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The Kishore Biyani-led Future Group is all set to foray into real estate business for building ready-to-move-in houses.

The company has informed that it has signed 50:50 joint venture with Kolkata-based developer Sumit Dabriwal, to incorporate FH Residencies, for 'branded apartments' that would be available at an 'affordable' cost.

The latest move was considered as a part of the company's strategy to achieve a turnover of Rs 13,000 crore by July 2011.

Private sector lender Bank of Rajasthan (BoR) has entered into a strategic agreement with KARVY Stock Broking Ltd. (KSBL), one of leading stock broking companies in India, to offer online trading facility to bank customers.

Following this tie-up, Bank of Rajasthan customers will now have the additional option of making investment in equities, derivatives and Initial Public Offerings (IPO's) using the online trading platform of KSBL.

Bilbao  - Thousands of people in the Spanish city of Bilbao demonstrated against the Basque separatist organization ETA on Saturday, one day after the murder of a policeman in the region.

Under banners reading "For Freedom, No to ETA," the demonstrators marched through the streets of the Basque city on Saturday evening.

On Friday, police officer Eduardo Puelles Garcia, 49, died when a bomb attached to his car exploded in the town of Arrigorriaga.

The government blamed the attack on the militant Basque separatist group ETA.

Johannesburg  - South Africa is ready host the 2010 World Cup, FIFA president Joseph Blatter said Saturday.

"I am proud - and South Africa can be proud - that the technical premises will be ready: There is no doubt about it," Blatter told South Africa's SABC 1 channel.

The head of football's ruling body said he had been overwhelmed by the welcome he had received from football fans and was looking forward to the main event next year.

Paris  - Tens of thousands of exiled Iranians were reported to have demonstrated near the French capital Paris on Saturday against the present government in Tehran.

According to the representatives of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), around 90,000 people took part in a mass demonstration in the town of Villepinte.

The French demonstration coincides with ongoing protests within Iran over June 12 presidential election, which the opposition claims was rigged.

Tehran/Berlin  - Mir-Hossein Moussavi, the presidential candidate defeated in last week's contested poll, has written a letter to Iran's Guardian Council on Saturday, saying that he believes the election was rigged in advance.

In the seven-page letter, made public as clashes were going on between police and protestors in Tehran, Moussavi said "I will continue my efforts to clarify the truth on the basis of the constitution and current laws, although the violations and planning of this disgusting move had been planned in advance."