The 30-share index Sensex, which had suffered a heavy loss earlier this morning, recovered over 200 points from today’s lows, touching a high of 9,968.12.

Metal, realty, banking, oil & gas stocks led the declining charts.

BSE Midcap and Smallcap index fell 2.52% and 2.26% respectively.

After opened the day negatively at 9,683.41, down 486.49 points, the Sensex crashed to 9681.28 following a massive sell-off in front line stocks.

At 10:59 a.m., Sensex stood at 9,926.09, down 243.81 points, after hitting a high of 9,928.11 and a low of 9,681.28.

London, Oct 23: Social networking site, Facebook, is responsible for ‘friendship addiction’ and is fuelling insecurity in users, according to psychologists.

With social networking sites becoming more of a substitute for families, it is the women who are most affected by it, as they derive their self worth from relationships with others and Facebook compels them to ‘acquire’ hundreds of friends, experts say.

According to David Smallwood, an addictions expert with the Priory clinic, at least 10 per cent of the population were vulnerable to ‘friendship addiction’.

Baghdad  - Nine people have been killed in an apparent suicide bomb attack on the convoy of Iraqi Minister of Labour Mahmoud al-Radi on Thursday.

London, Oct 23: An international team of researchers have identified as many as 26 genes that are frequently mutated in the most common form of lung cancer, thus opening up avenues for developing new therapies for treating the disease.

The researchers looked at nearly 200 patients with lung adenocarcinoma and decoded or sequenced the DNA of several hundred genes that are known to or are suspected to be involved in cancer development.

By scanning the tumour genomes, they identified several abnormally active as well as silent genes.

The team was able to pinpoint more than 1,000 genetic alterations — the majority of which had not been previously known.

Tokyo, Oct 23: While addressing the reception hosted by Japan-India Association and Japan-India Parliamentary Friendship League, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has thanked Japan for providing development assistance for India''s industrial modernization.

"In the next phase of our relationship, we seek to exploit the opportunities offered by globalization and by the synergies in our economies to expand flows of trade, technology and investment," Dr. Singh said.

He said that there are around 15000 strong Indian Diaspora in Japan largely involved in the technological professions and have toiled to make a mark in the Japanese society.

After playing a kindhearted teacher in blockbuster ‘Taare Zameen Par’, perfectionist Aamir Khan will be seen in a ‘killer’ look in his upcoming flick ‘Ghajini.’

Aamir sports a masculine bare-chested-look with stylish tattoos on it.

Aamir also said that it was his primary attempt at doing an out an out action role, so he had to work hard for this unique look.

The actor also shows off his eight-packs in the movie for which, he had to undergo extreme physical training and gymming for almost a year.