It seems that last year has been very tiring for Aamir Khan. Ghajini's star has finally decided to take a year off from work. He wants to spend this time in traveling, reading scripts and watching films. He also wants to spend some time with his children. The functioning of his production house, Aamir Khan Productions will not be affected.

Source close to the actor revealed that Aamir is finally taking a year off after Raj Kumar Hirani's 3 Idiots is complete. He is currently in Bangalore shooting for the film.

Anurag Kashyap's Dev D is the modern version of Sarat Chandra's Chattopadhyaya's story about Paro, Devdas and Chandramukhi. Except the basic storyline there is no similarity between the other films based on same concept and Dev D.

Set in rustic North India, Dev D has real life characters living in modern era. Parminder (Mahi Gill) who is our Paro is a messy-haired, clumsy and about-average pretty. This modern day girl sends her nude pic online without any shyness to her childhood sweetheart Dev (Deol), studying in London. The two lovers finally meet.

Public sector equipment maker Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has notified that it has received four contracts worth Rs 7,000 crore from various producers, to supply and set up electrical equipment for thermal power projects.

The contracts have been awarded to BHEL by India's power utility NTPC, NLC Tamil Nadu Power Ltd (NTPL) and Mahagenco.

Rain CII Carbon India (RCCIL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hyderabad-based cement manufacturer Rain Commodities, has concluded a deal with International Finance Corp (IFC) of the World Bank to sell 850,000 carbon credits.

Under the arrangement, the company will sell all the carbon credits it generates during July 12, 2007 to July 15, 2011.

Last month, Rain Commodities Ltd, producers of calcined petroleum coke and cement has notified that Rain CII Carbon has implemented `Oxygen Lancing' at its Indian calcinations plant.

Metallurgical coke maker Gujarat NRE Coke Ltd said on Monday that it will raise up to Rs 1,000 crore through institutional placement. An official quoted that the company would raise funds up to Rs 1,000 crore through the issue of non-convertible debentures (NCD) with warrants on qualified institutional placement basis.

However, the terms and conditions of the said NCD issuance would be decided by the board of directors and would be subject to the shareholders' approval.

In a bid to acquire a majority stake in Orissa Sponge Iron & Steel, three un-listed Indian firms have jointly made an open offer to acquire 26 percent of its equity, for Rs 300 per share.

Under the arrangement, Bhushan Power and Steel Ltd along with Titanic Steel Industries and Olympian Steel Industries would acquire stake in Orissa Sponge through open offer.

The open offer is for the acquisition of 52 lakh shares of Rs 10 each of Orissa Sponge from its existing shareholders. The offer will open on April 3 and close on April 23.