At the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAS) ceremony, Slumdog Millionaire, an English movie based on the award-winning novel of Indian Diplomat Vikas Swarup, won the award in three different categories including best film, best director and best newcomer (for its British lead actor).

The story of the Danny Boyle’s movie featuring Anil Kapoor focuses on a Mumbai teen who amazes every one by doing well on ‘Kaun Banega Karorpati’, Indian edition of ‘Who Wants To Be a Millionaire’ quiz show.

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