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Kolkata: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has sung the national anthem, sans any accompanying music, for his forthcoming film 'Shamitabh' and it was shot today at the Jorasanko Thakurbari here, the ancestral home of Rabindranath Tagore, who penned the song.

Though the R Balki-directed film is slated to be released on February 6, the decision to include the national anthem in the movie was taken only a couple of days ago.

"We went to music director Adesh Srivastava's studio in Mumbai who felt it (the anthem) does not require any music," Bachchan told reporters at the press launch of the film here.

Berlin - German drug regulator has welcomed the European Medicine Agency's (EMA) decision to suspend the marketing authorisation of around 700 generic drugs subjected to clinical trials by India's GVK Biosciences.

The move is being seen as the EU's determination to maintain high ethical and medical standards for approval of medicines.

The EU drug regulator's announcement is also an endorsement of the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices' (BfArM) decision last month to ban the sale of 80 generic drugs on account of "substantial deficiencies" in clinical trials conducted by GVK Biosciences, the agency said in a statement.

Johannesburg, Jan 24 - Canadian tennis star Eugenie Bouchard has played down the ' Twirlgate' controversy at the Australian Open, saying that she was fine with it and trying to focus on her tennis.

The Canadian tennis ace was asked by a male interviewer to twirl and show off her outfit for the crowd after second-round win in Melbourne.

Responding to the controversy, she said that it was just kind of funny and she was fine with being asked to twirl if they ask the guys to flex their muscles , Sport24 reported.

Causing a stir in the sphere of social media, tennis legend Billie Jean King had earlier branded the question as truly sexist.

Karachi, Jan 24 - United States President Barack Obama said, ahead of his crucial visit to India, that

Washington, Jan 24 - A relatively large asteroid, designated 2004 BL86, is going to fly by Earth at a very safe distance of 745,000 miles (1.2 million km).

This interplanetary visitor is roughly a third of a mile across and is the largest known space rock predicted to come this close to us until 2027 as by comparison, most near-Earth asteroids have diameters no larger than 50 to 100 feet.

Because it's relatively large, 2004 BL86 will brighten rapidly as it approaches Earth and astronomers predict it will become about 9th magnitude for several hours as it passes closest to us.

New Delhi : Telecom operator Aircel has announced a scheme offering 10 paise per minute calls to its pre-paid