At 9.30 on Tuesday morning, the Park Hospital in Hyderabad, a five-floor building, found itself on fire. The relatively new hospital (it was opened six months ago) could have turned into a death trap-  it did not have adequate fire safety measures including fire exits. Many passengers jumped out of their rooms to escape the flames that engulfed the post-operative wards and the Intensive Care Unit.

The successful launch of new operating system Windows 7 propelled Microsoft to record revenue in the fourth quarter of 2009, the software giant reported on Thursday.Microsoft reported net income of $6.7 billion, a 60 per cent increase on the year prior, while revenue rose 18 per cent to $19 billion."This is a record quarter for Windows units," Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, said in a news release. "We are thrilled by the consumer reception to Windows 7 and by business enthusiasm to adopt Windows 7."

Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) has announced its third quarter results of FY10. Its net profit declined to Rs 379 crore from Rs 799.8 crore.Net sales increased to Rs 32,161 crore from Rs 31,884.5 crore.The company said gross refining margin (GRM) for Mumbai stoodat USD 1.44 a barrel for 9-month, andthird quarter
under recoveries at Rs 3,990 crore
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The International Monetary Fund's executive board has approved a $102 million loan to help Haiti rebuild after this month's devastating earthquake. Combined with payouts from an existing loan programme, the IMF said on Wednesday it would transfer a total of $114 million to Haiti's government by the end of this week, marking the largest handover of funds since the magnitude-7 earthquake struck January 12.

Today the Hitwise blog took a deeper look into the trends/data around the news that YouTube is launching movie rentals. Summary of the post below:Last week, YouTube ranked 6th among all websites in the US and visitors spent an average of 25 minutes and 25 seconds with the website.

Twitter user Mitch Canter (@studionashvegas) posted a TwitPic of his vision for a redesigned NBC logo that combines the Twitter Fail Whale and the NBC peacock to reflect the Internet’s disgust with NBC’s late night fiasco as well as its support of Conan O’Brien.