The ITC group also indulges in various businesses such as cigarettes, hotels, paperboards and specialty papers, packaging, agri-business, packaged foods & confectionery, information technology, personal care, greeting cards, safety matches and other FMCG products. ITC received the Retailer of the Year Award for Wills Lifestyle in Fashion & Lifestyle category at Asia Retail Congress 2008.

ITC believes in creating value and appreciates creativity and passion. It has a well defined performance management system and focuses on performance.

Indiabulls Real Estate Limited is India’s third largest property company with development projects spread across residential projects, commercial offices, hotels, malls, and Special Economic Zones (SEZs) infrastructure development. Indiabulls Real Estate partnered with Farallon Capital Management LLC of USA to bring the first FDI into real estate. Indiabulls Real Estate is transforming 14 million sqft in 16 cities into premium quality, high-end commercial, residential and retail spaces. Indiabulls Real Estate has diversified significantly in the following three business verticals within the real estate space: Real Estate Development, Project Advisory & Facilities Management: Residential, Commercial (Office and Malls) and SEZ Development. Power: Thermal and Hydro Power Generation. Retail: Departmental Stores, Hypermarket Stores, Daily Needs Neighborhood Stores.

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 Indiabulls Financial Services is an integrated financial services powerhouse providing Consumer Finance, Housing Finance, Commercial Loans, Life Insurance, Asset Management and Advisory services. Indiabulls Financial Services Ltd is amongst 68 companies constituting MSCI - Morgan Stanley India Index. Indiabulls Financial is also part of CLSA’s model portfolio of 30 Best Companies in Asia. Indiabulls Financial Services signed a joint venture agreement with Sogecap, the insurance arm of Societé Generale (SocGen) for its upcoming life insurance venture. Indiabulls Financial Services in partnership with MMTC Limited, the largest commodity trading company in India, is setting up India’s 4th Multi-Commodities Exchange.

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ITC’s wholly owned Information Technology subsidiary, ITC Infotech, is aggressively pursuing emerging opportunities in providing end-to-end IT solutions and services, including business process outsourcing.

ITC Infotech has established itself as a key player in the offshoring arena, growing at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 85%, outpacing most of its industry counterparts. ITC Infotech enjoys the rare advantage of having a practitioner’s expertise with astute business proficiency.

Based in the picturesque ITC Infotech Park that sprawls across 35 acres in the heart of Bangalore city, and through its wholly owned subsidiaries in the UK and the US, ITC Infotech services Fortune-listed clients across North America and Europe.

A sharp domain focus ensures that IT and ITeS delivery always places business needs ahead of technology. The technology delivery teams leverage the domain knowledge to engineer business solutions, using CMM Level 5 processes for offshore service delivery.

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In Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai, Tabu shall be playing a naughty lawyer. The highly praised actress has never played a completely over the top sensuous character before and is eager to play the part in this Bollywood comedy.

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Australian pace spearhead Brett Lee is all set make his debut in Bollywood opposite actress Amrita Rao in a sports movie Victory. The movie will be the story of a cricketer and will also star other cricketers like Allan Border, Mike Hussey and Jason Gillespie. The movie will be produced by Vivek Aggarwal and calling the shots will be debutant director Ajit Pal.

This is not the first time that the Aussie cricketer will feature in the Indian entertainment industry. A year back he featured in a music video and sung a duet with Asha Bhonsle. Lee is very excited about his role in the movie and says he is not likely to have any problems with acting as he will be playing the role of a cricketer.

Harman Baweja is also expected to feature in the movie along with Anupan Kher and Gulshan Grover. The movie is expected to boost movie trade between India and Australia as Bollywood movies are quite popular in the land down under.

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In a classic, comedy of errors, Golmaal Returns traces the misadventures of Gopal (Ajay Devgan) and his wife Ekta (Kareena Kapoor). The couple lives with Gopal’s sister Esha (Amrita Arora) and Ekta’s mute brother Lucky (Tusshar Kapoor).

The soundtrack comprises of four songs, two English versions of songs and remixes of all the songs. The plain old Bollywood mantra for soundtracks. Create a few songs and then remix them. This way you double up the number of tracks and ease some pain off from DJs. Tha Kar Ke sung by Neeraj Shridhar aims to get in the queue of catchy numbers.

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DASVIDANIYA is a bitter-sweet situational comedy about a man Amar Kaul (Vinay Pathak). One among the millions of people in the pool of Mumbai’s ever increasing population, Amar’s existence is easily forgettable. His innocence and his obsession for making his daily ‘TO-DO LIST’ every morning is what motivates him to look forward to the next day.

Apart from Vinay Pathak, Rajat Kapoor and Neha Dhupia other stars in the movie include Saurabh Shukla, Gaurav Gera, Suchitra Pillai, Sarita Joshi, Suresh Menon, Purvi Joshi, Ranvir Shourey and host of others.

Dialogue and story is by Arshad Sayed, Art Direction by Rakesh Morchale and Arun Verma is the Director of Photography. Music has been given by Kailash Kher.

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The i-flex portfolio includes FLEXCUBE®, a complete banking product suite for retail, consumer, corporate, investment and internet banking, and asset management and investor servicing. Since its launch in 1997, more than 250 financial institutions in 100 countries have chosen FLEXCUBE. FLEXCUBE has been ranked the world’s No. 1 selling core banking solution for four consecutive years - 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 - by the UK-based International Banking Systems (IBS).

Reveleus™ is a suite of analytical applications for the financial services industry focused in the areas of risk management, customer insight, and enterprise-wide financial performance. Reveleus’ Risk Analytics product solves the most complex global challenges facing the financial industry today, including multi-jurisdictional Basel II compliance and operational risk management. Reveleus is positioned in Gartner’s ‘Leaders Quadrant’ in its Basel II Risk Management Application Software Magic Quadrant and Tower Group has ranked Reveleus’ Basel II solution amongst the best in this domain.

Together with Castek® Software Inc., i-flex offers strategic business software and services for the global Property and Casualty insurance market. Castek provides insurance carriers with a suite of core business processing systems for insurance product and process configuration, policy processing, customer billing, claims management and services. Recipient of prestigious awards, Castek was rated among the ‘Top 50 Best Managed Private Companies in Canada’.

PrimeSourcing™, i-flex’s global IT services business, provides customized software solutions exclusively for the financial services industry worldwide. It focuses on corporate, investment, private and retail banking, and the Insurance domain, and is backed by top-notch industry consultants, technology experts, and SEI-CMMi Level 5 compliant processes. PrimeSourcing’s deep domain expertise helps customers manage challenges associated with complex, mission-critical, outsourced functions. The Division operates development centers across India, the USA, and Singapore. It has a solutions center in Europe, a specialty center around Oracle technologies, a virtual university (Prime University) to enable continuous learning, and dedicated centers of excellence in business intelligence, customer relationship management (CRM), payment solutions, and testing services. With over 3,200 employees, PrimeSourcing has serviced customers in over 40 countries.

The i-flex Consulting and Systems Integration group offers an end-to-end consulting partnership, providing comprehensive business and technology solutions that enable financial services enterprises to improve process efficiencies, optimize costs, meet risk and compliance requirements, define IT Architecture to support future needs, and manage the transformation process. Consulting services are offered in the areas of Business Transformation, Risk and Compliance, IT Architecture and Strategy, IT Governance and Process Improvement and Program Management.

i-flex’s Technology Deployment & Management Services (TDMS) group designs, develops, deploys and manages Information Technology (IT) infrastructure for financial institutions. TDMS’ services are based on the COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and related Technology) model, a globally accepted standard for IT management and control framework, and incorporates the best practices of many other standards, including ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) and BS7799 (ISO17799).

Equinox Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of i-flex, provides innovative and cost-effective customer acquisition and knowledge process outsourcing services to the lending industry. With staff strength of over 400 located in Gurgaon, near New Delhi, Equinox has serviced more than 15 customers in the United States. i-flex has over 6,600 employees operating from 14 development centers across India, Singapore and the USA. The company has a strong global reach with a sales, marketing and support presence in 22 overseas locations operating under five subsidiaries (i-flex solutions Inc. in the USA, i-flex solutions b.v in The Netherlands, i-flex solutions pte. ltd. in Singapore, and SuperSolutions Corporation and Equinox Corporation in the USA). In addition, i-flex is represented in over 80 countries through over 30 corporate business partners. i-flex also has strong alliance and/or implementation relationships with industry leaders such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Oracle.

Infosys defines, designs and delivers technology-enabled business solutions that help Global 2000 companies win in a Flat World. Infosys also provides a complete range of services by leveraging our domain and business expertise and strategic alliances with leading technology providers.

Infosys’ service offerings span business and technology consulting, application services, systems integration, product engineering, custom software development, maintenance, re-engineering, independent testing and validation services, IT infrastructure services and business process outsourcing

The vision of the Infosys India “to be a globally respected corporation that provides best-of-breed business solutions, leveraging technology, delivered by best-in-class people” has helped it in getting listed on NASDAQ. With a workforce of around 58,000 employees worldwide it has offices in USA, Canada, Australia, China, UAE and European countries besides India.

Infosys is regarded as a pioneer in strategic offshore outsourcing of software services. Its expertise is offered in Application Development and Maintenance, Corporate Performance Management, Enterprise Quality Services, Infrastructure Services, Packaged Application Services, Product Engineering and Systems Integration.

The company maintains strict quality standards such as ISO 9000, CMM, the Malcolm Baldrige framework and Six Sigma Framework to deliver products and services of international excellence. Its endeavors are appreciated across the board in the form of awards and honors such as