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Hero Honda and the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications are the two big names that are expected to take part in the sponsorship of the Indian team after the BCCI opens the tenders on Monday.

As its deal with Sahara ends next month, according to a notice issued by the BCCI secretary N Srinivasan, the cricket board has invited applications for sponsorship of the men's, women's, India A and India under-19 teams.

While both the companies were not available for comment but the sources in the industry confirm the fact that the duo is likely to bid for the sponsorship via the tender.

As the Micromax Cup is expected to start from the 28th May, the fact that India is sending what could be considered a second string team full of youngsters may take its own toll from the ratings of the cricket tournament.

In fact, the sponsorships have already started to show the effect as it has banked only a handful of sponsors for the series that is being followed by the controversial IPL and ICC T20 world cup. Zee chief revenue officer Joy Chakraborthy said that the channel has banked two clients so far in the form of Hero Honda and Micromax.

Officials have said that a British doctor, who aroused widespread concerns about the MMR vaccine that ultimately were proved unfounded, has had his medical license lifted.

Dr. Andrew Wakefield has been removed from the country's medical register after a three-year investigation resulted in a finding he was guilty of serious professional misconduct over "unethical" research that had wrongly linked the vaccines to bowel disease and autism, The Times of London reported on Monday.

Feeling immense pressure from the rising input costs, the automakers in the country are not ruling out the option of a fourth hike in the Indian automobile market.

The first hike came in early January as carmakers hiked prices by 0.5-2 per cent following a surge in the input costs followed by a 2% excise duty rollback by the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee before the third hike that came due to the up gradation to the BSIV norms.

U. S. researchers have said that the number of deaths in children age 5 and under worldwide dropped from 12 million in 1990 to 7.7 million in 2010.

The New York Times has reported that from 1990 to 2010, death rates in children declined by about 2 percent a year worldwide, but in parts of Latin America, North Africa and the Middle East rates declined as much as 6 percent a year, while one-third of child deaths occur in south Asia and about half in sub-Saharan Africa.

After GM launched its Aveo in the CNG version last week, it is believed that more automakers will be launching their products in the CNG & LPG range to boost the sales of the product. It has been seen that the consumer is attracted towards the company-fitted offerings of CNG & LPG kits.

However, the auto majors in the Indian market do not reveal separate figures for the CNG models but it is believed that a CNG model contributes close to 5-10% to the total sales of the model in the Indian market.