Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Microsoft unveils Windows 8 for consumer testing

Microsoft unveils Windows 8 for consumer testing


Microsoft unveils Windows 8 for consumer testing

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 12:11 PM PST

Microsoft on Wednesday let consumers start trying out its upcoming touch-based Windows 8 operating system, which aims to power a new wave of computer tablets and traditional PCs designed to counter Ap...


Seven-month-old baby stolen from Mumbai hospital

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 11:31 AM PST

BJP alleges ambulance scam in Rajasthan, company linked to two ministers' sons

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 10:49 AM PST

The BJP says that a company with connections to the sons of two senior union ministers has gypped the government of crores of rupees in Rajasthan where it's been hired to supply ambulances across the...


Government not to challenge Supreme Court order on 2G licences

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 09:39 AM PST

The Indian government will decide by the end of this week what action it would take on the Supreme Court's order quashing 122 licences issued in 2008, Telecom Secretary R Chandrashekhar said on Wednes...


Indians likely to be hit by new UK 'permanent settlement' norms

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 09:32 AM PST

For the first time, Britain is breaking the link between the number of years a migrant spends in the country and permanent settlement, by introducing a 35,000-pound annual salary threshold, a move tha...


I would have had more changes in the team: Gavaskar

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 09:00 AM PST

Karnataka's porn scandal: MLAs suggest media share blame

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 07:16 AM PST

In Karnataka, seven MLAS are investigating the politics-and-porn scandal. Their committee's task is to investigate how and why three former ministers were watching porn on a cellphone while the Karnat...


Cops beating teen caught on camera in Andhra Pradesh

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 07:14 AM PST

A day after a sixteen-year-old boy was allegedly beaten up by police in full public view at Jagtial town in Karimnagar district of Andhra Pradesh, the state human rights commission today directed the ...


Brad Pitt's secret visit to India to shoot film on Osama killing

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:59 AM PST

Actor Brad Pitt is shooting in Chandigarh for Kathryn Bigelow's film on the US raid that located and killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad. Chandigarh's Sector 15 was dressed up to impersonate Abbot...


Mamata Banerjee's nephew arrested for slapping traffic cop

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:56 AM PST

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew, Akash Banerjee, has been arrested for allegedly slapping a traffic policeman. Mr Banerjee's car was stopped in Khidderpore for violating a traffic rule -...


James Murdoch steps down as executive chairman of News International

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:30 AM PST

Bhanwari Devi murder case: Top 10 facts

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:22 AM PST

Brad Pitt in Chandigarh for Hollywood movie on Osama

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:18 AM PST

Actor Brad Pitt is shooting in Chandigarh for Kathryn Bigelow's film on the US raid that located and killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad. Chandigarh's Sector 15 was dressed up to impersonate Abbotta...


Bhanwari Devi case: Former minister Maderna charged with murder

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:07 AM PST

The CBI says former Rajasthan minister Mahipal Singh Maderna and a former Congress MLA Malkhan Singh together plotted the abduction and murder of nurse Bhanwari Devi, and has charged both men with mur...


Kalmadi, who claimed dementia, lectures defence committee

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:06 AM PST

Suresh Kalmadi, who cited dementia while asking for bail last year, attended a meeting of Parliament's Defence Consultative Committee. The 30-member committee is headed by Defence Minister AK Antony ...


Two Lashkar men arrested were planning Delhi terror attacks

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 05:54 AM PST

PM waits on stage at rally as audio system fails

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 05:35 AM PST

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh suffered acute embarrasment after the failure of the public address system at an election rally at Sanquelim, 40 kms from state capital Panaji. The public address system ...

Asia Cup: Sachin to play, Sehwag dropped, Kohli is vice-captain

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 05:33 AM PST

The big news, Sachin Tendulkar is part of the 15-member squad for Asia Cup, while out-of-form Virender Sehwag has been rested along with pacers Zaheer Khan and Umesh Yadav.Virat Kohli, who powered Ind...


Naveen Patnaik writes to PM again, asks for meeting of all chief ministers

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 05:10 AM PST

Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik has written another letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, opposing the powers to be vested in the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC). This is Mr ...

Bhanwari Devi case: Maderna charged with murder, destruction of evidence

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 04:45 AM PST

The CBI has charged former Rajasthan minister Mahipal Singh Maderna with murder, abduction, criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence in the Bhanwari Devi murder case. Similar charges have been ...


Men arrested wanted to bomb crowded Delhi area, says Home Minister

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 04:25 AM PST

2G spectrum auction to take at least 400 days: Official

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 03:56 AM PST

Tata asks Supreme Court to review cancellation of its 2G licenses

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 03:41 AM PST

New asteroid could hit earth in 2040

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 03:40 AM PST

A new asteroid, identified by NASA, could potentially hit the earth Feb 5, 2040, even though it is much smaller than the one -- nine miles across -- which wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago....

Japan tsunami debris floating across Pacific toward US

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 03:32 AM PST

Refrigerators, TVs and other debris dragged into sea when a massive earthquake hit Japan last March, causing tsunamis as high as 130 feet (40 meters) to crash ashore, could show up in remote atolls no...

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