According to rules, a foreign national needs permission from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) before purchasing immovable property; it has also been made mandatory for the registrar of stamps and stamp superintendent to make sure that a foreigner has a certificate or a no-objection certificate from the RBI before registering the property.

Pakistani composer-singer Adnan Sami purchased eight flats-two in Lokhandwala (Andheri west) and six in Sky Garden (Oshiwara)-between 2003 and 2005 without taking official permission.

Recent study has shown that women who suffer from preeclampsia (or high blood pressure) in their first and second pregnancies have higher risk of hypertension, diabetes and blood clots in later life. Statistics have shown that 10% women in UK suffer from preeclampsia in pregnancy but only 2% to 8% suffer from complications due to it.

Research team from Yale School of Medicine and University of Copenhagen studied the data collected from 11 million women who gave birth in Denmark from 1978 to
2007.

Friday saw an announcement coming from Pakistan sports minister Aftab Jilani that the ministry has no objection to its cricketers competing in the Indian Premier League.

Jilani said, "We feel it's a private league in which Pakistani players compete in an individual capacity."

It was confirmed by the sports minister that President Asif Ali Zardari, patron-in-chief of the Pakistan Cricket Board, had asked the opinion of the ministry on players' participation in this year's IPL, a highly profitable twenty20 tournament that commences 10th April.

A 25.39 per cent rise in profit after tax (PAT) to Rs 604.11 crore in the third quarter has been posted by Larsen & Toubro (L&T), the country's largest engineering and Construction Company; the credit of which goes to the strong growth in engineering and construction business.

However, the one-time gain of Rs 916 crore has been excluded by PAT, which the company made from the sale of its ready-mix concrete business to Lafarge SA. The quarter's profit, including the one-time gain, tripled to Rs 1,520.44 crore.

The Director of space agency Roskosmos' Manned Flight Programmes, Alexei Krasnov announced on Friday that for the sake of future manned missions to the Moon and Mars, Russia is thinking over to develop an orbital station to serve as an assembly platform and springboard.

He said, "We will soon propose to our government a project to construct a low-orbit complex, which could serve as a foundation for the implementation of the Lunar programme and later on - the Mars programme."

Aamir Khan is really a perfectionist, and he proves his perfection in his work.

Now, the date for the release of his much-awaited movie ‘3 Idiots’ has been announced.

Film’s producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra has decided to release the movie on Christmas day (25th December 2009).

According to him, Christmas is really lucky for Aamir as his previous mega hits including ‘Ghajini’ (2008) and ‘Taare Zameen Par’ (2007) were also released on the Christmas weekend