Indian Mobile Manufacturer Micromax emulating the Samsung Strategy ?

Micromax is an Indian consumer electronic company which mostly deals with Telecom related devices. With Canvas inventory, Micromax has occupied second position in smartphone market share overtaking other popular brands like Nokia, LG and Sony. Before introduction of Canvas 4, Micromax mantra was to offer premium phone features with decent hardware at affordable price. But now I sense a change in its strategy, following Samsung type of success strategy. Here is why I fee so.

Indian Mobile Manufacturer Micromax emulating the Samsung Strategy ?

World's Cheapest Android Tablet, Aakash @ $ 35

After a long wait, here comes the world's cheapest android tablet from Indian Govt, which it states that it is purely developed for Educational purpose. Major Indian News channel, NDTV, got hands on the Aakash, the tablet which is named after. Its a 7" resistive tablet, looks similar to Sam Galaxy 7" Tab at instant look. It is preloaded with Android 2.2.2 (Froyo), powered by 366 MHz processor.



Brief Specification:

World's Cheapest Android Tablet, Aakash @ $ 35

Delhi's Street child to represent India at the prestigious 'The Art of Photography Show 2011'.

The prestigious 'The Art of Photography Show' which is gonna held at San Diego, US, this year(2011) will be having a sole Indian representative. Vicky Roy, a street child-turned ace art photographer, talent will be show cased at the prestigious 'The Art of Photography Show 2011' later this month.

Vicky Roy's photograph was one of the 109 entries from 72 countries chosen from among 15,444 photographs."

The chosen photograph, "In all colors and sizes", is from Roy's new photography series "A Better Life".

Delhi's Street child to represent India at the prestigious 'The Art of Photography Show 2011'.

With the rise in crime against women, India ranked at fourth place for most dangerous place for women : Survey

According to report prepared by Thomson Reuters' Trust law Women with the help of the survey, India is ranked at fourth position as the world's most dangerous place for the women to live. This survey was prepared keeping an eye on the high number of female foeticide, infanticide and human trafficking prevalent in India.

Afghanistan leads the in this category followed by Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, India and Somalia.

With the rise in crime against women, India ranked at fourth place for most dangerous place for women : Survey

Now, India has the World's Seventh fastest Supercomputer 'SAGA-220'.

Recently, China claimed to be leader in Supercomputing by introducing Tianhe-1A, a supercomputer which has peak performance of 2.566 PFLOPS, powered by 14,336 Intel Xeon CPUs and 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 GPUs with a new interconnect fabric of Chinese origin, situated at National Supercomputing Center, Tianjin, China. How can it's neighbor country can be far behind?

On Monday, 2-May 2011, Indian Space Research Organisation has announced that they has built a supercomputer, which is to be India’s fastest in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 TeraFLOPS (220 Trillion Floating Point Operations per second).

Now, India has the World's Seventh fastest Supercomputer 'SAGA-220'.

This bank was safe from thieves but not from termites.

Million of rupees has ended as food for the termites, thanks to the negligence of Bank officials(not surprised). This incident happened at a bank's old building where currency notes stacked in a steel chest.

Police say termites have devoured currency notes worth 10 million rupees ($ 222,000), had registered a case of negligence by bank officials.

This bank was safe from thieves but not from termites.

Formula One Indian Track is ready: Organisers

India is ready and hopeful to host its first-ever Formula One race on October 30. The $350 million, 5.14-kilometre (3.2-mile) circuit is designed by German architect Hermann Tilke in Greater Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi, named as Buddh International Circuit.

As India is cricket frenzy nation, you will find an international-standard cricket stadium near to that circuit.

Formula One Indian Track is ready: Organisers

Mumbai is world's 6th most costly office location.

According to the survey conducted by global realty consultant Cushman & Wakefield, Mumbai slipped by one place to sixth in the list of the world's most expensive office locations in 2011, which was topped by Hong Kong, while London and Tokyo came second and third in the rankings, which valued Mumbai's office occupancy cost at USD 114 per square foot a year.

Mumbai is world's 6th most costly office location.

Militants in Kashmir, India forms Rock band in Jail.

A group of militants who are in jail at Kot Bhalwal set up their own band, named, the Inmates Pipe Band and was inaugurated by BR Sharma, principal secretary of the home ministry, Tuesday.

The band members will be allowed to go out of the prison confines to perform, officials said.

The band has been formed by the prisons department as part of its initiatives to reform prisoners and create opportunities for them for a fruitful vocation once they are out of jail. The band is also one of the very few "inmate bands" in the country.

Militants in Kashmir, India forms Rock band in Jail.

Now its time to be careful with coins, Govt of India soon to launch Rs 150 coin.

To celebrate the numbers of years(150) of taxation in India, for the first time , government will issue coins of Rs 150.

This special coins will be released by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee before his Budget speech, will also be brought out in Rs 5 denomination on the occasion of completion of 150 years, from 1860 to 2010, of the Income Tax department.

Now its time to be careful with coins, Govt of India soon to launch Rs 150 coin.

Guide: How to stop unwanted(telemarketers) calls and SMSes

With the new Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (TRAI) regulations, effective from March 1, 2011, we can hope some relief from the unwanted calls and SMSes.


Here are some of the proposals by TRAI:

Under the new guidelines consumers can choose their preference to receive or not to receive commercial communication from seven pre-defined categories. Users also have the option to either block all commercial calls and SMSes or to block only commercial calls while receiving SMSes of their choice.

Guide: How to stop unwanted(telemarketers) calls and SMSes

Airtel 3G services goes lives in India, full operations by march end.

After Tata Docomo(total) and Reliance(partial) launching 3G services, Bharti Airtel on Monday, i.e., 24-Jan 2011, launched its 3G service in India, with rollout plans to cover 1500-plus cities across the country by March next year.

By March this year, the Airtel said it would launch 3G service in 40-plus cities in 13 telecom circles, where it had won spectrum (radio waves) for 3G services in the auction held by the Government last year.

Airtel 3G services goes lives in India, full operations by march end.

British company to sell 'Samosas' in India.

This is Interesting....... Soon some Indian may be eating Samosas made by food company which is from Britain.

Farsan, an Indian food company based in the east Midlands town of Leicester, has opened a new factory in Gujarat to produce snacks such as samosas and bhajis.

Farsan managing director Nainesh Patel is in India on a two-week tour to promote the new factory and market his products to supermarket chains.

British company to sell 'Samosas' in India.

King Khan says, Ganguly is like my younger brother.

The embarrassment, received to the Bengal Tiger is all out in streets of Bengal in the form of violent protest. Kolkata Knight Riders' co-owner Shah Rukh Khan said that leaving out former India captain Sourav Ganguly from the team was a decision taken by the "cricketing brains" of the franchise and not by him.

Ganguly, state icon of West Bengal and who captained KKR in the inaugural and 2009 season, was completely ignored in two rounds of players' auction for the fourth edition.

King Khan says, Ganguly is like my younger brother.

Your personal cellphone data info is for sale for as low as Rs 0.01.

In a secret operation carried out by a correspondent belonging to one of the reputed and leading Newspaper agency, revealed the potential embarrassing issue regarding the privacy of Indian mobile users.

The correspondent spoke to one such organisation that sends bulk SMSes. Posing as a potential customer, this correspondent was made an amazing offer — 1 lakh mobile phone numbers for just Rs 1,000.

Your personal cellphone data info is for sale for as low as Rs 0.01.

Engineering students from Chennai, India develops nano satellites, weighs less than 10kgs

A group of 54(51 men and 3 women) engineering students from SRM University, Chennai, designed and developed a 10-kg nano satellite which is aimed to monitor greenhouse gases (GHG), expects, launch off with ISRO's Megatropics G satellite this April by ISRO.

Project named as 'SRMSAT', worked began long back in 2008, developed under the guidance of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).An estimated Rs.1 crore of rupees in invested in this project.

The students from 12 deparments of engineering in the university have been working closely with the ISRO to develop the nano satellite.

Engineering students from Chennai, India develops nano satellites, weighs less than 10kgs

India soon to have its own satellite navigation system, Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) .

Indian Space Research organisation (ISRO) official said that India will soon join a select group of nations having its own satellite navigation system which is going to be named as Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) which help to know the position, navigation and timing (PNT) services.

The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) will soon have 11 satellites in series to offer navigation and location knowing services.

India soon to have its own satellite navigation system, Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) .

Coal India will attempt second time to buy Mahatma Gandhi's Johannesburg house

Union Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal told PTI that we will be going to South Africa to make its second attempt to buy the house of Mahatma Gandhi in Johannesburg, where he had lived for over a year, with the desire to build a memorial there.

Earlier in August 2009, Coal India had made similar attempt to buy the house but that couldnt happened.

Coal India will attempt second time to buy Mahatma Gandhi's Johannesburg house

Fifth Generation Fighter air-crafts to be jointly developed by India and Russia.

Russian President is on 2 day official visit to India. In his tour, India and Russia on Dec-21 decided to jointly design and manufacture a most advanced Fifth generation stealth fighter by signing a preliminary design contract which is said to be worth $30 billion.

The preliminary design contract for the fifth generation fighter aircraft (FGFA) "envisages joint design and development" of the jet, an official statement said.

Fifth Generation Fighter air-crafts to be jointly developed by India and Russia.

India's first police case registered via facebook.

Kanpur Police was the first police station in India to register an FIR through Facebook. It's is not surprising as we had heard many incidents past, involving popular social networking sites like twitter and facebook delivering court judgement and as well as used in divorce related cases.

A Facebook user Tabish Ahmad, reported about his lost bag which contained important documents to the Kohna Station via facebook profile page. Police acted fast and started investigation as the user droped his address and phone no. during filing the report.

India's first police case registered via facebook.