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The provisions annually of the Tagalongs and Thin Mints should be good enough to get a lifetime achievement award for every Girl Scout. However, Girl Scouts set their own standards. Earning the Gold Award, the greatest achievement within USA’s Girl Scouts, needs them to spend more than 135 hours in leadership work, a community service project and career exploration. According to the website’s organization, only 5% of the eligible Girl Scouts received the award last year.

His ''love-hate'' rapport with King Khan may be the feed for media headings but Superstar and 'Mr Perfectionist' Aamir Khan said that he would love to follow Shahrukh on Twitter that he recently joined.

At a event to promote his latest production venture 'Peepli Live', which he said was about the increasing rural-urban divide in India, Aamir said, "'I would love to follow Shahrukh on Twitter. There is no issue about that."

The corporate affairs ministry announced that it will organize awareness camps across India with the intention to attract investments into the business segment.

In a declaration, the ministry said, "There is significant household savings available with Indian households which can be channelized into the corporate economy which will result in not only higher returns for the investors but also more growth of the corporate sector."

Malaysian immigration agencies have been instructed to ease the issuance of visas to make it easier for Indian residents to visit Malaysia.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak made this declaration today.

While lecturing at the Malaysia-India Business Seminar, Najib stated that the department would establish more offices in India with the intention that Indian visitors to Malaysia could apply for visas easily.

According to Najib, there are more than 100 flights between Malaysia and India on a weekly basis.

Eyeing the vast potential of rustic market, handset maker Zen Mobile rolled out a dual sim cell phone 'M25' providing 72 days battery backup at just Rs 3,400.

Mr. Deepesh Gupta, company's MD stated, ''72 day battery back-up is one of the most unique features of M25. This phone would be extremely useful for people living in rural areas where long power failures are a common feature."

Together with its extended battery backup, M25 also features the 1.3 megapixel camera, 2.4 inch TFT screen, Bluetooth plus FM recorder.

The company has an expandable memory up to 4 GB.

India announced a new programme to identify, prevent and control the spread of cancer, diabetes, heart disorders and strokes with an outlay of Rs 1,230.90 crore ($275 million) for the next two years.

Home Minister P. Chidambaram stated that the newly launched plan will be implemented in 100 districts across 15 states and union territories via mass education and by promoting healthy lifestyle.