Karnataka Education board to announce results for PUC & SSLC on May 6

The Karnataka education board will announce the results of the SSLC on 6th May 2010 at 07:00 AM. The result of PUC will also be announced on the same day.

Result will be published on the official website of  PUC and SSLC. The official websites for SSLC and PUC are www.kseeb.org and pue.kar.nic.in

The SSLC exam was conducted from April 1 and Around 8.35 lakh appeared fro the examination. PUC exam was conducted from March 18 and 6.51 lakh students appeared for the exams.


Result can also be checked from the following websites: http://results.karnatakaeducation.net/ 
http://karresults.nic.in/
www.kseeb.org

Intel to produce chips for Mobile phones

Intel is virtually synonymous with processor technology. Intel has been the leading developer of the chips that drive servers, desktops, notebooks, and even net books, but it is conspicuously absent from the rapidly growing smartphone--and now tablet--market.

Intel is playing catch-up to try and challenge ARM-based processors like the A4 that drives the Apple iPad.Intel has a dominant stake in the processor market--with about 70 percent, and it has only one real competitor in AMD. Multiple core processors and server virtualization, combined with a trend toward mobile platforms like smartphones and tablets, however, threaten the future of Intel's dominance.

eScan's Antivirus for Linux systems

eScan has announced the launch of its latest version for protection of Linux systems - eScan for Linux version 3.0. According to eScan, this solution works fine for both Linux desktops and file servers.

eScan for Linux Version 3.0 boasts of an improved antivirus engine that is claimed to enable quicker scanning and better detection of the latest threats. It can read inside the data stream and virtually scans all types of files; including zipped and archived files to detect threats. It allows the user to run preset action like disinfect the file or delete the infected file or rename it or prompt for action. It also provides the user commonly seen features (on Windows based antivirus softwares) like scheduling an automatic scanning and downloading of updates.

The software is available for major Linux distro's including Debian, Fedora, RedHat, Slackware, Suse and Ubuntu. You might want to visit the eSacn website for more on this.

SonyEricsson's X series phones will be upgraded with Android 2.1

Sony Ericsson's Xperia X10, X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro will all get upgraded from Android 1.6 to version 2.1 during the fourth quarter, the phone vendor said in a blog post on Wednesday.

After the upgrade, the Xperia X10 will be able to record video at 720p and connect to other consumer electronics devices using DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance). Sony Ericsson will improve their own additions to Android, Timescape and Mediascape, as well. The two applications organize messages such as Twitter posts, Facebook updates and SMS messages, as well as phone calls and multimedia.

Skype's New plan

Skype on Wednesday confirmed new monthly call subscription plans that, according to Skype, bring down the costs of Skype-enabled Internet calls even further. In addition, according to one report, Skype has a long-sought group video chat function in the works that it plans to test as a public beta as early as next week.

The new subscription plans cover 170 countries and will launch Thursday. According to Skype, the plans, which start at $1.09 a month and offer call rates as low as 1 cent per minute to any of the 170 countries, come in one-month, three-month and 12-month calling increments and 60-minute to unlimited time increments. Skype claims the plans will save users as much as 60 percent of what they pay for Skype's existing Pay As You Go rates.

Now its Zetabytes ... PetaBytes storage capacity is nowhere

Every man, woman and child on the planet using micro-blogging site Twitter for a century. For many people that may sound like a vision of hell, but for watchers of the tremendous growth of digital communications it is a neat way of presenting the sheer scale of the so-called digital universe. The explosion of social networking, online video services and digital photography, plus the continued popularity of mobile phones, email and web browsing, coupled with the growing desire of corporations and governments to know and store ever more data about everyone has created an unprecedented amount of digital information and introduced a new word to the nerd lexicon: a zettabyte.

Google to start Google Editions by late June

Google Inc. plans to begin selling digital books in late June or July, a company official said Tuesday, throwing the search giant into a battle that already involves Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and Barnes & Noble Inc.

Google has been discussing its vision for distributing books online for several years and for months has been evangelizing about its new service, called Google Editions. The company is hoping to distinguish Google Editions in the marketplace by allowing users to access books from a broad range of websites using an array of devices, unlike rivals that are focused on proprietary devices and software.

Rediff releases List of Most read NewPapers in India

Dainik Jagran continues to be India's most read newspaper across all languages.

Meanwhile, of the Top 10 English dailies, five dailies, including The Times of India, The Hindu, Deccan Chronicle, The Economic Times and DNA have seen a drop in total readership.

Interestingly, the readership of Hindustan Times, The New Indian Express, Mid-Day and Mumbai Mirror has gone up
                          

India's most read Newspapers list

Bajaj to compete with Nano in Partnership with Global major Renault

Bajaj Auto on Wednesday promised a competitor to the Tata Nano by 2012, with a similar price tag of around $2,500 but better fuel efficiency, in collaboration with global auto giant Renault Nissan.

“If people who ride two-wheelers have to move up to a four-wheeler, what is most important is that the monthly cost of ownership must be affordable. This is rooted in three parameters — the price, the mileage and the maintenance,” managing director Rajiv Bajaj told reporters here, unveiling the company’s new range of three-wheeled passenger vehicles.

Asked if the price of the car will be around $2,500, as mentioned by Renault chief executive Carlos Ghosn, he replied in the affirmative.

Airtel in Partnership with Novatium to Boost its Internet business

Telecom service provider Bharti Airtel on Wednesday entered into partnership with cloud computing service provider Novatium to expand broadband business in India.

Under the tie-up, Novatium would offer cloud computing services, 'Airtel Net PC', for Airtel broadband customers in India, Bharti Airtel Telemedia Services-CMO Vikas Singh told reporters here.

Pan India 3G license fee raises to Rs.11,000 Crore on 22th round

The bid for pan-India 3G spectrum crossed Rs 11,000 crore on Day 22 of the auction on Wednesday, assuring the government a revenue of over Rs 44,500 crore.

According to the latest figures on the website of Department of Telecom (DoT), the pan-India 3G bid touched Rs 11,045 crore with Mumbai being the costliest circle at Rs 1,909.18 crore.

DoT, however, said that operators would be asked to bid for 'B' and 'C' category circles also after another four rounds of the bidding.

Indian born Professor to be Dean in Harvard business school

An India-born professor and IIT alumnus who has long championed a pledge for organizational leaders and managers on the lines of the Hippocratic Oath for doctors to enhance accountability in the corporate world has been named Dean of the prestigious Harvard Business School.

Nitin Nohria, who is currently the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS), will become the School's 10th dean, Harvard President Drew Faust announced on Tuesday.

Nohria is the first Indian, and indeed the first non-white, to become the dean of the 102-year old institution that typically ranks among the top three business-schools in the world.

Jagran Prakashan to buy Mid-Day for Rs.175Crores

Jagran Prakashan, which publishes one of India's largest read language dailies, Wednesday said it will acquire all the publications of Mid-Day Multimedia in a stock deal valued at around Rs.175 crore (nearly $40 million).

The board of the group said all the publications, including Mid-Day, published from four centres, Sunday Mid-Day, Gujarati Mid-Day and the Inquilab, among the largest circulated Urdu newspapers, will be acquired by way of a de-merger.

The print businesses of Mid-Day are run by a wholly-owned subsidiary, Mid-Day Infomedia Limited, and includes its internet-related properties, the company said in a regulatory filing with stock exchanges.

Top officials from Chinese telecom equipment suppliers to meet Govt officials

Top honchos of Chinese telecom companies will meet senior government officials here in the next two days to resolve all issues, including security concerns, regarding export of equipment to India.

The meetings take place amid reports that Chinese companies are being disallowed from bidding for some contracts to supply telecom equipment to Indian companies. And some of their shipments are stuck in the country for want of various clearances.

"We are examining the situation and meeting government officials. We hope that we will certainly reach a solution soon," a top official of ZTE, one of China's largest telecom equipment maker.

Pak foreign minister to visit Delhi

Keen on taking the bilateral dialogue process forward, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi is expected to visit New Delhi to meet his counterpart S M Krishna, which will be followed by a meeting of Foreign Secretaries in Islamabad, according to the diplomatic sources.

The Prime Ministers' of both countries met during the XVIth SAARC summit at Thimphu last week and asked their foreign ministers and foreign secretaries to work on modalities for restoring trust and to meet as soon as possible.

It is expected that the two foreign ministers may meet before the Indo-US strategic dialogue to be held in Washington on June 3.

Videocon debarred from World Bk operations for 3Yrs

In a blow to the image of India Inc, the World Bank has debarred Venugopal Dhoot-led Videocon for three years beginning January 10, 2010 for indulging in fraudulent and corrupt practices in some of its dealings with the bank. Ban on the company will be operative till January 11, 2013, a World Bank news release posted on its website said.

The ban came after investigations by the World Bank as part of its broader governance and anti-corruption agenda, the bank said in a news release from Washington. Charges against Videocon include violation in procurement guidelines of the bank. Action was earlier initiated against two other Indian companies - Satyam computers and Wipro, on charges of fraudulence related to contractual norms.

No radioactive materials in NewDelhi 'NOW'

Radioactive materials are no longer lying in the open in India's national capital and the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has taken possession of all such pieces, an official said in Mumbai on Wednesday.

The AERB experts have succeeded in recovering all the 16 radioactive pencils which led to radiation poisoning in a scrap dealer’s shop. The radiation claimed life of one person, injured seven other people, and created a scare in Delhi.

“There is now no radioactive material anywhere in the open in the affected areas which were investigated,” the official said.

Twists in young Journalists death in NewDelhi

In a new twist to the alleged honour killing of 22-year-old journalist Nirupama Rathak, who died at her family home in Koderma, the chief civil surgeon of the area claimed on Tuesday that at least three persons were probably involved in the murder.

Pranoy Mohan, chief civil surgeon (Koderma district), told that the postmortem report indicates that it would have taken at least three persons to smother the girl. "There are no external injuries on her body. It seems that someone stuffed a pillow over her nose and face, and two others used cloth to tie down her hand and feet to stop her from breaking free. The noose was tied around the neck definitely after her death," Mohan said.

SC slams illegal use of narcoanalysis tests; Govt reacts causitiously

Government on Wednesday reacted cautiously to the Supreme Court verdict declaring as illegal compulsory use of narcoanalysis test, saying it had to go through the judgement.

"Judiciary has given a judgement. We need to go through it...it is too early to react on that (judgement)," law minister M Veerappa Moily told reporters.

He said the issue of narcoanalysis has been "agitating" the mind of the jurists and the judiciary and the issue has been a subject of national debate.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday declared as "illegal" compulsory use of narcoanalysis, brainmapping and polygraph tests on suspects.

Google India revamps the search result page

Google India added some features to the search results page.

Some of the features include Updates from twitter, pages during a particular timeline , news items etc.... Check out to find the latest features.

Here are some of the screenshots:

Plane made Priority Landing in Kolkata after reports

A SpiceJet flight with 123 passengers on board had a scare today after two Russian nationals including a woman in burqa behaved "suspiciously" and the plane made a priority landing at Kolkata airport.

The Delhi-Kolkata-Dhaka flight (SG 208) of the low-cost air carrier touched down at the NSC Bose airport at 11:23 am after being given clearance by the Air Traffic Control(ATC) to land ahead of other aircraft over Kolkata airspace, airport sources said. All passengers were safe.

The aircraft was immediately taken to an isolation bay and was surrounded by CISF personnel, the bomb squad, fire brigade and the police in line with an emergency drill, sources said.

Iceland Volcano erupts again ; disrupts flight ops

Ash from the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull again caused the closure of airspace in Ireland and parts of Britain for hours on Tuesday, but this did not impact flights from India to Europe or the UK.

When Eyjafjallajokull erupted on April 14, flights to and from Europe were disrupted for about a week, leading to widespread chaos at airports around the world as passengers remained stranded.

On Tuesday, an increase in volcanic activity resulted in a fresh ash plume being pushed about 5.5km into the air. Due to wind conditions, the cloud moved towards the northern parts of the UK.

An officer and Soldier Martyed in a gun Battle in Kashmir

An army officer and a soldier succumbed to injuries sustained in a gun battle between separatist guerrillas and security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora district, police said Wednesday.

A raiding party of the army and local police was moved out Tuesday night to lay a cordon in Chatibandi village in the district following specific information that a group of militants was hiding there, police added.

US to announce date for India's access to Headley

The US will inform India by next week about possible dates, most likely in this month, for giving direct access to Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley.

Sources in the Home Ministry said by May 15, the US will convey to India when a team of Indian investigators will visit Chicago for "direct access" to Headley.

"India in all likelihood will get direct access within this month only," they said.

Sources said apart from National Investigating Agency (NIA) and Mumbai Police officials, a team comprising a Magistrate, legal experts and MHA officials will go to the US to interrogate Headley.