In 2019, actor turned-politician Sumalatha Ambareesh, an independent backed by the BJP, won by defeating then Kumaraswamy's son and joint candidate of the then ruling Congress-JD-S alliance Nikhil by 1,25,876 votes.
The arrest of ICICI Bank's former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a loan fraud case was "without application of mind and due regard to the law", amounting to an "abuse of power", the Bombay high court has said. A division bench of Justices Anuja Prabhudessai and N R Borkar had on February 6 held the Kochhars' arrest as illegal and confirmed a January 2023 interim order passed by another bench granting them bail. In the order made available on Monday, the court said the CBI has been unable to demonstrate the existence of circumstances or supportive material based on which the decision to arrest was taken.
According to MAIT, the apex body representing India's IT hardware industry, training and R&D services sectors, tablet sales in 2012-13 stood at 1.9 million units as against 0.36 million units in 2011-12 witnessing a growth of 427 per cent.
Amid rising air pollution caused by the burning of crop residue, the Bihar government has decided to identify farmers who are indulging in this practice and put up their names at the block offices, officials said on Saturday.
In fresh trouble for Congress leader Pawan Khera, the Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed his petition challenging the Allahabad high court order refusing to quash criminal proceedings against him for making objectionable remarks targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, paving the way for his trial.
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed pleas of Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji and his wife Megala challenging the Madras high court order upholding his arrest in a money laundering case.
World's largest chip maker Intel on Wednesday launched a personal computer platform that was conceived and largely designed in India to suit the rural environment.
The Delhi Police has already stocked up a large number of tear gas shells and ordered 30,000 more from the BSF's Tear Smoke Unit (TSU) located at Tekanpur in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior, an official said.
Farmers will march towards Delhi on Tuesday after a meeting with two Union ministers over their demands, including legal guarantee to minimum support price (MSP) for crops, remained inconclusive.
The Indian PC market crossed yet another milestone, with sales touching 10.5 lakh units in the April-June quarter.
Personal computer sales crossed 36.3 lakh units during 2004-05, registering a growth of 20 per cent over 2003-04 on the back of strong household sales.
A new tablet PC enters into the fray, iPhone 4S becomes the costliest smartphone in India and Motorola RAZR makes its debut in India. All this and more news from the world of gadgets and gaming.
As happy as one is to cheer for her global star status, I wish PC's choice of projects was more topical than stale formula, sighs Sukanya Verma.
All the major multinational PC vendors experienced double-digit growth in mobile PC shipments in the first quarter of 2011.
Apple's new MacBook Pro laptops and iMac with M3 chipsets will be available across 27 countries, including India, from November 7 onwards, according to an official statement. The company announced the launch of three M3 chipset models with built-in next-generation GPU architecture and a faster CPU with an eye on artificial intelligence use cases, gaming, entertainment professionals and other segments that need high-resolution image processing. The company has launched two variants of MacBook Pro laptops with 14 and 16-inch displays at a starting price of Rs 1.69 lakh and Rs 2.49 lakh, respectively.
Acer, one of the world's top five branded PC vendors, on Wednesday announced the launch of its Acer Power 290 series PC for the SMB market, based on Intel's latest Pentium 4 processor technology.
During the third quarter of 2007, the overall Indian personal computer (notebooks and desktop combined) market grew 25.1 per cent year-on-year, in terms of unit shipments, to 1.8 million. For the same period last year, desktop PC shipments showed growth of 10.9 per cent.
Heralding a new era of low-cost computing with full functionality, IT company HCL Infosystem in partnership with Microsoft and microprocessor company AMD on Thursday launched a sub-Rs 10,000 computer.
A Delhi court on Wednesday summoned BJP leader Syed Shahnawaz Hussain on a woman's complaint alleging rape and criminal intimidation.
Intel Technology India on Tuesday launched its new Intel vPro Technology, a tool to enhance PC security and manageability and achieve remarkable energy-saving computing performance.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on a batch of pleas challenging the validity of the 103rd Constitution amendment providing 10 per cent reservation to economically weaker sections (EWS) persons in admissions and government jobs.
Equity markets would take cues from domestic inflation data announcement, global trends and trading activity of foreign investors in a holiday-shortened week ahead, analysts said. Markets would remain closed on Tuesday for 'Diwali Balipratipada'. "As we enter a truncated week with Muhurat trading on Sunday, global cues will play a pivotal role in shaping the market direction.
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The yatra, which is scheduled to begin on January 14, will cover 6,713 kilometres and the participants will travel on buses and foot.
"Not a single woman (from Sandeshkhali) has lodged any FIR. It was me who directed the police to lodge a suo motu case. Our block president has been arrested," she said.
People had also started gathering at Mukhtar Ansari's residence in Ghazipur and there was a large deployment of security personnel around the house.
The Union home ministry has said resolute implementation of the national policy and action plan led to a 55 per cent reduction in violent incidents perpetrated by the Naxals and 63 per cent in deaths over a period of eight years.
Desktops, on the other hand, grew by 11 per cent year-on-year and, surprisingly, registered a 3.6 per cent increase in their average selling value.
Rediff.com has been judged the overall winner in the mobile content category and rated as having the best design in the news category, at the PC World Web Awards 2008
A look at push mail versus pull mail services, their pros and cons and other mail deliery technologies.
A team of three Union ministers will hold talks on Monday with a delegation of farmer leaders, who are planning to march towards Delhi to press for their demands.
Indian PC market has grown by 20% in 2007. The consumer PC category is transitioning from a desktop-centric to a notebook-centric phase of growth.
The win confirmed India's berth in the 2023-24 Pro League.
Unlike the normal PC, Nova netPC does away with many hardware requirements like a central processing unit or CPU. It, instead, uses a central network server to run software applications and store data.
Capitel Wireless on Wednesday launched a pocket PC with built-in mobile phone, which has been brought to the country in technical collaboration with E-Ten Information Systems of the United States.
The judge set aside the order of the principal district judge, Villupuram, acquitting Ponmudy and his wife in the case.
India will play their last pool match against Canada on Saturday.
India's personal computer market grew 24 per cent in the July-September quarter touching 700,000 units over the same quarter a year ago with HP replacing HCL in the overall desktop market to achieve a 10 per cent market share.
