Engineering and construction major, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) announced that its newly formed Building & Factories Operating company, a part of its construction division, has pocketed Rs 1,450-crore worth orders during the third quarter of 2008-2009.

The scope of orders includes the construction of IT and office space building including add on orders from on going work at its airport projects.

The company said that it has received the fresh orders from major players including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Godrej Developers.

Newly appointed Union Home Minister, P. Chidambaram said that no one in the country is more capable than Dr. Manmohan Singh for the finance portfolio. Admitting to some unfinished tasks in the finance ministry, he hoped to complete them under the control of the PM. Dr. Singh is an economist of international repute, having exceptional background as a union finance minister, governor of reserve bank and chairman of planning commission. He would definitely control the Indian economy in the wake of the financial crisis.

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Ongoing global slowdown impacted the exports of India for the month of October. Export is declined by 12 per cent following slow demand in the international markets as per the data released by the Directorate of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics (DGCI&S) and Department of Commerce. Export was growing at 23.7 per cent in dollar terms for the April-October period of the current fiscal. However, cumulative value of export continued to decline as compared the same period of last month.

Ace Bollywood actor Aamir Khan will grace the cover of an upcoming issue of India’s leading magazine ‘GQ’.

The famous Life style magazine is a ‘December edition.’

The more interesting fact is that the editor of GQ is Bollywood’s very own ‘Midas Man’ Karan Johar, who has taken perfectionist’s interview for the first time.

Aamir Khan’s much-awaited film Ghajini is ready to hit the theatres on Christmas

The thought of extended human excursions beyond Earth is within a decade's reach as NASA maps long-term tasks for lunar settlements and the independent space tourism business burgeons. As the human drive for intimacy and procreation will have to struggle with extreme environments of space, The Universe series explores the human factor in a historic episode: Sex in Space.

The Universe series, now in its third term, will break ground when it premieres the chapter Sex in Space on The History Channel this week. The topic has been considered taboo.