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New Delhi, Dec 9 : State miner Coal India (CIL) has signed 157 fuel supply agreements (FSAs) so far for a generation capacity of 71,145 MW, the coal ministry said Monday.

Minister of State for Coal Pratik Prakashbapu Patil informed parliament in a written reply that these are "in addition to FSAs signed in respect of power plants commissioned before 31st March, 2009," a ministry statement here said.

"Government has recently approved coal supplies to thermal power plants (TPPs) which are commissioned/to be commissioned by 31st March, 2015," it added.

Thirteen defendants who had been slapped with charges of launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks at PayPal in 2010 pleaded guilty in a California federal court, the U. S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco confirmed recently.

The defenders had attacked PayPal using DDoS method, which is also known as the Low Orbit Ion Cannon, as part of "Operation Payback" to teach PayPal a lesson for the subsidiary eBay's refusal to process payments for whistleblower site WikiLeaks.

Patna, Dec 9 : Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) should be prepared for a shock in the 2014 general elections adding that, the response to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi shows that people want a third alternative.

"It does not matter what the BJP says, what matters is what the results show. They are going to get a shock in the 2014 elections. And now that there is need for fresh elections as none of the parties got a clear majority in Delhi, the results will break the myth of the BJP," Kumar said.

USD/JPY accelerated nicely to the upside in the last few weeks after breaking above 100.60 swing high that represents a wave D) high in a triangle.

Usually when this high is broken it means that triangle is complete and that market is moving impulsively. With that said, we think that prices are in a red wave 3) of (5) moving up towards new highs.

USD/JPY is now in bullish move as long as pair trades above 99.50.

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New York, December 9 : Scientists have come up with a list of most famous people in history by analyzing he number of times they have been mentioned in the books compiled by Google.

In their book, Uncharted, two scientists Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel have tried to explain the trends in language and culture while accessing Google's database, the New York Post reported.

The authors and a researcher named Adrian Veres have looked at notable people born in a particular year and figured out which one was mentioned in books more than any other.

10 most famous people born from 1940-1949 according to the list: