Archive for October, 2008
Muhurat Trading in Stock Exchange
Oct 28th
Today on the occassion of diwali NSE and BSE both are conducting muhurat trading, but mood of both invester and broker is sombre.
“No miracle is going to happen in the markets just because it is Diwali. We do not expect clients to conduct any big trades,” said Anita Gandhi, head-institutional business, Arihant Capital Markets.
BSE and [...]
NIFTY and BSE Sensex down by more than 10%
Oct 24th
Economic crisis seems to continue and its face is now becoming worse. The benchmark indices Nifty and BSE crashes below 10% today. The pressure in the market are coming in from the European funds. Some large Europe based funds are facing serious redemption pressure. The panic sell by the local funds are increasing the pressure [...]
Chandrayaan takes off successfully
Oct 22nd
Historic moment for the entire country, the PSLV-C11, carrying India’s first unmanned moon spacecraft Chandrayaan-1, was successfully put into initial orbit from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Wednesday at around 6.40 am. Watch
At the end of the 49-hour countdown, the 44.4 meter tall four-stage PSLV-C11 blasted off from the second launch pad lifted off [...]
Jet Airways layoff 800 employees Kingfisher may follow
Oct 15th
Economy crisis follows largest layoffs in Indian aviation sector, Jet Airways given pink slips to more than 800 cabin crew and customer care executives. Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines had announced a cost-cutting collaboration on Monday October 13. Meanwhile, sources say that Kingfisher airlines is also likely to lay off employees.
The downturn in the world [...]
Travel in the past with google
Oct 6th
In honor of our 10th birthday, we’ve brought back our oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001.
Lets go with google to the year 2001. It is the year when Google has first complete archived index. Search some of the interesting term of the history.
Google, tells in its FAQ section that [...]
Nokia first touch screen phone iphone killer
Oct 3rd
Largest mobile manufacturer Nokia launches its first touch screen phone Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. The XpressMusic looks like an iPhone, and having similar features. XpressMusic got a less sophisticated, single-touch screen, albeit one with more pixels. It got some of the features which some people wish the iPhone had, including a fancier camera that has a [...]