Hyderabad, April 28 (IANS) Despite the economic slowdown, Wipro BPO, the business process outsourcing division of IT giant Wipro Technologies, is hiring personnel and expanding its operations globally, a top official said here Tuesday.

“For the last six months, we have been hearing depressing news about people losing jobs and companies resorting to cost-cutting measures but we are still looking for people,” Wipro BPO head Ashutosh Vaidya told reporters.

Bangalore, April 27 (IANS) Bollywood actor and director Feroz Khan died here late Sunday at the age of 70, media reports said.

The actor had been diagnosed with cancer about a year ago.

London, Apr 26 (ANI): Worried that your kids are spending most of their time Facebooking instead of doing their homework? Well, then here’s the solution.

Los Angeles, April 26 (DPA) Hollywood’s conventional wisdom is that recessions are good for the film business because especially in hard times people will spend a relative pittance at the cinema to escape the economic blues.

San Francisco, April 25 (DPA) Apple has fired some 1,600 employees from its chain of retail stores due to slackening consumer demand, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

The job cuts were referenced in a securities filing by Apple Thursday in which the company said it had 14,000 full-time equivalent employees in its retail division as of March 28, down from the 15,600 as of the end of December.

Melbourne, Apr 24 (ANI): Looks like the age-old cliche- ’til death do us part’-has become absolutely obsolete in today’s date, at least as far as Australia is concerned.

New York, Apr 23 (ANI): Jennifer Hudson and fiance David Otunga may be expecting a little bundle of joy.

Sydney, April 18 (IANS) New technology pioneered by Australian researchers will help doctors image a patient’s lungs and respiratory diseases.

Scientists from the University of Queensland (UQ) have successfully developed the country’s first hyperpolarised helium gas for use in human MRIs.