Going green costs customers pretty penny
It will be impossible for poor and middle-class people to shift to energy-efficient appliances as long as an energy-saving electric bulb costs almost 10 times the Rs. 12-15 that a regular bulb costs.
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Sad chapter in history of Jaipur lit fest ends
By Aditi Mathur
When the official announcement was made at the last minute on Tuesday
afternoon that Salman Rushdie would not be addressing the Jaipur Literature Festival, the festival-goers’ reaction was one of muted resignation.
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Twitter comes to rescue of frustrated
cell phone users
In a country with the second-largest number of cell phone consumers and where we see rapid growth of the telecom industry, it comes as no surprise that cell phone service providers are now turning to social media to deal with consumer complaints.
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TRAI’s 100-SMS-a-day limitation
being sidestepped
Texting addicts can continue sending over 100 SMSs per day with various Internet applications available for free download on smartphones.
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Railways forbid sale
of private water bottles
A fortnight ago, Indian railways banned the sale of packaged drinking water from private companies in Hubli, in an attempt to promote their in-house brand of water Rail Neer and increase their revenue.
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Aadhaar card-issuing body: Personal
info can’t be hacked
The lack of a legal system to safeguard personal data will not undermine the government’s scheme to issue biometric identification cards nationwide, according to an official at the body managing the scheme.
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