On a consolidated basis, OnMobile Global reported an 15.4% increase in total revenues to Rs. 1.23 billion, compared with Rs. 1.02 billion during Q1 last year; the company also reported 105.8% year-on-year increase in consolidated net profit at Rs. 178.4 million, compared with Rs. 86.7 million during the corresponding quarter last year (Q1-10), but keep in mind that Q1-10 was something of an anomaly for the company, in terms of profitability trends.

The company also said that last quarter, they had benefited from a one-time booking of revenues, without which the …

New Delhi: Islamic organisations and Opposition parties in Kerala have criticised Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan for alleging there is a conspiracy to make the state “a Muslim-dominated world”.

“In 20 years India and Kerala will become a Muslim-dominated world. Youngsters are being given money and are being lured to convert to Islam — marry Muslim women and then give birth to Muslim children so that they can multiply,” said Achuthanandan last week in Delhi. He was speaking about the radical Islamic outfit Popular Front of India (PFI), activists of which …

New York: A week before the Indian embassy was bombed in Kabul in July 2008, Polish intelligence had warned that the Taliban might attack the building.

This has emerged from a document among the 92,000 leaked intelligence reports that suggested that the war in Afghanistan is going badly for the US, and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is fuelling the insurgency in the war-torn country.

The information leaked by the organisation Wikileaks was published in The New York Times, British daily newspaper Guardian, and German weekly Der Spiegel.

The document dealing with the Indian …

Last week we reviewed the Fujifilm FinePix HS10, which was a a point-and-shoot camera with an incredible 30x high zoom lens, and all the image customization options that would put a DSLR camera to shame. Today we have with us the Olympus SP-800UZ, which is closer to a standard point-and-shoot camera than a DSLR. It has a far simpler design and lesser image customization options than the HS10 but comes with the same incredible 30x optical zoom lens.

India based Karbonn Mobiles has announced the launch of its latest dual SIM handset. Known as the K25, this device joins one of the many QWERTY keypad laden dual SIM phones available in India these days.
The device boasts of a 2.3-inch QVGA display and features like GPRS, Bluetooth, 2.0 USB port, support for WAP, SMS, MMS and e-mail. It also comes with an FM radio. Like may other devices in its price range, this phone is also social networking ready and comes pre-embedded with social networking applications like Twitter and …

Patna: As many as 298 women in Bihar claim to have delivered two to five children in a span of 60 days — at least that’s what records of incentives amount given to new mothers under a government scheme show.

A woman gets around Rs 1,000 when she gives birth under the government’s Janani Suraksha Yojana but a total of Rs 6.6 lakh was paid as incentive to 298 women who claimed to have delivered two to five children within 60 days under the scheme, says a report of the Comptroller …