A local court in Chandigarh on Thursday has issued summons to cricketer Harbhajan Singh, TV actress Mona Singh and the entertainment channel, ‘Colors’ for allegedly hurting religious sentiments with their Ravana-Sita dance act in a reality show last year.

In his petition filed to the court, local advocate Arvind Thakur said, “After hearing the arguments on the petition, the magistrate issued summons of Harbhajan, Mona and authorities of channel, on which the program was aired, for April 27.”

The
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) benchmark Sensex closed the week on a
strong note as heavy buying action in key counters from refineries,
metals and banks helped it to make a hefty gain of 210 points (up
2.31%) at 9300.86.

Strong global signals amid expectations of more sops and stimulus plans
in the forthcoming interim budget led to strong buying in stocks
cutting across segments on Friday.

Mirroring investor interest at side counters, BSE Midcap and Smallcap
index rallied smartly and gained 1.43% and 1.05% respectively.

It’s seems that Bollywood actress Rani Mukerjee is losing her charm day by day.

Soft drink major, Coco Cola has dropped ace Bollywood beauty Rani Mukerji as brand ambassador for its brand, ‘Fanta’, because she has ceased to be a youth icon.

With the competition hotting up in the market, the soft drink major ‘Fanta’ has decided to replace Rani with the much younger Genelia D'souza as its new corporate brand ambassador. Earlier, companies like Titan and Munch has also decided not to renew the contract with the Bengali beauty.

In a world grappling with depression, the launch of an ultra cheap laptop for just $10 in India could set the future of computer technology.

The laptop, which was developed as part of a broader national plan to attract Indian colleges and schools toward growing IT trends, will bring the wonder of the PC to the children.

Known as ‘Sakshat’, the laptop is aimed to fill the gap between rich and poor by linking 18,000 colleges and 400 universities across India.
 

Country’s premier hospital chain, Apollo Hospitals has added another feather to its cap. The Apollo Speciality Cancer Hospital has come up with a robot radiotherapy machine, Cyberknife, which uses a very little dosage of radiation to kill cancer cells by reducing the course of treatment to less than a week with sub millimeter accuracy.

It is learnt that the cost of this hi-tech robotic radiosurgery system, Cyberknife is Rs 35 crore.

With the intention to upgrade the health care facilities in the country, the Indian government, for the second phase of Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana, has approved the proposal to set up two AIIMS-like institutions in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. With this, the total number of AIIMS-like institutes will go up to eight in the country.

It is estimated that the cost of each such institution would be Rs 823 crore.