Now their creation, called SMS Gyan (gyan means knowledge), a search engine available on mobile phones, has 120 million users in India, the Middle East and Africa submitting over five million queries every day. And their company Innoz Technologies has expanded to 45 employees, and it earned $2.5 million worth of revenue last year.

The company’s founders say that Innoz is set to become the world’s largest offline search engine in 2015, with projections of 10 million monthly unique users and more than 55 million searches per day.

With 120 million Internet users, India has the third-largest number of Internet users in the world. But this pales in comparison to its 900 million mobile users, out of which less than 80 million currently use Internet on their mobile phones.

“There is a huge gap between mobile phone users and internet users,” said Abhinav Sree, a founding member of the company. “But so many people who don’t use the Internet still want information about things like weather, transport, sports and restaurants.”…read it at SmartPlanet.

Vinay Sharma, 20, was admitted to Delhi’s Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital on May 4, two days after the assault, said Mr. Sharma’s lawyer, A.P. Singh. On Tuesday he was moved to the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan hospital, a more sophisticated facility in the national capital.

“He is in a critical condition,” Mr. Singh told India Ink on Thursday. “He has had blood vomiting and chest pains.”

Champa Devi, Mr. Sharma’s mother, who visited him in the hospital last week, said her son had complained of chest pain.

Hospital staff declined to comment on Mr. Sharma’s condition…read it at New York Times India.

While Swiss drug maker Novartis said that the ruling discouraged innovation, it was hailed by legal and health experts as a balanced decision that set tough standards for innovation as well as protected consumers from being charged high prices for newer versions of drugs that did not have greater healing power than the older versions.

Patients suffering from chronic myeloid leukemia, who can’t afford the monthly costs for Gleevec, welcomed the decision of the Indian Supreme Court.

“Everybody is very jubilant,” said Y.K. Sapru, head of the Cancer Patients Aid Association (CPAA), the non-profit organization, which fought the Novartis patent case for seven years.

“If we had lost the case then patients would have died,” he said… read it at SmartPlanet.

Since the acquittal on murder and rioting charges was announced, protesters in Delhi have stopped Metro trains, blocked roads, and on Thursday they clashed with police officers at the home of the Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi.

Additional Sessions Judge J.R. Aryan’s 129-page judgment explaining his decision was released on Wednesday by the Delhi District Court.

Mr. Kumar “deserves to be given benefit of doubt” because three key prosecution witnesses had not named Mr. Kumar until more than two decades after the riots, the judge said. These three key witnesses claimed to have seen Mr. Kumar inciting a mob to kill Sikhs in the Raj Nagar area of Delhi on Nov. 1, 1984, which led to the murder of five Sikh men in the locality… read it at New York Times India.

“This is very, very unfortunate,” said H.S. Phoolka, a lawyer who has spent more than two decades trying to prosecute politicians who were allegedly involved in the massacre of at least 3,000 Sikhs in 1984 after the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. “We will appeal against it,” he said in a telephone interview.

While Mr. Kumar was acquitted, five other men were convicted for their involvement in the murder of the same five men in the Raj Nagar area of Delhi on Nov. 1, 1984…read it at New York Times India.

The girl, the daughter of day laborers, was lured from her home in the town of Ghansor in Madhya Pradesh state on April 17, and found the next day by her parents, bleeding profusely, the police said.

Her kidnapper seized her after promising to buy her bananas from a nearby shop, a police official said Tuesday.

She had been in a coma since April 18, Ashok Tank, a doctor who cared for her at CARE Nagpur Hospital, said in a telephone interview Tuesday. She suffered severe brain injuries and severe injuries to her vagina, he said, and was on a ventilator…read it at New York Times India.

These children, born with cleft lips and palates, have disfigured faces and they can’t speak or eat properly. Clefts plagues one in every 700 babies born in the world.

Ganesh tickled his 18-month-old daughter, Deepika, who squealed and smiled at the hospital commotion around her. “We were not scared when she was born like this because the nurse told us it could be treated,” he said. “But I wanted a good treatment and I can’t afford it on my salary.”…read it at SmartPlanet.

Three more witnesses, now living in the United States, are expected to be questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation, after a Delhi district court on Wednesday rejected a 2009 “closure report” by the agency.

Mass killings of Sikhs occurred in the days after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her two Sikh bodyguards on Oct. 31, 1984. While the official death toll of the anti-Sikh riots is 3,000, Indian media estimate that as many as 7,000 Sikhs were killed all over the country … read it at New York Times India.

“From the moment I step out of the house I push a paranoia button. You look at everyone with suspicion,” she said. “Everywhere you go, no matter what you wear, you will be blatantly stared at. It’s very intrusive.”

Natarajan, who often drives home from work after dark, says that on several occasions men playing loud music in their cars and making lewd gestures have followed her.

“So every time I have to think twice before staying for work late or going for an office dinner,” she said.

The dangers faced by women living in Delhi came under international scrutiny when a 23-year-old student was gang-raped and assaulted with an iron rod by six men in a moving bus on Dec. 16 in the capital. Two weeks later, she died. The brutal attack led to nationwide protests demanding justice for the victim and better protection for women.

Three months after the rape, new laws that expand the scope of sexual offenses to include stalking and voyeurism, and make repeat rapists subject to the death penalty, have come into force. The challenge now is implementation of these laws and inspiring confidence among women to approach the police for help….read it at SmartPlanet.

Sarah Groves, 24, was found dead on the “New Beauty” houseboat in Srinagar on Saturday morning. Her death comes as tourism to India has dropped after several high profile incidents of sexual assault of women, and recent protests and violence in Kashmir threaten the upcoming summer tourism season.

Mr. De Wit, 43, confessed Saturday evening to stabbing the woman, Syed Ahafadul Mujtaba, Kashmir’s deputy inspector general of police told India Ink on Sunday afternoon. Mr. Mujtaba said Mr. De Wit, 43, had told the police he had violent tendencies and that he had been under the influence of drugs when he killed her.

“He told us that he had problems with the Dutch government and that he had a strained relationship with his wife,” Mr. Mujtaba said. “He said that he woke up under the influence of cannabis, went to her room and killed her.”… read it at New York Times India.