U. S. researchers on Monday said that depression increases the risk of people with heart disease developing heart failure even if they take antidepressants.

Heidi May, an epidemiologist at the Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, and lead author of the study said, "Our data suggest that depression is an important and emerging risk factor for heart failure among patients with coronary heart disease."

The Indian stock markets remained buoyant and close higher on Monday, for the seventh consecutive day, after an intraday volatile session.

During trading session, the Sensex surpassed the 11,000 mark while the Nifty tested the 3,400 level. BSE Sensex settled the day at 10,967, up 163 points or 1.51%, and Nifty ended up 40 points or 1.21% to 3,382.

Further, BSE Mid Caps and Small Caps also ended the day with gains of 106.57 and 147.61 points at 3,464.92 and 3,915.16 respectively.  

After a two-week delay - likely resulting from the clamor related to the much-discussed, planned, and later canceled prospective IBM takeover - Sun Microsystems Tuesday launched its Nehalem-based server line-up, as well as a new networking product to compete with its emerging server market rival, Cisco Systems.

As part of the launch of the next-gen Galaxy servers, Sun unpacked two blades, four racks, and a tower workstation based on the quad-core Nehalem EP Xeon 5500 processors from Intel. Put together, the newly-launched x64 servers - using Sun-designed custom motherboards - are being categorized as "open network systems,"

An awkward and blundering "cataloging error" by Amazon. com Inc resulted in the deletion of over 57,000 titles from online retailer's main search function on Sunday. Initially terming it as a 'glitch,' Amazon said that the affected titles will soon be restored; but that did not happen even till Monday afternoon.

Bank of Rajasthan, one of the oldest, fastest growing, technology driven and customer friendly private sector bank, has informed that it has tied up an alliance with DBS Cholamandalam Asset Management Ltd, to qualitatively enhance its reach in the category of mutual fund investors across the country.

According to a senior official, the tie-up is intended to fulfill the investment needs of Bank of Rajasthan customers, by helping them to reach their financial goals.

After a recent change in the creative and media agencies of the consumer, business and industrial electronic goods bigwig Panasonic, Percept's IBD has been handed over the Viera - LCD and plasma TV range - and Lumix businesses including Limux camera range; while Percept's media agency, Allied Media, has bagged the company's media buying mandate.