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State-run Kerala State Industrial Development Corp (KSIDC) is ready to set up a Life Science Park with high-tech facilities near Thiruvananthapuram.

According to KSIDC release, the project would come up under public-private partnership model.

The Rs 3 billion (Rs 300 crore) park will be spread over 260 acres at Thonnakkal, which is about 25 km from Thiruvananthapuram district.

The release said, “It will be a geographic cluster of industries in the field of biotechnology or nanotechnology, research institutions and sci-tech academia.”

Asus has recently released its new ENGTX295, ENGTX285 Ultimate and ENGTX285 TOP graphics cards for its Indian users.

Along with a user friendly interface, the three new GPU graphics cards have added in some handy extras and features.

Based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 and 295 chipsets, the graphics cards work on an excellent 3DMark Vantage Extreme Preset score of 9126 to take performance to its highest level.

The 30 share index, Sensex gained 333.88 points to 9,634.74 in the week ended Feb. 13, 2009. On the other hand, the broad based NSE Nifty gained 196.25 points to 2,874.80 in the same period.

The bulls showed strong performance on three of the five trading sessions, due to fairly strong trend on the worldwide stock markets.

Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar expressed reservation on the referral system in ICC due to lack of conviction and decided to distance himself from India's Twenty20 matches against New Zealand later this month.

Tendulkar said, "I was in Sri Lanka last year when the referral was introduced on an experimental basis. There was an element of uncertainty and I was not convinced."

Former Indian Cricket team captain Kapil Dev condemns BCCI, while appearing before the registrar of Delhi High Court, for dragging his name in match fixing controversy in the court and lash out at cricket body for victimizing players joining ICL against its wishes.

The case was filed by the former all rounder, captain of world cup winning team of India, against BCCI, for stopping pension of players joining Indian Cricket League.

Government has asked Indian outsourcing MNCs, hit by slowdown, to explore domestic market, a potential segment that required being to be contemporary of technology, to overcome low demand situation aroused in the wake of global financial crisis.

Commerce Minister, Kamal Nath, while addressing a conference of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) in Mumbai, said, "The current global downturn is an opportunity for India's IT industry to look inwards. There is a huge reservoir (of business) to be tapped" across rural India."