Dubai, April 24 (IANS) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is working on a national strategy to build substantial food reserves to cope with rising food prices across the world. As part of this move, the Ministry of Economy has signed agreements with major retailers in the country to maintain the prices of 2007 […]
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) After three days of chaos on Delhi’s streets and Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit’s veiled threat to scrap the new bus corridors, officials from the implementing agencies Thursday sweated it out to minimise commuter woes on the 5.6-km-long Ambedkar Nagar-Moolchand bus corridor. There was only marginal improvement in the […]
Mumbai, April 24 (IANS) The Indian equities markets were trading with modest gain in after noon trade Thursday as the realty, metal and capital goods counter witnessed buying interest. At 1.30 p.m., the Sensex was up 102.68 points at 16,800.90 and the Nifty was up 19.5 points at 5,041.55.
About 1,710 shares advanced, […]
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) European aerospace and defence conglomerate EADS has upped the ante for a $10 billion Indian Air Force (IAF) order for 126 combat jets, bids for which will be opened Monday, saying it would make India a manufacturing hub for its Eurofighter Typhoon if it wins the contract. “We are […]
Mumbai, April 24 (IANS) The Indian equities market ended flat Thursday, with a benchmark index registering marginal gains. The 30-share Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) opened at 16,796.26 points, touched a high of 16,844.02 and closed at 16,721.08 points. It went up by 23.04 points at the day’s close or […]
Mumbai, Apr 24 (ANI/Business Wire India): Expanding capacity to 1,065,000 tonnes per annum, making Hindustan Zinc Limited the largest integrated zinc-lead producer in the world and achieving stated capacity goal of 1 million tpa.
– Silver production expected to increase to 500 tonnes per year
– Strong reserves and resources position of […]
Kozhikode, April 24 (IANS) It is the turn of salt now to spice up the price rise. The price of common salt (crystals) has risen around 70 percent during the last one month here. Traders say the rise is due to the unseasonal showers in March that severely affected salt production at Tuticorin […]
Ubuntu released its latest stable release version 8.04 also named as Hardy Heron. Soon after the release, the ubuntu.com servers went offline due to high load. At the time of writing, ubuntu.com servers were still unresponsive. The release is highly likely to cause overloads at all Ubuntu mirrors. Mirrors and bit torrents are often […]
Ranchi, April 24 (IANS) The Jharkhand postal department will set up Pragya Kendras (common service centres) to help villagers seeking information about various government schemes. “To begin with, the service centres will be opened in 60 villages of six districts - Ranchi, Latehar, Gumla, Jamshedpur, Chaibasa and Seraikela Kharswan,” said Anil Kumar, Director […]
LONDON, April 21, 2008 – Canonical Ltd. announced the upcoming availability of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition for free download on Thursday 24 April. In related news, Canonical also announced the simultaneous release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition.
Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support (LTS) provides a stable platform for software and hardware vendors, […]