Leading Japanese mobile company, NTT DoCoMo would acquire 26% in TATA Teleservices. Tata Teleservices (TTSL) is a subsidiary of TATA group which offers CDMA based services across India having 25 million subscribers in 20 telecom circles. The Japan based company would pay around Rs 12,770 crore to TATA for this acquisition.

DoCoMo valued mobile service provider at Rs 50,269 crore and it would buy six per cent from Tata Sons and other group companies while remaining 20 per cent from the shares issued by TATA Teleservices.

Researchers say that heart transplant patients’ survival chances improve if the sex of the donor and patient is the same. The study, presented at a New Orleans meeting of the American Heart Assn. articulates that the survival rate goes up by as much as 25 % if the sex of both the donor and the recipient is the same. Although men and women's hearts are anatomically identical, researchers feel it could be due to differences in size or immune systems between the sexes.

The much awaited promo of Aditya Chopra’s ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ is ready to hit worldwide cinemas this Friday (November 14).

The theatrical promo of Sharukh Khan starrer, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi will be released along with Karan Johar's Tarun Mansukhani directed ‘Dostana,’ which is also being distributed under the ‘Yashraj’ banner.

Dostana is carrying in its prints the full theatrical promo of Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi.

China's drug regulator, the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), ordered the withdrawal of a hemorrhoid medicine over concerns that it might cause liver problems.

The Sichuan-based Vital Pharmaceutical Holdings Ltd. was ordered by the SFDA to stop producing and selling Zhixue capsules and asked to begin a nationwide recall Xinhua news agency reported. The recall came after 21 people around the country developed liver problems and 14 others reported adverse reactions to the medication in recent months, the agency reported.

A study conducted by a mobile-phone warranty firm revealed that Apple’s iPhone has substantially less failures as compared to the failure rate of handsets from BlackBerry and Palm.

The SquareTrade study covered cell phone failure rates from over 15,000 new phones within a period of 12 months.

The team found that iPhones had a malfunction rate of 5.6 percent, as against 11.9 percent for BlackBerry smartphones.

Palm’s Treos range suffered the worst, with a failure rate of 16.2 percent during the same period.

The researchers at the University of North Carolina articulate that cell phone text messaging could be used to reduce kids' chances of becoming fat later in life. Their study suggests that helping kids self monitor their calorie intake and modify it themselves could be important for the long-term success of weight loss and weight control.