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Team Anna is in a mess. Its high profile members – most notably Kiran Bedi, Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan – are in a mess. But the mess is one of their own making. Why blame the government? Take the case of Kiran Bedi. Her fudging of travel accounts was brought out by the Indian Express. It was this newspaper that front-paged details of the various trips that Kiran Bedi made and overcharged for. It was then the Times of India that actually spoke with some conference organizers and brought out their claim that Kiran Bedi had not informed them about her scheme at all. It was only after all of this came out that people like Digvijay Singh started commenting on her; demanding that she quit. It was she who defended herself like politicians do when they are caught – rather than accepting her mistake. It was she who did not offer to quit – while that’s what she demands from politicians all the time. She was double standards personified – and she has only herself to bl...

It’s always special the first time and the Indian GP at the Buddh international circuit was just as special. The Indian Grand Prix, an event many years in the making finally made history. And taking top honours in this momentous occasion was none other than the already double world champion Sebastian Vettel. The 24 year old German romped on to his 11th victory of the 2011 season. But it wasn’t easy for sure. As the lights went out Vettel sprinted to the lead at the start and worked very hard to build a field, which he then controlled as he led every lap. That left Webber squabbling with Button who had pulled a fast one on Webber at the very first corner. There was more action at the back as Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa added a little spice to proceedings by coming together for the fourth time this season. Further back, the chaos predicted for turn three arrived early as Rubens Barrichello clipped the back of Williams team-mate Pastor Maldonado and, in then having to move left...

country's No. 3 software services exporter, posted a 1 per cent rise in quarterly profit, beating street estimates, helped by a weaker rupee and rise in spending on outsourcing by overseas clients. Bangalore-based Wipro forecast third-quarter revenue of $ 1.50 billion to $ 1.53 billion from its IT services unit, which accounts for three-quarters of its total revenue, a rise of 2 percent to 4.1 percent from the second quarter. Country's showpiece $76 billion industry gets more than 90 per cent of its revenue from providing technology services to overseas clients and counts the United States and Europe as its biggest markets. Europe is the second largest market for the software firms, and the euro zone debt crisis is a worry for the sector that has been looking to increase its sales to the region to hedge against their excessive exposure to the United States. "Macroeconomic sentiments continue to remain uncertain," Wipro's billionaire Chairma...

The latest version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0, or simply Android ICS introduces a bunch of new features never seen before in its prior iterations. Android 4.0 ICS has a brand new look although it does maintain some resemblance to Android Honeycomb, it would be available for tablets as well as smartphones. The Galaxy Nexus would be the first smartphone with the new version, and it is expected to hit the Indian stores in November. Apart from the features we have mentioned here, Ice Cream Sandwich has a bunch of new features which deeply integrate into your smartphone and tablet experience. These are the ones we think are really special.

Jailed former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today moved the Karnataka High Court seeking anticipatory bail in three of the five cases against him relating to alleged irregularities in denotifying lands. Justice H Billappa adjourned to November 3 hearing on the bail plea of the 68-year-old BJP leader, giving time to counsel for complainant and advocate Sirajin Basha to file objections to it. Basha had filed the complaints in the Special Lokayukta Court. Yeddyurappa, who is currently lodged in the central prison at Parappana Agrahara on the city outskirts, has already filed a plea for regular bail in two cases. Special Lokayukta Judge N K Sudhindra Rao had on October 15 rejected his bail plea in regard to these two cases and remanded him to judicial custody -- first to October 22 and later extending it till November three. Arguments on his bail plea with regard to these two cases are on before Justice B V Pinto of High Court. Basha has already filed a written statement of...

New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) With his health improving, former Samajwadi Party  leader and an accused in the 2008 cash-for-votes scandal  Amar Singh  was Sunday discharged from the  All India Institute of Medical Sciences  ( AIIMS ) here and went to his residence. Amar Singh, who was admitted to AIIMS Sep 12 due to an infection in his kidneys transplanted in 2009, was taken in an ambulance to his Lodhi Estate home, accompanied by his aide and  Rampur MP Jaya Prada . A bearded Amar Singh was welcomed home by his children, amid slogans from supporters belonging to his outfit  Lok Manch . He had been granted bail by the  Delhi High Court  Oct 24 on humanitarian grounds. He had been arrested Sep 6 for his alleged involvement in an attempt to bribe MPs ahead of the July 2008 parliament trust vote, in what came to be known as the cash-for-votes case. Later, Amar Singh told reporters that he may have to go back to AIIMS for a check-up on Nov ...

The notice says, "As you signed up for updates on the HP TouchPad, we wanted you to know that we are officially out of stock. Some retailers will have some stock available, but our online inventory is depleted." The only other avenue for getting a TouchPad is Best Buy. The retailer  announced today  that it will offer a 32 GB HP TouchPad for $149.99 with purchase of an HP or Compaq Laptop, Desktop or All-in-One computer. The official demise of the TouchPad coincides with a  report  Friday pointing to the end of TouchPad production. Citing sources, Asia-based Digitimes said TouchPad manufacturer Inventec had laid off 400 employees because it "has to stop production of Hewlett-Packard's...WebOS tablet PCs, and also expects no new orders for other devices." And in related news, there was a  report  Friday that HP will shut down the group responsible the WebOS software. HP CEO Meg Whitman said Thursday in an conference call that the compan...