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The Kishore Biyani-led Future Group has formed 50:50 joint ventures with Kolkata-based developer Sumit Dabriwal in a bid to offer branded, ready-to-move-in homes to masses, primarily in metros.

The move is in line with company's plans to attain Rs 13,000 crore revenue target by July 2011, reporting growth of 35 per cent as compared to last year growth rate.

Kishore Biyani, CEO of Future Group said, "We intend to be an Rs 13,000 crore company by 2011 and the foray into real estate business for building ready-to-move-in houses is part of the plan."

Karnataka Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy has made it clear that Maytas Metro, an infrastructure firm floated by a consortium of Maytas Infra, Navabharat Ventures, Ital Thai and IL&FS, is not in the position to execute the Metro Rail project due to financial constraints.

The CM said, "It is evident that Maytas will not achieve financial closure. We will take a final view on the project in a few days, may be within a week."

Till now two iPhone features introduced in iPhone OS 3.0 have not been activated by AT&T: Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and tethering.

According to AT&T, rumors saying that AT&T will surcharge its users $55 to activate the tethering capability are fake.  

With the aim to record and display the quantity of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, Deutsche Bank's Asset Management division recently came up with "the world's first real-time carbon counter."

Today morning, the device which is displayed on a 70-foot-tall billboard was switched at 33rd Street and 7th Avenue in New York, above Manhattan's Madison Square Garden.  

Thursday saw Google executives in China meting the representatives of the Chinese government with the aim to discuss problems with the Google.cn service and its serving of pornographic images and content based on foreign language searches. 

It had come to vision that Chinese government commenced blocking certain Chinese-language results from any country. 

A Google spokesperson informed via an e-mailed statement, "We are undertaking a thorough review of our service and taking all necessary steps to fix any problems with our results."

It has been revealed by industry sources that veteran director Karan Johar is aiming to repeat history once again with the remake of Agneepath, a movie which got Amitabh Bachchan a National Award for his performance as Vijay Dinananth Chauhan.

The legendary act displayed by Big B is still remembered and mimicked among youth of India.

It would be even more exciting to learn that Karan Johar is intending to remake Agneepath with the heartthrob of millions and the extremely talented Hrithik Roshan.