iPhone 4 in India by October by Airtel

India's leading mobile operator, Bharti Airtel, is looking to launch Apple's iPhone 4 in September or October, Chief Executive Officer for India and South Asia Sanjay Kapoor said on Monday.

India's curbs on import of telecoms equipment are easing, Kapoor added. Carriers in the world's fastest-growing mobile market must obtain government clearance before they place any equipment purchase order, and earlier this year India had barred some operators from placing orders with China's Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp on security concerns.

Last week, the telecoms minister said the government expected to resolve the issue in a couple of weeks.

iPhone 4 in India by October by Airtel

UN assigns Mukesh Ambani to key group on development goals

Reliance Industries chief, Mr Mukesh Ambani, has been named by the United Nations to a key advocacy group on Millennium Development Goals, whose mandate includes finding ways to fight socio-economic evils such as poverty.

Mr Ambani is the only Indian to be a part of the MDG Advocacy Group that comprises eminent international personalities including Microsoft Chairman, Mr Bill Gates, philanthropist, Mr Ted Turner and Nobel laureate, Mr Muhammad Yunus, among others.

Ambani is expected to focus on a global partnership for development, that will include development of an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system.

UN assigns Mukesh Ambani to key group on development goals

Here Come the World No. 2, Saina Nehwal

Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal is just a step away from realising her goal of becoming the world's number one player as she jumped one place to a career-best second in the latest international rankings.

"I am very happy to achieve the world number two so soon in my career. The last three wins have really helped me. It is a great feeling but I feel my priority still will be to win more tournaments for India rather than focussing on ranking," Saina said.

"It will be difficult to hold on to the ranking but I hope to continue my hard work and win more titles and become the number one player soon," said the Hyderabadi shuttler, who is down with fever and cold.

Here Come the World No. 2, Saina Nehwal

Indian criminals prefer Dubai prisons to at-home jails

As India and UAE work out an agreement for prisoner exchange, Indians serving sentences in Dubai jails appear wary of the prospect of completing their terms in prisons at home, with some describing the detention centres in India as "hell".

Many Indian prisoners here in fact dread the prospect and are not keen to return home for the remaining period of incarceration, a media report said.

Several Indian prisoners in Dubai, who may be given a chance to serve their remaining prison terms back in India, say they are wary of going home because prisons back home are like "hell," it said.

Vinayak, a 76-year-old prisoner in jail on drug charges, told Gulf News he does not want to go to India to serve his remaining term.

Indian criminals prefer Dubai prisons to at-home jails

Check it out! Here is the Symbol for the Indian Currency designed by IITian.

At last after much delay the India Government had approved a design, design by IITian which will represent Indian Currency in the world distinguishably as many of the currencies in the sub continent as called as rupees. Its a blend of the Devanagri 'Ra' and Roman 'R' .

The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the design, which includes both the Devnagiri 'Ra' and the Roman capital 'R' and has two parallel lines running at the top. The parallel lines symbolise the equal to sign.

"With this India will join an elite group of countries which have a distinct currency symbol. It denotes the robustness of Indian economy. I will now hold up the design that was finally selected. This was sent in by Udaya Kumar," said Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni in New Delhi.

Check it out! Here is the Symbol for the Indian Currency designed by IITian.

Indian Prodigy is youngest professor at IIT-B

Patna-born child prodigy Dr Tathagat Tulsi has taken up a job as professor at Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay at the age of 22. Tulsi is possibly the youngest Assistant Professor at IIT. He will join the IIT faculty at Powai in Mumbai next week and teach Physics.

IIT Bombay sent his appointment letter sent on June 30 in which IIT Bombay Director Professor Devang V Khakar informed Tulsi that the institute's Board of Governors had offered him assistant professorship on contract at the Department of Physics.

He had finished high school at the age of nine, earned his BSc degree at 10, and MSc degree at 12 and then received his Doctorate in Quantum Computing from the Indian Institute of Science at the age of 21.

The Bihar boy has already turned down an offer from Waterloo University in Canada despite a lucrative pay package.

Indian Prodigy is youngest professor at IIT-B

Shocking Truth Behind the so called Developing India.

Acute poverty prevails in eight Indian states, including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, together accounting for more poor people than in the 26 poorest African nations combined, a new ‘multidimensional’ measure of global poverty has said.

The new measure, called the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), was developed and applied by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative(OPHI) with Undp support. It will be featured in the forthcoming 20th anniversary edition of the Undp Human Development Report.

An analysis by the MPI creators reveals that there are more ‘MPI poor’ people in eight Indian states (421 million in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal) than in the 26 poorest African countries combined (410 million).

Shocking Truth Behind the so called Developing India.

Hindu Drinking water from Mosque is a crime?

Several Hindus were attacked and forced out of their homes in Pakistan's southern Sindh province after a boy of the community drank water from a cooler outside a mosque.

About 60 Hindu men, women and children were recently forced to abandon their homes at Memon Goth in Karachi, the capital of Sindh, after influential tribesmen of the area objected to the boy drinking water.

"All hell broke loose when my son, Dinesh drank water from a cooler outside a mosque. Upon seeing him do that, the people of the area started beating him up," a Hindu man named Meerumal told The News daily.

"Later, around 150 tribesmen attacked us, injuring seven of our people who were taken to the Jinnah Hospital," he said.

Hindu Drinking water from Mosque is a crime?

Can you Belive it ? Indian Foreign Ministry is on twitter.

Following the steps of West side type of effort like US to interact with the public directly, Indian foreign ministry has has created a Twitter account and got several followers already.

You can follow them at @indiandiplomacy

In probably the first effort by a government ministry to experiment with the new age internet tools, the Twitter account was created on Thursday, which initially had only two posts.

A Facebook account is also being planned as is the launch of a new web portal by the public diplomacy division of the external affairs ministry, an official told IANS.

Can you Belive it ? Indian Foreign Ministry is on twitter.

Car cheaper then Nano designed by India's Ajmer Students is just worth $1555.

Inspired by the World's Cheapest Car, Engineering students from Ajmer had been working overtime i.r., eight hours a day to create a dream car for the middle class families. It runs on diesel and costs just 70 thousand rupees.

"When Tata launched its Nano car, we started thinking about all the areas where costs can be cut. Our basic idea was to locate all factors through which costs can be reduced and our car can be within the reach of the middle class," said Chaturbhuj Sharma, Engineering student, Bhagwant University.

Another student Samir Singh says, "We had to change a lot of designs and specifications to increase the fuel economy of the car. And through the efforts of our dedicated team, this car will run 35 kilometers per litre."

Car cheaper then Nano designed by India's Ajmer Students is just worth $1555.

India records highest rise in gas production worldwide.

India recorded the highest rise in natural gas output worldwide in 2009 after Reliance Industries' eastern offshore KG-D6 field came into production, global energy giant BP Plc said.

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-run RIL began gas production from the Krishna Godavari basin in April, 2009, and its 60 million standard cubic metres per day output led to a 75 per cent jump in natural gas availability in the country to 140 mmscmd.

"Last year, India had the highest increase in production of natural gas worldwide. And I just checked, it also had the highest corresponding increase in consumption in natural gas worldwide," BP Plc Group Chief Economist Christof Ruhl said.

India records highest rise in gas production worldwide.

Oberoi Ranthambhore is one of the world's best hotel : Travel & Leisure Magazine

The Oberoi Group's Vanyavilas Hotel at Ranthambhore has been ranked the best in the world, by the Travel and Leisure magazine.

The hospitality major also reinforced its position at the top with four of its properties making it to the top 15 list released by the magazine on Friday.

Commenting on the recognition the Oberoi Group chairman PRS Oberoi said, "I am delighted that The Oberoi Vanyavilas has been ranked the best in the world and our four group (hotels) have been ranked amongst the 15 best in the world."

Oberoi Ranthambhore is one of the world's best hotel : Travel & Leisure Magazine

Harley-Davidson, India's First Outlet in Hyderabad.

Legendary Harley-Davidson, the USA-based heavyweight bike maker opened its first dealership outlet in the country in Hyderabad on Friday.

Though the company has identified dealers in Delhi, Mumbai, Chandigarh and Bangalore, the outlet in Hyderabad - Banjara Harley-Davidson - became the first to start operations.

"We will launch our bikes in other cities before the end of this year," said Anoop Prakash, Managing Director, Harley-Davidson India after the outlet was formally inaugurated by Telugu Film star N T Ramarao.

Harley-Davidson, India's First Outlet in Hyderabad.

India's PM Security personal responsible for 8 year old Death?

Is this incident show that all are unequal before law? The family of a child who died in Kanpur earlier this month has blamed the Prime Minister's security for causing delays that they believed were fatal.

Eight-year-old Aman Khan was in a car with his parents on July 3. He had serious head injuries from an accident at home. In a letter to Sonia Gandhi, Aman's mother states that roads had been blocked for the PM's visit to IIT. She claims the diversion turned what should have been a five-minute journey to a hospital a kilometer away into a one-hour drive.

In her letter, Aman's mother has requested Sonia Gandhi to ensure that this does not happen again.

India's PM Security personal responsible for 8 year old Death?

Indian IT Business is likely to be numbed by Europe Financial Crisis.

With the Crisis in European Business Circuit which is likely to hit the Business of Indian IT Firms, thanks no such problem is faced from the US which contributes more than half of its business

Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys Technologies and Wipro Ltd face uncertainty on orders from Europe - the second-biggest market for the sector after the United States.

"There has been no major impact on volume growth due to the crisis," said Harit Shah, an analyst with brokerage Karvy Stock Broking. "It could have an impact going forward, especially due to the euro. We will have to watch for what the management has to say."

Indian software services firms are ramping up investments to grow their market share in Europe, which accounts for about a third of their revenue.

Indian IT Business is likely to be numbed by Europe Financial Crisis.

IPL 4 is all set be guided by Yesteryear Cricketers

After the exile of Lalit Modi, IPL governing body had decided that Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri, all of whom led India will be taking decision which will determine the future of Multi Billion Dollar game.

The former captains who will decide how the league will shape up have tossed interesting thoughts at the eight existing franchisees to draw out their ideas before laying down the rules for the crucial auction that is to be held in August or September.

Retention of players, the salary cap and the format may go through a revolutionary process before all conditions are agreed upon by the eight existing franchisees and the two new teams (Pune and Kochi).

IPL 4 is all set be guided by Yesteryear Cricketers

Petrol prices may change every fortnight in India, similar to West Countries.

State-owned oil firms may opt to revise petrol prices every fortnight to reflect changes in the global oil market in the free pricing regime that kicks in from next week.

Petrol prices were freed from government control last month resulting in a Rs 3.50 per litre hike in rates in Delhi, but modalities of subsequent retail price adjustments were left to the industry to deliberate and decide.

Sources said Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum on Thursday began consultations on modalities like the frequency or interval at which prices will be revised and if the PSUs should have uniform rate that would change on same date.

Petrol prices may change every fortnight in India, similar to West Countries.

Bangalore Mono Rail work to begin in January‎.

The Karnataka government said on Tuesday that work on the monorail project for Bangalore is slated to begin in January next and expected to be completed in three years.

"The detailed project report on the monorail would be ready by this month-end. Tender will be invited in September ...The work is slated to begin in January and is expected to be completed in three years," said Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa.

Yeddyurappa was responding to separate questions on the metro and monorail projects raised by Congress MLAs Ramalinga Reddy and K J George during the question hour in the Assembly.

"A sum of Rs 2,700 crore has been spent on the Rs 11,609 crore phase-I (42.3 km) Bangalore metro project so far. The Baiyappanahalli-Cricket Stadium stretch of the project is slated to be thrown open for traffic in December this year," said Yeddyurappa.

He added that 25 per cent of the work on the first phase of the metro project has been completed.

The Central Government has till May end this year sanctioned Rs 539 crore for the metro project, the first phase of which would be ready by 2013.

Bangalore Mono Rail work to begin in January‎.

India's first indigenous Naval Light Combat Aircraft unveiled .

India's first Indigenous Naval Light Combat Aircraft LCA (Navy) NP1 rolled out on Tuesday from the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) facility in Bangalore. Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma was the chief guest at the event. Defence Minister A K Antony, and other senior officials were also present on the occasion.

An important milestone for the naval programme of Bangalore-based Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), the aircraft was brought out of the build hangar where it was assembled part-by-part during.

The aircraft is being readied for induction into the Navy and for deployment on board the Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC), currently under construction at the Cochin Shipyard, by 2015.

India's first indigenous Naval Light Combat Aircraft unveiled .

Rs 13,000 crore Economic loss was Estimated dur to Bharath Bandh.

Bharat Bandh on Monday partially disrupted economic activities with commodity markets and the transport sector taking a hit in many parts of the country, and the industry pegged losses at up to Rs 13,000 crore.

While Mumbai, the financial capital of the country, and several industrialised states including Maharashtra, Gujarat, were affected, the impact was partial in many other states like Tamil Nadu and in the national capital Delhi.

The 12-hour strike was called by the Opposition parties to protest the fuel price hike and rising inflation.

"The bandh is estimated to have cost the nation close to Rs 13,000 crore in terms of GDP loss," industry chamber FICCI said in a statement. Another industry body Assocham put the losses at Rs 10,000 crore, while CII pegged it at Rs 3,000 crore.

Rs 13,000 crore Economic loss was Estimated dur to Bharath Bandh.