Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against the participation of Sri Lankan players in the upcoming Indian Premier League. According to the letter, Jayalalithaa will not allow any IPL games to be held in Chenna...
Witnesses describe with awe the sights and sounds of a meteorite shower, which hit the Chelyabinsk region at around 9 AM local time, around 1,500 km east of Moscow, in the Urals region. Residents describe feeling a pressure wave and hearing explosions overhead...
Islamic hardliners have cautioned the organisers against participation of pro-Rushdie writers this year after the controversy over reading from the banned book 'Satanic Verses' at Jaipur Literary Festival last year. At the 2012 edition of the literary fest, fo...
After eight days of relentless air strikes, a ceasefire is declared in Gaza. Peter Lavelle asks who won and who lost as both Israel and Gaza see the ceasefire and agreement as a victory. Other questions raised are whether Israel will remain unanswerable for it...
Peter Lavelle's focus in this edition of Crosstalk is on Israel's attacks on Gaza and if it is indeed self-defense and how the Gazans can protect themselves. Also, is Israel practicing apartheid in its treatment of Palestinians? Lavelle talks to documentary ma...
Indian entries Chakravyuh and Rush hit the screens alongside the Hollywood movies Cloud Atlas and Ted. It's Bollywood vs Hollywood at this weeks box office as films compete for the audience's attention. The man with the superhit record Emraan Hasmi works with ...
Dayanidhi, who is the son of DMK leader Azhagiri, is in the news for all the wrong reasons. Dayanidhi's film production house, Cloud Nine Movies, has been raided by the Madurai police. Initial reports indicate that ten police officials raided the office of Day...
Heavy rains lash north Sikkim resulting in flash floods. Cloudburst in the area caused rivers to flood many areas along its course. The toll has reached 21 so far. The inaccessibility of the area has hampered rescue operations. The Border Roads Organisation an...
Heavy rainfall leads to severe floods in the States of north-east. The worst-hit are Assam, Arunchal Pradesh, and Sikkim. The story has footage of cattle being transported to safety on boats, people cooking on raised platforms, and landslides caused due to clo...
A bridge in north Sikkim faces the full fury of rushing water of a stream swollen by a cloudburst. The water sweeps away a bridge. Across the state, the wave of destruction due to continuous rainfall and cloudbursts destroys homes and roads, with mud slides cr...
Cumulonimbus clouds have more than once prevented CM Kiran Kumar Reddy's chopper form reaching its destination. These clouds form an air environment that could have proved dangerous to the chopper in which YSR was travelling. So what are these clouds and why a...
In this episode of Capgemini Super Techies Show, Atanu Roy who is the VP and CIO at Dr Reddy's Laboratories, lays out the challenge, which is to utilise technology to take healthcare to more people. The three teams -- Blazing Techies, Tech Avatars, Indian Imag...
At the start of the second Test match between India and New Zealand at Bangalore, a cloudy weather and rain could play spoilsport. India enter the second Test in the series with great expectations having bettered New Zealand with comfortable margin in the matc...
The Lord of the Seven Hills is beckoning you not for just his darshan but to look at the vast carpet of greenery, the clouds that kiss the hills, and the flowing water at the various small and big waterfalls. Never has Tirumala hills looked so enchanting. One...
NIIT's CEO Arvind Thakur joins Shaili Chopra at Jaypee Greens for a game of golf and talks about how NIIT Technologies is faring in the slowdown that has laid seige on the world economy since the Lehman crisis. Thakur feels the technology industry is mostly af...
Within the airlines space there is a big shift of market share post-issues with Kingfisher. The change in the fortunes for Indigo Airlines, which became a leading market gainer, has also caused this shift. Even though the volume of the passengers increasing, ...
The Opposition members entered the well of the House and left Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumari no choice but to adjourn the House in a stormy start to the monsoon session of Parliament. The Prime Minister had called for end to the Parliament paralysis, before th...
Clearly on the backfoot, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appeals to the opposition to 'cooperate' with the government in order to ensure smooth functioning of the monsoon session. Claiming that the government is willing to answer any query in the proper forum at...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addresses the media before heading in to the Parliament for the Monsoon Session. Calling for an end to the Parliament paralysis, the Prime Minister requested the opposition not to stall proceedings and stated that the government i...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appeals to members in the Parliament to set differences aside in order to pass key reforms for those in need in the country. Calling for an end to the Parliament paralysis, the Prime Minister requested the opposition not to stall ...
A dark cloud looms over the ruling UPA government as it heads into what is expected to be a stormy Monsoon Session of Parliament. The government is looking to get at least 31 key reforms bills passed in this session. However, with the opposition in no mood to ...
The Monsoon Session of Parliament is set to commence today, but a dark cloud hangs over the government. Facing flak from the opposition on a score of issues, while attempting to get its own allies at home back in order, the government is sailing into rough wat...
Vijay Kumar silver bullet has given India's its second medal in the London Olympics. Subedar of the 16 Dogra regiment, Vijay Kumar, took to shooting because he was meant to defend the borders of this nation. The army man finished second on the podium in the 25...
Indian boxer Vikas Krishan has been ousted from the Olympics after the International Boxing Association overturned the result of his pre-quarterfinal bout following a review. The 20-year-old won the 69-kg boxing event 13-11 over USA's Errol Spence in a thrilli...
Vijay Kumar has become India's silver lining to the very dark cloud hanging over its Olympic campaign. Vijay stood out in the men's 25-metre rapid fire pistol event, shooting 30 in the final round. This is India's second medal at London 2012, after Gagan Naran...
Barely months after Italian football received a jolt with spot-fixing allegations, the highly respected English Premier League also comes under the fixing cloud. Former Southhampton captain Claus Lundekvam has confessed that he along with his teammates made th...
Rajashekaran Vengalil, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation, talks about building high performance cloud applications with Node.js at TechEd 2012.
Abhijit Jana, .NET Consultant, and Jebarson Jebamony, Consultant, Microsoft, talk about integrating Windows Azure with the Kinect motion sensor, Windows Phone and Windows 8 at TechEd 2012.
Kamal Jain, Technical Lead, Microsoft Corporation, talks about Windows Server "8" has the power of many servers with the simplicity of just one server.
Siddharth Bhai, Senior Program Manager, Active Directory Product Group, Microsoft, talks about enhanced data security and compliance in Windows Server "8" Beta.
Vishal Shirodkar, Technology Specialist - Datacenter, Microsoft India, talks about how every app can be run on any cloud with Windows Server "8" Beta at TechEd 2012
Harish Ranganathan, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation, shows how you can build an app for the Web, Mobile and Touch devices within an hour using ASP.NET MVC 4.
Pranav Rastogi, Developer for Microsoft Web Tools & Fx, Microsoft, talks about the wonderful enhancements in ASP.NET Web Forms 4.5 and Visual Studio 11.
Milind Hanchinmani, Head - Enterprise and HPC for Asia-Pacific, and Shwetha Doss, Sr. Application Engineer, Software & Service Group, Intel Corporation, talk about developing apps for ultrabooks and tablets.
Milind Hanchinmani, Head - Enterprise and HPC for Asia-Pacific, and Shwetha Doss, Sr. Application Engineer, Software & Service Group, Intel Corporation, talk about developing stunning apps for ultrabooks and tablets.
Kraig Brockschmidt, Senior Program Manager, Windows Planning and Ecosystem Team, shows how Metro style apps are run on Windows 8, and the new system management optimisation features that enable apps to preserve battery life.
Kraig Brockschmidt, Senior Program Manager, Windows Planning and Ecosystem Team, talks about how Windows 8 apps can be integrated with hardware using Windows APIs.
Amit Chatterjee, MD, Microsoft India R&D, and Nahas Mohammed, Developer Technology Specialist at Microsoft, demonstrate how developers can make use of Visual Studio 11 for faster and more efficient development cycles.
Amit Chatterjee, Managing Director, Microsoft India R&D, talks about connected devices and continuous services in an era of cloud computing where everyone is socially networked.
Amit Chatterjee, MD, Microsoft India R&D, and Aviraj Ajgekar, Technology Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation, talk about how being connected to your customers is beneficial for businesses that can in turn provide them customised IT services.
Kraig Brockschmidt, Senior Program Manager, Windows Planning and Ecosystem Team, talks about the new execution environment and how APIs are independent of the mode of input.
Bernardo Caldas, General Manager, Windows and Windows Live, showcases Windows 8 applications, and shows the audience how it can be carried around on a USB stick.