It is already known that cricket and Bollywood are two major passions of Indians.

This time, ace Bollywood director Chandrakant Kulkarni has come out with his latest film ‘Meerabai Not Out’, which tells about the story of a cricket buff who goes to the extremes -- even on her engagement day -- to watch cricket.

But exciting thoughts don't necessarily translate into interesting movies.

Also, though the movie talks about cricket, there is not much meat in its story, and lacks thrill for a cricket fanatic either.

Lenovo has rolled out a new PC, named ThinkCentre A62 in the Indian market.

The cost-effective, environment friendly and manageable desktop PC consumes 40% less electricity than its ThinkCentre predecessor because of the efficiency of the new AMD 15w CPU – Athlon 2650e, which is available on select models.

According to company, the newly launched PC offers enterprise and SMB clients with improved total cost of ownership throughout a longer PC lifecycle.

To strengthen its ROKR family, Motorola has made announcement about the launching of a new quad-band GSM slider phone, the MOTOROKR EM35, which will be available later by this quarter.

The ROKR EM35, designed for better audio and music experience, comes with new and advanced CrystalTalk Technology, virtual surround sound, the Motomusic player, dual speakers, a 2.2 inch QVGA screen and an RDS-enabled FM radio.

This latest Motorola phone adorns a FastScroll navigation wheel for quick and easy access to the content.

Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) is all set to increase 'Terror Insurance Pool' set up by the insurance industry. The chairman of IRDA, J. Hari Narayan said that Rs. 750-crore corpus of the 'Terror Insurance Pool' is felt insufficient as terror activities are increasing day by day and damage caused by such activities is difficult to full fill due to large scale losses.

Metro Cash & Carry is planning to invest Rs 900 crore in retail market of Punjab. The German wholesale retailer would set up six distribution centers in the state initially and further expand its business to other major towns. The company is present in 29 countries of world having more than 600 centers.

Andhra Pradesh Assembly has passed Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management bill 2008 through a voice vote on Wednesday. The bill is aimed to minimize the effect of global slowdown by enabling the state to get additional borrowings for higher capital expenditure during this year.

The finance minister of AP said that government is facing shortage of funds to support welfare programs for poor. State has an option to generate revenue through land sale but required revenue can not be generated as property rates are declining following global slowdown.