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Film:"Paathshaala"; Music Director: Hanif Shaikh; Lyricist: Hanif Sheikh; Singers: Salim Merchant, Vishal Dadlani, Lucky Ali, Tulsi Kumar, Hanif Sheikh and Kailash Kher; Rating:***

There is nothing over the top and experimental in the soundtrack of choreographer Ahmed Khan's first production venture "Paathshaala", but still the music appeals and is worth a hear.

The album of this Shahid Kapoor starrer offers six originals and four remixes.

The rising Canadian dollar would eventually impact the country's already wobbling manufacturing sector, a CIBC economist has said.

CIBC economist Avery Shenfeld said, "Let's not be blinded by near-term monthly gains in output into thinking that currency gains are no longer an albatross around the neck of Canada's factory sector."

With minimal debate, the Senate Banking Committee voted along party lines in Washington Monday to pass a 1,300-page financial reform bill to the full Senate.

The committee approved the bill that had failed to find bipartisan agreement in months of preliminary debates between Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., and then with Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who took over negotiations when talks with Shelby reached an impasse.

Climbing over $81 per barrel with the dollar index down 0.16 percent, Crude oil futures rebounded on the New York Mercantile Exchange Monday.

Citing sufficient global supplies, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries held production quotas unchanged in a meeting in Vienna last week.

There was a sharp drop in prices over the weekend, finding a recent low at $78.57 per barrel. But April delivery, light, sweet crude futures added $2.72 to $81.29 per barrel.

Government officials have said that U. S. officials will examine executive compensation at 419 firms that received bailout funds during the financial crisis.

The review is required under a 2009 law creating the Treasury Department post of special master for executive compensation at companies receiving funds through the Troubled Assets Relief Program, passed in 2008.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that Kenneth R. Feinberg, the special master, is expected to notify the firms in a letter Tuesday that his office will review compensation for a period of time that includes the 2008 end-of-year bonus season at most big institutions.

Sigma Pharmaceuticals announced today that it again postponed its annual results for the fiscal 2009. The company said in a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange that it will release the result on or before March 31, 2010. Sigma was supposed to release the results today. Shares of the company have been in trading halt since February 25, 2010.

Sigma Pharmaceuticals, an Australian drugs maker and distributor, said that the company took the decision to delay the results because it needs some more time to finalize its accounts.