Maruti Udhyog who is under pressure after heavy hype of Tata nano and its dropping market ing small segment cars will be launching a small car named "A-Star" (Funny name?) with a new engine model. Maruti Alto will also be equipped with this new engine.
As per Maruti spokesperson, they are planning to launch another similar small car "Splash" in the next year.
Government is seriously thinking of banning all kind of exit and opinion polls ahead of assembly election is six states as it feels such polls affects peoples opinion, specially if the polling is done in phases.
Its been a very long time since TV channels are showing exit polls (almost everyone has its own) as they are quiet a crowd puller even though historically the predictions made by such exit polls have far from being correct.
BCCI has warned Indian Cricket team coach for going public with statements like "Dhoni is ready to take captaincy of Test team too" which clearly means Kumble hanging his boots. BCCI asked Kirsten to keep away from media and avoid making such statements.
BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah in a press briefing also said that the decision of choosing who as a captain should be decided only by the selection committee. He went on to said that there is no need to hurry up on making Dhoni the captain of Test team. Kumble is doing fine and lets not overburden dhoni with the weight of captaincy. Dhoni in the past has complaint about fatigue and noticably had taken a break from India's test series against Sri Lanka.
Google finally did something which was long awaited from them, they launched there own Browser named Chrome, You can download chrome from here
Uptil now, google had heavily promoted Firefox to hit at rival microsoft browser Internet explorer which is still used by the majority of net users thanks to it being pre bundled with Microsoft windows. Now Google which already owns some of the biggest web properties on net like youtube and blogger other than the world's most used search engine, with Chrome is looking to take more control of user web browsing.
Vijay Mallya is not very happy with 11:30 deadline put by authorities on party and beer loving bangaloreans. Yesterday while launching first flight of Kingfisher airways, Mallya showed his displeasure and said it doesn't make lot of sense when delhi and kolkata can have night life till 2am
He also said that problems with law and orders also do not make lot of sense when in other countries like spain, people party all night. Mallya is open to support for any "dharna" and protest against such rule.
One of world's as well as India's Most surfed website IMDB.com has changed its layout and has gone more web 2.0 though this looks to be an ongoing changes made by IMDB to make the site more usable.
IMDB.com is worlds biggest resource on movies (including hindi and regional movies) as well as cast information. From last year onwards, they have added various other segments like FAQ and spoilers in movie pages.
As per World Bank, Russia can overtake India as the second fastest growing economy due to slowing down of Indian economy this year.
India has recorded a GDP Growth rate of 7.9% in the first quarter of this fiscal year which is slowed in the past 3 years. The dip is mostly due to High inflation and high interest rates.
From 1st of September, the cost of aviation turbine fuel (ATF) will be reduced by 16% which should come as a welcome relief for air travelers across India. ATF price in Delhi are reduced by Rs.11k a kilolitre to around Rs. 59,650 per kl for domestic carriers. In Mumbai, the cost of jet fuel is Rs.61,834 per kl.
Due to continuous increase in Jet fuel since January this year because of high oil prices, domestic Airlines like jetlite in India were in severe pressure to hike the prices of flights which would had dented the Airline industry even more.
Australian all rounder Andrew Symonds was fined and was decided by team coach and acting captain that he will not play in any of the remaining 2 one day internationals against bangladesh.
Symonds, 33 was supposed to take part in a team meeting on friday evening but instead went for fishing. This is not the first time he has faced problem as in 2005, he went through all night drinking session and than reportedly reached in ground in drunk condition. He was than suspended for 2 matches. In the last series against west indies, he had also failed to be on ground in time after missing the player bus.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs was reported death by New York based bloomberg website creating a sort of chaos in Tech world. There were reports coming for years now about deteriating health of Steve jobs. Before the world would had reacted, bloomberg responded that it was a mistake that they published a orbituary of steve jobs.
The 17 page obituary wasn't meant to be publish and the news is certainly not true. Its just that Most of the newspaper keeps the obituary of prominent people ready in advance for internal records and by mistake it got published. Its interesting to note that since his diagnosis with Pancreatic cancer in 2003, there have been questions asked about steve jobs health regularly though steve has always kept silence on his health.