Indian stock markets have declined a lot during the last 10 months and capitalists have lost faith in the equities. But the golden rule of investing still remains unbroken, that in the long run companies with well-built fundamentals and talented management will always provide handsome returns.

The existing negative reaction has taken the rate of many shares much below their fair value. These shares cannot stay at such low levels and are expected to bounce back to somewhere closer to their fair value.

A study has stated that a common bacterium that causes diarrhea is commonly found in U.S. hospitals and better hygiene and a judicious use of antibiotics would help.

Indian equities slipped further into the negative terrain on the back of heavy selling witnessed across board.

Realty, metal, banking and consumer goods have suffered sharp losses.

FMCG, oil, telecom, pharma and power stocks also drifted down sharply. IT stocks that were see ruling firm till a little while ago, have ceased most of their gains.

BSE Midcap and Smallcap index fell more than 1% each on heavy selling.

At 2:04 p.m., the 30-share index Sensex stood at 9,656.93, down 182.76 points. It also touched a high of 9,928.60 and a low of 9,559.33.

A large clinical trial has found that calcium and vitamin D supplements don’t help postmenopausal women lower their risk of breast cancer. Dr. Rowan Chlebowski, study author and a medical oncologist at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles said, "The message is that there's benefit from calcium and vitamin D for fracture risk, but taking those supplements won't be doing much for breast cancer risk. You wouldn't expect that you're doing it to improve breast cancer outcome."

If reports are to be believed then Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai Bachchan might be seen in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s next untitled project along with multi-talented actor Hrithik Roshan.

Hrithik and Ash, who already worked in Dhoom-2 and Jodha Akbar, have proved to be a formidable pair on screen.

In fact, Bhansali liked the chemistry between the dashing couple, and thought of taking the duo in his film.

Though Sanjay has worked with ‘Bachchan Bahu’ earlier also, but it would be the director's first film with Hrithik.