New Delhi, (IANS) The Samajwadi Party (SP) Friday walked out of the Rajya Sabha ahead of the vote on foreign investment in multi-brand retail. The nine members led by party leader Naresh Agrawal walked out as Commerce Minister Anand Sharma was speaking in favour of foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail.
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Amidst the rumors about HTC Deluxe DLX, the Taiwan firm has brought its Japan-only model the J Butterfly to the global market. It is the vendor’s first handset with a 1080p FullHD display. The U.S. market has recently received a variant of this phone dubbed the Droid DNA for Verizon. The international version of the [...]
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HTC Droid DNA and Oppo Find 5 are both FullHD phones. Here is a short : Specs face off of two great handsets The U.S. market has just received two 1080p FullHD cell phones. HTC and Oppo have introduced their products respectively called the Droid DNA and Find 5. The handsets are to herald a [...]
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Not long after Apple’s new phone launch, rumors abound about iPhone 5S or iPhone 6 release date. Meanwhile pictures leaked suggest some internal changes in the next version of iPhone Apple’s latest iPhone 5 is merely three months old, but rumors are already doing the rounds about the next iteration of this iconic smart-phone. Rumors [...]
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Washington, (IANS) British oil giant BP has said it is building a new facility in Houston that will house what it says will be the world’s largest complex of supercomputers for farther and faster search for oil and gas. BP officials Thursday said construction has already begun on the three-storey, 110,000-square-foot facility, part of the [...]
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Moscow, (IANS/RIA Novosti) The main and reserve crews for a new space expedition to the ISS have headed to the Baikonur launch site for final training before lift off later this month. The main crew now includes Roman Romanenko, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, and US astronaut Thomas Marshburn. Their backups are Fyodor Yurchikhin, European astronaut [...]
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Kate Middleton pregnancy seems to have taken UK by storm. Her and Prince William photos have gone viral as she gets released from the hospital after three day stay there for severe morning nausea Ever since their marriage Kate Middleton and Prince William have been the apple of British media’s eyes. They seem to be [...]
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Microsoft launches Socl, a puzzling social network that resembles Pinterest. But can it compete with Facebook, Google Plus? Microsoft has launched ‘Socl’ a social networking service to the general public, which allows users to share content in an online gallery similar to Pinterest. Socl was developed by Microsoft’s Fuse Labs research team and was originally [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister Ajay Maken Thursday said that the biggest challenge before policy makers and industry was to meet the housing shortage of 18.78 million at the beginning of 12th Five Year Plan period. “Unless liberal norms with greater floor area ratio (FAR) and population density norms are adopted, [...]
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New Delhi/Beijing, (IANS) Unfazed by China’s fresh assertion in South China Sea and its stern warning to Vietnam to stop unilateral oil exploration in the disputed waters, India Thursday underlined its support for freedom of navigation and access to resources. “We have made our position clear several times. We are aware that the sovereignty of [...]
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Japanese tech firm Sony has surfaced a new budget Xperia phone duo. It includes Xperia E and Xperia E dual with the latter being a device for two SIM cards. The Xperia E is a nice product with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The firm has recently launched a horde of phones with Android. Well, it [...]
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After very long bickering Instagram has finally unfriended Twitter and from now onwards there will be no Twitter card support In April this year Facebook brought the photo sharing app Instagram for a whopping $1 billion. It was a big deal. In fact it was the kind of deal that app startups dream of. But [...]
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Belgaum (Karnataka), Dec 6 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar Thursday announced that he will lead a delegation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday to seek relief for the state on the issue of Cauvery water release to Tamil Nadu. The delegation which will comprise central ministers from Karnataka and state’s Cauvery belt parliament members [...]
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Singapore/Male, Dec 6 (IANS) The GMR-backed consortium GMIAL Thursday said it is studying the latest verdict of the Singapore High Court which has gone in favour of the Maldives government. “We have no comments on the order at the moment, as we are in process of evaluating the same,” a GMR spokesperson said. Chief Justice [...]
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