A US soldier`s scheme to defraud one of the world`s richest men has landed him in federal custody. In a criminal complaint unsealed yesterday, federal investigators allege Brandon Lee Price changed the address on a bank account held by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, then had a debit card sent to his home so he could use it for payments on a delinquent Armed Forces Bank account
The Haryana government will soon develop an online receipt system to improve service delivery to various depositors intending to make any payment to the government. "The new system would not only facilitate payment through Internet banking for customers of various empanelled banks but would also help in generating verified challans to deposit cash in branches of the empanell
Destiny had separated them in 1988, but Google and Facebook united them after 24 years. This sums up the story of a family based in Khandwa, located around 200km from the state capital. Sheru, now Shaaru Brali, separated from his family at a tender age of six while returning home along with his elder brother Guddu, who used to sell tea in trains at Burhanpur statio
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram today launched an interactive website aimed to facilitate job prospects for 40,000 youths from Jammu and Kashmir in a period of five years. The website -- www.nsdcindia.org/udaan -- will be run by the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). It will act as a platform to bring the unemployed youth of Jammu and Kashmir in touch with corporate
Mobile subscriber base in the country is estimated rise by 9 per cent to 696 million connections this year, according to technology researcher Gartner. India`s mobile subscriber base stood at from 638 million connections in calendar year 2011. Total mobile services revenue in India is projected to reach USD 30 billion (in constant US dollars) in 2016. The Average R
People in Karnataka can soon apply for social security pensions online. Terming the suggestion of Congress MLA N L Narendra Babu in this regard as "appropriate", Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda said the government would certainly take this step. Babu sought to highlight the plight of a woman who had lost her husband 15 years ago and was running from pi
Over 2.21 crore bogus ration cards have been deleted from the list of subsidised foodgrain beneficiaries as part of a special drive started in 2006. Food Minister K V Thomas said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha that 2.21 crore bogus/ineligible ration cards have been deleted in 26 states and Union Territories as a result of ongoing campaign since July 2006 to December 2011.
Websites of more than 46 educational institutions based in the district were allegedly hacked by a group reportedly based in Pakistan, police said on Monday. The incident took place on Saturday and came to light yesterday. Cyber Crime Branch has launched investigations after receiving complaints in this regard from Sant Gadgebaba Amravati University, P R Pote Colle
The government is confidant of raising around Rs 90,000 crore in the next three years through auction of telecom spectrum, in line with its proposal to sell airwaves at market-linked prices. As per the Union Budget proposals presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in Parliament today, "...Rs 40,000 crore (of non tax revenue) is estimated to be from telecom spectrum au
In a new record for Apple, the technology giant has sold a whopping three million of its new iPads within just three days of launching the latest version of its blockbuster tablet computer. The California-based company launched the third version of the iPad on Friday with new features including an improved display, better camera, faster processor and support for AT&T`s and Ve
The small and medium enterprises are likely to get a boost as industry body Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) has partnered social media site Facebook to provide them with educational resources and free advertising. The partnership will expand Facebook`s global small and medium business (SMB) boost programme here and provide SMEs with educational reso
The project to create a National Population Register (NPR) is likely to be completed in next two years, Home Ministry said on Friday. Under the NPR project, the demographic data of more than a billion people has been collected through a house-to-house enumeration. The scanning of all the filled-in NPR schedules has been completed and details required for the NPR has been collecte
The government on Friday said it will extend the UIDAI`s Aadhaar enabled payments for various government schemes in at least 50 selected districts within the next six months. Under the Unique Identification Authority of India`s Aadhaar enabled payments, the subsidies are directly transferred into the beneficiaries` bank accounts. "It will be our endeavour to s
India`s Internet economy is expected to reach Rs 10.8 trillion by 2016, as the country`s growth rate in this segment is far ahead of many of the developing nations, says a report by Boston Consulting Group. According to a report in the Boston Consulting Group`s Connected World series, the Indian Internet economy contributed Rs 3.2 trillion to the overall economy in 2010, represen
To ease concerns over some NGOs in India misusing foreign aid, the US is set to launch an online portal that will help Indian-Americans to safely donate funds to non-government bodies back home. At the initiative of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the State Department is in the final stages of launching the ambitious website. It would change the way Indian Amer
Corrupt Indian call centre workers are selling swathes of confidential personal information, from credit card details and medical records to loan data, of over 500,000 Britons, media reports claimed. Confidential personal data on hundreds of thousands of Britons is being touted by corrupt Indian call centre workers, the Sunday Times report said citing its sting operation.
Aiming to plug subsidy leakages, government on Saturday said it would roll out mobile-based tracking system of fertilisers across the country and announced plans to provide subsidy directly to retailers and then to farmers in a phased manner. At present, the fertiliser subsidy, pegged at Rs 60,974 crore for next fiscal, is being disbursed to manufacturers. In his b
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday approved an allocation around Rs 14,000 crore in the Union Budget 2012 to complete the aadhar enrolment of 40 crore residents of the country by June 2013. Nandan Nilekani-led unique identification authority of India will get a boost from the budgetary allocation as the UIDAI and the planning commission recently got into a row over fund
The government will roll out a mobile-based system to track fertiliser movement and shift gradually to direct transfer of subsidies to farmers to plug leakages, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said today. Noting that the government`s endeavour would be to bring down central subsidies to 1.75 per cent of GDP in next three years, Mukherjee said the focus would now be on targettin
The UIDAI`s Aadhaar project for providing unique identity numbers to residents, has huge potential to improve the delivery of social sector schemes like rural employment guarantee, the Economic Survey 2011-12 said. "Aadhaar has huge potential for improving operations and delivery of services," the survey said, The Unique Identification Authority of India
