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A. R. Rahman's international career which has taken off in a big way after Slumdog Millionaire, keeps encountering snags, thanks to long-pending assignments back home.

According to sources Rahman has to keep interrupting his international plans to be home for various pending assignments. The harried composer is now seriously thinking of putting all home-made assignments on hold to concentrate on building his career abroad, or else he feels he would lose the international advantage he obtained after Slumdog Millionaire.

There is no denying to the fact that the Indian market leader in the passenger cars segment, Maruti Suzuki was never disturbed by the competition but it has got a new hurdle in the form of royalty payments which is taking its own toll from the company.

In fact, the over-dependence on its Japanese parent for launching new models in quick succession is proving costly for Maruti Suzuki.

Imagine TV has always shown its innovative side with bringing up new reality shows which had never seen before on Indian Television. After `Raaz Pichle Janam Ka', `Swayamvar' and the show like `Pati Patni Aur Woh', the shows with unique USP, Imagine TV has once again introduced one more such reality chat show named `Meethi Chhoori No. 1', which will bring in the celebrity galore on the stage. The show is suipposed to set the stage on fire with controversy, gossip, fun and what not, all that will reveal some of their secrets.

Running hard in the phase of Globalization and the attractive proposition of cheap labour may have got several MNCs to establish their headquarters in the Indian market but the labour unrest problems are surely playing a party spoiler.

While strikes and protests are common global phenomena but in the Indian market, the strikes have been the talk of the town primarily because of the names involved — Hyundai, Honda, Nokia, Bosch, Pricol to name a few.

Khatta Meetha hasn't lived up to the expectations from the content perspective. What was being sold entirely as a comedy has turned out to be a semi-humor-semi-drama affair. Even that would have been acceptable had the film being an engrossing watch. However, the fact remains that this is yet another loosely put together film by Priyadarshan, something which was the case with his last release Bumm Bumm Bole as well.

The largest producer of the motorcycles across the world for the past nine years has surely been going through one of the best growth phases in the history of the company but its stock took a beating after the news of Honda divesting a 6% stake in the company hit the bourses.

It is to be mentioned here that the Japanese auto major holds a 6% stake in the two-wheeler major while the majority stake is being held by the Munjals.