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A divergent trend developed on the bullion market today as silver recovered on rising demand from industrial units and gold declined on reduced offtake at higher rate. While silver rose by Rs200 to to Rs45,000 per kg, gold shed Rs10 to Rs20,640 per 10 grams in mixed pattern of trade. Market analysts said the silver remained... 

NEW DELHI: Rajan Anandan , the former Managing Director of Microsoft, has joined search giant Google as the Vice President (Sales and Operations) and Head of India region. Google, which reported a global revenues of USD 23.65 billion in 2009, has close to 2,000 people in India. “India is an important growth country for... 

HYDERABAD: Generic drug maker Aurobindo Pharma Limited (APL) today said it will divest nearly 80 per cent of its stake in its loss making Chinese subsidiary to China National Pharmaceutical Group Corporation (Sinopharm). According to the city-based company, the initial offload will be 51 per cent and subsequently it will be... 

Automobile sales in India in December grew by 30.51 per cent, continuing a healthy trend witnessed during the year but rising interest rates and high commodity prices could slow down the growth, according to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM). In December, total sale of vehicles across categories registered... 

Amid liquidity squeeze and a higher than expected credit offtake, bankers today requested the Reserve Bank of India to slash the CRR and SLR in its upcoming Third Quarter Review of Monetary Policy 2010-11 on January 25, besides keeping the key policy rates unchanged. This call comes even as both RBI as well as the government... 

MUMBAI: Indian markets ended volatile session marginally in the red extending losses for sixth straight session. Realty, technology and oil&gas space led the decline while banks, auto and capital goods showed resistance. Indices opened on a firm note as stocks beaten down in past few sessions bounced back from lower levels.... 

A new type of glass, stronger and tougher than steel, has been developed and tested by a team of US researchers. What’s more, even better versions of this new glass – a micro-alloy featuring palladium – may be on the way, the journal Nature Materials reports. “These results mark the first use of a new... 

WASHINGTON: There’s cheering news on the environmental front — the atmosphere still has its self-cleansing capacity. Some studies had suggested that such self-cleansing power is fragile and sensitive to environmental changes. But a latest international study shows the air’s self-cleansing capacity is rather... 

Nokia has certainly churned out some decent business phones in recent times, like the C3 and the E5 for example. Now the E6-00 has appeared out of nowhere with a rumored specsheet. According to SlashGear, the phone has an ARM CPU and a 640 x 480 resolution VGA display. With this display, the phone will provide little competition... 

A new mobile phone ‘app’ from Google can now solve Sudoku, the popular maths puzzle which took the world by storm with its simple grid of digits and empty boxes – no matter what the level of difficulty. In fact, any cell phone can now solve the puzzle, thanks to the latest version of ‘Google Goggles’ which uses...