Numbers of note

Rs 36.5 crore: The amount of money lost by banks between April and December 2008 due to credit card frauds in India. ICICI Bank tops the list with 8,280 cases, losing Rs 11.5 crore

$6.41billion: Quarterly net loss amounting to $2.45 a share posted by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. for the fiscal second quarter ended December 31, compared with a profit of $832 million a year earlier

51 million: Additional jobs needed to be generated to absorb the growing labour force in Asia by 2009-10, according to International Labour Organisation

24%: Hit in net profits taken by Indian pharmaceutical firms (for 111 listed firms) in the December quarter, the worst performance in 12 quarters, mainly due to currency fluctuations and a weak capital market