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COLORS klub and Sakaal Young Buzz – Invites all Little artists for Drawing Competition

COLORS k l u b
in association with : Sakaal Young Buzz

Invites all Little artists for Drawing Competition.

This contest is an opportunity to show your creative skills by expressing your talent, imagination, creativity and emotions on paper and win lots of prizes for the Best Drawings that shows your love and affection for our Mother EARTH.

The topics are related to “Green and Healthy Earth”

Group A (Jr. & Sr. KG) – Anything related to nature (Tree, River, Mountain, Fruit, Vegetable.. etc.)

Mumbai Shootings, Grenade Attacks Kill at Least 80 – Online News

Mumbai Shootings, Grenade Attacks Kill at Least 60 (Update3)
Bloomberg – 41 minutes ago
By Stephen Foxwell and Sumit Sharma Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) — Grenade and gun attacks erupted today across Mumbai, India’s financial capital, killing 60 and …

Death Toll Rising in India Coordinated Attacks
New York Times, United States – 50 minutes ago
A police officer walked with an elderly man after shootings at a railway station in Mumbai on Wednesday. By SOMINI SENGUPTA NEW DELHI — Coordinated terror …
Terror attacks in Mumbai; 80 dead, over 900 injured
Times of India, India – 36 minutes ago
Mumbai: In one of the most violent terror attacks on Indian soil, Mumbai came under an unprecedented night attack as terrorists used heavy machine guns, …

US election – 2008 – U.S. presidential election, 2008 Online Resources

News results for us election

Barack Obama set for US election victory as Ohio called in his … – 3 hours ago
Mr Obama, however, had solid leads the polls in that region going into election day. With 20 seats in the electoral college, Ohio is one of the biggest …
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The Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, India’s first unmanned scientific mission to the moon, blasted off successfully towards destination moon from Sriharikota

India’s first moon mission Chandrayaan -1 launched

The Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, India’s first unmanned scientific mission to the moon, blasted off successfully towards destination moon from Sriharikota

Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) home-grown rocket PSLV-C11 lifted off at 6:22am from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Sriharikota: Chandrayaan-1, India’s maiden moon spacecraft, was on Wednesday put into Transfer Orbit around the earth by the Polar Launch Vehicle PSLV-C11 about 19 minutes after it blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here.

Dow plunges 733 on new disheartening economic data

Dow ends with a staggering 733-point loss as retailers report biggest drop in sales in 3 years

The economy lurched deeper into the doldrums Wednesday and took the stock market down with it, sending the Dow Jones industrials to a staggering 733-point loss and erasing any hopes that the convulsions that have shaken Wall Street for a month were over.

The daylong sell-off came as retailers reported the biggest drop in sales in three years and as a Federal Reserve snapshot showed Americans are spending less and manufacturing is slowing around the country.

US stocks – Wall Street extends huge losses as markets globally sell off over frozen credit markets

US stocks extend huge losses over credit concerns

Wall Street extends huge losses as markets globally sell off over frozen credit markets

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street extended its devastating losses Friday, but prices swung sharply as investors scooped up shares decimated by more than a week of intense and panicked selling. The Dow Jones industrials, down nearly 700 points in the opening minutes of trading, recovered to a loss of just over 200, and the other major indexes fluctuated as well.

Good News

US Market on Friday : Wall Street begins big rally on bank rescue hopes, temporary ban on short sales of financials.

Earthquake in West Maharashtra – pune 4.2

Earthquake in pune 4.2

पश्‍चिम महाराष्ट्र भूकंपाने हादरला

पुणे/कोल्हापूर, ता. २९ – भूकंपाच्या धक्‍क्‍याने आज मध्यरात्री पश्‍चिम महाराष्ट्र हादरला. पुणे जिल्ह्यासह, सातारा, कोल्हापूर, सांगली, रत्नागिरी जिल्ह्यातही भूकंपाचा धक्का जाणवला.
मुंबई शहर आणि उपनगरांतही भूकंपाचा सौम्य धक्का बसला. या भूकंपाची तीव्रता ४.२ रिश्‍टर होती. सातारा जिल्ह्यातील कोयना धरण परिसरात भूकंपाचा केंद्रबिंदू असल्याचे सूत्रांनी सांगितले. या भूकंपाने कोणतीही हानी झाल्याचे वृत्त नाही.

Disney to launch ‘Tare Zameen Par’ DVD

Disney to launch ‘Tare Zameen Par’ DVD

Walt Disney Studios has acquired the home-video rights for Tare Zameen Par for the US market, reports Our Bureau from New Delhi.

The US entertainment major is looking at a mainstream DVD launch of the movie rather than just concentrating on NRI pockets.

As per sources, Disney acquired the rights for an estimated Rs 5 crore. Rather than dubbing the movie in English, Disney would release the movie with English sub-titles.

According to Aamir Khan Production (AKPL) and PVR Pictures, this the first time that an American major has picked up home-video rights for an Indian movie for a mainstream launch.

Corus acquisition takes Tata Steel to Fortune 500 list

Corus acquisition takes Tata Steel to Fortune 500 list

29 chinese company make it to Fortune 500; Wal-mart stays world’s biggest corporate

Mumbai:Thanks to its acquisition of the Corus group, Tata Steel has made it to the Fortune 500 list even as India’s largest corporate Reliance Industries climbed 63 places up to 206th rank. Companies qualify to the list on the basis of their revenues.

Ratan Tata’s Tata Steel has also been named as the company with the highest revenue growth of over 353 per cent over the past year, thanks to the consolidation of Corus’ revenues with its balance sheet.