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Sensex climbs 47 points, profit booking shaves off early gains
India's benchmark stock market index, the BSE Sensex consolidated its gains for the second day in a row, climbing 0.50 percent or 47.02 points on Tuesday as the US authorities' $1 trillion plan to clean up the US financial system of toxic assets whetted investors' appetite for risks.
25 Mar 2009 |
| 63. |
Netbooks open door to Windows alternatives
As netbooks surge in popularity, open-source Linux-based operating systems have established a toehold on the low-cost, stripped-down computers as an alternative to Microsoft Corp's Windows.
10 Mar 2009 |
| 64. |
Abhishek to enter Guinness Book?
Stars are known to aggressively promote their films, but few can match Abhishek Bachchan's enthusiasm, as he attempts to enter the Guinness Book of World Records by making maximum public appearances in at least six cities in a span of 12 hours to promote his latest film "Delhi 6".
20 Feb 2009 |
| 66. |
Macbook demand ebbing as consumers reach for netbooks
Macbook demand ebbing as consumers reach for netbo - Apple's Macbook line of notebook computers faired well through the 2008 holiday season, however new research indicates that sales are ebbing in the wake of stronger economic turmoil.
05 Feb 2009 |
| 67. |
Lebanese farmer grows 11 kg "giant potato"
Lebanese farmer Khalil Semhat holds his giant potato in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre. The enormous vegetable weighs 11.3 kilos (24.9 pounds) and Semhat says he is planning on contacting the Guiness Book of Records.
08 Dec 2008 |
| 68. |
"0.9 mm x 0.9 mm" Ultra-Micro book
A micro-book (R) and ultra-micro book (bottom) issue of Anton Chekhov's "A Chamelion" is pictured next to a one stotinka (0.005 euro) coin, the smallest coin in circulation in Bulgaria, at the opening of the Sofia International Book Fair, December 3, 2008.
04 Dec 2008 |
| 70. |
Richard Gere, Diane Lane reunite in stormy romance
Judging from the part of the ad that says, ". . . from the author of 'The Notebook,"' you might suspect that this particular Richard Gere-Diane Lane reunion isn't going to be the torrid affair that was 2002's "Unfaithful," and of course you'd be quite right.
22 Sep 2008 |
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