Mumbai, Mar 17 : IT firm Satyam Computers, on Tuesday said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange that it has allotted 10,511 equity shares under its stock option plans.

The government appointed Satyam board gave its consent to the allotment of shares on March 13, the filing said.

The filing revealed that in accordance with the allotment, the paid-up share capital of the company stood at Rs 1,34,77,89,584.

Earlier, the share capital was Rs 1,34,77,68,562.

No new movies will be released across India after April 3, as the film makers could not settle their disputes with multiplex owners over sharing of box-office revenues.  

The rift has come after multiplex owners did not agree to their conditions of 50:50 equality in profits sharing for each movie to distributor and exhibitors, be it a small budget or a big budget film - independent of the star cast.

Pune, Mar 16: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Chief Sharad Pawar and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi derided each other during campaigning in Maharashtra on Monday.

While Pawar condemned Modi by calling him a "frontline leader" of the communal forces in the country, Modi mocked Pawar by saying that the Congress has cheated him on the prime ministership issue.

Mumbai, Mar 14 : Celebrating his 44th birthday on Saturday, Bollywood actor Aamir Khan appealed people to exercise franchise in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

According to "Tobacco Atlas", which released on Monday (March 09), tobacco usage will kill six million people annually by 2010, and drain $500 billion from the worldwide economy that exceeds the total combined annual expenditure on health in all low and middle income nations.

The atlas reported that the tobacco industry has made the countries having less efficient public health plans and poor resources as their major areas of focus.