The 500-page book is supposed to be a tell-all on Khan, who was married to the glamorous Jemima Khan. An entire chapter is devoted to the couple's marriage, apart from Jemima's take on her failed marriage.

The biography of the Tehrik-e-Insaf chief will be launched worldwide in London before its subsequent release in New Delhi, Lahore and Toronto.

Zeba Naureen, a Toronto-based journalist, is working on the Urdu translation of the book, Huzur said.

The book will feature rare pictures of the cricketing legend and his family.

Falcon Books, the publishers, have decided to contribute 15 per cent of the book's cover price to Khan's Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, which he set up after his mother died of cancer.

The Minister informed that value added services like mobile banking, mobile advertisement, tele-education and lost mobile tracking system are also planned to be launched by BSNL during the current year. BSNL is going to provide wireless broadband services Wi-Max through the franchisee route.

Raja informed the Committee that BSNLs mobile network is being upgraded to 3G level, for which order and equipment are likely to be progressively commissioned by July 2009. BSNL has planned to provide high-speed data service (up to 2.4 Mbps) on CDMA WLL network. It has also planned to commercially launch prepaid services on WLL from this month.

The Minister said that 8,000 mobile towers would be erected by the end of this year under Phase-I of the shared mobile infrastructure scheme. Another 11,000 towers are planned under Phase-II of this scheme.

The government will initially connect 5,000 blocks in the country by wireless broadband soon after the allocation of the spectrum. The UPA government has set a target of 500 million telephone connections by 2010 and 750 million connections by 2012, Raja said.

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China had joined hold-out countries like Austria, New Zealand and Ireland which insisted on incorporating their concerns in the waiver but later relented after the US pushed hard to get the nod of the 45-member nuclear cartel.

"China believes that all countries are entitled to make peaceful use of nuclear energy, and conduct international cooperation in this regard," the statement said.

"Meanwhile, relevant cooperation should be conducive to safeguarding the integrity and efficacy of the international nuclear non-proliferation regime," the statement said.

Beijing's statement is being seen as a move to assuage New Delhi which has conveyed its unhappiness over the Chinese position at the NSG meet.

The tough negotiations at Vienna went down to the wire after China, which had sounded positive in the run-up to the NSG meeting, took a different line creating problems for a consensus on the waiver.

The statement came on a day when External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee held talks with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi in New Delhi.