Facsimile edition of The Independent soon

A facsimile edition of British daily The Independent will soon be brought out from New Delhi by its Indian joint venture partner Jagran Prakashan Ltd, which publishes the popular Hindi daily Dainik......

Arvind Lavakare: A Muslim scholar's bombshell

Irrespective of whether Godhra impacted the result of last week's Gujarat assembly poll,post Godhra happenings havemoved a well-known Muslim scholar of India to facilitate an earthquake in his......

A small newspaper's amazing turnaround

Its editor used a novel strategy to completely reinvent it, but what's ironic is that what began as a search for funds to expand may now result in a change in ownership. Two months ago, the editor......

BJP needs killer instinct

Click here for Part ILike in sports, politicians in power must possess the killer instinct. After all, good men always finish second, if not last. Something akin to that happened to the BJP leaders......

Soon, Google content in local Indian languages

To expand the reach of the Internet to the 60 per cent non-English speaking people in the country, Google India has initiated an Indian Language Internet Alliance (ILIA), a group of stakeholders in......

Aditya Thackeray turns entrepreneur

BKC-based Como Stocks & Properties is into property development, construction. Image: Aditya Thackeray. Photograph: PTI     Aditya Thackeray, 24, the son of Shiv Sena chief Uddhav......

Five-digit SMS code mandatory

The government has mandated that all telecommunication companies in the country move over to 5-digit SMS short codes, discontinuing the existing 4-digit and 6-digit codes. It is also asking all......

Government pockets SMS numbers

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has told all telecom service providers to immediately stop using SMS short-code services beginning with 0,1,7,8 and 9 digits. The order implies that no SMS......

Negi's gloom-to-glory story

The travails and triumphs of former India hockey goalkeeper Mir Ranjan Negi, whose stint as a coach in the game he played with distinction was depicted in the Bollywood hit movie Chak De India,......