Srinivasan yet to decide on attending ICC meet: TNCA
CHENNAI: Embattled BCCI president N Srinivasan, who stepped aside after the IPL spot-fixing scandal, has not yet made up his mind on attending the ICC annual conference in London and will decide on it...
View ArticleLast Telegram Ever Will Be Sent In India Next Month
The world's final telegram will be sent next month by India's state-run telecommunications company, the Christian Science Monitor reported. The July 14 stop date will be over 160 years after Samuel...
View ArticleIn dying days, almost-forgotten telegraph service returns to life
CHENNAI: Philatelists, collectors, and those with a penchant for nostalgia have decided to use July 15—the day BharatSancharNigam Limited will its 160-year-old telegram service — to pull out all the...
View ArticleMender of tunes
A narrow lane off the busy Tennur High Road leads straight to a modest blue board printed with ‘Saraswathi Musicals’. The faint twanging of a string comes up from the path. We follow it to find a...
View ArticleFarmers up ante against banks, seek waiver of loans
TRICHY: Farmers in Trichy district are up in arms against the central lending banks as the latter had sent out notices threatening to attach their tractors, lands and other agricultural equipment of...
View ArticleSMS arrived, telegram gone STOP
“The transition from dots and dashes to zeroes and ones leaves a lot to be desired,” complains an old-timer. AD: Hi, why the sad face? Is your computer down again? BC: What hath God wrought? AD: Wait a...
View ArticleHEVC Decoding in Consumer Devices: The New Video Compression Standard, HEVC,...
DUBLIN, June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/9wkv4b/hevc_decoding_in) has announced the addition of the "HEVC Decoding in Consumer Devices"...
View ArticleThose were the days, goodbye telegram
MANGALORE: I came to know that I had won an award through a telegram in 1982 for a novel which had appeared in a newspaper during 1970s. Even today I have that telegram with me. Today we use a mobile...
View ArticleSpot fixing: PIL in HC challenges BCCI probe panel, Srinivasan's role
The Cricket Association of Bihar has filed a PIL in Bombay High Court against constitution of a a probe panel on IPL spot-fixing by the then Cricket Board chief N Srinivasan, alleging it was an...
View ArticleEnd of telegram saddens stamp collectors
PUNE: A yellowed form with four words 'How mother come sharp' - a telegram sent in 1954 to Bajitpur in then East Pakistan - is the pride of philatelist Pratisad Neurgaonkar's collection of telegraph...
View ArticleWorld’s Last Telegram To Be Sent Next Month In India
The world’s last telegram ever will be sent next month on July 14 by India’s state-run telecommunications company. For our younger readers, a “telegram” is like your grandpa’s text message. It’s on...
View ArticleIndian media: Telegram nostalgia
Media in India are reminiscing over the rich history of the 160-year-old telegram service, which is to wind up soon. The government has decided to discontinue the telegraph service from 15 July due to...
View ArticleIndia to Send Last Telegram in July
In 1850, the British inventor William O'Shaughnessy — who would later become famous for his early experiments with medical cannabis — sent a coded message over a telegraph line in India. His telegram...
View ArticleOfficials violating law to please party in power: Anbumani Ramadoss
TRICHY: PMK leader and former Union minister Anbumani Ramadoss accused the district collectors and the superintendents of police in Tamil Nadu of violating the laws to please people holding office....
View ArticleJwala (1969)
Impersonation in crime and murder investigation was a technique adopted in thrillers both in fiction and on screen. Hindi films like Shakti Samanta’s China Town (1962), a box office hit of 1960s, was...
View ArticleChennaiites mourn loss of telegram
CHENNAI: News that the telegram has reached the end of the line has been met with remorse by people in Chennai, some of whose epochal life events were tied to the arrival of those terse missives....
View ArticleA golden anniversary for the ZIP Code
By Dana Bartholomew dana.bartholomew@dailynews.com @DN_DanaBart on Twitterdailynews.com Posted: 06/30/2013 03:44:14 PM PDT June 30, 2013 10:48 PM GMTUpdated: 06/30/2013 03:48:11 PM PDT Letter carrier...
View ArticleRadio club's Field Day to test communication capabilities
Should a tropical storm, hurricane or other natural disaster or national emergency strike the western communities one group will be prepared to lend a helping hand and voice – the Wellington Radio...
View ArticleIt's goodbye to telegrams
...Respected chief minister. I took my child to the new primary health centre in Allahabad where I was charged Rs 100 for a bottle of syrup. Few days later, I was given the wrong medicines for my...
View ArticleGoodbye telegram, say users
HUBLI: The last telegram will be sent on July 15. Outpaced in the era of SMSs and emails, telegram, the bearer of urgent good and bad news, has run its course. Says former chief minister Jagadish...
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