Age no bar, I have email: Karnataka's new 65-yr-old IT minister
Source: Indian Express
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-05-30 16:47:21 -0700 | sports-news
Karnataka's new IT & BT minister, 65-year-old S R Patil, is a misfit for Bangalore's high-profile, global infotech and biotech sectors, two industry leaders have said. But the minister insists age has nothing to do with it. "Surprised at choice...
Soaring vegetable prices leave Mysoreans seething
Source: The Hindu
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-05-30 13:51:39 -0700 | business-news
Lack of rain to blame as it has made cultivation difficult' Soaring vegetable prices have left Mysoreans vexed...Less stock Vendors say the lack of rainfall is to blame as it has made cultivation difficult. Owing to poor arrivals in the...
Sonata Software's net zooms 183 percent
Source: NewKerala
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-05-30 10:50:45 -0700 | business-news
In a regulatory filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange late Thursday, the Bangalore-based company said consolidated revenue for the fiscal under review (FY 2013), grew 23 percent YoY to Rs.1,311 crore from Rs.1,069 crore year ago. Earnings before interest, depreciation,...
Dancing like a man
Source: The Hindu
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-05-30 07:44:25 -0700 | business-news
Purnima Menon tells she did not take to Kathakali right away. The danseuse says she took years to understand the lyrics and the beauty behind this age-old classical art form. Kathakali was such a male-dominated dance form arena that even...
Vikramkant to lead Karnataka in National Hockey Championship
Source: Zee News
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-05-30 05:44:20 -0700 | sports-news
Vikarmkant will lead the 19-member men`s Karnataka hockey squad for the third Senior National Championship to be held at Pune from May 28 to June 10. S K Uthappa, adjudged the best player in 2011 Senior Nationals in Bhopal where...
From June 1, look for cabbies? display card
Source: The Hindu
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-05-30 01:14:11 -0700 | business-news
The Bangalore City Traffic Police will strictly enforce driver display card rule for cab drivers, introduced to ensure the safety of passengers, from June 1. More than 35,000 drivers have obtained display cards and another 5,000 to 6,000 drivers are...
In a lather over missing soaps? Blame row over payment
Source: The Hindu
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-05-30 00:13:38 -0700 | technology-news
For over a fortnight now, lakhs of television viewers in the city have been unable to watch paid-for entertainment thanks to a chaotic corporate war involving broadcasters, multisystem operators (MSOs) and local cable operators. The feud is fallout of the...
NIF pitches in to give milking machine a boost
Source: Indian Express
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-05-29 19:13:57 -0700 | business-news
In what could give a boost to the dairy segment, the city-based National Innovation Foundation (NIF) has helped commercialise a hygienic "milking innovation" created by Mangalore-based innovator Raghava Gowda. Bangalore's agricultural equipment maker Suntec Agri Equipments (India) Pvt Ltd...
India Inc fails to understand and use 'Big data'
Source: The Economic Times
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-05-29 18:22:37 -0700 | business-news
Big data is the buzzword among technology services providers and analysts; but Indian enterprises, by their own admission, are still coming to terms with it. Chief information officers at several large corporations admitted that while they realise the potential to...
Sify to stop supporting lower-speed customers
Source: The Economic Times
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-05-29 17:15:53 -0700 | technology-news
Last week, John Thomas in Bangalore was disconnected from the cyber world because his internet service provider stopped services to his apartment building. For Thomas and hundreds of thousands of other Indians for whom Sify opened the doors to internet,...
Heroes Of Philanthropy: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw's Affordable Health Care Legacy
Source: Forbes
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-05-29 14:54:32 -0700 | health-news
Current Issue For 30 years Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Nilima Rovshen were best friends, since their days as single professional women in Bangalore at a time when Indian career women were rare. After Rovshen was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002,...
Merc case: one of Shaji?s missing friends nabbed
Source: The Hindu
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-05-29 13:10:50 -0700 | business-news
Cops say closing in on Empee scion The city police have detained Anwar, 24, one of the passengers in the Mercedes that ran amok in the wee hours of Thursday last, killing a 13-year-old boy and grievously injuring a 10-year-old...
Have mosquitoes met their match?
Source: The Hindu
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-05-29 11:35:58 -0700 | business-news
Discovery of 110 new proteins could help design more precise and potent repellents Every year diseases carried by mosquitoes notably malaria, dengue and filariasis claim over a million lives. Bangalore could however signal the possibility of new strategies to prevent...
A better way to make iPSCs?
Source: The Hindu
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-05-29 11:35:49 -0700 | health-news
File photo Embryonic stem cells can develop into most cell types and have much therapeutic potential. However, its method of extraction from human embryos remains highly controversial. That is what made Shinya Yamanaka's invention of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC)...
Inspiring young minds
Source: The Hindu
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-05-29 08:33:58 -0700 | business-news
George Mathew chose to open a preschool rather than have a well-paid job What made an IT professional leave his well paid job to start a preschool, one might wonder...George Mathew tells us why he decided to take a risky...
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