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| Five AP judges caught cheating in law exam
"In a major embarrassment for the Andhra Pradesh judiciary, five judges were caught cheating while writing the LLM (Master of Law) examination for which they were promptly suspended by the High Court.
One of the judges was found copying from a law book hidden under his answer sheet. Written slips and pages torn from textbooks were seized from other judges.
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| Stock market not playfield of the rich: NSE
"Debunking a campaign that stock market was the playfield for a select few, India’s largest exchange NSE has said that the country was way behind the US in terms of large investors or brokers dominating the bourses.
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| Diplomatic row between India and China
In a major diplomatic row, defence exchanges between India and China have been put on hold after the latter refused permission to Northern Army Commander Lt Gen B S Jaswal to visit that country because he comes from “sensitive” Jammu and Kashmir.
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| Google: 1 million Gmail calls on first day
"Google Wave and Google Buzz may have had troubles attracting usage, but the new ability to place calls from Gmail appears to have caught on quickly.
“Over 1,000,000 calls placed from Gmail in just 24 hours!” Google tweeted Thursday, evidently pleased with the number."
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| India gold investment seen topping jewellery sale
India’s gold investment demand may rise 25-30 percent in the second half of 2010 from a year ago as a shift in preferences from jewellery to exchange-traded funds (ETF), bars and coins gathers pace, the head of a spot bullion exchange told Reuters on Friday.
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| US not growing fast enough: Obama
"President Barack Obama said on Sunday the US economy was expanding, but not quickly enough, and there was no “magic bullet” that will fix its problems.
Obama said in an interview that the batch of grim economic data over the past few weeks was something his administration had anticipated."
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| Blogging can add to your credibility at work.
"Blog is a shorthand term for weblog. It is an online journal where you can post your thoughts, observations and comments about a particular topic.
Blogs can enable an organisation to quickly share information among employees, partners or customers. But blogging has its advantages as well as disadvantages as far as an employee or an organisation is concerned."
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| Google acquires social games website SocialDeck
"Internet search giant Google has acquired social games website SocialDeck for an undisclosed amount, in a move to strengthen its social networking service.
The transaction comes within days of Google’s acquisition of Angstro, which makes applications to discover new photos on Facebook and create a real-time social address book."
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| Microsoft takes Word patent battle to US Supreme Court
"Microsoft, which lost its patent battle over Word processing software to a tiny Toronto firm i4i Inc. and was ordered to pay $290 million in damages last year, has taken the matter to the US Supreme Court.
The Canadian company had taken the software giant to court in 2007 over violations of its patent in Word applications and won the case and got $290 million in damages last December."
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| China overtakes Japan as world’s second-largest economy
"China has overtaken Japan in the second quarter, after three decades of spectacular growth, to become the world’s second-largest economy behind the United States.[Business] [NiftyDirect] [comments] [share] [flag] |
| June IIP growth below expectations: FM
"The June industrial output growth fell below expectations, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Thursday.
“I expected it to be a little better,” he said.
India’s industrial output rose at its slowest pace in 13 months in June, but the central bank is still seen tightening monetary policy on inflationary pressures."
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