The overwhelming success of her debut Hindi release Ghajini and a rocking response from the audience for her stupendous performance in the flick, seems to have got inside Asin's head.

According to sources, the new starlet has started behaving like a superstar from Hollywood. Recently, Asin reportedly threw a bit of starry tantrums on the sets of her upcoming Hindi flick London Dreams where she would be seen opposite Bollywood Superstar Salman Khan.

The 23 –year-old glam-doll with her chin up attitude has also made senior artist Manzoor Khan and designer Niharika Khan to quit Vipul Shah's London Dreams.

Indian exporters may announce large scale retrenchment drive in days to come to pressurize government for more financial relief to exporters. Director-general of the Federation of Indian Export Organizations, Ajay Sahai said, "The global economic demand is going down - that is the prime concern. The order book situation is pretty bad. From January onwards, we will have a lot of closures of units. "

Officials at state-run oil firms have announced to start nation wide strike from Wednesday. They are demanding high wages and incentives for officials working at various refineries of country. Around 45,000 executives of public sector oil companies would join the strike to convey their resentment against Luke warm attitude of government on wages issue.

BSEL Infrastructure Realty Ltd has sold its stakes in BW Highway Star Hotel project at Balewadi, Pune. The firm had 17 percent stake in BW project and it has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange about sell out.

1,058,824 shares of face value Rs 10 each has been sold to Kamat Hotels (India) for Rs 79,411,800 while remaining 941,176 shares to Unity Realty and Developers
(subsidiary of Unity Infraprojects) for Rs 70,588,200.

Experts believe that ongoing global financial crisis is a major cause that prompted BSEL Infrastructure Realty Ltd to get out of the project.

India secured 41st slot in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2008-09 while US again topped in the listing followed by Germany, Sweden and the UK. The study about global innovation index was done by industry body CII and B-School INSEAD, covering 130 countries of the world. GII uses data from international agencies including the World Bank and the World Economic Forum to prepare final ranking.

India was at 23rd slot in GII last year. The position of other Asian economies including Malaysia and China remained better than India. China ranked at 25th and Malaysia

Gujarat government has announced a new solar power policy for state to promote solar power generation as an alternative source of energy. The government would extend financial help to set up solar power units in the state and offer solar power generators (SPGs) at subsidized prices.