News Roundup: Business Houses Eye Stake In Living Media

<!--New Delhi : -->Business Houses Eye Stake In Living Media - Leading business houses, including the Aditya Birla Group, are looking at acquiring 26 per cent stake in the Aroon Purie-controlled Living Media India. Living Media acts as a holding company and owns 57.1 per cent in TV Today Network, the listed company that owns the group’s broadcasting assets, besides publishing a host of magazines that include the flagship India Today. The other names doing the rounds for picking a stake Read more [...]

Civil War events abound nearby and around state

The Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission has sanctioned several events for April including festivals, re-enactments, conferences, exhibits and lectures. A complete listing of scheduled sesquicentennial activities, as well as additional information on the activities listed below, can be found at www.arkansascivilwar150.com/events. Among April's Civil War sesquicentennial events in our area are: "A Divided Arkansas," the 71st annual conference of the Arkansas Historical Association, Read more [...]

Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) briefly listed for $309 on QVC

A few days ago we heard that Samsung planned to delay the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 and 10.1, citing software issues with Ice Cream Sandwich that needed to be fixed. Samsung did say that they intended the tablets to be a bit friendlier on the wallet, and a new listing seems to confirm that. Phone Arena spotted a Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 listing on QVC’s website, with the tablet coming in for just $309. The listing has since been removed. That’s the most basic model, though: you’ll only get 8GB of storage, Read more [...]

Involvio: college campus event management platform launches site and iPhone …

Involvio is hoping to put the quintessential flyer-strewn university bulletin board online — for every school. The new college campus event management platform recently launched along with the release of a mobile app for iPhone. Founder and Drexel University student Ari Winkleman told Technically Philly the Android application is on its way. Just like those reliable old bulletin boards, the new campus event management platform, developed and designed by Winkleman and a crew of students Read more [...]

‘Horrible tragedy’ leaves 2 siblings dead, third hospitalized

The landing Two children died after falling into a frigid lake, and a third is listed in critical condition after first responders pulled the siblings Friday afternoon from Clearwater Lake.The children were in a small sailboat with their father, Dan Risland, when it toppled in strong winds. He reportedly told authorities that he attempted to get the children to shore, Read more [...]

For sale: Obertal B-listed art deco house in Leven, Fife, Scotland

For sale: Obertal B-listed art deco house in Leven, Fife, Scotland A house that doesn't look to have changed over the past 80 or so years. That's perhaps why the Obertal B-listed 1930s art deco house in Leven, Fife, Scotland is B-listed. That listing seems to be the equivalent to a grade II-listing, perhaps down to that unspoilt condition and all those original features, like the bathroom, the hallway, the windows, the original mantelpieces and the sun room with Read more [...]

Pretty Grade II listed farmhouse in Dorset

Dullar Farmhouse in Dorset is an attractive period property with Queen Anne origins in 1701. A Grade II listed former farmhouse with over seven acres of land near Wimborne, it's an excellent family house in a beautiful county. With Purbeck stone flooring in the hall, kitchen and dining room, stripped floorboards in the drawing room, and open fireplaces, a trap door leading to a spiral wine cellar Dullar Farmhouse is not short of features which catch the eye.* Subscribe to Country Life and Read more [...]