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Business Desk
As many as 365 load carriers with essentials and fuel arrived in the Kashmir Valley during the last 24 hours up to 2 p.m. yesterday. As per the information received from the Jammu & Kashmir Government, these included 62 loaded with rice, 35 with flour, 19 with sheep, 4 with fresh fruit and 170 with other commodities. Besides, 28 tankers with diesel, 10 with kerosene oil, 11 with petrol, 24 with LPG and 2 empty trucks also reached the valley during the period.

Business Desk
SINTEX- the pioneers and market leaders in the Plastics Industry, are weaving a dream of development and progress for the people of Arunanchal Pradesh. The state has found a steadfast partner in Sintex in its quest for infrastructure development.

Political Desk
Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) Quaid Nawaz Sharif announced to quit the ruling coalition and sit on the opposition benches in the Parliament. Addressing a crowded news conference here at the Punjab House, he also announced that former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan Saeed-uz-Zaman Saddiqui will contest the presidential election as candidate of the party.

Sports Desk
As anticipation mounts ahead of next month’s 2008 FORMULA 1 SINGTEL SINGAPORE
GRAND PRIX, the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia recently gave some lucky local residents
and media a preview of the high-octane excitement to come.

As part of the build-up to the Porsche SC Global Carrera Cup Asia – Singapore 2008,
an official support race to the main event, a simulator challenge saw series drivers and guests test their virtual racing mettle in Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars.

Members of the local Singaporean media and some lucky radio contest winners went

Business Desk
Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, will connect Bengaluru with New York (Newark and JFK) and Toronto, via its European hub, Brussels commencing 31st October 2008*. The airline will operate daily direct flights from India’s IT hub, and its European hub in Brussels.

This will allow arriving passengers from Bengaluru to conveniently connect to Jet Airways’ transatlantic services to North America and Europe in a seamless manner, on board its state-of-the-art Airbus 330-200 aircraft offering unmatched international Premiere and Economy Class experience.

After Asaram Bapu, more allegations have surfaced against Kripalu Maharaj. A person who goes by the name of 'insider' for the fear of his life, has sent in the following note:

D Y Vyas
There is a online petition on Amarnath Shrine Land issue, which is getting an amazing response. It has achieved over 5850 sigantories, and rising.

It says:

US Desk
Highlighting the gravity of the situation of Roma people of Europe, Hindus have strongly urged His Holiness Pope Benedictus XVI Joseph A. Ratzinger to immediately come up with a White Paper on their plight.

Lifestyle Desk
IndiaTales Media, a new age media and entertainment company, has announced the web launch of Manikantan Geet Mala, a devotional album on Lord Ayyappa. The music for the album has been composed by maestro Ilaiyaraaja, and is being released in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. This is the first time in India that a devotional album is being produced on such a large canvas, and is being launched adopting a unique marketing strategy.

A special week for fans:

Business Desk
In line with the global trend, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has proposed a plan for convergence with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for certain defined entities – including banks – with effect from April 1, 2011. Convergence to IFRS would mean India would join a league of more than 100 countries, which have converged with IFRS.

KPMG today released a report on IFRS on the sidelines of the IBA / KPMG Conference on ‘IFRS: Developing a roadmap to convergence for the Indian Banking Industry’.

Lifestyle Desk
PUMA, the sports lifestyle brand introduced its Golf Collection of apparel and accessories.

Business Desk
Roberto Cavalli has taken inspiration from the Savannah and its exotic animal population for his new Eyewear Collection. Its frames carry echoes of striped fantasies, leopard spots, and serpentine profiles with an ever-varying viewpoint.

The snake can be spotted at times in the precious strass details, while its tail can be seen in the pointed and linear shape of the earpieces. Animalier fantasies are found in the rich acetate colours and in the subtle details of the temples, emphasised by their darkly homogenous background.

Business Desk
Test Equipment Connection Corporation today announced the company has been chosen to sell new RIGOL digital storage and mixed signal oscilloscopes, digital multimeters and function generators. “The RIGOL 1000CD oscilloscope family brings the power of the Mixed Signal Oscilloscope to our customers without the budget to afford Tektronix or LeCroy Mixed Signal Oscilloscope’s,” said Lexie Moss, Sales and Channels Manager for Test Equipment Connection Corporation.

Business Desk

Business Desk
Multilayer piezos allow a drastic reduction of the operating voltage keeping the same performance as piezo monolayer/ bulk components. Thereby, reduction of the electrical security requirement when operating with e.g. dental devices.

Piezos in dental devices
Ultrasonic transducers work by rapidly changing size when excited by an electrical signal. This creates a compression wave in the liquid of the tank. These compression waves actually ‘tear’ the liquid apart, leaving behind a ‘void’ or ‘partial vacuum bubble’.

Lifestyle Desk
It’s raining Bollywood celebrities with Sonu Sood and Tushaar Kapoor on 28th August online for chat at Indiatimes.com

Business Desk
With a focus on supporting products available across the nation, NETGEAR, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTGR), a worldwide provider of technologically advanced, branded networking products, has announced the opening of its service centres in various geographies of India. Netgear believes that after effective distribution of products in the country, there is a need to put in place an effective support mechanism to service the products.

Therefore, the company has identified various geographies for the service centres in India.

Rajiv Pratap Rudy
The charge of the Bharatiya Janata Party that the UPA and its allies are soft on terror now witnesses a conclusive evidence with the visit of Ram Naresh Yadav of the Congress Party, followed by BSP’s Akbar Ahmad and Abu Azmi of the Samajwadi Party and to charge it all the Imam of Delhi Jama Masjid, Syed Ahmad Bukhari to the Azamgarh village of Mufti Abu Bashir the kingpin and mastermind SIMI terrorist arrested by Gujarat police responsible for blasts in Ahmadabad which claimed fifty five innocents lives and injured hundred fifty others.

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Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) today expressed deep concern about the situation in West Bengal. Any adverse development with regard to the upcoming Tata Motors Nano Plant in Singur, will irreversibly hamper the future industrialisation in the State of West Bengal and could take the state back to an age of industrial vacuum. Industrialisation is critical for the development of social infrastrucuture as also rural development.