Mobile Phone Saves Man from Tigress

As per a report:

The 50-something resident of the Adivasi-dominated Baihar village in Balaghat district recently had a close encounter with death. He spent an agonizing three hours up on a tree with a furious tigress waiting below. Read more here at............Mobile Phone Saves Man from Tigress

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US cannot Hack Indian PM's Mobile Phone & Email account as He has none to Hack

Yes, it's true that US cannot Hack Indian Prime Minister's Mobile Phone & Email account as He does not have one to Hack. Read full story here at US cannot Hack Indian PM's Mobile Phone & Email account.

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Man uses Barack Obama's photo to get new mobile phone connection

HYDERABAD: If the records of a private telecom operator are to be believed, then US President Barack Obama is a 21-year-old resident of Nalgonda in Andhra Pradesh. In a telling laxity of the telecom service providers in granting telephone connections to all and sundry without proper verification, a Nalgonda resident by the name of M Prasad secured a cellphone connection with the number 9177523297 by passing off the photograph of the US President as his. Read more.....Man uses Barack Obama's photo to get new mobile phone connection

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Half of India defecates in the open but owns a Mobile Phone

New Delhi: Nearly half of India defecates in the open but at the same time more than 63 per cent have access to either a landline or a mobile phone.

And, even more interestingly nearly half (47.2 per cent) of India also have a television set at home.

Television also emerged as the key mode communication for India registering a 16 per cent growth over the last similar Census of 2001.

These, rather startling figures, were revealed today at Household Amenities Census 2011. In contrast, however, 58 per cent households have bathing facility within the premises. Read More................Half of India defecates in the open but owns a mobile phone: Household Amenities Census

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Ban on Mobile Phones for Unmarried Girls

Muzaffarnagar: After beatings and murders, khap panchayats are ramping up the crackdown on females in Uttar Pradesh. A village panchayat here has banned the use of mobile phones by unmarried girls, a move they feel would prevent them from eloping with their lovers. Read more.........Now, a ban on mobile phones for unmarried girls

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Teenager kills father for using his mobile

A teenager killed his father by attacking him with a hammer after the middle-aged man made a phone call from his mobile at Khorinan village in West Bengal's Burdwan district, police said.

'The victim's wife lodged a complaint against her son alleging that he had murdered his father. The boy, who is a teenager, has been held for interrogation,' Kalna sub-divisional police officer Rathindranath Mukherjee said. Read More................Teenager kills father for using his mobile

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Hanging on a tree branch for a phone call

Bhubaneswar, Feb 17 :Just imagine climbing a 30-foot-high tree and hanging on to a branch to make a phone call. This is a grim reality in Maoist-hit districts of Orissa where the extremists have been targeting the towers that relay mobile telephone signals.

After the destruction of several towers, mobile communication has come to a virtual halt in several areas of Malkangiri and Koraput districts of southern Orissa, which border Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh. Read More................Hanging on a tree branch for a phone call

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Jeans, mobile phones banned in colleges

Kanpur: Students and teachers in Kanpur women colleges better watch out what you wear as the institute authorities have prohibited them from wearing jeans, danglers, sleeveless blouses and heels on the campus. Read More................Jeans, mobile phones banned in Kanpur colleges

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Mobile phone in Buffalo's tummy, gets 7 missed calls

BIJAPUR: This buffalo must have been taken aback when it heard a mobile ringing in its tummy. But not as much as the callers. There were seven missed calls! Read More............Buffalo swallows phone, gets 7 missed calls

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Pay Rs 5 to get your Mobile recharged

Nawadih (Jharkhand): Ever heard of paying Rs5 to recharge a mobile phone battery? Welcome to Nawadih village, which falls under Jharkhand’s Tamar constituency from where chief minister Shibu Soren is seeking to enter the state assembly—the locals here have to pay up each time their cell phones run out of charge.

“What can we do? This is our fate. As there is no electricity in the village, most of us use solar power for energy requirement, and some of us make a living by recharging cells (of mobile phones),” says D. Pramanik, a resident of Nawadih. Read more.....................Here you have to pay Rs 5 to get your mobile cell recharged

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Call centre employee killed over mobile phone

Mohali (Punjab): A call centre employee was stabbed to death by three youths, who had borrowed his mobile phone to make a few calls but refused to return it, in this Punjab town, the police said Sunday.

Davinder Sahota, 20, hailing from Una town in Himachal Pradesh, was stabbed to death by unidentified youths late Saturday. Read more.............................Call centre employee killed over mobile phone in Punjab

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Mobile Ringtone sings 'Condom, Condom!!!!'

NEW DELHI: A cell phone ring tone that sings "Condom, condom!" has been launched to promote safe sex in India, where condoms carry a strong social stigma and HIV and AIDS are growing problems, health experts said Tuesday.

The a cappella ring tone features a professional singer chanting the word condom more than 50 times, a playful approach that public health activists hope will spark discussion and make condoms more socially acceptable. Read more.........................Safe sex ring tone sings "Condom, condom!"

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Indians prefer Mobile Phone to Bicycle

Lauding the growth of telecom sector in the country, Minister of State for Industries Ashwani Kumar has said Indians are now using mobile phones rather than bicycles for connectivity.

Speaking at the two-day conference on Communications Convergence organised by the Indian Merchants Chamber (IMC) here Friday, Kumar said: 'Eighty million phones are purchased every year in India compared to 15 million bicycles, which indicates that Indians now have adopted mobile as the easiest and faster way to achieve connectivity.'Read more.....................Indians prefer mobile to bicycle for connectivity: minister

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Mobile Crematorium

Finding a piece of land for cremation has always been a problem in Kerala. Proposing a solution to this, the High Tech Seals Pvt Ltd, which also produces automotive parts, plans to introduce a mobile crematorium fuelled by liquid petroleum gas (LPG) here on the outskirts of Kochi.

"It was the controversies associated with cremation or burial and the issue of pollution that made us think about such a crematorium," said John Thomas, the managing director of the company.

The company proposes to mount the crematorium on a vehicle that can be moved to any location.

Although the company went ahead with the project two years ago, it was forced to go slow on the work.

"We started the work on the mobile crematorium alright, but had to slow down as there were some technical problems," said John.

The company, however, is successful with its non-mobile LPG crematoriums. These units have facilities to prevent pollution or odour from cremation.

So far the company has successfully installed 10 units in various municipalities in Kerala. Read more...................Kerala to have mobile crematorium

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Cops to arrest Students using Mobiles Phones

Twelve special police teams have been set up in Chennai state of India to keep watch on students who use mobile phones in schools despite the government’s ban.

The police had also warned that it would arrest those students who were found using camera mobiles on the school premises.Read more............No ring tones in schools, colleges

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Maoist ideologue in jail swallows SIM card

In Chhattisgarh state of India, when Police recovered a mobile phone from the possession of Narayan Sanyal, the highest-ranking Maoist ideologue lodged in Bilaspur Central Prison, he swallowed the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card of the mobile in an attempt to destroy the evidence.

Mobile Phone was recovered from Sanyal’s possession after a surprise check by the prison authorities, following a tip off.

“As the raid began, Sanyal took out the SIM and swallowed it and hid the handset in his undergarments,” the Inspector-General said. Read more at Indian Express...........Chhattisgarh: Naxal leader in jail swallows SIM card

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Mobile phone 'explodes' & woman gets injured

Mobile phone users, be aware, as sometimes this instrument which is part & parcel of your life can explode also. As per "Aaj Tak" TV channel report a woman was allegedly injured when a mobile phone "exploded" in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir.

Kareena Bali was talking on her phone when the battery of the mobile phone "exploded" in Donalgal yesterday night, they said.

As result of the blast, she received injuries in face and hands & she was hospitalized. It was the same battery that has been declared unfit by a leading mobile company a week ago.

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Rs.15.5 Lakhs for a VIP Mobile number

If India's economic liberalization is fruitful or not, here is an interesting story which shall make you believe that post economic liberalization Indians are indeed becoming rich. Take the case of this 26-year-old Amit Malhotra from Ludhiana city in Punjab state of India, son of a city garment manufacturer and property dealer, who spent a whopping Rs 15.50 lakhs (US$ 38,500) for the big-ticket mobile number 9780000000. It was just for a status symbol -- owning a VIP cell phone number like that!!!!

His father, Vijay Malhotra, was quoted as saying that this isn't something new for his son, and that he has always chosen VIP numbers as belongings. Just that this time round, he's blown up a huge amount of money on it...

All said, while a part of India that is seen as rich and fat might pride itself on this kind of obscenely ostentatious spending, what about the phone company -- in this case Hutch -- which actually conducted an auction of the VIP cell phone numbers?

Amit, who had previously applied for such a number; went through a phone auction that lasted from Tuesday morning through Wednesday evening, and haggled alongside 4 other eager customers to eventually seal the big win.

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Mobile Phone helps Indians learn English alphabets

In India, 59.5% of total population is literate (definition: people of age 15 and over who can read and write). Male population is 70.2% literate while Female population is 48.3% literate (Data Source: cia.gov).
Now when more than 40% population is illiterate, government agencies are trying their best & are spending huge amounts to make people literate through various education programs. Now here is a surprising report that government might have achieved targets faster by simply sponsoring cellular mobile-phones among the illiterate masses.

Interestingly, many people living in Ranchi in Bihar State of India, have learned to identify English alphabets by using their mobile phones and are effectively putting their knowledge of English to use in different spheres of life. Claiming the trend is positive, a Ranchi Women's College sociologist said fast learning comes from the social laboratory. Read more.........Mobiles fuel literacy drive

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