An American inventor has started legal proceedings against Apple after claiming that he owns the intellectual property rights to iPhone-like web browsing on mobile devices. Elliot Gottfurcht has filed a lawsuit against the Californian technology company with a Texan court. He claims that his company, EMG Technology, owns US Patent Number 7,441,196, which covers the [...]
The Sensex slipped further into the negative terrain on the back of sustained selling pressure seen in bluechip stocks. Oil & gas, realty, consumer goods and banking stocks led the declines. BSE Midcap and Smallcap index declined by 1.03% and 0.81% respectively. Indian stock market started the day on a positive zone after a fall [...]
Free from the claws of death, the crew of the ship hijacked by pirates near the Somalian coast said merchant vessels in the Gulf of Aden are not safe and Indian Navy should undertake “hot pursuit” against the sea brigands to sanitise the maritime corridor. Prabhat Goyal, Captain of the hijacked Stolt Valor ship, on [...]
Ashutosh Kaushik wins the Bigg Boss Season2. Young Ashutosh Kaushik’s life has taken a U-turn since he won the just-concluded fifth season of MTV’s hip adventure reality show Roadies. He hails from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh where he owns a dhaba, a roadside eatery. Now, he is set to try his luck in Bollywood.
Another thumping win for the Indians as they crushed England by imposing tremendous pressure. This was never a 280-290 pitch but some extraordinary batting display from Gautam and Yuvi first and then Yusuf’s blitzkrieg in the late overs helped India post that daunting total on a pitch which was dying every passing moment. England didn’t [...]
The opposition Congress in Chhattisgarh on Saturday brought out a long charge sheet alleging that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had “crossed all limits of corruption” and there was “complete misrule” in the state. 60 percent voting in Chhattisgarh The first phase of polling for 39 seats in Chhattisgarh concluded on Friday. Voting for [...]
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray was arrested by the Mumbai Police on Saturday in connection with a case filed in a Jamshedpur court. However, he was granted bail on a personal surety of Rs. 50,000. Raj’s arrest is linked to a non-bailable warrant against him from a Jameshedpur court, which has been received at [...]
The MP resignation drama in Bihar continued on Friday as five Members of the Parliament belonging to the Janata Dal (U) turned in their resignations from the Lok Sabha in protest against the Center’s failure to contain Maharashtra’s extremist leader Raj Thackeray in view of the recent attacks on Bihari students in Maharashtra. “Congress-led UPA [...]
Two serving Colonels may face interrogation in connection with the probe into the Malegaon blast while the CBI met officials of Maharashtra’s Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) as concerns over more officers coming under the scanner today rattled the Armed forces. ATS chief Hemant Karkare met Defence Ministry officials in New Delhi to carry the probe forward [...]
Barack Obama was elected the nation’s first black president Tuesday night in a historic triumph that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself. The 47-year-old Democratic senator from Illinois sealed his victory by defeating Republican Sen. John McCain in a string of wins in hard-fought battleground states – Ohio, Florida, Virginia and Iowa. A [...]