Mumbai, Nov. 24 : Mumbai today gave a warm and relieved welcome to five of the 18 Indian crew members of the MT Stolt Valor, a ship that was hijacked by Somali pirates in September.

Estidore Fernandes and Alistair Fernandes of Goa, Navid Borundkar of Ratnagiri, and Santosh Patil and Om Prakash Shukla of Mumbai were said to be in good health.

The remaining 13 crewmen will start returning from Muscat on Tuesday onwards.

Describing their ordeal, Fernandes said they lived in cramped conditions at an unknown, desolate location on shore with 20-25 heavily armed pirates guarding them round-the-clock.

Mumbai, Nov. 24 : Mumbai today gave a warm and relieved welcome to five of the 18 Indian crew members of the MT Stolt Valor, a ship that was hijacked by Somali pirates in September.

Estidore Fernandes and Alistair Fernandes of Goa, Navid Borundkar of Ratnagiri, and Santosh Patil and Om Prakash Shukla of Mumbai were said to be in good health.

The remaining 13 crewmen will start returning from Muscat on Tuesday onwards.

Describing their ordeal, Fernandes said they lived in cramped conditions at an unknown, desolate location on shore with 20-25 heavily armed pirates guarding them round-the-clock.

Three months after enrolling in the reality show, Ashutosh Kaushik, a dhaba owner from Uttar Pradesh, was announced as winner of the 'Bigg Boss 2'on Saturday.

The reality show is the Indian version of Celebrity show Big Brother in the UK.

Kaushik, a-29-year-old guy, who took home Bigg Boss 2' title and a whopping Rs 1 crore in cash, won another reality show earlier this year - MTV Roadies.

The Live Earth India concert, to be held at the Andheri Sports center in Mumbai on December 7, will be a show to watch - major artistes from across the globe, including Roger Waters, Bon Jovi, and Amitabh Bachchans and a host of others will be seen in action!

Mumbai, Nov 20 : The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)''s Sensitive Index (Sensex) tumbled more than five per cent on Thursday, led by losses in top-listed Reliance Industries and financial stocks, joining the rest of Asia in a broad sell-off after U. S. markets plunged.

By noon, the 30-share BSE index was down five per cent at 8,335.02, after falling as low as 8,316.39.

This was its lowest since October 27, when it touched a three-year low of 7,697.39.

The 50-share National Stock Exchange (NSE) index was down 4.33 per cent at 2,520.90.

Intel, the chip making leader, has launched its first quad-core solution, which it claims as its most advanced processor, for the desktop PC, achieved with 45 nanometre silicon technology.

The i7 processor, flowing from the design hitherto codenamed 'Nehalem' has taken a world record 117 points in the popular industry benchmark, SPECint, almost doubling the 'memory bandwidth' of previous Intel offerings in this class.