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In a democracy a servant, not a ruler, should be sitting in Delhi. |
There can be no lord in Delhi, but there should be a servant there. |
The friends of Congress released balloons every day. |
The friends of Congress, we gave you a test just 10 months ago. |
It is the public that will make you sit your examination in Democracy. |
Google, Samsung, Huawei sued over Nortel patents |
The group that owns thousands of former Nortel patents filed a barrage of patent lawsuits on Thursday against cell phone manufacturers including Google, the company it outbid in the Nortel bankruptcy auction. |
Rockstar, the consortium that bought the Nortel patents for $4.5 billion, sued Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, HTC Corp, Huawei and four other companies for patent infringement in U.S. District Court in Texas. |
Rockstar is jointly owned by Apple, Microsoft, Blackberry, Ericsson and Sony. |
Google is accused of infringing seven patents. |
The patents cover technology that helps match Internet search terms with relevant advertising, the lawsuit said, which is the core of Google's search business. |
Representatives for Samsung, Huawei, HTC and Rockstar could not immediately be reached. |
Samsung, Huawei and HTC all manufacture phones that operate on Google's Android operating system, which competes fiercely with Apple and Microsoft mobile products. |
In 2011 Google placed an initial $900 million bid for Nortel's patents. |
Google increased its bid several times, ultimately offering as much as $4.4 billion. |
After losing out to Rockstar on the Nortel patents, Google went on to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, a deal driven partly by Motorola's library of patents. |
Despite losing in its attempt to acquire the patents-in-suit at auction, Google has infringed and continues to infringe, the lawsuit said. |
Rockstar is seeking increased damages against Google, as it claims Google's patent infringement is willful, according to the complaint. |
Egypt swears in first freely elected president |
Mohamed Morsi takes the oath of office but his day of triumph is unlikely to mark end of political strife in Egypt. |
ISLAMIST Mohamed Morsi promised a "new Egypt" as he took the oath of office to become the country's first freely elected president, succeeding Hosni Mubarak who was ousted 16 months ago. |
At his inauguration before the Supreme Constitutional Court, Morsi also became the Arab world's first freely elected Islamist president and Egypt's fifth head of state since the overthrow of the monarchy some 60 years ago. |
He took the oath before the court's 18 black-robed judges in its Nile-side seat built to resemble an ancient Egyptian temple. |
We aspire to a better tomorrow, a new Egypt and a second republic, Morsi said during a solemn ceremony shown live on state television. |
Today, the Egyptian people laid the foundation of a new life - absolute freedom, a genuine democracy and stability, said Morsi, a 60-year-old US-trained engineer from the Muslim Brotherhood, a fundamentalist group that has spent most of the 84 years since its inception as an outlawed organisation harshly targeted by successive governments. |
Hundreds of soldiers and policemen guarded the building as Morsi arrived shortly after 11am local time in a small motorcade. |
Only several hundred supporters gathered outside the court to cheer the new president and, in a departure from the presidential pomp of the Mubarak years, traffic was only briefly halted to allow his motorcade through on the usually busy road linking the city centre with its southern suburbs. |
Derided as the Brotherhood's uncharismatic "spare tyre," his personal prestige has surged since his victory and his delivery of a Friday speech that tried to present him as a candidate not just of Islamists but of all those who want to complete the work of the 2011 uprising against the authoritarian Mubarak. |
Egypt today is a civil, national, constitutional and modern state, Morsi, wearing a blue business suit and a red tie, told the judges in the wood-panelled chamber where he took the oath of office. |
Morsi later travelled to Cairo University where he was to make his inauguration address. |
He was given an official welcome by an army band that played the national anthem as he stood to attention. |
Military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi was in attendance. |
His arrival was greeted with chants of, "The army and the people are one hand," from the hundreds gathered in the university's main lecture room. |
Established in 1908 as a bastion of secular education, Cairo University later became a stronghold of Islamist student groups in the 1970s. |
Morsi took a symbolic oath on Friday in Tahrir Square, birthplace of the uprising that ended Mubarak's authoritarian rule last year, and vowed to reclaim presidential powers stripped from his office by the military council that took over from the ousted leader. |
But by agreeing to take the official oath before the court, rather than before parliament as is customary, he is bowing to the military's will in an indication that the contest for power will continue. |
Morsi's speech in Tahrir Square was filled with dramatic populist gestures. |
We receive hundreds of photos and news from our readers for our readers' column every day. |
Some of which we are sharing with you here. |
Looking at these photos you will also say that they are very good and that the photographer has made good use of the opportunity. |
Every photo in the Readers' report has been taken from a different angle. |
The slight change in the angle by the photographer has changed the mood of the photograph. |
If you don't believe it, take a look for yourself. |
If scrap is stored properly and with proper lighting it can also become a piece of art. |
Secretary of State John Kerry unexpectedly acknowledged that in the US spying has gone too far, in some cases. |
He also claimed that innocent people have been tortured under secret surveillance programs. |
Kerry's confession came while addressing the Open Government Partnership's annual summit in London via a video link. |
Kerry said, "I assure you that innocent people were not being harassed in this process". |
But, in an effort to gain information, in some cases inappropriate methods had been used. |
Meanwhile, a key committee of the U.S. Congress has approved a bill to limit the monitoring activities of the National Security Agency [NSA]. |
The aim of this is to make monitoring more transparent and to get back the trust of the people which has been lost following the disclosure of large scale phone tapping. |
This move by the Senate was welcomed by six U.S. companies including Google and Yahoo. |
The data centres in these companies have also been hacked by the NSA. |
On Friday the select committee of the Senate passed a bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act(FISA)by 11 votes to 4. |
Many restrictions, including an outright ban on phone tapping, have been proposed in this bill, under the American Patriot Act. |
Deliberate, unauthorized collection and use of data under FISA will be treated as a criminal offence and will be punishable by up to ten years in prison. |
Once both Congress, the House of Representatives and the Senate pass the bill, it will become law. |
The Committee Chairman and Senator, Diane Festin, said that the NSA's program of recording phone calls is within the law, and believed it had contributed significantly to the country's security. |
However, there should be more transparency. |
Not only that, the protection of personal privacy should also be kept in mind. |
Meanwhile, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, AOL and Facebook, disturbed by the revelation of the NSA's Internet surveillance program, have supported this bill. |
In letters written to the senators all these companies have said that the senators' proposal to restrict the NSA's large scale phone tapping is welcomed by them. |
It is noteworthy that the documents released by the former CIA employee Edward Snowden made the actions of the NSA public. |
The NSA's monitoring of the phone conversations of the presidents of 35 countries, including Germany and France, had caused a huge uproar in the international community. |
The State Media member Ajay Rai said he will begin his extensive campaign on the 4th of November. |
Bhagat will be focusing his efforts in the Assembly constituencies in Chhatisgarh, adjacent to Jharkhand. |
He knows these areas very well. |
He will travel in Chhattisgarh continuously until November 16th. |
Jharkhandi leaders are in great demand in the electoral battle in Chhattisgarh. |
More than two dozen leaders of the BJP are already there. |
Congress had urged the JMM chief, Shibu Soren, and Chief Minister, Hemant Soren, to campaign on behalf of the party in Chhattisgarh, which JMM's top leadership has accepted. |
The JMM withdrew its 10 candidates announced earlier from the elections. |
The JMM has told the Chhatisgarh State committee that all its leaders must actively join in the campaign for Congress. |
As per the issued notification Dr. Girish Sharma has been promoted from Assistant Professor to the post of Associate Professor in the Anaesthesia Department, Dr. Divya Vashishth from lecturer in the College of Dentistry, Simla to the post of Assistant Professor in the Prosthetics Department, Dr. Geetaram Tekta from Assistant Professor to the post of Associate Professor in the Department of Skin Diseases and Dr. Renu Gupta has been appointed to the post of professor in the College of Dentistry, Simla. |
The government cancelled the transfer order of Neeraj Sharma, the Senior Superintendent of the CMO office, Simla on Friday. |
He has been posted in DDU, Simla. |
He was transferred to the Simla Dental College. He has been under transfer since 24th October. |
Irrigation and Public Health Department Assistant Engineer, Ashok Kumar Choudhary, has been transferred from the Kangra sub-division to the Dharamsala zone. |
Assistant Engineer, Jagat Ram Chaudhary, has been sent from Guglada (Kangra) to the Kangra sub-division. |
The bail plea hearing of the former Chief of the Army, General Pervez Musharraf, in the case of the Lal Masjid cleric murder has been postponed until November 4th. |
The next hearing of the case against Musharraf will be held on November 11. |
In 2007, during the military campaign launched against the fanatics hiding in Lal Masjid, cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi was killed. |
The police have already declared Musharraf innocent, which was a great relief for him. |
The police said then that President Musharraf did not play a direct role in the assassination of the cleric. |
Islamabad Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ), Wajid Ali, is presiding over Musharraf's bail hearing. |
During the hearing Tarik Asad, the counsel of the Lal Masjid Shuhada Foundation representative and complainant, accused the police of destroying all the evidences of Musharraf's innocence. |
Counsel asked the court for more time to present more evidence in this case. |
Subsequently, the court adjourned the bail of Mushraf hearing until November 4th. |
On Thursday, the Organisation for the Welfare of the Disabled held a meeting to discuss the welfare of the disabled in the town. |
It was presided over by Vinod Sharma, senior vice-chairman of the organization. |
After the meeting the disabled demonstrated against the administration and submitted a memorandum to the SDM Naushera. |
Vinod Sharma, while addressing a meeting of the disabled, said that persons with disabilities should receive special concessions for government jobs. |
The disabled should receive promotion in the various government departments based on SCST quotas. |
The monthly pension should be raised from Rs. 400 to Rs. 2,000. |
A prosthesis camp should be organized in Tehsil Naushera and a rehabilitation centre should be opened in Rajouri. |
The disabled also protested with their demands. |
After the meeting, the disabled presented the Naushera SDM, Dipti Uppal, with a memorandum of their demands. |
The Naushera SDM assured the disabled that their problems could be resolved. |
In the U.S.A. an Indian doctor has been sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for fraud. |
The doctor had made a false medical insurance claim for services that he had never provided. |