Expectations of another stimulus package by the government, hopes of further rate cuts by RBI and buying activity by FIIs (foreign institutional investors), helped the stock market recover losses of the previous week.

Indian equities gained in four out of the five trading sessions of the week, which ended on January 2, 2009.

On Friday, the 30-share-index opened positively but slipped into the red after a while as some of the blue chip stocks faced stiff resistance at higher levels.

This year West Bengal's ruling Left Front will start mobilising cadres for the general elections with a rally in Kolkata February 8, hoping it will not suffer the reverses of the panchayat polls during the last year.

State Left Front chairman Biman Bose announced on Thursday that the rally will be held at the sprawling Brigade Parade Ground.

The Commission wrote to the Chief Secretary and ordered posting of Amaresh Pujari, IPS, as DIG, Madurai Range; Prem Anand Sinha, IPS, as S.P. Madurai and Praveen Kumar Abhinapu, IPS, as Deputy SP and sought compliance from the State Government by 10 a.m. on Friday.

Commission sources said that the transfers were ordered on the report sent by the State Chief Electoral Officer Naresh Gupta as a measure for ensuring free and fair polls.

After portraying a scribe and a student in flicks ‘Anasuya’ and ‘Mallepoovu’ respectively, now Bollywod beauty Bhumika Chawla will be seen as an air hostess in her upcoming flick ‘Yagam.’

Bhumika will be sharing screen space with Navadeep and sexy Kim Sharma in this romantic action entertainer.

According to sources, this is the first flick in which Bhumika and her husband Bharat Thakur are working together

On Thursday afternoon, Assam's major city Guwahati was rocked by three bomb blasts in which five people were dead and almost 51 others injured just hours before Union Home Minister P Chidambaram reached in the city.

Total of three bomb blasts were of low intensity and are thought to have been carried out by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) using improvised explosive device (IED).

Deepika and Ranbir’s relationship is not going through steady weather.

Trouble started when Ranbir and his new co-star Katrina Kaif become close to each other during the shooting of ‘Ajab Prem Ki Gajab Kahani.’

According to sources, after knowing about Ranbirs’s relationship with Katrina, Deepika starts regular fights with her beau (Ranbir Kapoor).

Not all this, to give ‘Tit for Tat’ to Ranbir, the sultry beauty was recently spotted as the arm candy of someone else in a multiplex watching ‘Ghajini’.