Boosting India's communication services, its latest satellite GSAT-16 was successfully launched on board Arianespace rocket from the spaceport of Kourou in French Guiana in the early hours of Sunday, after a delay of two days due to bad weather.
Extensive arrangements have been made due to the COVID-19 pandemic including personal protective equipment kits for election staff, more polling booths, thermal screening, sanitisers, masks and gloves for voters and markings to ensure social distancing, officials said.
April 24 is an important day for the Kannada film industry. The late 'Karnataka Kulatilaka' Rajkumar's 82nd birthday falls on the day. On the occasion of Rajkumar's birth anniversary, people who have known him up close and personal share with us their favourite moments...
'Who's providing all this money to the BJP? And who's providing all this money to the Congress?' 'Where did all this money come from?' 'Who is enabling all these MLAs to be bought for Rs 50, 60 crores?' 'There's one MLA on whose behalf somebody claimed that the BJP invited him for Rs 60 crores. Whose money is this?'
Kerala government on Thursday put the toll in the Puttingal Devi Temple fireworks tragedy at 108, saying the higher number of dead announced earlier was due to "duplication" in counting.
We invited readers to send in thier experiences of meeting their idols and the lessons they learned from them. First up, Parag P Jain, a student of NMIMS, Mumbai, shares his experience of meeting D Shivakumar, managing director and vice president, Nokia India.
Reader Shivakumar sends us a picture.
Karnataka goes to polls in about a fortnight and the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress is going toe-to-toe to win the elections, results of which will be announced on May 15. Here's a simple guide to all things about the Karnataka polls.
The apex court directed the two states to ensure there is no violence, agitation, destruction and damage to properties following its order on Cauvery water sharing and asked them to maintain peace, calm and dignity for law.
The Mangalore police on Friday cracked the murder case of Naushad, advocate of Rashid Malabari by arresting 6 persons of the Ravi Poojary gang.
The MLAs were upset ever since the cabinet reshuffle and expansion on December 22 that saw removal of Jarkiholi.
India will have 500 million mobile consumers by 2010 with 60 million mobile users having video capability, 100 million music capability, 200 million radio capability, 250 million camera capability and 250 million with Internet capability. These were some of the facts shared by D Shivakumar, vice-president and managing director, Nokia India, at the Goafest conclave. He said that in the next three years, India would add one and a half times more mobile users.
During recession, consumers tend to vouch for safer choices, and that is where Nokia can build its brand during the downturn, says D Shivakumar, MD and VP-markets, Nokia India.
The company's reaction follows after some incidents of Nokia mobile phones exploding were reported from states such as West Bengal and Gujarat in the past few days.
The chief minister said any distortion of historical facts will not be tolerated.
Siddaramaiah represents Chamundeshwari Assembly constituency in Mysore city.
The PILs were submitted by Rama Gopalan, President, Hindu Munnani and Subramanian Swamy, Janata party President.
Valued at Euro 35 billion, Nokia is the world's fifth most valuable brand, after Coca Cola, Microsoft, IBM and General Electric. With annual turnover at 3.6 billion euro, India contributed nearly seven per cent to Nokia's total global revenues of 51 billion euro in 2007. Nokia has invested $ 210 million for setting up a manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu and the Indian facility is 1 of the best among 9 Nokia factories. It has estimated 100mn new phone subscribers in India.
Krishna, who is the former chief minister of Karnataka, will be joining the Congress campaign in the state after he quit the post of Maharashtra governor, a few weeks back. A huge welcome has been planned for Krishna at Bangalore. His supporters led by former minister and Congress leaders D K Shivakumar have organised a roadshow in the city.
Nokia India is likely to ramp up its Chennai facility with an investment of $170 million over the next 18 months to upgrade machinery and enhance capacity.Nokia, which is planning to launch about 30 handsets in the next six months, expects its handset prices to fall by 20 per cent every year.
The names of both Maregowda and Puttaraju had figured in the list of missing Janata Dal-Secular workers tweeted by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Monday.
The Judges rejected the request of the government pleader to accord the benefit to other sporting events like rekhla race (bullock cart race), saying the petition pertained only to manjuvirattu.
Kumaraswamy said he was ready for probe by even an international agency.
A hundred dancers perform the Isai Vani Natyanjali to songs sung by the legendary singer, the late M S Subbulakshmi.
He attacked the dispensation over issues such as the state of the economy, the situation in Kashmir, the National Register of Citizens in Assam and action by probe agencies against opposition leaders.
The roof top installation by the Karnataka State Cricket Association is a novel initiative executed for the first time at any stadium in the country and, probably, also the first cricket stadium in the world to have such facility, the Karnataka State Cricket Association said.
'The message they want to send to the country is that they can do anything by hook or crook'
The crisis staring at the 13-month old government after over a dozen MLAs of the ruling combine quit on Saturday deepened with two Ministers and Independent MLAs -- H Nagesh and R Shankar -- resigning from the ministry and withdrawing their support to the coalition.
Counting of votes is underway in assembly byelection to 58 seats in 11 states including Madhya Pradesh where the results will decide the fate of the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government.
JD-S sources read it as an attempt by Modi to sow seeds of doubt in the Opposition ranks.
India's first exclusive defence satellite GSAT-7 was successfully launched by European space consortium Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana on Friday, giving a major push to the country's maritime security.
The kind of jobs that will last in future are creative, people-led and social. These are the jobs that automation can't take away.
The winds of nationalism laden with religion will now yield to those of concern over the stalled economy, unemployment, and a general malaise and unhappiness, predicts Shekhar Gupta.
Pegging the growth of the Indian television market at about 10 per cent in the next five years, Philips India on Thursday said the biggest growth markets for TVs would be smaller towns and rural areas.
India is trying to push a national goods and services tax (GST) through parliament that would replace a myriad of state sales taxes and shake-up government revenue.
The ruling coalition had held out the threat of using the Whip against the wayward MLAs, citing the disqualification provision under the anti-defection law.
The MLAs -- Ramesh Jarkiholi, Mahesh Kumtalli, Umesh Jadhav, and Nagendra -- did not ascribe any reason for not attending the opening day's session.
In the third phase of the Lok Sabha election on April 23, 116 seats spread across 13 states and two Union Territories, will go to the polls.
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