Orissa Government has suspended five policemen, including an ASI in the controversial Nun rape case in Kandhamal for dereliction of duty.

A medical check-up camp titled “The Dental Specialist”, will be organized on November 2 (Sunday) from 10 am to 5 pm at the Indian Medical Association (IMA) hall at Shivabhagh in Mangalore.

While talking with media persons, Dr Chetan Hegde said, “As soon as the camp will be concluded, a dental education camp will also be organized by us on the same day.”

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of Wipro, has informed that its Business Process Outsourcing division, Wipro BPO, is setting up a Shared Services centre in Curitiba, Brazil for AmBev.

AmBev is the biggest private company for consumer goods in Brazil and the biggest brewer for Latin America. The Company was created on the 1st of July of 1999, in association with brewers Brahma and Antarctica.

UTI Mutual Fund, the country's oldest fund house has introduced ‘UTI Fixed Term Income Fund Series V-VIII’, a close-ended income scheme in the market.

The investment objective of the scheme is to generate regular returns by investing in portfolio of fixed income securities normally maturing in line with the maturity period of the plan.

The scheme will invest up to 5-100% in debt including securitized debt and 0-95% in money market instruments. The scheme may invest up to 100% in the securitized debt.

Indian equities ended the week on a positive note on Friday (Oct 31), on account of continued buying action across board in frontline stocks.

Though the stock market lost its way for a moment during afternoon trading because of a negative closure on the Asian stock markets and a weak start in European markets, frenzied buying action in the final hour of trade boosted it to a strong closure on yesterday.

The US Federal Reserve cut bank rates by 50 basis points, and various other central banks are likely to follow suit sooner than later.

The hunger strike by the South Indian Film Artist Association, on November 1, inside the Nadigar Sangam campus, will be held to show the solidarity of the Tamil industry artists towards the suffering Tamilians in Srilanka. A grand dais has been erected at the Nadigar Sangam for the fast which would be staged between 8 am and 4 pm.

According to latest reports, all the leading stars will attend the event. Superstar Rajinikanth has also ensured his presence in the fast on the condition that the attendees should avoid any kind of controversial speeches on Srilankan issue.