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Los Angeles, July 25 : Actress-model Helen Flanagan had an emergency spray tan session at midnight because she was terrified of looking pale.

The 22-year-old, who is due to start filming for the new show "Celebrity Super Spa" in Liverpool, couldn't sleep thinking about her looks and called for a tanning session at 1.30 a. m., reports thesun. co. uk.

"Helen is very self-conscious. She was in her hotel room and wanted to get a good night's sleep before filming her new show the next day," said a source.

New Delhi, July 25 : German luxury automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz Thursday launched its sports sedan car E 63 AMG priced at Rs. 1.29 crore (ex-showroom Delhi).

"With this launch, we now have a very unique and broad range of product offering in India," Eberhard Kern, managing director and chief executive, Mercedes-Benz India, told IANS.

"We have gone ahead and launched various new products this year. We have been getting a very good response from the customers."

Mumbai, July 25 : Maruti Suzuki Thursday reported a 49 percent increase in net profit for the first quarter of the current fiscal at Rs. 631.61 crore, up from Rs. 423.77 crore in the corresponding period of 2012-13.

"The increase was due to focussed cost reduction efforts undertaken by the company, favourable foreign exchange rates and the benefit from merger of Suzuki Powertrain India with the company last fiscal," the company said in a statement.

Net sales for the quarter under review stood at Rs. 9,995.12 crore, a decline of 5.1 percent over the first quarter sales of Rs. 10,529.24 crore in the last fiscal.

The newly-published Planning Commission report claiming an impressive decline in the number of the poor in India evoked severe criticism from the Opposition leaders as well as some social activists.

A tight funding environment engineered by the Reserve bank of India (RBI) to support weak rupee has pushed borrowing costs for big businesses to more than 10 per cent.

Anil Ambani-led Reliance Capital Ltd. recently sold three-month commercial paper at a rate of 10.35 per cent, which was significantly up from 8.95 per cent that the company paid for receiving one-year funds in June this year.

Los Angeles, July 25 : It seems singer Miley Cyrus has had a black-out as she doesn't remember English-Irish pop boy band One Direction.

It was back in January when Cyrus posted a picture of herself cuddled up with a lifesize cardboard cut-out of One Direction band member, Harry Style, but now the singer is unable to recall meeting any of the band members, reports the sun. co. uk.

When asked if she was a fan of the group, the 20-year-old said: "I mean, don't ask me to name a song or something because I can't do that. I know what they look like."