India is all set to make its first ever 3D videogame, which will be based on Aamir Khan’s record-breaking movie ‘Ghajini’, a hugely popular thriller about a man with short-term amnesia.
There are great expectations that India’s first 3D video game would transform the country’s slow-growing animation and gaming market all the way up to $1.3 billion this year.
While making the announcement, Mr. Sashi Reddy, head of FX labs, which developed the game stated, “There are no Indian games so we wanted to bring Indian games to the audiences here and we built India's first 3D game.”
The 30 share index, Sensex lost 649.24 points to 8,674.35 during the week ended Jan 23, 2009. In contrast, the broad based NSE Nifty tumbled 149.9 points to 2,678.55 in the same period.
Sensex remained choppy throughout the week chasing weak global cues. Meager corporate earnings of top companies dragged the index in the negative zone.
On Monday (Jan 19), Sensex belled the week at 9,381.78 after making a gain of 58.19 points in line with global peers.
Latest Bollywood flick and India’s first made-in-China film, Chandni Chowk to China, has got another reason to be back in the news. The film, this time, has angered the people of Nepal for its false and deceptive references over the birth place of Lord Buddha.
While speaking on this, Nepalese Information and Communication Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara said, “Nepal's Council of Ministers headed by Prime Minister Prachanda decided to direct the Foreign Ministry to take up the issue with the agencies concerned in India.”
Jet Airways and its wing JetLite have announced that they have trimmed down the economy class fares by 50% for purchases on the spot for selective domestic routes.
According to sources, customers can avail this low price offer only for three days, commencing January 24.
The reports said that the reduced fares will also be available for tickets booked during the three days for travel at a later date.
Union Bank has revealed that it aims to open 500 new branches over the coming six months. According to sources, the rapid growth of the bank has led to opportunities in career progression within the bank.
The sources further added that the lender has proposals to employ 1600 officers, of which 800 will be through campus recruitment and the bank has short listed 25 institutes, including some of the top management schools to conduct the process.
India's major public sector lender State Bank of India (SBI) has reported a 37% surge in its standalone net profit for the three month period ended December 31, 2008.
The bank has posted a net profit of Rs 2,478.42 crore as compared to Rs 1,808.64 crore for the same quarter year-ago (Dec 2007).
In a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange, SBI informed that its total income for the quarter ended December 31, 2008 zoomed to Rs 21,255.90 crore as compared to Rs
15,364 crore during the corresponding quarter of the last year.