Vijay Mallya, owner of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) has maintained that he has not yet finalized Rahul Dravid as the skipper of the Indian Premier League team.

Commenting over the media report that Dravid has been retained as captain of the team, Mallya said, "Who said so? After all, I am the boss of the team. I will decide who will be the captain."

The news is that Harman Baweja and Priyanka Chopra have finally parted away.

According to the grapevine, Priyanka made a solo entry at Hrithik Roshan’s birthday party on Friday night, even though Harman was in town. This is the first time that the Priyanka was seen alone in the B-Town.

Earlier, the two have been together to Mannat at parties, at Karan's birthday last year, at the Jodhaa Akbar bash, and also Farah Khan's Eid bash.

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) sources have alleged that fast bowler Mohammad Asif did carry a small amount of opium when he was detained at the Dubai airport last year.

The official documents of the Public Prosecutor's office maintain that Asif cannot travel to Dubai.

It may be here recalled that after playing the inaugural Indian Premier League, the fast bowler had to spent 19 days in detention for possessing banned drugs.

Documents sent by the Public Prosecutor's office in Dubai proved that Asif had been deported last June for possession of 0.24 grams of opium.

After dipping into negative zone during October, Index for industrial production (IIP) registered a positive growth of 2.4% in November 2008.

Industrial action has contracted by 0.3% in October 2008.

IIP stood at 4.9% during the corresponding period of the last year (Nov 2007).

For the first eight months, IIP increased by 3.9 percent as against 9.2 percent in the corresponding period of 2007-08.

Another round of price war has begun among mobile operators. After revolutionizing the Indian mobile service market, country's leading telecom services provider, Bharti Airtel, today launched its popular Lifetime Prepaid at a lower price point of Rs 99 only.

Bharti Airtel says it intends to further expand the market, and make mobile services more affordable to its prepaid customers.

The 7th Pune International Film Festival (PIFF) took off to a colourful start at the Ganesh Kala Krida Rangmanch on January 8. The week long gala event inaugurated by, Anand Sharma, Minister of state for external affairs, will showcase around 150 films from about 42 countries. In World Competition Section, 109 films from 30 countries would be screened. French-Iranian-English animation film 'Persepolis' was screened at the inaugural ceremony.