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Microsoft introduced its next generation Mobile OS ‘Windows Phone 7’ at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Analysts say that Windows Phone 7 is going to give a tough competition to iPhone. Windows Phone 7 is said to be Microsoft’s next attempt to take hold of the rapidly-growing mobile market.
Windows Phone 7 has a lot [...]
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Xerox Corp is all set to open its research lab in India. Xerox is one of the largest makers of high-speed colour printers. This is the first lab Xerox is opening in a developing market to expand its services division.
The lab in Chennai, India, will work with local universities to develop document-management services for rising [...]
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There is another turn in the China and Google dispute with China warning Google to obey its rules or face its consequences. This has given the indication that the dispute is not going to end in the near future with China not going for a negotiation in the dispute over hacking.
China has told Google that [...]
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In this year’s campus placements Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) has ranked first in the choice of recruiters with unsurpassed salary offers.
One of its graduate has got a record $350,000 (Rs 1.6 crore) offer from a global investment bank based in South East Asia and two more have been offered packages of over Rs 1 [...]
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After Rajya Sabha passed the historic Women’s reservation bill ensuring 33% reservation for women, the bill now goes to the Lok Sabha. There is no deadline, it depends on the government how much time it wants to take to travel from one House to the other.
Parties like RJD, SP etc who are dead against the [...]
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The historic Women’s reservation bill ensuring 33% reservation has been passed by Rajya Sabha yesterday after lots of drama. Congress did not deter from its decision of putting the bill in the Rajya Sabha despite the threat of withdrawal of support from Samajwadi party and Rashtriya Janta Dal. The bill was passed by more than [...]
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Right now only 59 seats out of total 545 seats in Lok Sabha are represented by women. Women’s strength in the Lok Sabha has floated between 11 per cent and 3.5 per cent. This shows that the proportion of women in the legislatures did not replicate the gender equality preserved in the Constitution. Women’s strength [...]
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Women’s reservation bill is making headlines these days with Congress trying its best to get it passed in the Parliament on International Women’s Day. So what’s this bill all about? This blog tries to find out:
Almost 100 countries ensure women representation in national legislative bodies through various kind of quota. Some 20 countries don’t have [...]
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According to a ‘Liveability Index’ released by CII on the basis of a survey Delhi won over metros like Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Kolkata; NCR towns Gurgaon, Noida and Faridabad; and even planned cities like Chandigarh to be voted the best city to live in.
Delhi ranks first on parameters like population density, safety, transport, education, [...]
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Protect yourself against ‘Koobface worm’, ‘Clampi’, ‘URLzone’ and the ‘Zeus’ Trojans that get installed in your computer stealing your login ids and passwords. These Trojans continue to outwit network security experts around the world.
They aim at social networking website and online banking users and transfer login ids and passwords to cyber criminals. ‘Koobface’, between August [...]