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Helsinki, Sep 3 : The share price of Nokia surged by 47 percent in the Helsinki stock market Tuesday, after it announced the sale of its mobiles and services division to Microsoft.

The Finland-based mobile giant signed an agreement with Microsoft to sell its devices and services business and licence its patents to the latter for 5.44 billion euros. The transaction is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2014, Nokia said in a press release.

Immediately after opening of the stock exchange market in Helsinki at 10 a. m. local time, Nokia's share price surged by 47 percent, from 2.96 euros to 4.33 euros, Xinhua reported.

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Bhubaneswar, Sep 3 :" President Pranab Mukherjee will undertake a two-day visit to Odisha starting Friday, official sources here said Tuesday.

After his arrival Sep 6 in state capital Bhubaneswar, Mukherjee would proceed to the temple town of Puri, 56 km from here, and spend the night at the Raj Bhavan there, a state home department official told IANS.

On Sep 7, he would visit the Jagannath temple and return to Bhubaneswar to attend the second convocation of the Indian Institute of Technology-Bhubaneswar.

New York, Sep 3 : Supermodel Kate Upton will receive the 'Model of the Year 2013' awar

London, Sep 3 : Socialite Pippa Middleton, sister of Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton, is reportedly engaged to her stockbroker boyfriend Nico Jackson.

The couple has only been dating for six months. According to a source, Pippa and Nico were delaying the engagement announcement because "they didn't want to take the shine off Kate Middleton and her baby", reports people. com.

If the grapevine is to be believed, Pippa will walk down the aisle next spring. She is "designing a ring" and also busy preparing for her D-day.

New Delhi, Sep 3 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh insisted Tuesday that his government has nothing to hide vis-a-vis the coal scam and it was wrong to assume that it was "hiding something".

Manmohan Singh said it would be premature to conclude that official papers sought by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the irregularities in allocation of coal blocks were indeed missing.

He told the Rajya Sabha that the vast majority of the papers had already been handed over to the CBI and that there was nothing "fishy" as a section of members feared.