Earlier on Friday, the star cast of the film had disclosed that Khan would be on an adventure trip throughout the country for two weeks.

Khan has promised his fans a new look in every city and town that he visits during the next fortnight and the challenge for his fans would be to spot him before he unveils his new look everyday.

His close friends will constantly keep giving clues about his whereabouts to the fans. The first clue will be given by Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar.

Khan has described this as an ‘Alternative Reality Game’ (ARG) of Three Idiots, wherein fans would be able to locate and find him through a series of subtle clues about the city or town he is in and the get up he would be in - without outrightly giving away his whereabouts.

And announcement was made on television that whosoever would identify and find Khan in his disguise will be given free tickets for the movie and as a bonus Khan would spend New Year’s night with the lucky winner and his family.

Khan spent entire day in Varanasi on Saturday and managed to stay unnoticed.

Khan roamed around the riverbanks and also took a boat as well as auto rickshaw ride in an attire of elderly Banarasi babu, wearing light colour sweater and dentures and chewed betel leaves.

Varanasi is also birthplace of Khan’s mother. He visited tiliya nala, the locality his mom had spend her childhood in. He also visited Dasaswamedh Ghat where his mother used to go every evening for boat rides when they used to stay in Banaras.3 Idiots’ is the celluloid adaptation of author Chetan Bhagat’s best selling novel ‘Five Point Someone’.

Directed by Rajkumar Hirani, the film essays the story of three friends whose dismal grade point averages at the Indian Institute of Technology influence their friendship, love life and career choices.

Sharman Joshi, Aamir Khan and R. Madhavan who are starring together in this film, were also co-stars in the critically acclaimed ‘Rang De Basanti’, which won several awards.

The film, set for release on December 25, has brought Khan and producer-director Vidhu Vinod Chopra together for the first time.

The film also stars actor Kareena Kapoor in the female lead.

Patil landed at the air force base after 22 minutes of flying.

The Indian Air Force had earlier chalked out a special rectangular navigation route for Patil’s maiden sortie, which was originally scheduled to last for 30 minutes. The aircraft is said to have touched a maximum speed of 0.9 Mach (700 to 900 kmph).

President Patil was accompanied by award-winning Wing Commnader S Sajan, who has an experience of flying Sukhoi for 3,200 hours.

She thus becomes the second president to have flown in a Sukhoi after her predecessor A P J Abdul Kalam [ Images ].

Kalam undertook his flight on June 8, 2006. That flight was positioned as a familiarisation flight, besides being an act to inspire the youth of the country to join the armed forces.

In May 2004, former defence minister George Fernandes undertook a similar sortie, clocking 1.15 Mach (about 1,500 kmph). Fernandes, who was also in his early 70s, was exposed to a gravitational force of up to level 3G.

NSW were in tatters before Lee’s 31-ball 48 powered them to a competitive 159 for nine. The tearaway pacer returned to claim two early wickets to unhinge T&T.

Lee, who bagged both the Man of the Match and Man of the Series awards, said he is a big-match player and happy to have made his mark in the all-important summit clash.

“I think my game is coming up well and I’m enjoying it. I live for special moments like this and want to do well in big moments. When the crowd gets behind me, it becomes special and I’m happy I did well tonight,” said the pacer

Arms, medals, epaulettes are all brought to the perfect shine before a parade. One key item of inspection is the glint on the ammunition boots.

One enterprising regiment, the story goes, instead of using polish bought a box of Asian Paints paint and used it to good effect on the boots. Asian Paints managing director & CEO PM Murty doesn’t know if it’s a true story, though he joined the company way back in 1971. What he does know is that such small purchases can make the distinction between profit and loss, survival and extinction.

Asian Paints has for long sold very small cans of paint which are used to colour the horns of bulls during the Pola festival in Maharashtra and the auspicious small red and yellow stripes at the bottom of the front door of Tamil Nadu homes.

This might not always be remunerative, but it has given a tremendous boost to the company’s brand recall. When the market is up, everybody makes money. But when the chips are down, only resilient brands stay afloat.

The $10,000 penalty — not quite 3 percent of the $350,000 in prize money Williams earned by reaching the semifinals at Flushing Meadows — is the maximum on-site fine that can be issued for unsportsmanlike conduct at a Grand Slam tournament.

The U.S. Open said in a statement that the Grand Slam Committee Administrator will “determine if the behavior of Ms. Williams warrants consideration as a major offense for which additional penalties can be imposed.”

Williams, who was the defending champion, also was docked $500 for smashing her racket after the first set of what became a 6-4, 7-5 loss to Kim Clijsters on Saturday night.

A 14.4 per cent contraction in petroleum refinery products constricted expansion of the six key industries in July, against 5.1 per cent a year ago.

The core sector, which comprises petroleum refinery, crude oil, coal, electricity, cement and finished steel and accounts for 26.68 per cent in the country’s industrial production, had grown by 6.8 per cent in June and had then raised hopes of industrial recovery.

Crude oil, though at lower rates, dipped by 0.4 per cent in July against minus three per cent a year ago. However, coal expanded by 9.7 per cent against 5.5 per cent, electricity by 3.3 per cent as compared to 4.5 per cent, cement by 10.6 per cent as against 5.5 per cent and finished steel by 1.2 per cent as against 6 per cent.

However, thanks to better showing in the previous three months, core industries improved performance by 4.1 per cent for April-July period, against the corresponding months in the last fis

In a statement the Sabha says that paddy cultivation has been severly affected and that the PM had not announced any hike in the Minimum Support Price for the growers, as sought by them. The Sabha also calls for the reccomendations of the MS Swaminathan Foundation on calculating MSP be implemented.

The Kisan sabha welcomed the Centre’s move to reimburse 50 percent of diesel cost incurred by states. The National Food Safety Mission and the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana ( National Agriculture Development Scheme) were also targetted for not meeting their targets and failing to increase food production in the country. The lack of transfer of technology and information , especially by the Ministry of Agriculture has come in for a lot of flak.

“A long cohabitation and acceptance of society of a man and woman as husband and wife goes a long way in establishing
a valid marriage,” a Bench of Justices S B Sinha and Cyriac Joseph observed.

The Bench said when disputes of valid marriages comes into question, courts can rely not only on the various material placed before it, but also draw a presumption on the basis of the conduct between the two parties. “In arriving at a finding of fact, indisputably the learned trial judge was not only entitled to analyse the evidences brought on record by the parties so as to come to a conclusion as to whether all the ingredients of a valid marriage as contained in Section 5 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 stand established or not.

“A presumption of a valid marriage having regard to the fact that they had been residing together for a long time and has been accepted in society as husband and wife, could also be drawn,” the apex court said.

The Bench passed the ruling while dismissing an appeal of one Challamma, who questioned the claim of a woman’s marriage to her deceased son K Subramanya.

Prior to his marriage, Subramanya had nominated his mother Challamma as nominee in his insurance policies. After his death, Challamma sought the entire survival benefit accruing from the insurance policies to herself. She claimed that the other claimant, Tilaga, was not married to his son as there was no valid proof of the same. But the trial court awarded Challama only one-fourth of the amount and the remaining went to Tilaga, whose marriage with Subramanya was accepted by the judge on the basis of the material evidence produced before it.

Challama appealed to the Karnataka High Court but it dismissed her plea. She later approached the apex court. Rejecting her plea, the apex court said the question as to whether a valid marriage had taken place between deceased Subramanya and Tilaga is essentially a question of fact. In the present case, the wife had proved with material facts that she had married Subramanya and lived with him for over three years, the apex court said. Whereas, Challama could not adduce sufficient evidence to prove her charges, it noted. “A heavy burden, thus, lies on the person who seeks to prove that no marriage has taken place,” the Bench said. Further, the apex court said a nominee could not be treated as being equivalent to an heir or legatee. “The amount of interest under the policy could, therefore, be claimed by the heirs of the assured in accordance with the law of succession governing them,” the Bench added while dismissing the mother-in-law’s appeal.

Calling India a ’sprinter’, it said the downward trend in the country’s industrial output seemed to have ended, with a pick-up likely due to new infrastructure development.

Investor confidence in India had certainly improved, as reflected in the rapid increase in net capital inflows in the stock market during recent months, Sherman Chan, Moody’s Economy.com economist, said in a note on the recovery of the Asia-Pacific region on Wednesday.

“Amid increased sightings of green shoots, the bottom of the global downturn is now in sight,” she said, adding that “China, India and Indonesia have dodged recession and maintained strong growth despite the global turmoil.”

Key Asia-Pacific economies possess different structural characteristics and have thus embarked on different recovery trajectories. Australia and Korea, she said, would recover fast, Thailand and Singapore would take longer, and Japan will have it tough.

And all these economies are expected to grow in 2010.

Next in the recovery race in Asia Pacific region comes the ‘joggers’. “Australia, Hong Kong, the Philippines and South Korea will recover swiftly from the annual contraction this year.”

Following the ‘joggers’ are the ‘walkers’. “Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and New Zealand will take a little longer to return to pre-crisis GDP levels,” the Sydney-based economist said.

And, in the last comes the ‘crawler’. “Japan looks worst off in the region, with a long and tough recovery path ahead due to a sluggish domestic sector,” she said.

Japan is the weakest link in the Asia-Pacific region with firms reporting excess capacity, including excess workers. Therefore, the outlook for investment and employment is dismal.

“Japan’s GDP will take several years to return to the pre-crisis level. An annual contraction of 6.5 per cent is likely in 2009, followed by an expected rebound of only 0.7 per cent in 2010 and 1.2 per cent in 2011,” she said, adding that the rapidly ageing population have left policymakers almost powerless in stimulating consumption growth.