Since The Union Government has announced the second fiscal stimulus package on Friday to sustain the adequate growth rate. It contains measures to provide credit at low interest rates, higher public spending and easing liquidity and export import related concessions to propel the economic growth and mitigate the impact of global slowdown. The Reserve Bank has also announced key interest rate revision as a part of this fiscal package.

It was love at first sight for both Bangalorian beauties Deepika Padukone and Anushka Sharma when they had watched Shahrukh Khan’s blockbuster Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ) in 1995.

Deepika as well as Anushka, who have always been passionate SRK admirer, were just school-goers when DDLJ released.

Both the model-turned-actresses have grown up watching almost all his films.

At that time, they didn’t think, even in their wildest dreams, that they would star opposite the megastar in their debut films.

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