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Sanjeev Nanda gets 5 year in Jail in hit and run case

By Dhadkan of India • Sep 6th, 2008 • Category: News

Sanjeev Nunda, grandson of former navy chief SM nanda and son of arms dealer suresh nanda has been sentenced for 5 years in jail over high profile hit and run BMW case.
On 10th January 1999, Sanjeev Nanda, in drunken state, ran over 6 people including 3 policemen. All 6 died on the spot. Sanjeev [...]



Maruti will launch its own Small car “A Star”

By Dhadkan of India • Sep 5th, 2008 • Category: News

Maruti Udhyog who is under pressure after heavy hype of Tata nano and its dropping market ing small segment cars will be launching a small car named “A-Star” (Funny name?) with a new engine model. Maruti Alto will also be equipped with this new engine.
As per Maruti spokesperson, they are planning to launch another similar [...]



Government may Ban Exit and Opinion Polls on TV

By Dhadkan of India • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: News

Government is seriously thinking of banning all kind of exit and opinion polls ahead of assembly election is six states as it feels such polls affects peoples opinion, specially if the polling is done in phases.
Its been a very long time since TV channels are showing exit polls (almost everyone has its own) as they [...]



Google Browser Chrome gets launched

By Dhadkan of India • Sep 3rd, 2008 • Category: News

Google finally did something which was long awaited from them, they launched there own Browser named Chrome, You can download chrome from here
Uptil now, google had heavily promoted Firefox to hit at rival microsoft browser Internet explorer which is still used by the majority of net users thanks to it being pre bundled with Microsoft [...]



Vijay Mallya Not Happy with 11:30 Deadline in Bangalore

By Dhadkan of India • Sep 3rd, 2008 • Category: News

Vijay Mallya is not very happy with 11:30 deadline put by authorities on party and beer loving bangaloreans. Yesterday while launching first flight of Kingfisher airways, Mallya showed his displeasure and said it doesn’t make lot of sense when delhi and kolkata can have night life till 2am
He also said that problems with law and [...]



IMDB.com changed its layout

By Dhadkan of India • Sep 3rd, 2008 • Category: News

One of world’s as well as India’s Most surfed website IMDB.com has changed its layout and has gone more web 2.0 though this looks to be an ongoing changes made by IMDB to make the site more usable.
IMDB.com is worlds biggest resource on movies (including hindi and regional movies) as well as cast information. [...]



No cut in Flight Fares even though Jet Fuel prices reduced by 16%

By Dhadkan of India • Sep 1st, 2008 • Category: News

From 1st of September, the cost of aviation turbine fuel (ATF) will be reduced by 16% which should come as a welcome relief for air travelers across India. ATF price in Delhi are reduced by Rs.11k a kilolitre to around Rs. 59,650 per kl for domestic carriers. In Mumbai, the cost of jet fuel is [...]



Steve Jobs is Dead … Not

By Dhadkan of India • Aug 30th, 2008 • Category: News

Apple CEO Steve Jobs was reported death by New York based bloomberg website creating a sort of chaos in Tech world. There were reports coming for years now about deteriating health of Steve jobs. Before the world would had reacted, bloomberg responded that it was a mistake that they published a orbituary of steve jobs. [...]



Only 1500 iPhones got Sold in first week in India

By Dhadkan of India • Aug 30th, 2008 • Category: News

With so much hype on the launch of iPhones in India, it has been reported that both Airtel and vodafone, were not able to sell more than 1500 iPhones in the first week of its launching in India.
The primary reason for this is obviously a very high price of Rs 31,000 of iPhones in India [...]



Laptops for Rupees 5000 soon to be launched

By Dhadkan of India • Aug 30th, 2008 • Category: News

Not so long, laptops were considered luxory items and was only used by business people on run. Than it become more common and students started using it as the prices of laptops became more comparable with desktops, now laptops are going to touch mind blowing, Rs 5k mark.
In an interview today, Union Minister for Communication [...]