Today, Delhi High Court has given a historical decision on gay and lesbian sex. The decision says that sexual relationship between persons of same sex is not an offence and the section 377 of Indian Penal Code is against fundamental rights of Indian citizens. The Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which criminalises homosexuality [...]

According to Wikipedia, Engineering is the discipline, art and profession of acquiring and applying technical, scientific and mathematical knowledge to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and processes that safely realize a desired objective or inventions. In India, engineering is one of the most popular career option after 10+2. If you are doing [...]

Banking in India started in early 19th century. State Bank of India is the oldest bank of India. After India’s independence in 1947, the Reserve Bank, formely Imperial Bank was nationalized and given powers to control all the public and private banks of India. In 1969 and 1980 the Indira Gandhi’s Congress government nationalized the [...]

India’s largest public sector bank State Bank of India has posted 45.62 per cent growth in net profit at Rs 2,742.31 crore for the March quarter of past fiscal year. The main reason of this growth is higher earnings from interest and other incomes. SBI’s January-March net profit was 27.42 billion rupees ($556 million), up [...]

Ujjain is an ancient city of Malwa region in central India, on the eastern bank of the Kshipra River. It is a holy city for Hindus. It is one of the four Indian cities where “The Grand Kumbh” fair takes place. The Fair occurs four times in twelve years at four different places and draws [...]

Now its official, CAT has become online. The Common Admission Test (CAT) is an all-India test conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) as an entrance exam for the management programmes of its 7 B schools. About 250,000 students took CAT in 2008 for around 1500 seats in the IIMs. This is the reason [...]

So RBI is ready to issue the much awaited bimetallic 10 Rupee coin for circulation.The coin looks cool and light-weight. The obverse side has the lion symbol with numeral 10 and year of manufacture. On reverse side, a double line cross with a dot in each pellet of cross and denomination written in Hindi and [...]

Do you remember the shoe attack on former US president George Bush? Actually months after an infuriated Iraqi reporter flung a shoe at US President George Bush, its now our home minister Chidambaram’s time to face the shoe. Last week, Chidambaram, who was speaking in a press conference about 1984 riots in which hundreds of [...]

Last year we have 48 Indian companies in Forbes Global 2000 list. Now this year we have 47 companies in the list. The Forbes Global 2000 is an annual ranking of the top 2000 public companies in the world by Forbes magazine. The ranking is based on a mix of four metrics: Sales, Profit, Assets [...]

Ramayan is one the most popular epics of world. It is basically story of prince Ram, presenting him as the model of an ideal human being. The story begins with his birth, childhood, and the circumstances leading to his 14-year stay in the forest, the abduction of his wife Sita by Ravana, the king of [...]

India is one of the fastest developing countries of world. It is fourth largest economy of world. After the arrival of IT outsourcing businesses, India has emerged as the world leader in IT services. So, it has big pool of growing internet users. According to latest report of comScore, more than 28 million people in [...]

In the Indian General Elections 2009, BJP is all set to make full use of internet and open source technologies in its election campaign. This week, BJP has published its IT Vision document. In the document, the party has made big promises for IT community of India. After coming back to power, BJP will actively promote [...]

The 80s was the era of Doordarshan with soaps like Hum Log, Buniyaad and comedy shows like Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi which made Doordarshan a household name. Circus, Gul Gulshan Gulfam and Nukkad are some of the serials that come instantly to my mind when I think of the good old days of Doordarshan. Those [...]

Today two news caught my attention. The first one was Indian rupee dropping to historical low of 50.69 (52 paise decline in one day) against US dollar and the other news was 30-share BSE Sensex ended at 8,427.29, down 179.79 or 2.09 %. 52 weeks back, it was closed at 8451.01. The day ended with [...]

Last week, Indian Government announced that around 500,000 Indians have lost their jobs and almost 25,000 have returned home after losing their jobs in US companies. Now job-seekers are in search of companies which are still hiring in this period of economic recession. Don’t you think it is silly question. Layoff announcements are piling up [...]