Mumbai/Varanasi, Oct 12 : Amitabh Bachchan, who was admitted to the Lilavati Hospital after he was complained of severe abdominal pain, is in a stable condition today.

Bachchan has undergone blood investigation and CT scan of the abdomen, and the reports are expected to be received this afternoon.

In a statement, Abhishek had said doctors have diagnosed the condition and he was suffering from an intestinal obstruction.

New Delhi, Oct 12 : National Security Adviser M K Narayanan will meet his Pakistani counterpart Mahmud Ali Durrani here on Monday.

Issues like the spate of recent ceasefire violations, rise in cross border infiltration and Indian Embassy bombing in Kabul are likely to figure in the bilateral discussions between Durrani and Narayanan.

Durrani during his deliberations with the NSA and Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon is also expected to prepare ground for the special meeting of Joint Anti terror Mechanism.

A two-day conference of Vice-Chancellors (VC’s) of technical universities in India will be held at the library auditorium of Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) from October 11 to 12. The conference will be hosted by the MIT.

Dr S S Pabla, Chairman, Vice-Chancellor’s Conference Committee said, “The conference would aim at drafting a framework for the AICTE curriculum. The conference will also make an effort towards striking a consensus on a 10-point cumulative grade point average system in all the engineering colleges in the country. This is in tune with the internationally accepted practices.”

Ajanta group, makers of electric bikes and scooters under the ‘Oreva’ brand, is all set to roll out its own electric car (e-car) in the Indian market. 

The group announced to launch its own ‘Oreva Green’ car, which runs on electric fuel. 

Ajanta, which currently manufactures its bikes in Morbi in Gujarat, will soon be introducing its electric car from the same manufacturing plant. 

Moreover, Tata has also declared to shift ‘Nano’ car plant in Sanand village in Gujarat. Both the cars have their plants in Gujarat.

Lehrakapura (UP), Oct 12 : Patience of the villagers in Uttar Pradesh wore thin as rescue operations to save a two-year-old boy who fell into a 150-feet deep narrow borewell did not yield any positive result.

Rescue operations are on to save Sonu who fell into the uncovered borewell on Thursday in Lehrakapura village near Shamsabad town, 26 km from Agra.

The work suffered due to constant mudslide in a parallel well being dug up to pull out the child.

China is all set to become a leading trade partner of India in next five years. US is a top trade partner of India by now. The mutual trade between two countries is expected to touch $100-bn mark by 2013-14. The bilateral trade between the two countries would reach at 50 billion dollar mark in the fiscal ending March 2009.

India has a significant economic partnership with European Union with 56 billion euro trade. The trade would reach at 100-billion euro in the next five years as per the target of recent India-EU Summit at Marseilles (France).