IT services firm Hexaware Technologies has appointed new heads for its business units and has strengthened its organisational structure and the management team.

The software exporter shall now focus on three specific business areas, banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI); travel and transportation; and Emerging verticals.

The Emerging verticals unit will concentrate the manufacturing and healthcare areas and the existing non BFSI and non travel and transportation activities at one place, for better management.

Two days ahead of the polling in Jammu and Samba districts, Special Operation Group (SOG) of Jammu police have arrested the state chief of Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami (HuJI). The arrested militant was purportedly involved in several terror acts including the serial blasts at Faizabad and Varanasi.

London, Dec 24: The perfect way to perk up flagging Christmas trees is to feed it Viagra, claim scientists.

According to researchers, the blue pill makes the branches longer, stronger and thicker.

Also, experts at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Umea have said that Viagra stops trees them shedding their needles and means they stay upright well into the New Year, reports the Daily Star.

Here’s great news for the engineering students.

Noted US software developer, Richard M Stallman is in Hyderabad to oversee the migration of thousands of computers from proprietary to free software.

Stallman, popularly known as the ‘Father of free software’, on Wednesday will launch the process of installation of an indigenous operating system (OS) called e-Swecha on 21,000 computers across Andhra Pradesh starting Tuesday in TRR College.

London, Dec 24 : Scientists have taken a major step towards the treatment for the dreaded ''viral tummy bug'' or rotavirus after finding a chink in the armour of these rotaviruses.

Rotaviruses are highly infectious viruses, which are the leading cause of severe diarrhoea in young children and are responsible for thousands of hospitalisations in the developed world, and hundreds of thousands of deaths each year in developing countries.

Researchers at Griffith University's Institute for Glycomics conducted the study in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Melbourne.

Professor Mark von Itzstein, Institute Executive Director, said that their findings demanded a total rethink of how these viruses work.

London, Dec 24 : A game called `Hot Cockles,' which involved placing your head in someone''s lap while guessing who was hitting you from behind, used to be a hit with families at Christmas 200 years ago, reveals a book from 1801.

Hot Cockles, which was a variation of the classic Blind Man''s Buff, was mentioned in the book "Sports and Pastimes", written by the author and artist Joseph Strutt, which was recently found in a house in Staffordshire.

The book, which lifts the lid on the famous games of the day that families and friends would play at parties, is due to be auctioned next month.