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07:56 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Paris: Unseeded Varvara Lepchenko of the United States beat 2010 French Open champion Francesca Schiavone of Italy 3-6, 6-3, 8-6 in the third round at Roland Garros on Saturday. The 63rd-ranked Lepchenko never had made it beyond the second round at any Grand Slam tournament. But she came back to eliminate Schiavone, who was the runner-up at last year's French Open. Lepchenko joins Sloane Stephens, who won Friday, to give...
06:30 PM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: Petrol prices may be revised on Friday with companies talking about a scope of cutting rates by Rs 1.50-1.60 a litre. BPCL CMD RK Singh said on Thursday that prices could be cut by 1.5 to 2 rupees a litre if there is a drop in international crude prices. Indian Oil, Hindustan Petroleum and Bharat Petroleum had over the past one week indicated of a scope of reducing...
08:36 AM, Jun 01, 2012
There has been a lot of political uproar over the recent petrol price hike since a week. But there could be some talk of rolling petrol prices back partially. It may be recalled that last week, oil marketing companies announced an 11 per cent hike in petrol prices to cut down their losses of around Rs 6-8 which they incurred on selling petrol. However, the hike didn't go well with...
12:40 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: TRAI chief Rahul Khullar on Tuesday is expected to appear before the Joint Parliamentary Committee that is looking into the 2G spectrum scam. This is in connection with the Telecom regulator's recommendations to the government which Telecom companies are pressuring the government to nullify. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had last month suggested an auction starting price that is nearly 10 times of what carriers had...
07:18 AM, May 29, 2012
Mumbai: Bump is one really handy wireless data sharing software app, available for iOS and Android platforms. Now the creators of Bump have announced yet another nifty feature for the Bump Android app which allows direct photo transfer to PCs. Hence now you don't need to physically connect your Android smartphone or tablet to your PC to transfer images. The earlier functionality Bump Android app allowed users to transfer contacts,...
10:56 AM, May 28, 2012
Mumbai: State-run oil companies rallied after the government allowed them to raise the prices of petrol, though the action was more mixed for auto stocks. BPCL gained 3 per cent, HPCL added 2.3 per cent, while IOC advanced 2.7 per cent. The impact on auto stocks was more mixed given the proportion of petrol and diesel vehicle sales are different per company. Maruti Suzuki shares fell 2.6 per cent, while...
12:44 PM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: Lenovo India announced two new additions to its desktop lineup in India " IdeaCentre H430 and IdeaCentre H520s. These desktops are claimed to offer a host of entertainment features at a space-saving design and an affordable pricing. The Lenovo H520s desktop PC is said to be 2 times smaller than a standard desktop PC, which combines a slim design with the performance of a 2nd/ 3rd generation Intel...
04:25 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: Here comes a tiny PC, the MK802 - a USB-sized device, which runs both Android 4.0 and Linux, and has been priced at $74. A Chinese company by the name of Rikomagic has begun shipping this $74 micro PC, which is said to have similar form factor as the recently released Raspberry Pi. The device features a 1.5GHz AllWinner A10 Cortex A8 ARM processor, 512MB of DDR3 high-capacity...
11:09 AM, May 20, 2012
New Delhi: An engineering institute's director and teacher, accused of abetting a student's suicide in 2005, were discharged by a Delhi court due to lack of evidence to make them face trial. Harsh Khatri, a student of mechanical and automation engineering at Amity School of Engineering and Technology in west Delhi's Bijwasan area, ended his life in October 2005 after he was erroneously awarded zero marks in a subject. Additional...
06:34 PM, May 12, 2012
Mumbai: There was no accident at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) as has been made out in some quarters, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) asserted on Tuesday. N. Nagaich, Executive Director (Corporate Planning & Communications), said in a statement that some miscreants have been spreading rumours through SMSs of an accident having taken place at the plant. The messages said that a boiler burst at the...
04:49 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: In a shocker from Gurgaon, the caretaker of an NGO-run shelter has been arrested for allegedly raping, filming and threatening the minor girls who stayed there. This after the victims' teacher alerted the authorities. A team from the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) conducted a raid on Saturday. This is the second such case to come to light in Gurgaon in the last three months...
12:57 PM, May 06, 2012
Mumbai: When Anna Hazare says that Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi should be hanged if found guilty, it does not highlight the severity of the alleged misdeed of the former, but only exposes the superficiality of this 'modern Gandhi', Maharashtra Congress has said. "Hazare is quite in character when he says something like this (that Singhvi should be hanged if found guilty). After all, he was the one, who supported binding...
03:40 AM, May 06, 2012
The recently released Kannada film 'Romeo' starring Ganesh and Bhavana has reached good height in the popularity. In a few days time the film songs on FM radio got good attention from the listeners. According to director PC Shekhar this KS Pictures Naveen and Ramesh Kumar produced 'Romeo' song Alochana Aradhane sung by Shreya Goshal for the lyrics of Kaviraj arrived at No.3 spot in top ten of big FM....
05:20 PM, May 03, 2012
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