Tata Motors has acquired Ford's British marquees Jaguar and Land Rover for $2.30 billion in an all cash deal, sealing a deal that it pursued for nine months. Under the deal, Tata would continue to source engine from Ford, which would be paying about $600 million toward the pension liabilities of Jaguar-Land Rover employees.

Three soldiers were killed and two, including an officer, were injured during the joint wargames of the Army and the Air Force, in Pokhran on Thursday.Two havaldars and one gunner were killed when a mortar shell burst during firing, sources said. A junior commissioned officer and a jawan were injured in the mishap, they said.A Court of Inquiry has been ordered into the incident.

The car crash in Florida that marred Arjun Atwal's season last year is finally a closed chapter for the Orlando-based golfer with the police clearing him of speed-racing charges that could have landed him in a legal mess.

Bangalore's new airport will be ready on March 7 to receive the first commercial test flights. It plans to start commercial operations on March 28 or 30, soon after Hyderabad's new airport does so on 16 March.

In the year gone by, Indian Space Research Organisation achieved self-reliance in launch vehicle technology with the successful ground testing of the Cryogenic Upper Stage, a key component in putting heavier payloads in orbit.

China, which sent its first lunar orbiter to probe the moon's surface recently, will launch its maiden Mars probe onboard a Russian rocket in October 2009, state media reported.

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The joint mission envisages landing a new-generation lunar vehicle weighing 400 kilogrammes on the surface of the moon.

"We will have to study newer technologies to develop capsules, which will send men to space and bring them back safely"

The elevator industry in India today is approximately 26,000-27,000 elevators per annum. There are players like Mitsubishi, Kone, Schindler among others in the organised sector, and many regional players that constitute the elevator market.

The bodies of six victims, wrapped in red flags, were kept on a platform near the district collectorate complex, with wailing relatives sitting by their side.

Home Minister K Jana Reddy termed the police firing"unfortunate" and conveyed his sympathies to the members of the bereaved families.

Telugu Desam Party and Bharatiya Janata Party also extended their support to the bandh call given by the Left parties.

This year's winners, which include Toyota, Lenovo, and Infosys, have been pushing to build their businesses globally.

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The Chinese probe, with Russia's Phobos-Grunt, will be launched by a Russian carrier rocket.

The state would have to provide free medical assistance to the residents of the affected area marred by sporadic violence.

From begging cigarettes to becoming one of the richest sportsmen in Kenya, marathoner Robert Cheruiyot's is an inspiring tale.

Mall mania has hit the town what with 15 malls expected to be ready by 2009.

Home loan rates are increasing and more is in the offing. Can you prepay your home loan and save money on ineterst paid? Transcripts of the chat with home loan expert Harsh Roongta.

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Indian Air Force and HAL sources said preliminary information indicated that one of the IJT's tyres burst while it was taking off.

The company said this would boost their efforts to send tourists to space by 2009 and help quick point-to-point travel across the earth using a space vehicle.

According to Andrew Coates of the Mullard Space Science Lab, the impactors would represent the first time there had been a detailed study of the Moon's sub-surface.

India go in to the final Test against South Africa with more minuses than pluses from the Durban Test.

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The camera has already taken hundreds of images of the Martian surface and the instrument will obtain about 5000 for every year till 2010.

The strike called by the senior separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani was supported by underground groups and the National Conference.

However, flight operations were normal.

Sushma Iyengar, who spearheaded the earthquake relief work done by NGOs in Gujarat, looks back on five years of work

passengers get to feel the environment, its rocks, craters, the volcanoes, stormy weather and can even see a robot collecting dust and sending pictures to earth.