New Delhi, Sept 30 : Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology A. Raja today asked public sector BSNL to give top most priority to the growth of cellular and broadband services.

Speaking at the 15th Heads of Circles Conference of BSNL here, Raja expressed worries over the dwindling market share of BSNL in the mobile telecom segment.

He called upon BSNL officials to workout a strategy to restore BSNL’s market position.

New Delhi, Sep 30 : Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) has said that it had started talks with Indian firms on the delivery of SuperJet-100 passenger airliners and other civil aircraft to the country.

The SuperJet-100 project is a family of medium-haul passenger aircraft developed by the Sukhoi Design Bureau in cooperation with major US and European aviation corporations, including Boeing, Snecma, Thales, Messier Dowty, Liebherr Aerospace and Honeywell.

“We have started preliminary talks with a number of Indian companies on the delivery of SuperJet-100 airliners,’ Alexei Fyodorov, UAC’s general director, said here without specifying the potential customers.

New Delhi, Sep 30 : Russia will start deliveries of MiG-29K Fulcrum-D carrier fighters to India in the spring of 2009.

Russia and India signed a contract on January 20, 2004, stipulating the delivery of 12 single-seater MiG-29K and four two-seater MiG-29KUB by 2009, to be deployed on the Admiral Gorshkov, currently being retrofitted in Russia for the Indian Navy.

“The first four MiG-29K aircraft will be delivered to India in the spring of 2009,” said Mikhail Globenko, marketing director of MiG.

Mumbai, Sept 30: As an after-affect of the rejection of the 700-billion dollar bail out package by US House of Representatives, the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) benchmark Sensex plunged by 442 points to a two-year low of 12,153 in early trade today.

Within minutes of opening, the BSE Sensex fell mainly in the stocks of banking, metal, realty and IT sectors.

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) index Nifty fell by 135 points or 3.40 per cent at 3715 with all the heavy-weight stocks trading in negative zone.

Hewlett-Packard has made announcement about the launching of its new range of Compaq notebooks in the Indian market.

Targeting modern youth, the new range comprises nine notebook computers, which come packed with astounding multimedia features including finger print reader, backlit keyboard and HDMI 1.3 together with an integrated TV tuner card, an infra red remote control and Blue ray drive.

The new range of HP Compaq notebooks, which sport stylish and modish designs, integrate quality with cost effectiveness.

Marseilles (France), Sept. 29 : Seeking to defend his UPA Government on the issue of the recent attacks on Christians in Orissa, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, said on Monday that every community in India had a right to practice its religious beliefs, and violence to curb these beliefs would be firmly dealt with.