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The recent blasts in Pune seem to have terrorized a lot of people, not only in Pune but across the country. India is slated to host a lot of sporting events this year and during the year to follow.

The events include the Hockey World Championship, the third version of the ever controversial IPL, the Commonwealth games later this year in New Delhi and the 2011's cricket world cup. There have been reports of threats to all these sporting events from the Pakistan-based jihad group.

Approximately 7,500 staff members of the United Bank of India (UBI) Tuesday struck work to protest the bank's IPO.

According to the reports, UBI is disinvesting 15.8% of its stake.

UBI Employees Union (UBIEU) general secretary Sukhomoy Sarkar said, "Till now the strike is very successful. Around 1,100-1,200 branches of the bank across the country were completely shut down."

The public sector banking institution runs 1,507 divisions across the country.

Australian stock market managed to close flat on Tuesday as banking stocks continued to defy the downward pressure exerted by the profit takers. The Australian Stock Exchange benchmark index S&P/ASX200 ended just 0.8 points or 0.02 per cent up at 4,718.

However, the broader All Ordinaries index closed on the other side with a decline of 1.7 points or 0.04 per cent over the previous close. It finished the day at 4,731.

Indian auto major Maruti Suzuki is going to call back no less than one lakh cars of its A-Star brand. The company has taken the step so that it can replace the fuel pump gaskets in the car, after reports of technical trouble in the fuel tanks appeared.

Researchers have dramatically extended the amount of genetic data regarding complex human illnesses and their possible cure.

A group of scentists from Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research (CCIA), University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Penn State University, rated the genomes of indigenous Africans and detected them to be amongst the planet's most genetically diverse natives.

The genomes of 4 Kalahari Desert Bushmen and a racial Bantu are the foremost to be sequenced from a native populace.