The Sensex bounced back and was trading off from day’s low this afternoon.

Buying and selling was witnessed in some of the select stocks. IT, metal, banking, power and realty stocks led the declining charts.

BSE Midcap gained 0.43% and 1.04% respectively.

Among the sectoral indices, BSE IT index hit badly after plunging 3.84% followed by Metal, which declined 2.49%, Power and Bankex lost more than 2% each.

The 30-share index, BSE Sensex, today (Dec 12), belled the day with a loss of 274.59 points, at 9,370.87.

Dhaka - Bangladesh's former prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed, head of the Awami League party, Friday unveiled a "charter for change" to return the South Asian nation to democracy, ending two years of emergency rule.

"The country is now passing through a deep crisis. Our commitment is to build Bangladesh as a modern democracy, free from hunger, poverty and illiteracy," the party chief said, announcing the party's platform for the December 29 general elections.

New Delhi, Dec 12 : It won''t be long before a large group of people march to Wagah on the India Pakistan border carrying lit candles in their hands, seeking friendship with that country. Makes for great pictures, gives them all the publicity, but where does it take the relations between India and Pakistan?

New Delhi, Dec. 12 : Remember the uproar that Barack Obama caused when in August 2007 he said, "If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won''t act, we will."

Washington, Dec 12: American writer and producer Marc Cherry has revealed that he is in talks with ABC to continue the hit drama ‘Desperate Housewives’ for another two seasons.

On viewing the ratings the show got, Cherry, 46, wanted to extend it further, and revealed his plans at a cake-cutting ceremony for the show''s 100th episode.

“I started recently talks with (ABC Entertainment president) Steve McPherson and (ABC Studios president) Mark Pedowitz about continuing the show for a ninth season,” the Hollywood Reporter quoted Cherry as saying.

“We''re going to find a way to make it work,” he stated.

Ahmedabad, Dec 12 : With the advantage of low production cost, trained manpower and increasing demand of low priced quality drugs, the Indian pharmaceutical sector has come up as a favourite destination for investment among the developing countries.

The Pharma Industry is estimated to be worth 4.5 billion dollars, growing at about 8 to 9 percent annually.

Part of this success story belongs to Gujarat, which has developed into a major hub of pharmaceutical industry with spectacular growth during the last two decades in the sphere of production of drugs and pharmaceuticals.

The state''''s two principal industrial cities Ahmedabad and Baroda have evolved as major drug and healthcare equipment manufacturing hubs.