.

Justice For Priyadarshini, a group dedicated to getting justice for Priyadarshini, is organising a protest rally on July 23rd at India Gate (4:30 P.M.).

Be there. Be there for a Safer India

Evening Hours of Bloodshed (A Poetic Attempt)

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:05:41 -0600

A few days back, 11th July bomb blasts brought the most happening city of India to a halt. A halt, which abolished lives and daunted humankind...a halt, which was mighty enough to agitate our spirits and made us lookup within ourselves. For looking up for the answer to the question, "for how long, this terrorism will keep terrifying innocent and scaring humanity?" The same feeling is expressed here in form of few poetic words here:

In the evening hours of bloodshed,
the lives were lost; air was red.
Satanic verses played cacophonies,
and stopped healthy lives' journeys.

The Sky Rumbled

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:39:37 -0600

It was cloudy today and the sky was blood red. The country is bleeding and the stars are witness. The country mourns silently. There is not one voice but a murmur of pain and discontent. Its grows louder and the sky rumbles in reponse. A crack of lightening, as if demanding some answers.

Read more of Parijat's beautiful prose here.

Government turns to policing reservation protests.

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 01:35:03 -0600

The government has now started to actively stop protests against reservations using police force. The most recently targetted where the JNU students trying to take out a protest march.

The walk that was supposed to go from JNU's North Gate to PVR Priya Complex was blocked at JNU's North Gate by Police Force.

It is a shame that the same government not only allowed but also protected pro-reservation sloganeers a day before- that too at India Gate!!!!!

Interestingly, the protest by Pukar was also stopped by the police on the grounds that the Chief Minister of Gurgaon was visiting.

Read more at Youth for Equality, JNU blog.

Net2Phone sues Skype

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:49:52 -0600

Net2Phone, one of the oldest players in the online telephony services industry, filed a lawsuit against another giant, Skype — the Global Telephony Company and its parent, ebay. Skype was alleged for violating the VOIP patent owned by Net2phone for last 6 years.

The lawsuit filed by Net2Phone on Thursday at New Jersey, claims the infringement of Net2Phone's patent number '704 by skype. The peer-to-peer protocol, used by Skype for its telephony services is considered to be the culprit for these allegations on Skype.

Further news can be read from ZDNet's Website