WordPress is a popular platform that supports a large number of online websites. While the platform comes with a lot of powerful features, it is not entirely free from drawbacks. One of its drawbacks is that it is usually very slow. This weakness of the platform can be detrimental for the websites that run on ...

Anyone who tried booking tickets through the IRCTC website knows the pain. Given a chance nobody will go back to the site again. To attract more user and to make the website more user friendly IRCTC (The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation) has decided to launch a new website by April, this year.

CPM has a lot to learn from the stunning debut of AAP. Aam Admi Party’s trump card in the last Delhi assembly election was their promise of a corruption free government and pro people measures. AAP is talking about cultivating a new political culture that the so called pro people parties like the ...

Until the break out of the sexual harassment case, every journalist in India wanted to be in Tarun Tejpal shoes. The Thehalka founder was a role model of every journalist in the country. When we look at the case, everything looks like framed. And he is nothing less than a victim of political conspiracy. It ...

Aadhaar is India’s ambitious mission to provide 12-digit unique personal identification numbers (PIN) to all its citizens. But with a population of more than 1.2 billion people, this has become the world’s largest single IT project. Now the question is will the project succeed? IT projects planned on a huge scale often run into ...

Followed by the Reserve Bank of India’s repo rateor main lending rate hike, HDFC bank has increased its base rate -0.20 percent to 10 percent. The revised rate is in force from 2nd of this month and other banks will likely to hike base rates. The hike in the base rate will result in in ...

In line with global rates of gold and silver, the government yesterday cut down the import tariff value of gold to USD 440 per ten gram and hiked silver value to USD 738 per kg.  The import tariff value is base value at which custom duty is decided to avoid the under invoicing of these ...

Janayugom, the Communist party’s official newspaper has put an end to the layoff issues. The newspaper is owned by CPI, a party that always stood firmly for the needs of laborers.  The trade union wing of CPI, AITUC has many times took stern stands against managements that did not give a heed to the right ...

The Australian government is all set to reform its higher education industry. The government is planning to simplify the visa procedure aiming to attract more students from countries such as India.  To undo the damage done by the previous government to the education scenario, education minister Christopher Pyne and imigration minister Scott Morrison jointly announced ...

To fight inflation, the Reserve Bank Governor has  again raised interest rates. This move will result in banks raising interest rate making living tough for the already suffering common man. Raghuram Rajan, The RBI governor claims the  decision to hike the main lending or repo rate from 0.25 per cent to 7.75 per cent will ...