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The tournament has become very popular with cricket fans The third season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), the 20-20 cricket tournament, is due to begin amid heavy security in the city of Mumbai. Eight teams are participating in the tournament which has been overshadowed by security concerns - IPL authorities have defended the arrangements. Hyderabad, which won the second season, will take on Calcutta...

BSNL has announced the launch of a promotional plan that will allow users to avail its EV-DO based broadband connection at a discounted price of Rs. 750 per month. The same service cost users Rs. 999 per month until now. The plan offers "unlimited" data usage with a maximum speed of 3.1 Mbps. This plan has been extended for existing as well as new users. However, you might want to act quickly because this offer is only valid for those...

HTC will start volume shipments of its feature phone, the HTC Smart, to major markets in Europe and Asia at the end of March 2010, according to industry sources. The company actually began to ship the HTC Smart phones to India recently to test the water with an unlocked price of 10,000 rupee (US$220), the sources noted. HTC's pricing strategy will bring the HTC Smart to compete head on with the Corby-series handsets from Samsung Electronics, the Cookie handsets from LG Electronics (LGE) as well as the Nokia 5230, the sources indicated. However,...

MUMBAI: Indian markets were moving in a narrow range after a positive start. According to analysts, indices may react to IIP data for January which is scheduled later today. “There is no great feeling in the market as we stare at another soft opening. The global markets appear inconclusive. Looks like investors are on a ‘wait-n-watch’ mode and appear to be reluctant in taking major bets immediately. The Nifty is expected to remain stuck in the 5100-5150 range and the next hurdle is near the 5200. Fresh selling could take...

Bollywood actor Preity Zinta, who was Thursday appointed as the goodwill ambassador for UNAIDS in India, will create awareness against AIDS along with the members of her Indian Premier League (IPL) team Kings XI Punjab. "All our players will sport red ribbons during their matches. In our first match against Delhi Daredevils, we will take an HIV positive person to the toss to convey our message against stigma and discrimination," Preity said here. "Me and my team will produce a short commercial to spread awareness against...

ARLINGTON, VA - SEPTEMBER 11: U.S. President ...Image by Getty Images via Daylifed up and just started shooting."Keevill added: "We have layers of security and it worked. He never got inside the building to huA gunman coolly drew a weapon from his pocket and opened fire at a security checkpoint into the Pentagon in a point-blank attack that wounded two police officers before the suspect was fatally shot.The two officers suffered grazing wounds and were being treated in a hospital after the Thursday (Friday NZ time) shooting,...

Image by Getty Images via Daylife (ANSAmed) - ANKARA - The vote of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives on a non-binding resolution in which the 1915 and 1917 Armenian massacres that took place during the Ottoman empire are defined as ''genocide'' was expected in Ankara. So much so that, with unusual speed in Turkey, as soon as it was discovered from the website of the Turkish Cabinet Office that out of the...

Image by Getty Images via Daylife At the stroke of midnight, project free-agency-in-an-uncapped-year began. Unrestricted free agents are now required to have six years of experience in the league, which means the number of unrestricted free-agents is more diluted than in years past. Nonetheless, there are still some big names on the unrestricted table. Which players of this season's 2010 unrestricted free agents are the most valuable?...

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Image by tobias.munich via Flickr Skype for Symbian will run on any Nokia smartphone using Symbian^1, the newest variation of the raiseable OS. (A name of the harmonious devices is free here). The app entirety over both a 3G mobile data relation or WiFi, and it allows users to gain unrestrained Skype-to-Skype calls crossways the orb, along with gratis present messaging, text messaging, and icon and recording intercourse. Earlier this...

Bharat Sanchar Nigram Ltd, the utter run telecom friendship, should pall or soul 100,000 employees and should reflect divesting a 30 pct wager, the Performing Pipe according, citing recommendations from a ngo headlike by Sam Pitroda, an consultant to the maturity diplomatist. "BSNL needs to amend methodicalness execution and employee fruitfulness substantially. Toss or transport around 100,000 employees finished mortal getable processes specified as willing retirement plot (VRS)," stated the commission according to the news...

Image via Wikipediathe Nifty was trading marginally alter with dissident prejudice.The markets took a relief after a stupendous recuperate of 250 points in Nifty. Purchase was seen in holding, alloy and pharma stocks. Commercialism was seen in IT, machine and majuscule goods stocks. The Sensex was descending 59.79 points or 0.35% at 16940.22, and the Nifty plumage 25.70 points or 0.51% at 5062.40. Nearly 1584 shares modern, 1258 shares...

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Image via WikipediaIndia's star gentle - Sachin Tendulkar wrote record with his bat on Feb 24th, 2010, just two months before his 37th date. Tendulkar strode to the first duple century in the story of one-day cricket to add other jewel to his priceless capitulum. Thanks to his mammoth exertion, India now enjoys monopoly over the Proteas. The rest of the cricketing grouping as ever was droning with expression. Swear a look!...

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Image via Wikipedia WASHINGTON — A closely divided Supreme Court on Thursday swept away long-standing limits on campaign spending by unions and corporations. In a long-awaited decision, the court's emboldened conservative majority declared that the limits on so-called "independent expenditures" by corporations violate First Amendment free-speech rights. The much-anticipated decision means that more money can be spent on federal elections,...

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Goldman Sachs has reported earnings of $13.4 billion today for 2009. Also, the "compensation pool", or, in other words, "bonuses", comes in at $16.2 billion. On average, each Goldman Sach employee gets nearly half a million dollars, but this isn't about averages: some traders will walk away with several million dollars. Yes, the compensation pool exceeds the total earnings: compensation is considered a...

Image via Wikipedia WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ex-presidential candidate John Edwards admitted on Thursday that he fathered a child with his former mistress, Rielle Hunter, while campaigning for the Democratic Party's White House nomination. The former U.S. senator from North Carolina, who was among early front-runners in the Democratic field in the race eventually won by Barack Obama in 2008, acknowledged 2-year-old Frances Quinn Hunter as...

Image by Getty Images via Daylife University today announced the result of Under Graduate courses. The Periyar University result 2009 has been available on following website: http://periyarresults.org.in/ The above link is direct to result page. The Periyar University has conducted the exam in December 2009. For further details, students can visit the official website of Periyar University i.e. www.periyaruniversity.ac.in. However, this...

Clearly, I am not the first person to blog about Avatar. Ok, I'm probably the last. So I won't be offended if you don't stick around. But I thought while I'm off-topic this month, that maybe I would talk about something else that is very near and dear to my heart: movies. I went to see Avatar last Tuesday because my mom wanted to go. I'd heard the hype, but I just wasn't all that interested. It's Fern Gully, and Pocahontas all over again,...

Actor R. Madhavan will for the first time play a character with "grey shades" in Bollywood in Teen Patti. While he is a professor in the forthcoming film , the actor will also be seen sporting "six different avatars" in the thriller that also features Amitabh Bachchan and Hollywood star Ben Kingsley. "I have different looks in the film. I'm playing a professor, but when I go to different areas, I'm dressed up as different characters,"...

Cover of Vande Mataram Forty thousand Sydneysiders Saturday night clapped and cheered as the 'Mozart of Madras' A.R. Rahman and his troupe provided a spectacular A.R. Rahman musical extravaganza to salute India-Australia friendship. Seamlessly blending the traditional with the modern, the music spanned the differences of language, enthralling old and young, touching the very heart strings at a time when Australia-India bilateral relations...

Against the backdrop of concerns over hacking of crucial official websites, central security agencies have again warned the government about the use of multi-tasking blackberry instruments by some of the officials working in sensitive ministries including the Prime Minister’s office. Agencies have also cautioned against the practice of connecting official computers and laptops with unsecured internet connections by some bureaucrats thus...

Image via CrunchBase Giant social networking website Facebook, on Tuesday announced that it will be providing its user base with a free of cost 6 month trial of McAfee security software suite which has been released as Internet Security Suite. With the effort, the website is looking to offer better protection to its users. The major player of the computer security world, McAfee is offering an independent online tool that would look to...

Image via Wikipedia The delivery of aid to victims of Haiti's earthquake is still being slowed by bottlenecks, aid workers say. UN and Oxfam staff are finally bringing food and water to some parts of the capital Port-au-Prince, but the airport remains clogged with loaded planes. Many survivors of Tuesday's quake have become desperate as they wait for aid, and many are trying to leave the city. Leaving for Haiti, UN Secretary General...