Sensex closes 115 points lower hit by profit booking India's benchmark Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Sensex tanked for the second day in a row, slipping 0.74 percent or 115.45 points on Tuesday as a retreat by European peers hit investor confidence and sparked profit-taking on a recent rally. 02 Sep 2009
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Microsoft, Yahoo join in opposing Google books deal Microsoft Corp and Yahoo! Inc are joining a group of opponents to a class action settlement that gives Google Inc the right to digitize millions of books, the companies said on Friday. 24 Aug 2009
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Jaswant Singh, BJP spar over controversial book Two days after main opposition political party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) expelled its senior member Jaswant Singh for lauding Pakistan's founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah and demonizing Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Jawahar Lal Nehru, Singh struck back by accusing the party of double standard and nepotism. 21 Aug 2009
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Jinnah controversy boils over, Jaswant pays the price with expulsion from BJP The ghost of Pakistan's founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah continues to haunt India's main opposition political party and has claimed its latest victim - senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh, who was expelled from the party on Wednesday. 20 Aug 2009
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Expelled: BJP leader Jaswant Singh pays heavy price for lauding Jinnah India's main opposition political party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) expelled senior party member Jaswant Singh from the party on Wednesday for lauding Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah in his new book even as Singh reacted by saying he did not regret writing the book. 20 Aug 2009
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Sensex succumbs to selling pressure, closes 390 points lower India's benchmark stock market index, the BSE Sensex closed nearly 390 points lower on Thursday following a heavy bout of late sell-off with auto stocks bearing the brunt. 06 Aug 2009
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Bill Gates has "too many friends to quit Facebook" Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he was forced to give up on the social networking phenomenon Facebook after too many people wanted to be his friend. 26 Jul 2009
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Iran's opposition still unbowed, using 'Neda' balloons as icon of protests Iran's reformist opposition leaders vowed to press on with legal challenges to an election they say was rigged, even as the hardline leadership appeared on Thursday to have largely crushed mass street protests. 25 Jun 2009
