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BSE Sensex Drops 1.5 pct; TCS Leads Losses

The BSE Sensex fell more than 1.5 percent on Tuesday, dragged down by IT stocks after Tata Consultancy Services reported lower-than-expected quarterly earnings and said the outlook for pricing was tough.

India to See Robust Gold Imports in Festive Quarter

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Gold demand in India, the world's largest bullion buyer, will be strong in the October-December quarter, a traditional time for festivals and weddings, despite high inflation that eats into savings and multiple growth-choking central bank rates hikes.
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Gold Edges Higher in Asian Trading

Gold was slightly higher on Friday and headed for its biggest weekly gain in more than a month, shrugging off the credit rating downgrade of Spain ahead of a G20 meeting whose agenda will be dominated by the euro zone debt crisis.
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BlackBerry outages irk India, threaten key RIM market

A four-day service outage has cast a shadow over BlackBerry's reputation in India, one of the smartphone maker's few growing markets, where the frustration of hundreds of thousands of users could mean a chance for its rivals to gain ground.
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Nine More Kabaddi Players Tagged in Doping Sweep

Nine more kabaddi players have tested positive for banned substances during trials for next month's World Cup, pushing the number of failed tests up to 19 when combined with earlier results, the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) has said.
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BlackBerry Outrage Spreads Worldwide as Complaints Pour Out in Twitter

BlackBerry outages spread all over the world on Wednesday, prompting people to think whether RIM is in its death throes already. BlackBerry encountered an outage of email, messaging and Internet services since Monday in India, Europe and the Middle East. On Wednesday, it spread to Canada and the U.S.
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'Fight Back' Phone app to Protect Women in India

Women in India's capital, New Delhi, will soon be able to fight off potential attackers with a push of a phone button that will alert not only friends, family and police but also sound an alarm on their social networking websites.
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RIM BlackBerry Outage: Why the Company May Soon be Out of Business

Now comes the latest -- a three-day outage of BlackBerry services including email and Internet across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India plus some spotty outages in the U.S. Here's where you start to feel for the company: While the RIM and BlackBerry have been all but dead in the U.S, life remained for the company, its products, and services in these other countries.
Vijay Mallya, co-owner of the Force India Formula One team, extends his hand to Sahara Group Chairman Subrata Roy at a news conference in New Delhi

Sahara Group Invests $100 mln in Force India

Indian business conglomerate Sahara group has invested $100 million in Force India and taken a 42.5 percent stake in the Formula One team which it now co-owns with liquor baron Vijay Mallya while Dutch entrepreneur Michiel Mol takes a backseat.
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Sensex, Nifty Hit Resistance; Metals Fall

Shares were trading down on Thursday after an early rise met with resistance, a day after the BSE Sensex had climbed to its highest close in more than three weeks.
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Apple’s iOS 5 debuts

Apple rolled out its iOS 5 mobile operating system, one week after pancreatic cancer claimed the life of its former CEO and visionary Steve Jobs. The update adds voice recognition software called “Siri”, instant messaging and support for Apple’s iCloud service, although the inclusion of Siri is limited to the iPhone 4S. MacWorld’s Dan Moren says the free update is “ambitious” and that “there’s hardly a part of Apple’s mobile operating system that isn’t altered in some way”. Engadget’s Dante...
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RIM scrambles to end BlackBerry outage

Research In Motion said on Wednesday it was working frantically to end a three-day global disruption of BlackBerry services that has frustrated millions of smartphone users and put more pressure on the company for sweeping changes.

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