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Latest research by scientists in Australia suggests that eating sugary breakfast cereals can improve the memory of teenagers. Earlier studies have shown mixed results with some researchers saying that sugary cereals could contribute to obesity while others claiming that it may sharpen the...

A cheque of Rs 10,000 issued by Yavatmal District Collector to a farmer's widow under the Prime Minister's Relief Fund has bounced for lack of funds. Vandana Anil Shende, whose husband had committed suicide on August 23 last year was handed over cheque of Rs 10,000 on February 7 by the...

Azim Premji-led Wipro Ltd on Friday said it will acquire 100 per cent stake in Singapore-based Unza Holdings Ltd in an all cash deal worth Rs 1,010.2 crore. Wipro has entered into definitive agreement for acquisition of 100 per cent stake in Unza Holding, a Fast Moving Consumer Goods company...

The rural teledensity remains abysmally low at 4-6 per cent though the telephone subscriber base, including mobile and landline, has swelled to 206 million in 2006-07, with the number of telephones increasing in urban areas by 50 per cent. The mobile subscribers grew by about 73 per cent to...

A division Bench of the Bombay High Court on Thursday deferred till July 12 the hearing on a plea by Mukesh Ambani-controlled Reliance Industries seeking vacation of a single-judge order that restrained it from finalising any agreement for selling gas from its Andhra offshore field, expected to...

Bank deposits in India, excluding inter-bank deposits, grew by 0.88% to Rs 27.51 trillion in the two weeks ended June 22, provisional figures from the central bank showed. Bank loans, excluding inter-bank loans, rose 0.15% to Rs 19.73 trillion in the same period. Deposits have been growing...

Mumbai and Bangalore may be favourite offshoring destinations as of today but Chinese commercial hubs like Beijing and Shanghai are all set to overtake the Indian cities by 2011, a study has said. According to an IDC study, although Indian cities rank at the top in the Global Delivery Index...

Trade suffered a massive setback in Punjab due to non-functioning of computerised Information Collection Centres (ICC) set up at all the entry points of the state for recording interstate business transactions. Hundreds of trucks carrying goods were left stranded at all ICC barriers at 36...

Washington, June 30: Soccer star David Beckham will be officially introduced as a member of the Los Angeles Galaxy on July 13, and just three days later, his wife will star in the NBC special ‘Victoria Beckham: Coming to America’, about their family’s movement to the country. The team has...

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England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chairman David Morgan will take over as president of the International Cricket Council (ICC) next year. Morgan is to replace acting president Ray Mali when the South African steps down in June 2008, the ICC announced on Friday. Mali took the reins when...

July is the most important monsoon month in India and the country receives one-third of its summer monsoon rainfall in this period India could get a little less rain during the monsoon than was initially estimated. But things could be made worse by lower-than-usual rainfall in the country’s...

With the central bank policy tightening and currency strength it is hoped GDP growth would be close to 9% in the current fiscal year and 10% annually by 2010 Finance Minister P.Chidambaram said on 27 June that central bank policy tightening and currency strength had helped to moderate inflation...

The latest sign of this realpolitik was the red-carpet welcome afforded this week to Thailand’s military-installed Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont. Often hailed as a beacon of democracy among developing nations, India’s overriding business and security needs have forced it to overcome a...

Not even a single ad has been issued by the Centre to promote the landmark Act or any money set aside What good is a celebrated citizen’s right if the majority of citizens are unaware it exists? That question is being asked as two years after the much-talked-about Right to Information (RTI) Act...

According to research from Hitwise, an online competitive intelligence service, YouTube is set replace the BBC as most visited general entertainment site for U.K. web surfers, if current trends continue. Although the BBC currently lead the pack, the gap between the two is narrowing. The BBC...

The city police on Saturday claimed to have busted an international drug racket operating from Goa by arresting three people, including a Nigerian, and seized over one kg of cocaine worth over Rs five crore in the international market. "Acting on a specific information, we arrested two persons...

In an obvious attempt to stun the world at the time of the Olympics, China announced on Tuesday that it was building a metalled road to the Mount Everest base camp, raising howls of protests from environment activists and generating muted security anxieties in New Delhi. The construction of...

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Hockey coach Joaquim Carvalho believes that Indian men have the talent to excel at 2008 Beijing Games and the Champions Challenge tournament here would be the first step in the long journey towards regaining Olympic glory. "Our main goal in the immediate future is to qualify for the 2008...