Berlin/Warsaw - When Chris Gueffroy became the last person to be killed crossing the Berlin Wall, nobody could know that within hours, communism would begin its inexorable fall in the Polish city of Warsaw, 500 kilometres east.

On February 6, 1989, Polish communist leaders sat down with the banned Solidarity labour union, led by Lech Walesa, to launch some two months of negotiations on power-sharing.

Jakarta - Indonesia's central bank on Wednesday lowered its benchmark interest rate half a percentage point, its third-straight monthly cut, to support growth amid the global economic downturn.

Bank Indonesia Governor Boediono said the key overnight lending rate was cut to 8.25 per cent from 8.75 per cent.

Washington, Feb 4 : German scientists have uncovered a gene linked to longevity in Europeans - a finding which suggests that individuals with the right genes can reach a ripe old age.

Kiel scientists have proved that 100-year-old Europeans carry a special sequence variation of the FOXO3A gene.

According to researchers, a variation in the gene FOXO3A has a positive effect on the life expectancy of humans, and is found much more often in people living to 100 and beyond - moreover, this appears to be true worldwide.

Shri Muralidhar Chandrakant Bhandare, Governor of Orissa, has presented the prestigious ‘St. John Ambulance Award – 2008’ to Vedanta Aluminium Limited, Lanjigarh for its involvement towards training and promotion of First Aid not only among its staff, contract workers and other shareholders but also in whole region of Kalahandi, at large.

Dr. Mukesh Kumar, Company’s CEO received the award at the Annual General Meeting of St John Ambulance held at Raj Bhawan, Bhubaneswar on February 3, 2009.

Infosys BPO, the business process outsourcing arm of Infosys Technologies, declared that it got a ‘positive’ rating in Gartner’s MarketScope for Comprehensive Finance and Accounting Business Process Outsourcing, 2008.

Infosys BPO was amongst the 11 vendors judged for the reports that focused on vendor potentialities in the wide-ranging F&A BPO market.