After a weak opening today, the 30-share index BSE Sensex continued to trade in the negative zone on the back of global worries, and lack of support at higher levels.

Heavy selling action was witnessed in banking, IT and power stocks.

BSE Midcap and Smallcap index shed 1.56% and 1.42% respectively.

As declining growth, massive job cuts, worries of a deep and prolonged recession in worldwide economies continue to disturb the outlook, the stock market, despite a few rallies here and there, has been fighting to make a headway for the last few months.

Canadian researchers have said that women, with a family history of breast cancer, who test negative for two genetic mutations commonly linked to breast cancer, could still be at a high risk of developing the disease. The genes in question are BRCA1 and BRCA2, which are linked with particularly aggressive hereditary breast cancer and an increased risk of ovarian cancer as well.

Bigg Boss and controversies go side by side, and this time, the final contenders including Raja Chaudhary, Rahul Mahajan, Zulfi Sayed and Ashutosh Kaushik broke the most important house rule, of not leaving the Lonavala bungalow and tried to go out last night.

They all jumped the walls of the Bigg Boss house just because they were tired of home cooked food and wanted to taste food outside.

The source said, “They may have been forced to do so, as Zulfi the only guy who could cook refused to make food anymore.”

In order to catch the attention of Indian customers, global leading manufacturers of IT products, ASUS, on Monday launched its new motherboard, ASUS P5KPL-AM PS.

ASUS P5KPL-AM PS offers an Anti-Surge Protection technology, which protects the motherboard and CPU from voltage fluctuations, built-in in 5000hr VRM (voltage regulator module) and support for 45nm Intel chips.

With this, users will be able to install the latest Penryn and Nehalem desktop processors.

A new study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that children conceived with assisted reproductive technology (ART) are two to four times more likely to have birth defects as compared to naturally conceived infants. The findings were applicable only in single births and not in the case of twins or multiple births.

In a significant development, Adobe and Major League Baseball announced that they have signed an agreement for Major League Baseball to power all their video content, including the live MLB TV content that is wildly popular.