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Shilpa Shetty Kundra gave birth to a baby boy today, early in the morning at Hinduja Healthcare Surgical hospital in Khar, Mumbai. Her husband Raj Kundra shared the good news on twitter. “God has blessed us with a beautiful baby boy. Both mother and baby are fine. I am thrilled to bits!!!!!! A big thank …

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Bollywood baddie Gavin Packard known for the villainous roles he played in films like Sadak, Tridev, Karan Arjun and Mohra, breathed his on May 18. Gavin had been fighting against respiratory disorder. The 48-year-old actor, with British origin had been admitted to a nursing centre in Vasai. His funeral was held at St. Andrews Burial …

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Last week, Jet Airways informed its “guests”, in a note signed by its Head for “Jet Privilege”, that it will charge Rs 50 for printouts of e-tickets at its Airline Ticketing offices. Printouts of e-tickets are required for entering Airports, and customers who haven’t been able to take printouts have no choice but to go …

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Speciality publishing house CyberMedia seems to have launched a revamped web version of one of its publications, BioSpectrum Asia which is a B2B media platform for the life sciences industry in the Asia-Pacific region. This redesign appears to be a part of the plan that we had heard about last year in June, where Cybermedia had stated …

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FMCG company, Dabur India Ltd, plans to extend its personal-care products focused retail chain, ‘NewU’ , to the online space, reports The Economic Times.New U is a chain of beauty and lifestyle retail stores operated by H&B Stores Ltd, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dabur India Ltd. At the time of writing this post, Dabur …

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Augere Wireless, which had won 20Mhz of spectrum in the state of Madhya Pradesh in India’s Broadband Wireless Auction last year, and had plans to roll out commercial LTE services under its under its ZOOSH brand, across 14 cities in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, is looking to sell its 4G spectrum, and exit from the Indian market, reports The …

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So, some amount of consolidation in the fledgling e-health space already: Healthkart, an e-health store, has announced the acquisition of another e-health store called MadeInHealth. MadeInHealth provides body-building and weight loss supplements to its users, and as a part of the acquisition, HealthKart has acquired the domain name, database, merchandise and a facebook group with around 100,000 …

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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has received a total 4133 service related complaints against Telcos during 2011-12, reports The Economic Times. This announcement was made by Milind Deora, the Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology, in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha. According to the minister, Bharti Airtel topped the list of …

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Serendipity Infolabs, which runs online taxi booking site TaxiForSure.com, has raised venture capital funding from Accel Partners, Helion Venture Partners and Blume Ventures. The exact financial details of the funding have not been disclosed. Following the transaction Anand Daniel of Accel and Ritesh Banglani of Helion have joined the board of the company. TaxiForSure.com is …

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HT Mobile, HT Media‘s mobile marketing joint venture with Velti reported revenues of Rs 4 crore for the quarter and Rs 12 crore for the year, company representatives said in response to MediaNama’s query on their earnings conference call. The number of mobile advertising campaigns for the venture have increased, they said. Note that the …

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