Gold prices slumped sharply today to end the day with a loss of Rs 370 per 10 grams to Rs 12,155. The price of Gold in local markets dropped due to dramatic collapse in the international prices.

In the local market, standard gold (99.5 purity) ended at Rs 12,155 and pure gold (99.9 purity) also went down by Rs 355 per 10 grams to Rs 12,230 from Rs 12,585 yesterday.

Along with this, Silver also eased further on lack of industrial demand. Silver ready (.999 fineness) corrected by another Rs 70 per kilo to Rs 17,980 from Rs 18,050.

Tata Teleservices, a part of the Tata Group of companies, has informed that it would launch its services in Jammu and Kashmir and the North Eastern region in next two month.

The proposed roll out of services would take its presence to 21 circles across the country. Presently, the company operates in more than 6600 towns across 19 circles.

Dr. Geoffrey Hackett, an urologist claims that erectile dysfunction is an early warning sign (two to three years) of an impending heart attack.

In a letter published in the online edition of British Medical Journal, Hackett writes that it is often ignored as doctors feel uncomfortable asking about it, thus treating it more like a ‘recreational or lifestyle issue’.  However, it is no longer acceptable to ignore the issue, and it is clinical negligence on the part of doctors to treat impotence as a socially embarrassing afflicition.

ItzCash, the country’s first ever ‘Multi Purpose Prepaid Cash Card’ has informed that it has entered into a partnership with Thomas Cook, to facilitate online travel bookings.

The partnership is eyeing at an increase in online transactions at Thomas Cook and both partners has setup estimated target of 1.5 lakh transaction in rail booking, 0.5-lakh transactions for air booking for the next six months.

Mumbai-headquartered Tara Ultimo, a company manufacturing and retailing jewellery, plans to come up with 50 outlets across India in the next two years.

In what is a surprising finding, a new study on babies shows that those cute and cuddly bundles of joy, exhibit signs of jealousy even as young as three months old.

Prof. Maria Legerstee, Department of Psychology, York University and her team studied 50-babies aged 3-months and 6-months with their mothers on hand.  They found interacting with the babies that if the babies were not responded to, they looked sad and looked away.  However, when she took a drink and didn’t engage with them, they didn’t seem to mind, indicating that even babies can sense the reason behind uncommunicative behaviour.