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Melbourne, Nov 10 : Australian bowling great Shane Warne is all set to appear as his own parents in a series of TV advertisements for VB beer.

New Delhi: Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec (CDPQ), Canada’s biggest public pension fund is all set to make investment in the prospering Indian realty segment.

The pension fund, set up in 1965, plans to invest around $1.7 billion by 2012.

This would be CDPQ’s initial investment in India.

The company sources said that CDPQ’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr. Paul Campbell, will came to India to fulfill the obligatory conditions related to the deal.

CDPQ would concentrate on building up real estate opportunities in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad, the sources added.

CDPQ would make Indian investment under its SITQ division that specializes in the investment and management of office buildings.

Kolkata, Nov 10 : Social activist Medha Patkar today began a 48-hour hunger strike demanding Central government’s intervention to restore peace in the violence-hit Nandigram in West Bengal’s East M

Washington, November 10 : An Indian-origin scientist at the University at Buffalo is leading a landmark clinical trial, in which the ability of insulin to limit heart-tissue damage during a heart a

Washington, November 10 : Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have engineered an electronic nose that can help detect hazards like carbon monoxide, harmful industrial solv

Islamabad, Nov 10 : The common people in Pakistan might not have hit the streets to protest the imposition of emergency by President General Pervez Musharraf, but the anger against this declaration