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The leading couple of My Name Is Khan, Shahrukh Khan and Kajol won accolades at the 56th Filmfare Awards and took home awards under the categories of Best Actor Male and Female respectively.

Though, the critically praised Udaan bagged the Filmfare awards, taking home 7 awards accompanied by Dabangg pocketing 6 black ladies.

Udaan got the award for Best Film (critics), and Arbaaz Khan won the best film award for Sallu-Sonakshi starrer Dabangg.

Karan Johar bagged the Best Director award for his mega-hit flick My Name is Khan.

Anti-cuts activists are geared up for protests across UK. In a move to underscore “tax avoiders”, the protestors are prepared to stage a day of action targeting the country’s leading stores like Top Shop, Vodafone and Boots as a major part of their program. In more than 30 cities and towns across UK, ahead of Monday’s tax return deadline, members of the UK Uncut group.

The movement is intended to make the government push in favour of taxing the rich and big companies instead of more budget cuts.

Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) group owned Harvester and Toby Carvery reported yet another leap in sales as more customers approved of higher-priced meals. M&B group hailed bountiful gains this Christmas.

The group, which serves close to 430 million drinks each year in addition to 125 million meals, is believed to have seen a growth of 6.7% from their like-for-like sales, the significant 12-day Christmas trading period, between December 23 and January 3 alone.

George Osborne, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer insisted on cash-rich companies of Britain to invest and spend again to revive the country’s economic growth.

Foreign direct investments would have to wait to open Indian multi-brand in retail business and for now they might have to focus on contemplating back-end operations development. This selective information for global retail giants came from commerce minister of India Anand Sharma in Davos.

As the government is currently allowing only 51% FDI in a single-brand retail venture however in wholesale cash-and-carry 100% is permitted. Under single-brand retail business, a store is allowed to stock goods of the same brand.

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) reported that it had withdrawn from the Soteria consortium that was considered to be a favorite bidder for the £6 billion contract to privatise the service of Britain's search and rescue helicopter service.

It has been revealed that the idea of privatisation has further gone in to uncertainty with this decision of the RBS with the consortium’s bidding for the contract for accusations of misconduct.