Last year, Shetty was the hostess and presenter of Bigg Boss, the Indian version of Big Brother.
They quickly made the decision to develop an Indian version that points to in-country resources and takes cultural differences into account.
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In 2011, Dutt hosted Bigg Boss, the Indian version of Big Brother.
Like its American counterpart, the Indian version uses personal accounts - some dramatic, others funny - to illustrate how a woman's sexuality is repressed.
Other projects in the pipeline: an exchange for small and medium enterprises, which will be an Indian version of London's Alternative Investment Market, and a corporate bond market.
Last year Bachchan returned as the celebrity host of Kaun Banega Crorepati, the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire - one of the most watched shows on Indian television.
Bollywood legend Anil Kapoor, who stars as the host of the Indian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" in the movie, said he was with Boyle when the nominations were announced.
"Our dream is to have an Indian version of a global channel that can take on CNN and the BBC, " muses Prannoy Roy over a cup of tea in his office, which overlooks the main newsroom.
T-shirts that Depp has worn have pictures of American Indian warriors in the 1492 version of homeland security and with the letters "AIM" for American Indian Movement, Tsosie said.
Mexico's Zapatist movement said it would continue its rebellion, after Congress had approved a watered-down version of a law to promote Indian rights.
The earlier version of Glivec did not have an Indian patent because its development far predated the country's 2005 patent law.
Pratibha Singh, a lawyer for the Indian generic drug manufacturer Cipla, which makes a version of Glivec for less than a tenth of the original drug's selling price, said the court ruled that a patent could only be given to a new drug, and not to those which are only slightly different from the original.
Indian authorities denied the firm's plea on the grounds that the updated version was only slightly different from the previous one.
"It is a landmark judgement, " Sakhtivel Selvaraj, a leading Delhi-based health economist, tells me, hours after the Indian Supreme Court's decision to reject a plea by Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis to patent an updated version of its cancer drug, Glivec.
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