INDIAN SCULPTOR Anish Kapoor’s “untitled” creation fetched £550,000 at ART HK 10, an international art fair in Hong Kong.

Claiming that constitution of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) was one of the high points of the UPA-2’s first year in office, the government on Tuesday said, the first batch of Unique ID numbers to Indian residents will be rolled out this year only.

Over 300 medical students and some junior doctors of the Safdarjung Hospital went on hunger strike Tuesday to protest alleged lack of water supply, electricity and unhygenic conditions in the hostel.

In a major breakthrough, British researchers have developed a blood test that can detect cancer even before it develops and can be diagnosed with tests in use at present.

The UPA-2 report card released on Tuesday said that as part of the social welfare measures of the government, the focus was on rural housing, drinking water, roads and electricity besides supporting the crippling farm sector.

Tighter norms for offshore drilling — almost a certainty after the Gulf of Mexico disaster — may hit Chennai-based drilling major Aban Offshore.
This would be a double hit for the company which had lost Aban Pearl — a drilling ship — in Venezuela last month to an accident.

Having ensured the passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha, UPA-2 in its “Report to the People” released here this evening said that political empowerment is a powerful and indispensable tool for eliminating gender inequality and discrimination.

The BSE Sensex briefly fell to 16,400 on Tuesday as the stock price of Reliance Industries — the biggest company on the index — plunged to Rs 840.55 a share or a fall of almost 20 per cent. RIL’s stock, and the index, recovered almost immediately. It turned out to be a ‘freak trade’. It seems that instead of Rs 1,040.55 a share, the trader punched in Rs 840.55. There is a possibility that the trader punched in the price for ICICI Bank by mistake.

With education reforms on the top of the UPA government agenda, the report card of first year’s performance of UPA-2 released by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday gave positive review of the HRD ministry.

The Sensex plunged nearly 400 points as the figures for manufacturing across the globe were down, denoting a global slowdown.
China’s official purchasing managers’ index, which indicates the health of the manufacturing sector, was also down to 53.9 in May from 55.7 in April. The rupee hit a one-week low of 47.12 against the dollar because of a combination of a weak euro and the fall