Ace Tollywood actor Rajinikanth has undergone various facial treatments to improve his looks in order to match up with Bollywood hottie Aishwarya Rai’s beauty.

This gorgeous jet-setting diva is doing the role of an actress in Rajinikanth’s upcoming flick ‘Endhiran.’

Rajini will be seen doing a love-scene with Ash inside a top model Benz car at Kulu Manali.

According to sources, the movie will have Rajinikanth in double role.

Indian Stock Markets were trading flat at 10.40 am IST. NSE Nifty touched an intraday high and low of 3062 and 3021. BSE Sensex touched a high of 9991 during early trades but slipped to 9863 due to selling pressure in many index stocks.

On first trading day of year 2009, the volumes were lower. Market turnover was lowest since April, 2007.

Among major gainers were SBI, ABB, DLF, HCL Tech, HDFC, Reliance Communications, Reliance Power, GAIL, SAIL, PNB, ITC and ICICI Bank.

Among losers were Satyam, Maruti Suzuki, Wipro, Ranbaxy Labs, Infosys, Bharti Airtel, ACC, Sterlite, ONGC, M&M, Tata Power and Grasim.

Indian IT- ITeS segment is likely to register slowest ever growth rate since 2003 for the financial year 2009. Market research firm, IDC forecasts 13.4% growth rate of the technology sector in 2009. IT- ITeS market including hardware, software and services registered a growth rate of 17.3% in 2008 and generated revenue of Rs 1,01,031 crore.  

The demand to deploy the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) at various business establishments has increased following the recent terror attacks on the financial capital of the country.

Recently, Tatas and Oberois have approached the Union Home Ministry to get the CISF cover for additional security of their prestigious business establishments.

It is recalled that hotels of both business houses were recently attacked by the terrorists, leading to a large scale bloodshed and property loss.

The largest private sector bank of the country, ICICI has slashed interest rates by 50 to 75 basic points with immediate effect. Now, people can enjoy low interest rates on home and auto loans.

The announcement has come after some public sector and private lenders have taken initiative to reduce interest rates in line with the interest rate cut by the apex bank.
 

Indian Stock Markets were trading marginally lower on second trading day of new year. At 10.16 am, NSE Nifty was down by 11 points at 3022. BSE Sensex was down by nearly 35 points at 9868.