New Delhi, Nov. 11 : The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (ONGC) has signed an MoU with Uranium Corporation of India Ltd. (UCIL) for joint cooperation in uranium exploration and development.

The MoU was signed in South Block by ONGC CMD R S Sharma and UCIL CMD Ramendra Gupta in the presence of Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission (and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy) Dr. Anil Kakodkar.

ONGC Directors Dr. A K Balyan, N K Mitra, D K Pande and U N Bose were also present on the occasion.

Male (Maldives), Nov. 11 : Visiting Indian Vice President M. Hamid Ansari met former Maldivian President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom at his private residence here on Tuesday.

Gayoom was the president of Maldives for almost 30 years. Ansari will also meet his successor Mohammed Anni Nasheed at President office and holds talks on a wide range of issues.

Stockholm - The incoming chairman of the Stockholm-based Carnegie Investment Bank AB taken over by the Swedish state on Tuesday expressed "confidence" in the bank's current management.

Carnegie lost its operating license on Monday, and was taken over Swedish National Debt Office after the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) criticized the bank on several points including failing to amend faults in its oversight procedures, and giving large loans to a single client.

Washington, Nov 11 : A biological reaction within human cells which is essential to life can take almost 2.3 billion years - about half the age of the Earth – to complete if there’s no enzyme to speed up the process.

All biological reactions within human cells depend on enzymes. Their power as catalysts enables biological reactions to occur usually in milliseconds.

London, November 11 : Madonna’s kids may expect company in following their mum’s strict rules – that of their father, Guy Ritchie, who has allegedly been issued a Do’s and Don’t list while being with the kids.

The Brit director, who is said to be trying to gain the custody of their kids in a divorce battle with the singer, reportedly met sons Rocco, aged eight, and David, aged three, after they flew from US to meet their father.

The 40-year-old, however, had been provided with strict ‘instructions’ while spending weekend with the boys though he is said to have already strayed from one.