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India, along with Canada's richest province, Ontario, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Thursday to enhance cooperation and investment in geology and mineral resources.

It is a happy occasion for both the countries as the MoU will enable a Canadian investment for mining and mineral evacuation purposes, and will also aid in the transfer of technology and joint ventures.

India is looking forward to work jointly with Ontario under the MoU objectives, and start their action within a proposed specific timeline.

Three distinct films release tomorrow - 'Lamhaa', 'Tere Bin Laden' and 'Udaan'. Incidentally, none of the three films are true blue conventional Bollywood outings. They are not romantic affairs, they don't boast the kind of comedy that Bollywood is known for and also they don't quite fit into the category of family films. However, at least a couple of them do look interesting here - 'Lamhaa' and 'Tere Bin Laden'. 'Lamhaa' boasts of the star power of Sanjay Dutt and Bipasha Basu and the hard hitting promos that promise a quality outing seems to have done the trick.

The U. S. Department of Energy said on Wednesday that U. S. stimulus money for advanced battery and electric vehicle grants has been matched at least dollar for dollar.

The department said on Wednesday night that the economic stimulus money, intended to create jobs and promote investment and consumer spending during the recession, is also projected to increase U. S. production of the world's batteries for hybrid and electric cars to 40 percent by 2015 from 2 percent this year.

Punit Malhotra who's just helmed a hit for Karan Johar's Dharma Productions is hoping someone would notice him and cast him as a leading man next.

"I won't cast myself in my next directorial project. I can't direct and act together. But I'd like to act in a film. An actor is what I came here to be", says Punit.

Would he be willing to be cast in a film written by Shobha De? Punit passes, "I'd get spanked on the sets everyday".

But before that Punit is off on a holiday.

Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor and his cousin, the hot actress Kareena Kapoor are among the hottest list of the actors now. Audience has been waiting for a long time to see the brother-sister sharing the big screen.

Now, the race has started among the filmmakers to sign the cousins. Director Rohit Jugraj and filmmaker Sajid Nadiadwala are trying hard to get the Kapoors first for their films.

Authorities in New Jersey have said that a Florida man was indicted Wednesday in an alleged $880 million Ponzi scheme tied to a phantom grocery distribution business.

U. S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said in a release that Nevin Shapiro, 41, of Miami Beach, Fla., the former owner and chief executive officer of Capitol Investments USA Inc., is accused of soliciting hundreds of millions of dollars from people in New Jersey and elsewhere who thought they were investing in his wholesale grocery distribution enterprise.