Indian equities started the week negatively tracking hopeless global cues and heavy selling action witnessed by FIIs as well as retail investors.
The Sensex touched the 8,000 mark, while the Nifty embraced the 2,300 level during intra-day. Afterward, it recovered some lost ground on account of short covering and buying by domestic institutional investors.

The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on Tuesday celebrated Diwali at evening when the index posted a sharp 547-point gain taking back some eagerness among investors after five days of decline.

A new and innovative technique has been developed by the security researchers, with which they can copy house keys just by using its picture as reference.

This technique has been developed by computer scientists at UC San Diego, and it needs no physical access to keys and only a fairly low resolution picture for the software to work. The scientist say that this technique has been developed by team with the aim to reveal to everyone that keys are not as secure as they are thought to be.

Melbourne, Nov 2 : Although the ‘art’ called ‘shopping’ has no ‘science’ behind it, a mathematician has come up with the prefect formula for spending spree.

Roger Bird’s algebraic formula takes in certain factors, which include time constraints, the number of shoppers in the group and the amount of spending money, to calculate the best conditions for a shopping trip.

The researcher from Bradford Education Authority, in Britain, devised the formula based on results of a shopping centre survey of 1000 people.

As per Bird''s findings, the perfect excursion involved a visit to several clothing stores located close to each other between 9am and 11am on a Saturday, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Washington, November 2 : A Dalhousie University mathematician has a mystery as to why the opening chord to The Beatles’ "A Hard Day''s Night" is completely different than anything found in the literature about the song to date.

Jason Brown’s work attains significance as no one quite knew exactly what chord Harrison was playing for 40 years.

He has found that there was a piano among Harrison’s 12-string Rickenbacker, John Lennon’s six-string guitar and Paul McCartney’s bass guitar, and that they collectively accounted for the problematic frequencies.

Washington, November 2 : A study conducted by British researchers suggests that office workers can be helped in staying more alert and less sleepy during the day by changing traditional white-light lighting to blue-enriched white light.

Researchers from the Surrey Sleep Centre at the University of Surrey, who partnered with Philips Lighting for the study, said that this approach can lead to significant improvements in subjective measures of positive moods, work performance, fatigue in the evening, irritability, ability to concentrate and focus and eye strain.

The workers exposed to blue-enriched white light during the study also reported improved sleep at night, the researchers say.

The latest Obama vs McCain Florida Polls show that Barack Obama has slim edge over John McCain — Obama holds slim lead over McCain.

Florida went with Republicans in 2000 and 2004, but the latest FL polls show Obama having thin lead over McCain. Let’s check out what McCain vs Obama Florida polls show.

Mason-Dixon’s Obama vs McCain FL poll, conducted from October 29 to October 30, shows Obama leading McCain by 2 % points — 49 % to 47 % among the likely voters of Florida.

Datamar Inc.’s Obama vs McCain FL poll, conducted from October 29 to October 30, shows Obama and McCain statistically tied — 46.7 % to 46.7 % among the likely voters of Florida.