Srinagar, Dec 2 : National Conference leader and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah has said that terrorism has swept the world and a coordinated effort is required to tackle this threat.

In the wake of last week''s deadly Mumbai terror attacks, Abdullah has said the UN Security Council should plan out a course of action.

Online portal Rediff.com has made announcement about the launching of its ‘Web-in-mail’ service, which let users to access the internet content using email clients such as MS Outlook, Outlook Express and Thunderbird.

According to Rediff, the ‘web-in-mail’ service can be achieved in two simple steps:

- Firstly, the user has to send an email to browse@webinmail.com with the URL (internet address) of the webpage that he/she wants to access in the subject line.

Country’s third largest two-wheeler maker, TVS Motor Company on Monday reported a 12.7 per cent decline in the sale of two wheelers in November, 2008 at 98,402 units compared with 112,766 units in the corresponding period last year.

In a statement released by the company, the sales of the motorcycle dropped 20.7 per cent in November to 45,276 units from 57,113 units a year ago.

“General inflationary trends, liquidity crunch and the continuing adverse impact of high interest rates with restricted availability of retail finances affected sales,” added the company release.  

Country's largest power producer, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has informed that a MOU was signed on 01 December 2008 amongst NTPC, NHPC, Power Grid and DVC to form a joint venture company.

The JVC will be set up with equal equity participation an Online High Power Test Laboratory (OHPTL) for short circuit testing facility.

Presently, manufacturers and utilities are sending their equipments to overseas testing labs which is not only time consuming but expensive too.

Astra Microwave Products Ltd, India's leading provider of microwave wireless technologies used in defense, space, and telecommunications, has won an order worth Rs 570 million from Israel's ELTA Sy