Here’s good news for the people living in the industrial belt of Eloor.

State Industries Minister Elamaram Karim had said that the administration will soon launch a pilot project of medical insurance to cover 3500 families in the selected nine wards of Eloor Grama Panchayat from April 1.

Under this scheme five members of each family will be given Rs 30,000 with an annual premium of Rs. 506 per person.

The minster also made it very clear that the offered reimbursements of the National Health Insurance Programme of the Rashriya Swasthya Bima Yojana amounting to Rs 30,000 can also be availed by members of each family.

The big news doing the rounds is that Harman Baweja has been replaced by John Abraham in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's upcoming film ‘Chenab Gandhi’.

This will be Bhansali's next production after ‘Saawariya’ and will be a period film.

Harman was signed for the film in 2008.

But after his debut film ‘Love Story 2050’ and later, ‘Victory’ failed to impress audiences, the producers have had a rethink.

The report released on Friday indicates that, even though the overall prevalence rate is small (up to 0.5%), there is rising HIV occurrence among susceptible groups at increased risk for HIV virus, comprising sex workers and their customers, and injecting drug users and their partners.

The report, titled "HIV and AIDS in South Asia: An Economic Development Risk" said that despite prevention plans, targeting susceptible groups at high infection risk, are increasing proportionally, these concentrated outbreaks can further escalate.

It seems that that the theme of ‘Youngistan' is all set to rule this year’s Filmfare Awards.

As had been predicted, the King Khan aka Shahrukh Khan and Chote Nawab aka Saif Ali Khan will not be hosting the Filmfare awards to be held on Feb 28.

Newcomers Ranbir Kapoor and Imran Khan will replace SRK and Saif as official hosts of ‘Filmfare Awards’ this year.

SRK shoulder surgery is believed to be the reason for his expulsion.

Legendry film composer, record producer, musician and singer, A R Rahman, the first Indian to win two Oscars, paid a silence visit to Ameen Peer Dargah located in Cuddapah district of Andhra Pradesh on Thursday morning.

Rahman made special prayers at the holy dargah and conveyed his thanks to the guru for his exceptional feat.

Besides this, the talented music maestro Rahman also offered a ‘chadar’ at the dargah.  

After opening the day on a flat note, Indian equities closed the week on a negative note with Realty stocks being hit the most.  

After the announcement of depressing GDP numbers, the 30-share BSE Sensex slipped further downwards.

A fag-end buying assisted Sensex to recover the majority of its heavy losses but still closed down by 63 points.

Bears spared midcap and smallcap counters. The BSE Midcap index fell 0.04%, whereas Smallcap index lost 0.22%.