Here’s sad news for Chennai Super Kings. Kiwi all-rounder Jacob Oram might pull out of the much awaited Indian Premier League (IPL)'s second season, if a pesky Achilles tendon injury, which has been ailing him for sometime now, stops his involvement in the domestic State Championship final on April 6..

Chennai Super Kings picked the Kiwi all-rounder for a massive 675,000 dollars last year. Oram played a big role with both bat and ball in Chennai's first three wins in the last season of the IPL.

The Sensex gained further ground as realty, healthcare, capital goods, metal and IT stocks extended gains.

At 12:54 p.m., the BSE 30-share Sensex was up 178.50 points at 9,746.64, after hitting a high of 9,758.56 and a low of 9,547.21.

The S&P CNX Nifty was trading above the psychological 3,000 mark. Today, the broad based Nifty regained the 3K level. It fell below that level on Monday after a steep slide in stocks caused by a setback in worldwide stocks.

The provider security, storage and systems management solutions, Symantec Corp. today announced that it will soon release Norton 360 version 3.0 security solution in India. According to the Sunnyvale, California based security firm, Symantec, Norton 360 version 3.0 is an all-in-one security solution for computers with/without internet connections.   

Yes, nearly 4,000 cities/towns in 88 nations turned off their electric lights, from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., time zone by time zone, during “Earth Hour” on Saturday! The message was clear; Earth Hour was a “big global success” – claimed the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) on Sunday.

The landing of space shuttle Discovery was initially called of by the US space agency NASA, because inimical weather and strong winds, but at last, the space shuttle landed safely and soundly at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on Saturday.

According to NASA, the space shuttle Discovery landed at 3:14 p.m. EDT at KSC, after successfully completing its 13-day mission and three space walks at the International Space Station.

In a significant move, country’s largest private sector electricity generating company, Tata Power Company (TPC) on Monday started commercial operations of its 250 megawatt power plant at the Trombay Thermal Power Station in Mumbai.

As a result of the commissioning, the generation capacity of the Trombay plant will be increased to 1,600 MW from 1,350 MW. The plant will operate on imported Indonesian coal. The company believes that the commissioning will help bridge the gap between the ever increasing demand and supply of power.