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Billiards is played with three balls: white, red and yellow. The white and yellow balls are the cue balls of the two opponents respectively and the ob...

The breeding, rearing, and transplantation of fish by artificial means is called pisciculture, in other words, fish farming. It is the principal form ...

The first portable computer was a success, with sales reaching 10,000 units a month. IBM launched the IBM 5155 Portable Personal Computer in 1984. In ...

The laptop was invented by Adam Osborne in 1981. It was called 'Osborne 1' and cost $1,795. It came bundled with $1,500 worth of programmes. It had a ...

Cap is short for capitalisation which is a measure by which we can classify a company's size. Big/large caps are companies which have a market cap bet...

The word Australia when referred to informally with its first three letters becomes Aus. When Aus or Aussie, the short form for an Australian, is pron...

Blue Revolution is the water equivalent of the green revolution and primarily refers to the management of water resources that can steer humanity to a...

Television Rating Point (TRP) is a tool provided to judge which programmes are viewed the most. This gives us an index of the choice of the people and...

The world record for having the most number of children officially recorded is 69 by the first of two wives of Feodor Vassilyev (1707-1782), a peasant...

Chindonesia is a shorthand for China , India and Indonesia, because these three Asian countries are expected to become the backbone of Asia's economic...

The term 'southpaw' originated in US in connection with baseball pitchers. In US, baseball parks are usually so designed that the batter faces east, s...

Jogging a couple of days a week can significantly improve memory, say researchers. The study led by Cambridge University showed that running trigg...

A major earthquake of 7.2 magnitude hit central Chile on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. The epicenter was 60 miles (96 km) northwest of Te...

Aston Villa's Ciaran Clark put a big dent in Chelsea's title challenge as his stoppage-time equaliser rescued a dramatic 3-3 draw at Stamford Bridge o...

Rookie batsman Usman Khawaja and first-time captain Michael Clarke were aiming to build on Australia's dogged opening two sessions when tea was called...

India failed to fully exploit the seaming conditions as South Africa recovered from two early jolts to reach 232 for four on the opening day and leave...

At first, it seemed banks had caught the numerology bug. What else could explain the high interest rates on fixed deposits (FDs) with odd tenures? ICI...

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Punjab National Bank has said that it plans to enter the life and general insurance business and has appointed Boston Consulting Group its adviser.

The long-drawn sale of Patni Computer Systems suffered another setback with preferred suitor iGate Corporation calling off a press meet scheduled for ...