A nice upgrade courtesy of Google Docs has been received by Gmail's integrated software-free PDF viewer. The good thing is that now when someone opens up a PDF in Gmail, it won’t fire up his native PDF viewer like the slow-to-load Adobe Acrobat. Instead it will send him to the document reader built into Google Docs.

Furthermore, the updated page view will let the user hop around the document a whole lot faster and its built in zoom will scale the text so that it fits the user’s monitor with a higher degree of detail than the text resizer found in the browser.

Twelve Nobel Laureates from all over the world will take part in a week-long science conclave, which is being organized by the ministry of human resource development (MHRD) and the department of science and technology (DST) at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (IIIT-A).

Asia’s first ever science conclave will be held from December 15 to 21.

Actor Nandita Das’s directorial debut Firaaq, which deals with the impact of violence on human psyche and relationships, has won awards in categories of best screenplay/script and the Foreign Correspondents Association award for best movie.

Produced by Percept Picture Company (PPC), Firaaq is an India film presenting sectarian aggression as an experience of common people after communal riots in Gujarat in 2002.

The market, which opened positive today, pared most of its earlier gains and come off from its day’s high due to some profit booking.

Metal, realty, consumer durables stocks saw heavy buying interest in today’s session.

BSE Midcap and Smallcap index gained 2.93% and 2.67% respectively.

At 12.59 p.m., the 30-share index Sensex stood at 9.813.00, up 122.93 points, after hitting an intraday high of 9,948.33 and an intraday low of 9,802.39.

Orissa Crime Branch arrested four more persons on Sunday in connection with the killing of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four of his aides at his ashram at Jaleshpata on Aug 23.

"Four persons were arrested on Sunday. Some more persons were also detained for questioning" state Inspector General of Police (Crime Branch) Arun Kumar Ray said.

The arrests came just a day before the VHP's ultimatum to the Orissa Govt. to arrest the killers of Swamiji.

The saffron organization has threatened to shut down the state if the culprits were not arrested before 15 December 2008.

Police arrested those four including a hard core Naxalites from the Kotagada area of the tribal dominated district Kandhamal.