Music label Venus has bagged the Hindi audio rights of the much awaited Rajinikanth and Aishwarya starrer, "Endhiran" from Sun Pictures, a part of Sun TV Network.

In a declaration, Mr. Champak Jain of Venus Records & Tapes said, "It can't get bigger than this! Rajinikanth, Aishwarya Rai, A. R. Rahman and Shankar (director) will create history with the blockbuster film 'Endhiran'."

The French First Lady Carla Bruni failed to impress filmmaker Woody Allen, who chose her to cast in his movie Midnight in Paris. The hot model of the 90s could not prove her talent in acting as she reportedly took 35 takes to shoot one scene for Allen’s film.

During the second quarter, South Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics Co registered an increase of 83% in its net profit at 4.28 trillion won ($3.6 billion) from 2.33 trillion won year on year.

The company's net profit went up on the back of sturdy demand for chips and flatscreen televisions.

During the three month period ended June 2010, the company's operating profit surged 88% to 5 trillion won.

Sales grew by 17% to 37.99 trillion won.

Madhuri Dixit, the evergreen and once sought after Bollywood actress is presently pretty upset. She wishes to re-connect with her fans via social media network, but can’t. She is finding complexity to confirm her actual identity in the very popular social networking site, ‘Twitter’.

Recently, the ‘Twitter’ bug has caught up with the B-town biggies. There are so many counterfeit accounts in her name that the fans are having a tough time to track the authentic Madhuri and chat with her.

Telecom network solutions company Huawei Technologies has rolled out four new cellular phones, comprising two android devices, U8300 and U8500, in India.

Available at a price of Rs 7,000 and Rs 10,000, the newly launched handsets will be hit markets on August 1, 2010.

The new set of handsets, Android and Hangout, make use of high-tech chipset solutions from Qualcomm.

Targeted at youth market, U8300 is a QWERTY Android phone that come packed with social networking tools like Facebook and Twitter together with a 3.2 mega pixel camera.

With the number of swine flu still augmenting on daily basis, the country has developed its own swine flu detection kit. The major reason for this development has been the ever increasing cases of Swine flu in the country as around 548 new cases were recorded last week only.

The development of indigenous swine flu detection kit has been developed by three Indian companies. These companies are Defence Research and Development Organisation, Imperial Life Sciences and Ocimum.

Indian equities remained quiet during afternoon trade, following negative Asian markets.

The Sensex, which belled the day at 17,981.06, stood at 17,942.41, down 49.59 points (0.28%) as against its last closure at 17,992.

At the National Stock Exchange (NSE), the broad-based Nifty was trading 0.06% up at 5,401.05.

The BSE midcap and the BSE smallcap index gained 0.74% & 0.72% respectively.

Consumer durables stocks were on the increase, a few banking and metals shares witnessed buying action.

A new research claimed that 'normal' level of blood pressure at 17 can still predict high blood pressure at early adulthood.

The research from Ben-Gurion University also discovered that males in their teenage are three to four times more likely to have hypertension in early adulthood as compared to girls.

As the much awaited gangster movie Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai hits theatres on July 30, 2010, the audiences will also get to see a glimpse of Aakrosh directed by Priyadarshan.

The theatrical promo of Aakrosh will be shown on the same day along with it. Aakrosh is a hard-hitting film about love across caste barriers and honor killing set in Bihar.

Air India and Jet Airways have lost Rs 127 crore because of strikes by their staff members since 2009.

Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel made this declaration on Thursday.

The minister said, "Estimated loss suffered by National Aviation Company of India Limited (NACIL) on account of these strikes was around Rs. 77 crore."

Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has announced that its net profit during the first quarter dropped 11.55% at Rs 1,176.65 crore as compared to Rs 1,330.43 crore in the same period of 2009-10.

The quarterly results of the state-run steel producing giant failed to meet market estimations.

The company's profitableness was affected by a range of factors, which comprise sharp input cost escalations, lower volume of sales and lethargic market situations.

After revealing her slender figure in flicks such as "Fashion" and "Dostana", Bollywood hottie Priyanka Chopra is ready to sport a bold look to host Colors' adventure reality show "Fear Factor - Khatron Ke Khiladi 3".

Piggy Chops wore denim hot pants with a broad belt, knee-length shoes, a cropped yellow top along with a black leather biker jacket plus gloves for the initial promo of the show.

Imagine TV has found the going tough over the past few months, losing out its number five slot to SAB TV. The channel pinned its hopes on ‘Big Money’ to score over its nearest rival but the Big Synergy show has so far failed to live up to its billing.

The biggest problem though is fiction, which is the lifeblood of any channel. Imagine TV has long been struggling on this front. Last week, they had launched UTV’s much anticipated show ‘Rakt Sambandh’ that boasts of a multi-star cast, but the show hasn’t attracted much viewers in its first week.

Bollywood hunk John Abraham talked about his forthcoming movie 'Aashayein' at a promotional event on Thursday.

The actor said that 'Aashayein' would leave a positive impact on the minds of people.

"First wish was that it should release. Now when it is releasing, I am very happy. My wish is that it should be a positive film in audience's mind and I am confident that it will be a confident film in the mind of the audience," Abraham said.

"Commercially it is a small film, but it will create big impact on minds. So, I think that commercially it should be a plus film," he added.

An eminent expert said that tuberculosis (TB) was an eminently curable but disregarded illness by medical doctors, sufferers and every person as the last medication for treatment was discovered way back in 1960.

While talking to media persons after kicking off a three-day international meet on Bio-engineering, organized by the SRM University at its campus in suburban Kattankulathur, Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC) Director V Kumaraswami stated that tuberculosis was so ingrained in the society that it did not draw any attention.

Compared to high heels, flip-flops don't even look remotely hazardous.

But health professionals are admonishing of the risks of their prolonged use like the risk of shin splints and joint pains.

Regular complaints comprise twisted ankles, but a few have broken their arms or wrists after falling as their flip-flops caught on rough ground.

Specialists said that flip-flops force people to alter the style they walk so that when taking a stride they press down the outside of their foot, rather than their heel, leading to long-standing damage.

The 30-share index Sensex fell 32.87 points to 17,959.13 during the opening trade, on account of profit booking witnessed at upper levels together with weak worldwide signals.

Meanwhile, the broad-based Nifty eased by 8.95 points to 5399.55 during the opening trade.

The scrips trading in the pessimistic terrain were telecom, technology, select auto and select financial companies.

The top losers in the list comprised Tata Motors, Ambuja Cements, Idea Cellular, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, RCom, Bharti Airtel, PNB, ITC and Infosys.

HCL Technologies has announced an increase of 18.6% in its annual revenues that stood at Rs 12,565 crores as against last year.

Indian IT giant recorded a 2 per cent growth in its net income, which has crossed Rs 1,303 crores this year.

The company declared their annual financial outcomes for fiscal year (FY) 2009-10 and also for the fourth quarter (Q4) on Thursday

For the fourth quarter as well, the company declared a 11.4% (quarter-on-quarter) and 17.8% (year-on-year) growth in revenues that amounted to Rs 3,425 crores.

Stock market analyst Salil Sharma has maintained 'hold' rating on Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) stock with short term target of Rs 394.

According to analyst, the interested investors can buy the stock with stop loss of Rs 371

Today, the stock of the bank opened at Rs 378 on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).

Current EPS & P/E ratio stood at 45.29 and 8.80 respectively.

The share price has seen a 52-week high of Rs 384.50 and a low of Rs 163 on BSE.

The character essayed by Pooja Pihal a. k. a Shravani of ‘Pavitra Rishta’ is annoying people because of her shouting. Her unleash of anger on Archana (Ankita Lokhande) and Manav (Sushant Rajput) in the show is earning her irritation of the audience. But the truth is that the actual Shravani, that is Pooja, is not what is portrayed in the show. In fact, she is exactly opposite to what she is in the show.