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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 to start volume shipments of HTC Smart to major Europe and Asia markets at the end of March
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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,...
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(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...
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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?...