The macro-economic numbers pertaining to the Indian economy indicates further slowdown of the economy. There may be a steep fall in the growth rate in the coming months. Decline in agriculture and industrial growth rate may further slide the economic growth. The growth rate of 7.6 per cent has registered in the September quarter of this year from the peak level of 9.3 per cent in September 2007. The reserve bank and noted rating agencies has forecasted further decline in the growth rate due to the impact of global slowdown.

With the aim to attract students towards science by the next few years, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has made announcement about the launching of ‘INSPIRE’ (Innovation In Science Pursuit for Inspired Research), a scholarship programme of the Department of Science & Technology in New Delhi. 

The Reserve Bank of India is taking various measures to control further depreciation of rupee. The bank sold $20.6 billion in October as per the recently released bulletin of the bank. Rupee witnessed a record fall in October and is currently varying at 49-50.50 to a US dollar.

Fans of Bigg Boss have a lot to cheer about, as VH1 is going to introduce Big Brother Season 9, the original version of Big Boss in India.

According to sources, Big Brother Season 9, will be bigger, better and much hotter.  

Aired on VH1 on coming Sunday at 10:00 PM, the show will have 16 houseguests competing for a prize worth half a million dollars.  

But that is not all, the contestants have been paired up with compatible room partners and they have to share a bed too.

According to sources, the pairs include a gay couple and ex's who have been paired with other people.

It is being said by the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd that the conclusion to keep out Telstra from bidding to build the national broadband network was made at arm's length from the Federal Government.

Since Telstra was not contended that there was enough detail from the Government on regulatory requirements, it submitted a brief proposal instead of a full bid.

According to Telstra, the reason behind its exclusion is that it did not say how it would include small and medium businesses in the network's construction.

VH series of feature-rich LCD monitors, consisting of the 18.5-inch VH192C/SC/D, 21.5-inch VH222H/S, 21.5-inch VH226H/C and 23.6-inch VH242H/T monitors has been unveiled by Asus.

The exciting features that this high-gloss black-colored VH models has, consists of HDMI port to connect Blu-ray disc and other portable devices; ASUS Smart Contrast Ratio (ASCR) technology to amplify the contrast ratio up to an astounding 20000:1; Trace Free technology to offer a 2ms (gray-to-gray) quick response time and Aspect Control technology that displays 4:3 images.