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New Delhi, Jan 11 : The Union Tourism Ministry will organise an international tourism mart at Guwahati from January 18 to 20.

Announcing this, Tourism Minister K. Chiranjeevi has said that this will not only be the first ever international tourism event to be organised in the north-eastern region, but also the first international tourism mart to focus on a specific region of India.

He said: "It will bring together the tourism business fraternity and entrepreneurs from the eight north eastern States of India and West Bengal."

Bangalore, Jan 11 - Infosys Ltd posted Rs. 2,369 crore (Rs. 23.69 billion) net profit for the third quarter (Oct-Dec) of this fiscal (2012-13), registering a flat growth year-on-year (YoY) in rupee terms.

In a regulatory filing Friday, the IT bellwether said consolidated income for the quarter under review (Q3) increased 12 percent YoY to Rs. 10,424 crore (Rs. 104 billion) and 5.7 percent sequentially.

Los Angeles, Jan 11 - Sing

Los Angeles, Jan 11 - Singer Britney Spears has reportedly quit the US singing reality show "The X Factor" to focus on her singing career.

The singer will not return for the next season of the show, which she has earlier judged with Demi Lovato and LA Reid.

"Britney loves Simon (Cowell). She likes Demi Lovato, but her thing is music," thesun. co. uk quoted a source as saying.

However, if some other reports are to be believed, Spears was unable to meet Cowell's expectations, and he was planning to fire her. She just decided to leave rather than get fired.

Islamabad, Jan 11 - At least 56 people, including a journalist and a senior police official, were killed and over 160 injured as two back-to-back bomb blasts hit Pakistan's Quetta city Thursday evening, Geo News reported.

Twelve people were killed in the city in an earlier blast.

There was a suicide attack at Rehmattullah Chowk late Thursday, followed by another blast in the nearby Airport road area minutes later, said police.

"The second bomb went off by the time rescue, media and law enforcement officials reached the spot," said sources.