Sharma, currently posted as Deputy Inspector General (DIG), armed units, in Rajkot, had sought information under the Right to Information (RTI) to reply to the showcause notice slapped on him in February. The cop has been targetted by the Narendra Modi government for providing call record details related to 2002 Godhra riots to Nanavati Commission [...]
Chipmaker Intel Corp has said computer makers Lenovo, Asustek and Acer would launch their new category of notebook computers in the third to fourth quarter, and expects to see their prices below $999 in the fourth quarter. Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment arm, will create a $300-million fund to invest in companies building hardware and [...]
Jigsee, which develops adaptive video streaming technology for wireless devices, claims it has developed technology to deliver continuous video streams in low-bandwidth environments, with data rates as low as 50 kilobytes per second (kbps). Industry reports peg the average speed of GPRS data rates across India at around 60 kbps. The usual procedure of sending [...]
Ahead of Hindu festival Raksha Bandhan, which will be celebrated on August 13, people in Jaipur thronged local markets to buy sacred thread known as ‘Rakhis’. A wide variety of colourful ‘Rakhis’ embedded with precious stones are available in the markets. Raksha Bandhan occupies a special place in the Hindu religious calendar. The festival, symbolic [...]
Understanding of god God is omnipresent. To me, god exists in everyone. Every moment in front of another human is an opportunity to find god in his highest values and best self. Loving people unconditionally is what I think god is all about. As they say, anbe sivam (love is god). Spiritual practices I am [...]
Markets declined as investors remained cautious over murky global outlook and expectations that the Reserve Bank of India would continue to hike rates after better than expected industrial output data. The Nifty opened in the green and touched a high of 5,195 tracking firm global cues. The index wilted under selling pressure after the industrial [...]
Bangalore: A stomach injury that cut short his England tour might not be the only worry for Harbhajan Singh now. The veteran off-spinner has come under fire for his bad patch. Convalescing at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) here, he talked to TOI about the ebb and flow of his career, returned the brickbats in [...]
Birmingham: Four months ago, when Duncan Fletcher became Indian cricket’s celebrated new import, he surely knew what he was getting into. After all, the team had just won the World Cup; it had been No. 1 in Tests for some time too. Something else, though, would have been on top of his mind: expectations from the [...]
SACHIN Tendulkar is carrying a burden that is far heavier than that his fans have placed on him over the years. I do not know what it is, maybe the century of centuries maybe one of those secret goals that he sets for himself, and I don’t think anyone will know it for his mind is a [...]
INDIA’S reign at the top may have ended. It’s plain to see that we are out of our depth in this series. There is no shame in losing to a better team and in these conditions, it’s a bit of a mismatch. Despite the advantage of the toss in the two Tests, we were well and truly [...]