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, […]
Washington, April 24 (ANI): Actor Harrison Ford has shown his staunch support for environment protection in a rather novel way by getting his chest waxed.
The Indiana Jones star subjected himself to the painful beauty treatment in an effort to showcase the pain involved in deforestation.
Ford said that his only intention behind […]
London, April 24 (ANI): Do men ogle the opposite sex more than women? can we catch a cold by standing out in the rain? Is it possible bacteria in poo could be on your toothbrush? Well these are some of the issues that we are blissfully ignorant about and now a new book […]
Washington, Apr 24 (ANI): Many times doctors prescribe drugs due to the lack of knowledge of drug properties, but now a new information system has been developed that will not require physicians to refer to time-consuming detailed drug information.
Jean-Baptiste Lamy of the University of Paris and colleagues have developed a new symbolic […]
Brussels, April 24 (IANS) The European Union (EU) has emerged as the largest importer of Indian marine products, accounting for 34 percent of the exports by value, EuAsiaNews reported. G. Mohan Kumar, chairman of India’s Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA), said at the sidelines of the Brussels seafood fair Wednesday that frozen shrimp continued […]
Melbourne, Apr 24 (ANI): ANZ Bank, Australias major financial institution offering different financial services, has decided to outsource nearly 4000 back office jobs to Bangalore in India within months.
Mumbai, April 24 (IANS) The Indian equities market opened Thursday in green tracking strong Asian markets, which were running higher. The 30-share benchmark sensitive index of the Bombay Stock Exchange opened with a gain of 127.66 points at 16,796.26. The S&P Nifty of the National Stock Exchange opened at 5,022.90 points with a marginal gain […]
Brussels, April 24 (IANS) The European Union (EU) has emerged as the largest importer of Indian marine products, accounting for 34 percent of the exports by value, EuAsiaNews reported. G. Mohan Kumar, chairman of India’s Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA), said at the sidelines of the Brussels seafood fair Wednesday that frozen shrimp continued […]
LONDON: Oil prices eased this week despite OPEC’s decision to hold output levels and news of plunging crude reserves in the United States.