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New Delhi/Kolkata, June 17 : The Left on Wednesday blamed the Trinamool Congress-Congress combine for the naxal attacks in West Bengal that claimed the lives of three Communist Party of India (Marxist) leaders earlier today.

CPM politburo member Brinda Karat said: "The TMC-Congress combine is responsible for the violence that has broken out in West Bengal. The TMC is patronising the Maoists, while my party''s cadres are being ruthlessly killed by the Maoists."

Yekaterinburg (Russia) June 17 : The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, is on his way home after attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and the BRIC, summits.

The three day visit, Singh''s first foreign tour after coming back to power at the centre was used by him to project India''s views on global melt down, terrorism, extremist ideologies, and cross border drug trafficking.

The software giant Microsoft’s Xbox Live service and Zune service went offline yesterday for scheduled maintenance for next 24 hours. It means that the Xbox Live and My Xbox section of Xbox.com, and Zune Social, the forums on Zune.net, and the Zune Marketplace are unavailable from 7:01am UTC (4:30 pm in India), 16 June.

Since the services went offline, the Xbox.com has been displaying the messages – "This service maintenance is to prepare for some of the recently announced features that will be available later this year."

Coimbatore, June 17 : Union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran has said that the government would try to achieve seven to eight per cent growth in the industry during the current fiscal year, April 2009-March''10. This would generate more than two million jobs every year, he said.

Karvy Stock Broking Limited has maintained ‘Buy’ rating on IDBI Bank stock to achieve a target of Rs 188 within 2-3 days.

According to Karvy, interested traders can buy the stock between Rs 109-110 with a strict stop loss of Rs 105.

If the stock market remains on positive track, the stock pricing becomes more attractive, and reach above Rs 120.
 
Today (June 17), the shares of the company opened at Rs 107.20 on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). Current EPS & P/E ratio stood at 11.31 and 9.48 respectively. The share price has seen a 52-week high of Rs 112.65 and a low of Rs 39.75 on BSE.