Almost all car manufactures have slashed prices of their various car models by 3-3.5%. The price cut has come after four percent reduction in excise duty announced by union government in the recently announced economic booster package. Maruti, Hyundai, Mitsubishi and Toyota have passed excise duty cut to customers in almost all categories. Prices of small car segment like M-800 and Santro have come down by at least Rs 6,500. Hyundai dropped prices up to Rs 44,792 on its top-end Sedan Sonata and Rs 16664 for the i10 hatchback variants.

State-owned India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd (IIFCL) has announced to raise Rs 10,000 crore through tax-free bonds in addition to the Rs 10,000 crore announced by the union government for infrastructure sector in the economic stimulus package. The amount would be used to refinance the bank loans that have been taken for various infrastructure projects.  

Washington, December 10 : Computer monitors and televisions embedded inside glass or transparent plastic may soon hit the market, thanks to the creation of a working computer chip that is almost completely clear.

The new technology, called transparent resistive random access memory (TRRAM), has been developed by scientists at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).

A research article in the journal Applied Physics Letters says that the new chip is similar in type to an existing technology known as complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) memory, a common commercial chips that provide the data storage for USB flash drives and other devices.

London, Dec 10 : A close friend of Colombia''s Nobel prize winning author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has confirmed that the 82-year-old master of magical realism was working on a new novel, allaying fears that he had put down his pen forever.

Garcia Marquez''s next book will be a love story, according to his friend and fellow writer Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza.

However, Mendoza said that the author was struggling to come up with a version that he was happy with.

"He has four versions of it. He told me that he was now trying to get the best from each of them," Guardian. co. uk quoted Apuleyo, as saying.

Washington, December 10: Here’s some good news for men who drool over Kate Hudson – the Hollywood beauty says that when it comes to dating she never allows her ego come in the way.

The ‘Almost Famous’ actress, who split from rocker hubby Chris Robinson in 2006, said that she believed in ego-free relationships and was not amongst those following a do’s and a don’ts list while on a date.

A recent study revealed that presence of woman in life increases frequency of screening for prostrate cancer by 40 per cent. Researchers found that men who live with a woman are more likely to be screened for prostate cancer than men who live alone, even if they have a family history of the disease.

Lauren P. Wallner, a doctoral student at the University of Michigan studied data collected from the medical records of 2,115 Minnesota men between the ages of 40 and 79.

The study subjects were asked to fill questionnaires about their family history of prostate cancer, concern about getting the disease, and their marital status. Researchers studied the frequency of rectal exams and blood tests the study subjects had to detect prostrate cancer.