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First things first. This is not, repeat not, a comedy. Not by any yardstick. For those expecting a typical Priyadarshan-Akshay Kumar comedy Khatta Meetha is not your cup of tee-hee. For those who know there's a more reflective and ruminative side to both the prolific director and the leading man, here's the thing.

Sony TV's , dance reality show, `Boogie Woogie' is busy with its kids special that is on its verge to reach final stage. To make the grand finale even more happening Sony TV has invited some of the finest dancers of small screen to have a jig with the final contestants of the show. One of the names is Ashita Dhawan a. k. a Malti Bhabhi of `Bidaai'.

The 30-share index Sensex ended positively for the third straight day after surging 18 points to settle at 18,130 on the back of strong global signals.

On the NSE, the broad-based Nifty grew by 7 points to close the day at 5,449.

The stock market belled the day on a higher not following strong Asian markets and the benchmark indices hit a 52-week high at 18,237 before settling nearly flat.

The Nifty touched the 5,477 mark. But, the indices closed near the day's low, indicating a lack of strength on Dalal Street.

The Indian currency rallied for the third consecutive day on Friday by 18 paise to end the day firmer at 46.94 versus the US currency on heavy offloading of the greenback by local operators and strong equity prices.

The rupee resumed on a higher rate at 47.08 against the dollar on weak demand for dollars by local traders.

Afterward, it fluctuated in wide range between 46.90 and 47.06 in intra day trade.

Biocon has recorded a net profit of Rs 77 crore for April-June quarter of this fiscal (20010-11), recording year-on-year (YoY) expansion of 33%as against Rs 58 crore in the same period of last year.

In a regulatory filing, the top biotechnology firm stated that its total income grew by 33%YoY to Rs 672 crore for the three month period ended June 2010 as against Rs 505 crore during the same period of 2009-10.

The company's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) at Rs. 141 crore grew 27 percent YoY from Rs. 111 crore year ago.

Through a study it was stated that one cannot watch all the TV programmes in 3D.

The supposed reason for the same is based on the experimental system that currently is being employed to convert 2D broadcasts into a kind of pseudo-3D, by using complex maths to 'guesstimate' the distances between two objects present on the screen and also speaking technically, digitally tweaking the image helps create the illusion of depth.