After opening on a flat note, the Sensex continued to trade strong on account of heavy buying action witnessed across frontline stocks including DLF and Reliance Capital.

The BSE Sensex hit one-month high above the 9,700-mark on hopes that the interim budget will contain fiscal incentives to perk up sagging growth.

Realty stocks gained the most on hopes the forthcoming interim budget may include sops to the housing segment. The BSE realty index surged 5.89%, the most among sectoral indices on BSE.

The Mumbai’s King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital is struggling to deal with emergency services after resident doctors went on a strike.

The resident doctors are calling for the arrest of 25 people following an alleged assault on five of their colleagues by relatives of a patient on Monday night.

The patient, who was undergoing treatment in the Central Mumbai hospital for the last 15 days, died in the hospital and the body was not handed over to the relatives.

To avoid further controversies, the King Khan aka the Bollywood legend Shahrukh Khan has decided to trim down the word “barber” from the title of his forthcoming home production movie ‘Billu Barber’ because of objection to the word “Barber” in the title by the Salon and Hair Dressers’ Association of Maharashtra.

The association said that “Barber” was not just an insulting term but also referred to a caste.

While talking to report persons, SRK said that his production house Red Chillies has decided to take away the word 'barber' from all the posters.

To guarantee level playing field for themselves, the new mobile operators have urged the telecom regulatory body, TRAI to lessen the mobile termination charges.

But on the other hand, the subsisting telecom operators are asking for the highest rates possible.

Presently, the three major pan-India telecom operators such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular charge a termination fee of 30 paise per minute from an operator on whose network the call ends.

It was a quiet beginning to trade in Indian equities markets today (Tuesday, Feb 10) with a key index belled the day on a flat note in proportion to Asian peers.

After marking its closure on a buoyant note on Monday (Feb 09), the 30-share index, BSE Sensex opened with a gain of 6.06 points, at 9,589.95 today.

After few minutes of trading, the Sensex touched a high of 9,615. Later it slipped into the negative terrain, and soon bounced back into positive

The big news doing the rounds is that Saif and Kareena will be seen locking lips onscreen for the first time in their forthcoming movie by Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions.

The name of the film has not been finalized yet.

According to sources, the kissing scene between the two was shot last week in a Chembur studio. The kissing sequence is part of a song.

It is also learnt that the couple was a bit anxious during the shoot, but the film director talked Saif and persuaded him. Later on, Bebo, too, looked quite comfortable with the idea of the onscreen liplock with her boy friend.