The resumes probably already are streaming Barack Obama's way. And as he dives into the process of staffing his administration, he'll be getting plenty of public and private recommendations, starting today. Even before the first vote counts were released Tuesday night, however, the New Republic's John Judis was on the record with a piece (smartly .. more »

State-owned Union Bank of India today reduced its Benchmark Prime Lending Rate (BPLR) by 0.5 per cent to 13.5 per cent with immediate effect. .. more »

S Kumars Nationwide reported a substantial rise in standalone net profit for the quarter ended September 2008. During the quarter, the profit of the company rose 33.70% to Rs 577.70 million from Rs 432.10 million in the same quarter last year... more »

With only two days left for America to announce its third quarter growth, economic growth is widely expected to contract. .. more »

Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) company Reliance Power (R-Power) has tied up with the IDBI Bank-led consortium of domestic banks to secure the debt portion for the second phase of the 600-MW Rosa Power project in UPs Shahjahanpur district.The consortium will lend around Rs 2,000 crore out of the total project cost of Rs 2,702 crore. The .. more »

GFIL started its business of developing agricultural land and social forestry farms, among others, in 1987 .. more »

This trick may come handy if you like to display live headlines from your RSS feed on a web page that doesn’t support JavaScript or Flash but allows you to embed external images. MyspaceFeed takes the address of your RSS feed and converts it into a static image as in the screenshot above. You can choose custom dimensions and font colors .. more »

The first known type of shoes are sandals. Evidence shows that they were already used in most early civilizations, altough most people went barefoot. It is believed that mountaineers in Mesopotamia in 1600BC wore the first moccasin-like shoes. This soft shoe used leather to cover the foot and was tightened together with rawhide rope. the first .. more »

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Stock markets in the region erased gains made earlier in the day as investors questioned the effectiveness of the bailout deal. .. more »

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The first cell phone running Google Inc.'s mobile software looks something like Apple Inc.'s iPhone and has a large touch screen, but it also packs a trackball, a slide-out keyboard and easy access to Google's e-mail and mapping programs. Google... ... .. more »

T-Mobile USA unveils the first Google-powered handset, a stylish device that mimics many of the iPhones features and adds a few new wrinkles. .. more »

US stocks tumbled on Monday, September 22, as oil jumped 16% and investors assumed the unstructured government plan to buy USD 700 billion toxic mortgage assets will fail to prevent a recession. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 372.75 points, or 3.27%, to 11,015.69. The NASDAQ composite shed 47.99 points, or 3.82%, to 2,178.98.The yield on .. more »

All of the games so far today are still in their infancy (though the suspense has completely been extinguished in the contests involving Penn St., Alabama and Georgia Tech), which means we shall turn to our good friend "the dick joke" to get us through the early afternoon. But before ... 0.. more »

The civil nuclear cooperation agreement between India and France is ready for signing, but does not cover sale of enrichment and reprocessing technologies... more »

Piramal Life Sciences has target of Rs 270: Kohli.. more »

Inflation at 12.14%; experts see it flattening ahead.. more »

HDFC Mutual Fund has declared dividend under the H...... .. more »

Reliance Industries Ltd is expected to start pumping gas in November from its deep-water field off India's east coast, the country's upstream regulator, V K Sibal, told reporters on Wednesday... more »