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Jim Corbett Tiger Reserve (Uttarakhand), Jan 2: Forest officials have started a special vigil in the Jim Corbett Tiger Reserve to protect animals from being poached during the festival season at Ut

Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, on Friday last week, has launched the "Goa Broadband Network" (GBBN) amidst trust and worry about the project’s future.

Formerly called as "Goa Net", the Broadband Network project aspires at setting up a state that is “enabled by IT to be efficient and accountable with a global thinking approach".

GBBN will offer privileges to citizens, which comprise the information about education, healthcare, farming, well-being, amusement, IP telephony, and video conferencing.

It will also provide e-governance as well as B2C (business-to-citizen) services.

Mumbai, Jan 2: In a shocking incident two women were molested by the mob of 70-80 men at Mumbai's Juhu area in the early hours on New year day.

Karachi, Jan 2: There is no question that the man, who Benazir Bhutto

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) plans to permit Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) registered with market regulator SEBI and sub-accounts of FIIs to short sell, lend and borrow equity shares of India companies from February 1, 2008.

However, the entire FII short selling, lending and borrowing mechanism will be subject to the current FDI policy, which allows FDI ranging from 26% to 100% across different sectors.

RBI said in a notification on its web site that the short selling of equity shares by FIIs shall not be permitted for equity shares that are in the ban list and /or caution list of Central Bank.

London, Jan 2: For all the men who despise going to markets or malls with their partners, this might come as a huge relief, for a new survey has found that women prefer going alone for shopping.