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Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai and cricketers Saurav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar are among the 10,500 guests who have been invited.

Describing the arrangements for the twin weddings, one Indian newspaper said it “would put a maharajah to shame”.

No expenses spared

The snazzy invitation cards have special security chips embedded in them to swipe and enter the heavily-guarded wedding venue.

Over 80 rooms and suites have been booked at a top hotel in Lucknow to house special guests - state governors, chief ministers, judges, essential estate finance hill in insurance investment irwin mcgraw real series
and journalists, it is reported.

Every person whom I know in the industry will be attending the wedding Aishwarya Rai

The Sahara business group is also running 27 chartered flights to ferry special guests to Lucknow from all over India.

A team of crack Indian chefs will cook up a wide ranging feast that will include Indian, Chinese, Italian, Mexican and Lebanese fare.

The guests will be entertained by a music group flown in from London and dancers choreographed by a top Bollywood dance director.

Top Bollywood filmmaker director Raj Kumar Santoshi will shoot a film on the wedding, a top art director will “supervise the sets”, and a Music Television (MTV) video jockey will anchor the programme.

Bollywood ’shutdown’

Reports from Bombay, also known as Mumbai, suggest that most of Bollywood has shut shop for four days beginning Tuesday as most of the stars are away at the lavish wedding.

Actress Aishwarya Rai told the AFP news agency that she had completed the shooting of her new film in time to take time out for the wedding.

“My family is going to Lucknow and as far as Bollywood is concerned every person whom I know in the industry will be attending the wedding,” said Rai, who is also a brand ambassador for the Sahara group.

On the sidelines of the wedding, the business group has also promised to marry off 101 couples and feed as many as 140,000 poor people across the country, one newspaper reports.

Rags to riches

Subrata Roy’s Sahara began in 1978 with three workers in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh as a small deposits para-banking business.

Today it claims to have grown into a $7bn diversified business group with interests in housing, finance insurance personal quote
, media and aviation.

Virtually unheard of even 15 years ago, Sahara today runs a private airline, entertainment and news television channels, a newspaper, and claims to own some 33,000 acres of real estate across India.

The group also sponsors the Indian cricket and hockey teams and is planning to move into life insurance, housing finance, consumer products, sportswear, and set up hospitals.

Subrata Roy, who calls himself the group’s “chief guardian”, is one of India’s most well-networked businessman counting several top Indian politicians, finance insurance statistical tool
and Bollywood and cricket stars as his friends.

The 25 directors of the group include a host of Bollywood and cricket stars and former bureaucrats.

Among them are Amitabh Bachchan, Rai, former Indian cricket captain Kapil Dev and present Indian captain Saurav Ganguly.

Ex-City full-back Ray Ranson was said to have made a 90m offer on Monday.

But City released a statement to the Stock Exchange to say that talks were still ongoing.

“The board of Manchester City confirms it remains in preliminary discussions with third parties that may or may not lead to an offer being made.”

City chairman John Wardle earlier this month admitted the club were in talks with potential investors and is thought to be keen to sell.

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City manager Stuart Pearce last week indicated a deal was getting closer for the club.

But his statement triggered a movement of shares that did not go down well with the Stock Market, forming the basis for City’s statement this morning.

As they are currently in an Offer Period, a City spokesman will now be required to read out a short statement to the media prior to every press conference, ensuring there is no repeat.

On Monday reports claimed former Thailand prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who failed in a bid for Liverpool in 2004, was interested in buying City with partners from China and the Middle East.

And the club has also been linked with a buy-out from American investors.

Ranson’s reported bid on Monday evening was said to cover the club’s shares, loans of about 24m to major finance insurance life premium Wardle and David Makin - who own 29% share of the club - and debts to other creditors.

He is thought to have the backing of other finance home insurance personal tesco and prepared to provide a transfer kitty of around 20m for new players.

Ranson, who also played for Birmingham, Newcastle and Reading, made over 200 finance insurance tourist zurich for City, where he started his career.

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made his fortune from insurance and from football finance and has also invested in football analysis company Prozone.

He made two bids for Villa before the Midlands club were bought by American auto finance insurance Randy Lerner.

If City were to change hands they would become the fifth Premiership club to be sold in the last year.

Portsmouth, Villa, West Ham and Liverpool have all been taken over by foreign investors since last summer.

Mr Sants, previously a director at the FSA, replaces previous chief executive John Tiner on 20 July.

As chief executive Mr Sants will be the public face of the FSA, responsible for protecting consumers and increasing knowledge of finance.

The FSA has responsibility for automobile finance insurance savings, export finance and insurance
, insurance and mortgage products.

The FSA has two lead figures; a chairman and chief executive.

Callum McCarthy is the current chairman of the FSA.

Mr Sants, previously a director at the FSA, replaces previous chief executive John Tiner on 20 July.

As chief executive Mr Sants will be the public face of the FSA, responsible for protecting consumers and increasing knowledge of finance.

The FSA has responsibility for regulating savings, investment, zuerich insurance finance
and mortgage products.

The FSA has two lead figures; a chairman and chief executive.

Callum McCarthy is the current chairman of the FSA.

The Institute of Financial Services has launched two new edition finance hill insurance international management mcgraw risk series for them - a foundation certificate and an intermediate certificate.

The Institute will supply the curriculum, teaching materials, and exams for schools to offer their pupils alongside GCSE topics.

The courses will cover issues such as loans, currencies and car insurance.

The exam asks simple questions about deciphering pay slips, the cheapest way to borrow money, the eBay auction web site, bank accounts and ATMs.

Although not part of the formal range of GCSE courses, the new finance household insurance have been approved by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.

Pilot scheme

The introduction of the qualifications for younger students comes half-way though a pilot programme which had produced such positive feedback that the Institute decided to launch the new studies this autumn.

“We have had huge interest in this,” said the Insurance agent finance career change Dorothy Wood. “We are expecting it to grow like topsy.”

Each qualification has two parts: “Introduction to Money” and “Money Management” for the Foundation Certificate; and “Personal Financial Encounters” and “Money Management Solutions” for the Intermediate Certificate.

Gavin Shreeve, Chief Executive at the Institute said he believed that with consumer debt topping 1 trillion in 2005, financial literacy was at crisis point in the UK.

“We believe these skills are so fundamental that we are also planning to offer these courses to the wider adult community,” he said.

For the last five years, schools and colleges have been able to offer both a certificate and diploma in financial studies organised by the Institute.

This is aimed at 17-18 year olds, for instance those studying at A level.

Nearly 100 schools are offering these, with more than 2,000 students currently studying the certificate.