Colombo: Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan was on Monday ruled out of the rest of the Sri Lanka series with a hairline fracture on his right hand, in a major blow to the tourists. Dhawan, 29, sustained the injury during the first Test in Galle which India lost by 63 runs on Saturday to concede the lead in the three-match series. […]
» Read moreA bomb blast in a busy tourist area of Bangkok has left 19 people dead, and injured at least 123. The bomb is believed to have been on a motorcycle and exploded just outside a Hindu shrine in the centre of the Thai capital. Officers examining the blast have said that of the confirmed 19 victims, 10 are Thai. Other […]
» Read moreMumbai: To rapidly expand its portfolio and reach, property portal Housing.com has acquired HomeBuy360, a cloud-based sales lifecycle management platform that connects developers, agents and buyers, for $2 million. This is the second acquisition made by the company in 2015, after it bought Indian Real Estate Forum (IREF), a platform providing unbiased property information to consumers and realty business intelligence […]
» Read moreThe rupee’s sudden fall in the past few days may prove to be an added advantage for software exporters who are betting big on the improving outsourcing demand in the US and Europe. The rupee traded at 65 per US dollar on Friday. This is 2.5% depreciation from the average rupee level of 63.4 at the end of the June […]
» Read moreNew Delhi: International Business Machines has said that it launched Linux-only mainframe servers called LinuxONE. The severs include LinuxONE Emperor for large enterprises and Rockhopper for mid-size businesses. IBM said LinuxONE Emperor can scale up to 8,000 virtual machines or thousands of containers, which would be the most for any single Linux system. The Linux One Empire system will be […]
» Read moreNashik: The rocket has been finally fired succesfully and it’s only a fortnight’s wait before the flares are shot in succession into the sky to make it rain. After two failed attempts earlier this month, a rocket was successfully fired for cloud seeding demonstrations on Saturday at the drought-hit Saigaon village of Yeola taluka by Mumbai-based International School of Professional […]
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