Government has asked Indian outsourcing MNCs, hit by slowdown, to explore domestic market, a potential segment that required being to be contemporary of technology, to overcome low demand situation aroused in the wake of global financial crisis.
Commerce Minister, Kamal Nath, while addressing a conference of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) in Mumbai, said, "The current global downturn is an opportunity for India's IT industry to look inwards. There is a huge reservoir (of business) to be tapped" across rural India."
Asus has recently released its new ENGTX295, ENGTX285 Ultimate and ENGTX285 TOP graphics cards for its Indian users. 
The 30 share index, Sensex gained 333.88 points to 9,634.74 in the week ended Feb. 13, 2009. On the other hand, the broad based NSE Nifty gained 196.25 points to 2,874.80 in the same period.
Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar expressed reservation on the referral system in ICC due to lack of conviction and decided to distance himself from India's Twenty20 matches against New Zealand later this month.
Former Indian Cricket team captain Kapil Dev condemns BCCI, while appearing before the registrar of Delhi High Court, for dragging his name in match fixing controversy in the court and lash out at cricket body for victimizing players joining ICL against its wishes.
India's largest steel company, Tata Steel hopes early recovery of normalcy in steel market, the worst hit segment due to decline in auto sales and customer spending, under the impact of global slowdown and recession like conditions across the world. 
