Two 'Akash' news : One about brighter India and the other about the darker

When birth of one "Akash" lightens up millions of young Indian faces, the death of another "Akash" darkens the face of the brighter India.

Just announced is the launch of the Tablet PC 'Akash', which will be available to the students at a meagre price of Rs 2500.
Around the same time, there came a news of a Delhi youth named 'Akash' beaten two death on the road of the capital in broad daylight.

Here are the news items:

Aakash tablet goes on sale for Rs 2500 online
By The Mobile Indian | Yahoo! India News – Thu, Dec 15, 2011
(http://in.news.yahoo.com/aakash-tablet-goes-on-sale-for-rs-2500-online-.html)

DataWind, the Canadian company that is manufacturing Aakash, has started the online booking and pre booking of the much anticipated low cost Android tablet. Online booking is for students' version of the tablet and pre booking is for UbiSlate 7, the upgraded version of Aakash.

Students' version of Aakash will be available for Rs 2,500 and will be delivered in seven days. The commercial version, UbiSlate 7 is priced at Rs 2,999. The payment mode for both the tablets is cash on delivery.

The commercial version of Aakash tablet will be powered by Android 2.3 and will have a resistive touchscreen, Cortex A8-700 MHz processor and graphics accelerator HD video processor, 256 MB of RAM and 2 GB of internal memory.


Youth beaten to death in road rage incident
By Indo Asian News Service | IANS
(http://in.news.yahoo.com/youth-beaten-death-road-rage-incident-160234079.html)

New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) A 19-year-old youth was beaten to death by a father and son duo in a road rage incident Friday afternoon in Mangolpuri area of west Delhi, police said, adding that the accused have been arrested.
The incident took place around 1.30 p.m. near Kamdhenu Public School in Mangolpuri. The deceased, identified as Akash, was beaten to death by Anil, 19, and his father Srawan, 45.
A senior police official said that Akash's scooter accidentally hit the bike of the accused from behind near the school. The bike suffered a little damage. The father and son demanded compensation from Akash. He refused, saying it had happened by accident. This enraged the father and son and they beat him mercilessly till he became unconscious.
The accused fled leaving Akash on the road. A PCR call was made and the police rushed the victim to Sanjay Gandhi hospital where he was declared brought dead, said the official.