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Lenovo launches six new smartphones, starting from Rs 8,689Nidhi Singal A snapshot of Lenovo A390 Shifting its focus to the smartphone segment, Lenovo launched six new smartphones in the Indian market...
View ArticleSyria conflict: Army 'retakes Golan Heights crossing' bbc.com
Israeli officials have increasingly voiced fears the civil war in Syria could spill over their bordersThe Syrian army has taken control of a UN-monitored crossing in the Golan Heights which had been...
View ArticleUS 'orders Verizon to disclose millions of phone records'
The court order was described by one civil rights group as "beyond Orwellian"The US National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting the telephone records of tens of millions of Americans, according to...
View ArticleFBI and Microsoft take down $500m-theft botnet Citadel
Citadel spread by being included with pirated versions of WindowsThe FBI and Microsoft have broken up a huge network of hijacked home computers responsible for stealing more than $500m (£323m) from...
View ArticleAlice Kober: Unsung heroine who helped decode Linear B
By Alex GallafentPRI's The WorldOne of the few pictures of the woman who worked behind the scenes on Linear BLinear B is an ancient European Bronze Age script, dating back 3,500 years. When a British...
View ArticleRaj Kundra: India IPL team owner's passport seized
Raj Kundra, who is British, owns the Rajasthan Royals team and is married to Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty Police investigating allegations of spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League cricket...
View ArticleIs Burma's opening up irreversible? bbc.com
TinTin dreams of a better life, but growth has so far been confined to the citiesHere in Burma, at the largest World Economic Forum meeting outside of Davos, the overwhelming consensus is that the...
View Article3D Printing Could Be A Boon For Small Business
Comment NowFollow CommentsFollowing CommentsUnfollow Comments (Photo Credit: iStock)For small businesses that make things and for entrepreneurs who dream of doing the same, the...
View ArticleInside Microsoft Mogul Paul Allen's Multi-Million Dollar WWII Airplane...
Paul Allen, Microsoft billionaire and airplane collector. Photo: Eric Millette.PAUL ALLEN IS STARING UP AT THE BARREL of an enormous gun–more like a cannon and more than twice his height. In the newly...
View ArticleGoogle's Next Cloud Product: Google Blimps To Bring Wireless Internet to Africa
A surveillance blimp in Afghanistan. Source: ISAF (CC BY 2.0. U.S. Army photo by Master Sgt. Travis Vallery) Not content with offering super-fast broadband in Austin and Kansas City, Google GOOG+0.49%...
View ArticleBangalore’s Rain-Catcher: The man who never paid for water
Nilofer D'Souza How to get ROI from your house by going greenA.R. Shivakumar at his home, where he installed his homemade solar heater 19 years agoHeavy rains in the past three days have cooled...
View ArticleRashesh Shah: Every setback is an opportunity to recalibrate
Image: Vikas KhotRashesh Shah co-founded Edelweiss in 1996, after working for ICICI. He has seen the financial services industry grow in India for more than 20 years, and turned Edelweiss from a Rs...
View ArticleOnkar Kanwar: I was a novice in the business and that was to be my biggest...
Image: Amit VermaOnkar Singh Kanwar, 70, is the chairman of the $2.5 billion Apollo Tyres, one of India’s largest tyre manufacturing companies. He took control of Apollo Tyres in 2002 and under his...
View ArticleAlok Kejriwal: I was being called a broker when I was the innovator and pioneer
Image: Prasad Gori for Forbes IndiaAlok Kejriwal, 45, is the co-founder and CEO of online gaming company Games2Win which is one of the top 20 global firms in its category. He is a well-regarded serial...
View ArticleSri Lanka's Bank of Ceylon to finance Rs 3.9 bn road
06 Jun, 201317:58:13June 6, 2013 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's state-run Bank of Ceylon will finance 48.2 kilometre road at a cost of 3,915 million rupees, the state information office...
View ArticlePresident’s right to merge provinces to be repealed
Stripping of provinical land, police powers not discussed – KeheliyaJune 6, 2013, 12:00 pmby Zacki JabbarThe Cabinet of Ministers has approved a proposal to repeal the President’s right to merge...
View ArticleJVP insists on scrapping Provincial Councils
June 6, 2013, 12:00 pmBy Dasun EdirisingheThe JVP yesterday urged the government to scrap the 13th Amendment to the Constitution and do away with provincial councils without wasting time in making...
View ArticleDIG Vass Gunawardena questioned over killing
June 6, 2013, 10:30 pmThe Criminal Investigation Department (CID) probing the abduction and the killing of a prominent businessman at Bambalapitiya last month, has questioned four police officers,...
View ArticleEastern Province ruling coalition marriage goes sour?
June 6, 2013, 10:31 pmBy Franklin R. SatyapalanThe boycott of Eastern Provincial Council (EPC) sessions by the Board of Ministers (BoM) and all ruling Party councilors continued, Council sources said...
View ArticleJHU begins talks with all parties on scrapping 13-A
June 6, 2013, 10:34 pmBy Franklin R. SatyapalanMinister of Technology, Research and Atomic Energy Patali Champika Ranawaka said yesterday morning that his party would commence discussions with all...
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