Thursday, July 5, 2012

How Galaxy smartphones drove Samsung's $ 5.9bn record profit

How Galaxy smartphones drove Samsung's $ 5.9bn record profit


How Galaxy smartphones drove Samsung's $ 5.9bn record profit

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 07:02 PM PDT

5-year-old boy dies after falling into open sewerage in Gurgaon

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:14 PM PDT

Only two weeks after the death of four-year-old girl Mahi who fell into a borewell, a five-year-old boy also fell to his death tonight in an open sewerage line near Industrial Model Township here.


Verdict on Mayawati in disproportionate assets case likely today

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:11 PM PDT

Ms Mayawati has accused the CBI of carrying out political vendetta against her, saying the case should be closed as the Income Tax Tribunal has given her a clean chit, which has been upheld by the Del...

Kingfisher Airlines wins more time to stay aloft

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:58 AM PDT

Embattled Kingfisher Airlines on Thursday won more time from lenders to develop a turnaround plan while its bankers moved ahead with the sale of two properties to recover a small fraction of what they...


Moody's, S&P take steps to downgrade Barclays

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:55 AM PDT

Two leading credit rating agencies took steps on Thursday toward downgrading Barclays in the wake of a trading scandal that's seen three senior Barclays executives, including CEO Bob Diamond, hand in ...


Monsoon rains 49 per cent below average in past week

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:18 AM PDT

A shortfall in monsoon rains has widened to nearly 50 per cent of average in the past week, making a revival next week crucial for farmers to sow summer-planted crops such as rice, corn, cane, cotton ...

US files complaint against China on cars

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:51 AM PDT

FIFA approves goal-line technology, five officials at matches

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:49 AM PDT

Football's world governing body FIFA has agreed to allow the introduction of goal-line technology (GLT) at a meeting of the sport's executives here on Thursday.The technology will be used at the Club ...


Betul's baby Aradhana passes away, was conjoined twin till recently

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:29 AM PDT

Aradhana, one of the twin sisters from Betul in Madhya Pradesh, who were joined from the chest since birth and were separated after a complex operation last month, died today after two heart attacks. ...


Portion of Rajasthan University's science wing collapses

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:15 AM PDT

A portion of a three-storey building that housed the University of Rajasthan's science laboratories for research scholars collapsed here about an hour before the classes were to start on Thursday morn...

Football chiefs lift ban on women wearing headscarves

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:12 AM PDT

Football chiefs agreed on Thursday to lift a ban on women wearing headscarves during games, clearing the way for the participation of many Muslim nations in top-flight competition.Until the vote by th...

Corruption not rampant in our government: Manmohan Singh

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:10 AM PDT

African student beaten, stoned in Jalandhar; in coma for 3 months

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:08 AM PDT

Faulty data misled pilot in 2009 Air France plane crash: Report

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:55 AM PDT

A combination of faulty sensors and mistakes by inadequately trained pilots caused an Air France jet to plunge into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, killing all 228 people aboard in the airline's deadliest...


Child kidnapper caught on camera at Mumbai station

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:53 AM PDT

The Mumbai Police has released a CCTV footage from the city's biggest train station which shows a man kidnapping a baby girl. Please call Senior Inspector Surendra Deshmukh of the CST Police station a...


Top CBI official who filed Adarsh chargesheet transferred

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:19 AM PDT

A day after the chargesheet was filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Adarsh scam case, a top official of the investigating agency has been transferred. Rishi Raj Singh, who was th...


Lenders may sell Vijay Mallya's Goa villa: top 10 developments

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:18 AM PDT

The lenders of Kingfisher Airlines on Thursday appointed mortgage firm HDFC to re-value two of the airline's properties. The consortium of lenders may decide on selling them to recover a part of th...

Why you should know Frank Ocean

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 08:43 AM PDT

On a recent Saturday morning here Frank Ocean was up early, well rested and ready to walk Everest, his Bernese mountain dog, through the up-and-down streets near the modest and modern home he's been r...


Smoker's aid behind UK bus search on freeway

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 08:25 AM PDT

British police said on Thursday that reports of suspicious activity on a bus, which set off a massive emergency response and forced the closure of a section of a major highway in central England, were...


After Duster, Renault to unveil sedan before Diwali

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 08:00 AM PDT

Missing actor Laila Khan shot dead, says her stepfather: 10 facts

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 07:23 AM PDT

Lenders may sell Vijay Mallya’s Goa villa: top 10 developments

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 07:23 AM PDT

How much space do MPs want from common people, asks Arvind Kejriwal

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 07:10 AM PDT

The activists known as Team Anna were told today that they cannot hold an indefinite fast against corruption at Delhi's Jantar Mantar later this month. The Delhi Police wrote to the activists, stating...

Jagadish Shettar to be new Karnataka Chief Minister, courtesy BS Yeddyurappa

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 06:50 AM PDT

Bowing to pressure from B S Yeddyurappa, BJP appears set to replace Karnataka Chief Minister Sadanand Gowda with Lingayat leader Jagadish Shettar and an announcement is expected within a week.


The God particle through a scientist's eyes

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 06:21 AM PDT

Dr Archana Sharma is the only Indian on the rolls of CERN. Since 1989 she has worked on instrumentation, detector design, also development, installation and commissioning of the CMS experiment. She is...


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