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Closing up at the end of trading on Friday, the major U. S. stock indexes finished the week in positive territory.

Finishing the day at 10,198.03, the Dow Jones industrial average gained 59.04 points, up 0.58 percent.

Picking up 21.05 points, 0.97 percent, the Nasdaq ended trading at 2,196.45 points.

The Standard & Poors 500 added 7.71 points, 0.72 percent, and closed at 1,077.96 points.

The Wall Street Journal has reported that the DJIA finished the week up 5.3 percent, its best performance since the week ending July 17, 2009.

According to a company announcement, Boeing hand-delivered its bid on Friday to be the prime contractor for new Air Force aerial refueling tankers.

The Boeing bid on the $35 billion tanker replacement program was submitted to the KC-X program office at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, just one day after competitor EADS North America turned theirs in.

Vodafone Essar, one of the country's top cellular service providers, has made announcement about the launching of India's most economical Bonus offer for its prepaid customers.

Available at Rs 4, it is the lowest cost denomination offer presently available in the market.

Eyeing to enable many more individuals at the grass root level to stay linked, the Rs 4 Bonus reiterates Vodafone's commitment towards speeding up tele-density in India and enhancing affordability.

According to reports, demonstration satellites built by Northrop Grumman and Raytheon successfully tracked a ground-based missile launch in a systems test last month.

Northrop Grumman said in a news release that tracking data generated by satellite sensors was transmitted to the Missile Defense Integration and Operation Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., which serves as the ground station for the two demonstration spacecraft.

'Tere Liye' has so far made news not for its on-screen content, but for the off-screen sentiments running high among buffs of Harshad Chopda, Anupriya Kapoor, and Additi Gupta.

Chopda's crowd of buffs have laughed at Anupriya Kapoor, and asked for return of Additi opposite him.

Some rowdy Additi Gupta buffs have been pretty spiteful in their disapproval of Anupriya Kapoor, who made her TV debut with the Balaji Telefilms show. Some of them even damned the serial saying that the TRP ratings will descend.

With a clear-cut realistic movie Red Alert - The War Within actor turned film producer Anant Narayan Mahedevan has finally discovered his calling after directing a good number of average flicks distinctively be a part of a diverse genre.

The film tells the story of Narsimha (Suniel Shetty) a farm laborer, who urgently needed money for the education of his kids. But he ends up finding himself among Naxalites where his job becomes a mere subset of a greater cause that the militant's follow.