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Hyderabad, Sep 24: The 58th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) will begin at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre today.

The session of the IAC, with theme "Touching Humanity: Space for Improving quality of life", is being hosted by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Astronautical Society of India (ASI).

Lahore, Sep 24: Indian and Pakistani bookies are favouring Pakistan in the Twenty20 World Cup final match to be played in Johannesburg today.

The total number of bets of over 500 million rupees received by the Mumbai bookmakers by Sunday night favours Pakistan, the Daily Times reported.

Bookies are expected to receive more bets later in the day, it added.

On the other hand, Pakistani bookmakers have received bets worth three billion rupees by Sunday night.

As the demand for coal increases in the country, Coal India Ltd is looking at importing coal to cater the domestic market. As per the industry resources, the rise in demand is due mainly due to coking coal. The country is falling short by 4-5% of the actual demand of coal.

Coal India is looking at Thai, Australian and Indonesian coal fields for importing non-coking coal. Steel companies import coal on their own.

Reliance Industries has reported discovery of Oil in a new block in the Krishna Godavari (KG) basin. As per the earlier report which came on Friday, Reliance found oil resources in D4 block, also called KG-DWN-98/1.

Reliance Industries informed that the newly found oil reserve had an initial flow rate (IFR) of 596 barrels per day. Reliance had also found oil in Cauvery basin with IFR of 1000 barrels per day in July this year.

Virender Sehwag may not play in Finals of Twenty20 World Cup against Pakistan. The Indian opener suffered from a groin injury during the last match against Australia. Sehwag will undergo a fitness test before a final decision will be made regarding this matter.