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• About Rs 1,200 crore loss due to illegal granite quarrying in M

  by Sindhuri G August 29, 2012
  MADURAI: Tamil Nadu Government had lost revenue to the tune of Rs 1,200 crore due to illegal granite quarrying held in the district for the last several years, according to an initial report sent by Collector Anshul Mishra to the authorities. A detailed survey and inspection was conducted in 51 gra...

• Cancellation of coal block allocations may not the right step,

  by Sindhuri G August 29, 2012
  NEW DELHI: Cancellation of coal block allocations may not be the right step to take as it might impact business sentiment, particularly in the power sector, CII President Adi Godrej said today. "Cancellation of the current coal block allocations may not be the right step as it will negatively impac...

• Rensil D'Silva bereaved

  by Sindhuri G August 29, 2012
  Writer-director Rensil D'Silva maybe neck-deep busy with his professional commitments including his next directorial venture Unglee; But the talented writer-director suffered a personal setback over the weekend when he lost his father last Saturday. Rensil's dad had been ailing for a while. We at Bo...

• Vikram Bhatt still working on VFX of Raaz 3

  by Sindhuri G August 29, 2012
  Raaz 3 is ready for release next week. But Vikram Bhatt is still working on the film's post-production. Though the film was censored earlier this week, and passed without cuts for adult viewing, Vikram decided there's still work to be done on the film. This after a technical screening of the film of...

• Son Of Sardaar confirmed for Nov 13 release

  by Sindhuri G August 29, 2012
  The festival of Diwali is always a big ticket window for our B-town folks. This year too, two biggies, namely Yash Chopra's SRK- Katrina- Anushka starrer and Son Of Sardaar starring Ajay Devgn, Sanjay Dutt, Sonakshi Sinha and Juhi Chawla, are slated to clash at the B.O. However, as the release date ...

• Shahid opts out of Maneesh Sharma's next

  by Sindhuri G August 29, 2012
  The start of Maneesh Sharma's next directorial untitled film for YRF has been postponed. The film was originally scheduled to go on floor this September. Both Maneesh and Jaideep Sahni, who has written the story and screenplay, along with Aditya Chopra, have taken a creative decision to include lip-...

• Desi Boyz makers face trouble over copyright issue

  by Sindhuri G August 29, 2012
  What's common to the films like Rockstar, Om Shanti Om, Ra. One and Jannat 2? Well, all these films have been in news on grounds of copyright infringement. The latest one to join this is Rohit Dhawan's Desi Boyz, courtesy the scriptwriter-cum-director Shyam V Devkatte, who had filed a case of copyri...

• Heroine makers move court over smoking scene rider

  by Sindhuri G August 29, 2012
  The makers of the Kareena Kapoor starrer Heroine moved the Delhi High Court yesterday against the I & B Ministry's order to display anti-smoking messages during the smoking scenes in the movie. Justice Rajiv Shakdher, who heard the plea, issued notices not just to the I &B and Health Ministries, but...

• Morgan Stanley to sell 26% stake in IHHR Hospitality

  by Sindhuri G August 29, 2012
  NEW DELHI: Morgan Stanley is selling its 26% stake in IHHR Hospitality, which owns the world's top-rated spa, Ananda in the Himalayas. A person familiar with the development told ET that the US-based financial services provider is selling its stake to IHHR Hospitality's biggest stakeholder, the Lon...

• Ranbir fined Rs. 200 for smoking in public

  by Sindhuri G August 29, 2012
  When Ranbir Kapoor sets the screen on fire, he gets applauded. And when he sets the ciggy on fire, he gets fined. And this time round, he has been fined Rs 200 for smoking in public by the district court. Readers maybe aware that Ranbir was accused of violating the Rajasthan Prevention of Smoking Ac...

• Sonia Gandhi accuses BJP of holding Parliament to ransom, exhor

  by Sindhuri G August 29, 2012
  NEW DELHI: Congress President Sonia Gandhi launched a blistering attack on BJP, accusing the main Opposition of blackmail and setting the stage for an extended political impasse that has already stalled Parliament for the past week. With BJP relentless in its demand that Prime Minister Manmohan S...

• India Inc braces for stricter bribery laws

  by Sindhuri G August 29, 2012
  MUMBAI: India Inc is gearing up to face more stringent and specific anti-bribery laws with the government planning to amend the Indian Penal Code (IPC) to cover bribes given domestically by the private sector. Once this comes into force, the employee concerned and also the company's management could...

• Scrap coal blocks, CAG likely to say

  by Sindhuri G August 29, 2012
  NEW DELHI: The Comptroller and Auditor General is likely to make a strong pitch for scrapping all the controversial allocations of coal mines during its presentation to Parliament's Public Accounts Committee. Sources said the auditor looks set to cite total lack of transparency in the recommendat...

• IBM mulling supercharged phone with voice-activated 'Watson' to

  by Sindhuri G August 29, 2012
  NEW YORK: International Business Machines (IBM) researchers spent four years developing Watson, the computer smart enough to beat the champions of the quiz show "Jeopardy!" Now they're trying to figure out how to get those capabilities into the phone in your pocket. Bernie Meyerson, IBM's vice pres...

• Focus on BlackBerry's alert icon 'Splat': Will RIM's new ad cam

  by Sindhuri G August 29, 2012
  In the glory days of BlackBerry all the advertising it seemed to need was the 'sent from my BlackBerry' signature. It signalled that the sender was important, maybe even fabulously wealthy. Or at least an alpha geek. Well those times are long past and BlackBerry has gone from being the only phone fo...

• Japan's Dentsu acquires 51% stake in ad agency Taproot; deal es

  by Sindhuri G August 29, 2012
  MUMBAI: Japanese advertising behemoth Dentsu has acquired a 51% stake in Taproot, arguably the most creative among the Indian independent advertising agencies. With several of the most popular recent campaigns like 'Har Ek Friend Zaroori Hota Hai' and 'Joh Tera Hai Who Mera Hai' for Airtel and 'Cha...

• Head honchos of brokerages like Geojit BNP Paribas and Edelweis

  by Sindhuri G August 29, 2012
  MUMBAI: Head honchos of some of the top brokerages have taken salary cuts in line with the decline in net profit amid gloomy stock markets and falling volumes. The smaller pay packets are reflective of their stronger linkages with profitability over the past few years. The compensation of chairmen ...

• Government moves Cabinet note to ease local sourcing norms for

  by Sindhuri G August 29, 2012
  NEW DELHI: The government has moved a Cabinet note to substantially dilute the controversial local sourcing norms for foreign single-brand retailers that have cast a shadow over IKEA Group's $1.9-billion investment plans and discouraged foreign players, even after India allowed 100% foreign direct i...