BlackBerry Sold around 1 Million BB Z10 Devices

BlackBerry Z10

On this Thursday the global smartphone maker BlackBerry announced that it had sold around 1 million BlackBerry Z10 devices during the fourth quarter that was ended on March 2. It also declared an unexpected profit on demand for its new touch screen device named as Z10.

The new device BlackBerry Z10 eventually holds the key to its successful comeback in the global smartphone market. Despite of this surprised profit on demand the net revenue remained far below year-earlier levels.

In the Q4 period apparently BlackBerry had shipped 6 million smartphones worldwide. Just few days’ back BlackBerry launched Z10 in US market to take another step to regain its lost glory in the worldwide growing smartphone market.

UR Rao, Indian Space Scientist Inducted into Satellite Hall of Fame

 

UR Rao

                       UR Rao, who is one of the top most space scientists of India, has been inducted into Satellite Hall of Fame in Washington DC of the United States of America by the Society of Satellite Professionals International.

Today Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) published a statement to publish this news of honor. The following is a small excerpt of what ISRO said in its latest statement,

"Rao is the first Indian space scientist to be inducted into the Satellite Hall of Fame and joins the select group of about 50 members, including Arthur C. Clarke, Van Allen, Harold Rosen, Peter Jackson and Robert Berry, among others."  

Mumbai Drops to 66th in World’s Leading Financial Hubs Ranking List

                The most financially powerful city of India Mumbai dropped to 66^th position in the recently published ranking list of world’s leading financial hubs. The list was released by Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI), and the capital of India New Delhi failed to secure a position in the list despite of showing some sparks over the last financial year.

GFCI is an agency, and it provides ratings, ranking and profiles of 79 leading and powerful financial centres across the world in that coveted list. It has positioned Mumbai at the 66^th rank, which is a clear cut demotion of three places from the last year’s ranking. Last year Mumbai managed to secure 63^rd rank in the said list.

The capital of United Kingdom, London has managed to secure the pole position to claim the tag of number 1 financial hub of the world. It has to be mentioned here that Mumbai remains the one and only Indian entry of the list.

SIDBI Inked MoU with Egypt for SME Sector Development

The Small Industries Development Bank of India or better known as SIDBI recently inked Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Egypt-based Social Fund for Development (SFD) and the World Bank.

The MoU was signed in the presence of H E Dr Mohamed Morsi, who is the honorable President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, and Shri Anand Sharma, who is the Minister of Commerce & Industry, Government of India. 

Mr. Mohamed Morsi is on an official visit to the country in order to develop the mutual engagement of both the countries. He will eventually discuss about the scope of co-operations between the two countries with some of the high level ministers and officials of Government of India.

Indian Government Approved 12 FDI Proposals worth over Rs 2.6 k Crore

Government Approved 12 FDI Proposals

The Indian Government said that it has finally approved 12 FDI proposals worth over Rs 2.6k Crore (approximately Rs 2,609 crore). These twelve FDI proposals eventually include the proposal of Pharma firm Claris Otsuka.

Decathlon Sports India's proposal for introduction of foreign funds worth Rs 700 crore to participate in single brand retail has also been approved by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), which is eventually headed by the honorable Economic Affairs Secretary Mr. Arvind Mayaram himself.

The Finance Ministry of India has issued a press statement acknowledging this economic news. In that statement the ministry said, “Based on the recommendations of FIPB in its meeting held on February 13, Government has approved 12 proposals of foreign direct investment amounting to Rs 2,609.27 crore approximately.”

US Launch of BlackBerry Z10 Facing Serious Test

BlackBerry Z10

On this Friday after a wait of almost two months from its launch the BlackBerry Z10 hit the highly competitive US market for sale. The US launch of BlackBerry Z10 has a big impact, as its performances in US may decide whether BlackBerry can lead the smartphone industry once again or not.

BlackBerry’s new touch-screen smartphone has already been selling in about 25 different countries, along with India. BlackBerry has aimed to make the Z10's brand new operating system the No. 3 platform on the global market. The expert analysts are saying that this may be possible to do but the expected challenges are huge and difficult too.

Mr. Brian Colello, who is an analyst of Morningstar, said,

"I think the US will be a challenge for BlackBerry more so than some of the countries where they have already launched. The momentum for iPhone and Android is too strong here. I still think they can win over some enterprise users, but the US is a country where BlackBerry's brand has been greatly diminished."

T.V Most Popular Topic of Twitter

Twitter Popular Topic

                    A recent survey revealed that T.V is the most trending topic of the popular micro blogging social networking platform twitter. As per reports almost 40 percent of tweets on Twitter are mainly about what is being telecasted on the T.V.

The survey report mainly revealed the statistic data of Twitter after considering the viewing habits of the British along with the United Kingdom users. It’s quite obvious, as now days there are innumerous number of TV channels on celebrities, news, sports etc, and people love to stick into it for hours.

The survey also showed that the modern users are not likely to have the traditional TV sets. They mainly prefer to watch their favorite TV programs on tablets or smartphones, as they feel much more comfortable in the smaller devices while watching the television. People love to use technologies these days.

Indiabulls and Doha Bank signed Agreement for NRI Deals

Indiabulls-Doha Bank Agreement

Financial non banking private firm Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd has signed agreement with Doha Bank to provide its NRI customers lucrative deals on their properties in India. This will open a new door of opportunities, and it will be a win-win situation for the both.

This special offer will provide a few great features like special offers on Indiabulls properties, Complimentary Home Loan eligibility checks, and exclusive promotion for Doha Bank Indian customers.

This agreement will eventually help its NRI customers to acquire lands or properties in India by offering them mortgage loans for the purpose. The demand for home loans and property acquisition has been increasing quite a lot among the NRIs in Indiabulls' housing projects. This new agreement will serve this purpose for the better results.

India Likely to Emerge as Fifth Largest Manufacturing Nation, BCG Reports

India to emerge as 5th largest manufacturing nation

As per Boston Consultancy Group (BCG) report, India is likely to emerge as the fifth largest manufacturing nation of the world if it is able to better the share of manufacturing in the Gross Domestic Products (GDP) to 25 per cent.

Currently India is the ninth largest manufacturing nation, and the scope of improvement in this is highly likely for the country, as per the latest BCG report. According to the National Manufacturing Policy the manufacturing sector of India has all the potentialities to increase its share value of GDP to 25 per cent from the existing 15 per cent by the year of 2022, which will certainly help India to earn the tag of fifth largest manufacturing nation.

BCG-CII has recently prepared and published a brand new economic report, and titled it as “People productivity-Key to Indian manufacturing competitiveness”. In the report it discussed many key things about future potentialities of this sector with detailed explanations.

India Likely to Launch First Unit of its Navigational Satellite in June

India's Navigational Satellite

               Today a senior official of the Department of Space (DoS) said that India is planning to launch first unit of its navigational satellite in June 2013. The very first satellite unit of Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) constellation, which is named as IRNSS-1 will be launched by PSLV-C22.

The above information was provided by the K Radhakrishnan sir himself, who is the honorable Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the Secretary of the Department of Space (DoS).

India-US Bilateral Trade Likely to Touch $500 Billion in Next 10 Years

India-US Bilateral Trades

                      The bilateral trade between India and United States (US) is likely to touch the huge $500 billion mark in next 10 years. This has been said by the US-India Business Council (USIBC), a business advocacy organization for the US in India that aims to strengthen trade and commercial ties between the two countries.

In the year of 2006 the bilateral trade between India and US was around $25 billion only, and since then it has been increasing continuously with a rock steady manner. Eventually the India-US trade has crossed the $100 billion mark in last year, while the defence trade between the two countries contributed a lot in that figure, as it figure is around $10 billion (for defence only) in the last one decade.

The honorable chairman of USIBC Mr. Ajay Banga said a few things to enlighten the bilateral trade opportunities between US and India. He was talking to some press reporters along with the President of USIBC Ron Somers and CII president Adi Godrej. Mr. Banga, who is also the CEO and President of MasterCard, attended a leadership summit of USIBC and CII. The following is an excerpt of what he said,

"Going by the massive fillip in bilateral trade in recent years, I am hopeful that the two-way trade between the largest and the third largest economies in purchasing power parity terms (US and India respectively), achieving our next target of USD500 billion over the next one decade is possible if both the partners chart out a larger strategy of engagement,"

Union Cabinet Approves Anti Rape Bill, Lowers Age of Consent to 16

Anti-Rape Bill

                      Today the Union Cabinet of India has finally approved the highly discussed Anti-Rape bill to provide more safety to the women by making the punishment stricter for the serious crimes against them. On coming Monday the bill will be discussed with the leaders of all the leading parties of India.

Yesterday only a group of Ministers of India cleared the bill, which mainly proposes to lower the age of consent to 16 from the existing 18. The proposed bill clearly states that from now on the sustained stalking will be made a non bailable offence, which has become a necessary to curb the increasing stalking incidents around the women of India.

The bill also proposes a few more things like it will eventually make the first offence of voyeurism a bailable offence. Not only that the bill also says that no punishment for cases with false allegation against the women.

Three Indian Airports among Top Five Airports of World

Best Airports

India earns the privilege of having three of top five airports of the world providing awesome international level services. Airports of Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad, these three Indian airports are included among the world’s five best airports list, due to the superb facilities of these airports.

The list was prepared by the Airports Council International (ACI), which is a global body of all the airports of the world. In the category of airports, which handle around 25-40 Million Passengers Per Annum (MPPA), Seoul’s Incheon airport earned the pole position because of it supreme service quality for the year 2012. Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport had managed to claim the second position in the list.

According to the ACI statement, Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport was the third best in the mentioned category. Two Indian airports were featured in the world’s top three airports list in the category of airports having the handling power of 25-40 MPPA. It is quite a commendable achievement for sure.

Cyber Attack on Central Bank of Australia

Cyber Attack on Reserve Bank of Australia

The Central Bank of Australia has admitted that it has been the victim of a cyber attack, as some hackers targeted it for reasons best known to them. A report on this had been published on a popular Australian Daily Newspaper, and soon after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) said that it had been targeted by some hacker group as a part of a cyber attack.

The Australian newspaper report also revealed that this hacking incident is nothing new for the Central Bank of Australia. The hacking incident caused severe problems to the central bank, and it eventually included malwares embedded in various emails.

The Central Bank said that the hackers had not able to make the system corrupted, so no data had been lost, and all of its system worked perfectly well during the time of attack. The reports clearly mentioned that the attack had been originated in China, but the Central Bank of Australia did not comment in that issue, as it was quite a sensitive one for sure.

Microsoft Suspends Windows Phone 7.8 Upgrade Temporarily, Nokia Admits

One of the leading tech companies Microsoft has finally suspended windows phone 7.8 Upgrade on a temporary manner. Microsoft basically provides these updates to the windows phones of Nokia, who finally admits that the techno giant has decided to stop the distribution of Windows phone 7.8 Upgrade to Nokia Lumia devices, which includes the Nokia Lumia 800.

On twitter when a random user asked about the status of the Windows Phone 7.8 Upgrade on the Nokia Lumia 800, the official twitter account of Nokia Russia admitted the news of temporary suspension on the upgradation process.

Last week Mr. Joe Belfiore, who is the manager of the Windows Phone Programme, had already confirmed on the social networking site Twitter that the Microsoft had been able to identify a minor issue, and it is working hard to fix it as soon as possible. He had a quick questions-answers season with the users where he also assured that Microsoft is working to fix the Live Tiles Problem too.

Google has Unveiled ‘Talking Shoe’, Technology Reloaded

Google

The search engine giant Google has unveiled a unique pair of talking shoes with Adidas to add one more feather to its existing crown. The internet giant has already been developing Google Glasses, which is already creating quite a buzz in the technology world. It seems like that the Google Glasses is not the only ultra modern product that Google will offer in near future.

The tech giant has done this experiment with a pair of shoes to spotlight its very new advertising platform that will be called as Art, Copy and Code. So it is easily understandable that Google does not have any sorts of plan to enter into the footwear business with the idea of “Talking Shoe”.

Google eventually took a few pairs of popular sneakers of the famous footwear brand Adidas. After that the internet firm crammed the shoes in a small technology-sound computer, a gyroscope, speaker and Bluetooth and a pressure detector.

China Unveiled Reform Plans to Reduce Red Tape, Rebalancing Economic Growth

Chinese Economic Reform Plans

Yesterday China has unveiled a few economic reform plans in order to reduce the red tape and rebalancing economic growth of the country. The new government of China, which is headed by Xi Jinping, is all set to take over, and prior to that it revamped the existing structure of the government by cutting down the cabinet-level entities, which also includes corruption-stricken Railways Ministry.

China has been facing a few economic issues, and the new government is desperately wants to boost up the economic development process in China. During the session of the legislature of the National People's Congress (NPC), the honorable State Councilor Ma Kai unveiled the new policy for rebalancing the economic growth of China.

According to the policy along with the railways, several other departments and agencies will also be reorganized for the economic growth. Under the new economic policy the total number of Chinese Ministers will also be reduced from existing 27 to 25.

Pantaloon Retail to Sell Its Stakes in Insurance Company

Pantaloon Retail

Pantaloon Retail has declared that it will sell its stake holding of around 22.5% in Future General India Life Insurance Company Ltd. (FGILICL) to the Industrial Investment Trust Ltd. (IITL). However the popular retail company has not mentioned the valuation at which the sale will happen, in fact not even the total deal size has been mentioned yet.

The investors of the company would definitely seek more information on the deal, as it is very much for the company’s financial scenarios. The said Joint Venture (JV) has already created quite a buzz in the business world of India. The economy and business market is having a firm watch at the valuation of the deal.

It’s not new at all, as Pantaloon Retail has been selling off its various assets for quite a few times now. The retail company basically wants to reduce its debt, which is quite high at the moment, and for that it had already sold one of its retail businesses to Aditya Birla Group and its stake in Future Capital Holding to Warburg Pincus. All these moves would be quite able to reduce the debt of the company by at least Rs 1600 crore, provided the deal is completed with no obligation.

Cabinet Approves Bill to Provide Time-Bound Services to People

Time-Bound Services Bill by Cabinet

The Union Cabinet of the Government of India approves an important Bill to provide time-bound delivery of various key services like birth and death certificates, pensions and passports to the people of India.

The Union Cabinet gave its nod to the bill in a highly crucial close-door meeting, which was chaired by the honorable Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh himself. The Bill is named as ‘The Right of Citizens for Time-Bound Delivery of Goods and Services and Redressal of their Grievances Bill, 2011’.

The Bill comprises an irrevocable penalty of up to Rs 50,000 against any government employee irrespective of his level or status if he/she would fail to provide his/her responsibilities by delivering the services to the citizens in due time, official sources said.

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Apple’s iPhone Dominates in US Market, Survey revealed

Apple's iPhone

Apple’s iPhone has been dominated the United States (US) market over the holiday season, which includes the Christmas and new year eve, and it also continued to gain a complete growth in the early months of 2013 too.

On this Wednesday a latest survey revealed that Apple’s iPhone has managed to outpace its arch rival Samsung and various other smartphone making companies that use the well-popular Android operating system of Google.

The survey has been conducted by comScore, and it covers the time period of November 2012 to January 2013. The survey showed that Apple has able to hold a huge 37.8 per cent of the overall smartphone market of United States, and this is a clear cut increase of 3.5% from the previous three month period. So the sales of the iPhone has really boosted up in the last festive season for sure.

Eventually Apple’s nearest rival Samsung has also increased its market share, but it managed to do it on a slower pace than Apple. The South Korean technology company Samsung grabbed 21.4 percent of the total US smartphone market. Samsung held the percentage of 19.5 previously.

Indian Government Wants to Raise Rs 40k Crore from PSU Stake Sale

Disinvestment of India

Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said that the Indian Government wants to raise at least Rs 40,000 crore from the stake sale in Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) in the next fiscal year, which is starting from April 1, 2013.

He said that the government was quite hopeful about raising the said money from PSU stakes. This is a part of government’s disinvestment process to reduce the fiscal deficit of the country i.e. highly needed for fiscal consolidation procedure.

Finance Minister had an online chat session with the common people of India to discuss on the various issues related to the General Budget of 2013-14 in a very popular social networking site this week. In the chat session he said, "I hope to collect Rs.40, 000 crore from disinvestment next year. The first disinvestment will start in April."

India has Signed DTAA with Bhutan to Share Banking and Tax Information

DTAA, India & Bhutan

India has signed Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) with its neighboring country Bhutan to share banking and tax information between the two nations. This move will facilitate exchange of views and suggestions in the banking operations, and it will also help the two countries to check tax evasion.

Eventually this is the very first time for Bhutan to sign a DTAA agreement with any country whatsoever. However in January, 2012 India signed revised DTAA with Nepal. Finance Minister of India signed the agreement on behalf of Indian Government, while his Bhutanese counterpart Lyonpo Wangdi Norbum signed the treaty on behalf of the Royal Government of Bhutan.

ONGC, the Most Profitable Public Sector Firm of India

ONGC, Most Profitable PSU

ONGC has successfully retained the pride of being the most profitable Public Sector Firm of India for yet another year. It topped the featured list of top ten most profit-making PSUs of the country for the year of 2011-12. It added another feather to its crown with the help of its glorious run into the path of profits.

Another state-run company BSNL has performed very badly in the fiscal year of 2011-12. In fact the telecom company was the worst performer of that fiscal. As per the government survey BSNL was the most loss-making PSU Company of India for 2011-12. BSNL has been in quite trouble for last few years, and now it is showing in the financial report and poor economic conditions of the said company.

Important Exam Tips to Prepare SBI PO and SSC Combined Graduate Level Examination

Exam Tips to Prepare SBI PO & SSC CGLE

Today we will discuss on a few important exam tips and strategies to prepare for upcoming “SBI PO Recruitment” and “SSC Combined Graduate Level Examination (Tier I)” that offers highly lucrative government jobs. The recruitment process of these two sectors is highly competitive, so we need to prepare well to crack these exams with ease.

Examination Procedure:

For SBI PO:

Brief: The number one public sector unit State Bank of India will hold a written examination on 28^th April, 2013 for the purpose of recruitment in the highly lucrative posts of Probationary Officers (PO). The written examination will be the first hurdle to cross in order to be selected in the said bank. We all know that tremendous hard work and utmost dedication are the most important two factors that are highly required for getting selection in the SBI PO exam.

Subjects: In the first stage of written exam of SBI PO you will need to prepare for these four sections only. All the sections will have 50 questions carrying 1 mark each, so the total marks will be 200, and for that we will be given only 2 hours. There will be negative markings too for each wrong answer, so you will have to be very careful while answering. You will need to attend questions from all the sections, as there may be minimum cut off for each section. 

             1.      Test of English Language

             2.      Test of General Awareness

             3.      Test of Data Analysis and Interpretation

             4.      Test of Reasoning (High Level)

India likely to Build World’s Largest Solar Telescope in 2013

Largest Solar Telescope of India

                              India is quite likely to build world’s largest solar telescope to examine the overall atmosphere of sun and understand the decay process of various sun-spots along with the formation of it. It is quite an ultra modern initiative by the government of India, and it may provide the country enough exposure in the field of space-science in 2013.

                             The project will take place on the icy cool heights of Ladakh, Kashmir, which is another good part of it. Eventually the project will cost at around Rs 300 crore in total, and it is likely to come up at either Merak or Hanle. Both the places are very close to the Pangong lake of Ladakh along the Line of Actual Control with the neighboring country China.

Indian Genius Develops Androidly, Smallest Android Watch Device

Androidly

                               Indian genius Apurva Sukant has developed the smallest android device, which can be used as wrist watch, and named it “Androidly”. This smallest android watch can be able to work as a smartphone, and it will hit the market very soon, as it is now in the last stage of the product launch.

                          The following is the excerpt from what the CEO of Androidly Systems Private Ltd, Apurva Sukant has said about androidly device, 

"It is going to be the smallest android device in the world. The Android watch, called ‘Androidly’, will combine all the applications of a fully featured smartphone. You can make calls; browse the internet, check mails and click pictures. It will also be equipped with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and navigation facility,"

                                                   Sukant belongs to Patna, a district of Bihar, and is always a talented geek in deed. He always has a dream of seeing himself doing something very big. He doesn’t impress with the idea of working a 9-5 job, basically he hates it. So he could not visualize him as a person who was ready to work for a company. He simply does not like the idea of routine jobs, and he was quite clear about it from the beginning itself.