faheem He may only be eight years old but Indonesian Adi Ilham has grabbed the world’s attention with his 25-a-day smoking habit.
The youngster, from Sukabumi, has dropped out of school because they have stopped him from smoking and, according to his parents, he becomes violent when they try to make him quit.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy has owned up responsibility for the Congress party’s defeat in the by-elections to seven assembly seats.
The ruling party drew a blank in the by-elections, the results of which were announced Wednesday. The chief minister told reporters that the Congress party failed to take the government programmes to voters.
The chief minister felt that the party would learn new lessons from the defeat. He, however, said the cadre should not lose heart. He denied that there is lack of coordination between the government and the party.
A married woman threw acid on the face of a man she was having an affair with as she suspected him of harbouring bad intentions towards her daughters in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa district, police said Wednesday.
The woman, who was arrested, said she was having an affair with the man, Mohit Sondhilya but he was harbouring bad intentions towards her daughters.
Mohit, who got badly injured and is under treatment in Sanjay Gandhi Hospital, however, said that he had lent Rs.10,000 to the woman. When he went to take it, instead of giving the money back, she threw acid on his face.
Shabana Azmi liked Vidya Balan’s performance in “Kahaani” so much that she could see glimpses of herself in her. At the same time, she feels the young actress should avoid the pitfall of accepting only central parts.
“Somewhere I feel Vidya has made the daring but right career choices. I see glimpses of my own involvement with my roles in Vidya Balan,” say Shabana appreciatively after watching Balan in” Kahaani”.
Virat Kohli’s brand value is growing at such a heady rate that in terms of endorsement rates he is now only second to Sachin Tendulkar and Mahendra Singh Dhoni in the Indian team.
Till around a year back Kohli was in the 80 lakh-crore bracket, alongwith the other youngsters. But his performances in Australia – namely two centuries (one in the Tests and one in the ODIs) and in the Asia Cup have the sponsors lining up for the next big thing in Indian cricket.
In a setback to Andhra Pradesh’s ruling Congress, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) bagged four assembly seats while the YSR Congress and an independent won one seat each. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had a narrow lead on a seventh seat.
The by-elections to seven assembly seats, six of them in Telangana region, were held Sunday.
The elections were caused by vacancies that arose due to the resignations of two legislators of the Congress and four rebels of the TDP.
Mumbai: In a conservative society like India, where topics like ‘sex’ and ‘pornography’ are a taboo to discuss, controversial bomb shell diva Poonam Pandey has gone overboard and has come out in support of porn.
Poonam says that porn movies should be legalised in India. The model said, “There is nothing wrong in legalising porn films in India. Everyone has porn clips in their cell phones, but no one has the guts to watch it in open. Sex films are always watched under a hidden situation in India. It’s new generation, so whats wrong in watching it openly?”
Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev today decided to come together for a strong Jan Lokpal Bill and for bringing back unaccounted wealth stashed by Indians in foreign lands. Mr Hazare, accompanied by his team members, including Mr Arvind Kejriwal, Mr Manish Sisodia and Mr Sanjay Singh, reached Patanjali Yogpeeth in the afternoon and held discussions with Baba Ramdev on their future strategy.
A Samajwadi Party leader is in the dock in Kanpur after he allegedly bashed up a youth in public, forcing him to end his life.
The suicide sparked violence in Kanpur as a mob clashed with police and set fire to the house and hotel of the SP leader, identified as Prashant, who allegedly tried to extort Rs.300 from the victim, Ankit Yadav.
Ankit was badly beaten up, after he refused to pay up. A badly bruised and publicly humiliated Ankit later committed suicide by hanging self.
She is slim, tall and pretty, but Sonam Kapoor feels she can’t do justice to a saucy and pacy item number.
“I don’t have a body to do an item number. I am slim, trim and healthy but I don’t have the grace and style and all that requires a little time to develop. I am a little young right now,” Sonam said at an event here.
The fashionista’s dancing ability were seen in “Saawariya”, “Delhi-6” and “Aisha”. But she doesn’t have any hit dance number to her credit so far.
In a ghastly accident, 13 school children were killed and 25 were injured when a private school bus fell into a canal in Andhra Pradesh’s Khammam district Tuesday, police said.
The accident took place near Tungaram in Chandragondu rpt Chandragondu mandal (block) in Khammam district, about 250 km from Hyderabad.
All the deceased are aged between 5 and 10 years. Seven of the bodies have so far been identified.
The injured were admitted to different hospitals and the condition of three of them is stated to be critical.
The Saifabad police on Monday registered a case against actor Genelia and five others following the directions of Nampally court.
The police issued an FIR against them under various Sections including Section 120(b) (criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating), 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC.
The court direction came based on a complaint filed by one Tirupa-iah, a pensioner, that Anjaniputra Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. and its directors had cheated him.
Lata Mageshkar is jubilant about Sachin Tendulkar scoring his 100th Test ton but is unhappy about suggestions that he retire from the game.
“Why do we this to the best of our artistes and sportspersons,” Lata asked angrily.
“Why do we place so much performance anxiety on them? People think it’s been smooth-sailing all the way for me. But I’ve gone through a rough patch in my career. There was a time when I was ready to quit. I fought back. And so did Sachin,” said added.
Telugu Desam Party MLA Bojjala Gopala Krishna Reddy on Tuesday condemned media reports which said that party president N Chandrababu Naidu had sold the Rajya Sabha seats to influential men.
Talking to media persons at Assembly media point, he said that there was no truth in the media reports and termed them as ‘unfortunate.’ He said that the TDP has never stooped to such level at anytime. Unlike the Congress Party, he said that the TDP has allotted nominated posts to those, who served the party and people sincerely.
A special CBI court today remanded till 26 March alleged shooter Tabish Khan in police custody in connection with the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood.
Tabish Khan, a cousin of another key accused Shaquib Ali ‘Danger’, was arrested from his Bekanganj residence in Kanpur by the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force yesterday. He is the fifth person to be held in the high-profile case.
He came, he spoke, he disappointed. “In Delhi, Rushdie Issues a Battle Cry” declares the headline in New York Times’ India Ink blog rather grandly, but the only battle Salman seemed to be fighting on stage at the India Today conclave was against his myriad opponents.
Forty-three years after it happened, few remember that one of the earliest plane hijacks in the world was carried out with a toy pistol by a 16-year-old Kashmiri boy. But in the mind of Hashim Qureshi, that boy who is now 59 years old, the incident still ticks away like the script of a high voltage Hollywood thriller.
He hijacked an Indian Airlines Srinagar-Jammu flight to Lahore Jan 30, 1969, armed with a toy pistol and a wooden grenade. From a freedom fighting hijacker to an advocate of peace and progress today, his journey has been arduous.
In a major decision, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav Monday did away with the unique initiative of his predecessor Mayawati wherein deputy inspector generals of police (DIGs) were posted in the five biggest cities of the state, known as the KAVAL cities.
The decision, expected from the day of the new government`s swearing in, was approved Monday night after which the DIG regime was abolished in Kanpur, Agra, Varanasi, Allahabad and Lucknow.
Kareena Kapoor shoots her steamiest love scene so far… with Arjun Rampal
Blame it on Vidya Balan`s The Dirty Picture. In a bid to match the raunchy standards set by DP; Madhur Bhandarkar has taken the brakes of his Heroine.
A source informs, “Madhur shot a very steamy love scene between Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Rampal recently. It was a closed door affair with only the actors, DOP (director of photography); a couple of key assistants and the filmmaker.”
The Supreme Court on Monday sought feedback from the Nanavati Commission and the Gujarat Government on a plea asking the Commission to summon Chief Minister Narendra Modi for questioning in connection with the 2002 riots.
A bench of justices DK Jain and AK Dave issued notices to the Commission and the state government, asking them to file their responses within four weeks.
The bench’s order came on a plea by non-governmental organisation Jan Sangarsh Manch (JSM) of the Gujarat riot victims, after their plea was dismissed by the Gujarat High Court.
On March 7, around 11.30 am, special cell of Delhi police picked Syed Mohammad Ahmed Kazmi, from outside India Islamic Cultural Centre, Delhi. At 9 am that morning, he had anchored a news bulletin for Doordarshan. On record, he was arrested at 8.30 pm. Later in the day, police confiscated his laptop, passport, driving license and car from his house in Jorbarh, South Delhi, where Kazmi resided with his wife and two sons. By next morning, Kazmi had become news.
The Dibrugarh-New Delhi Rajdhani Express tonight collided with a vehicle at an unmanned level crossing near Sahebpur Kamal railway station in Begusarai district.
The mishap took place when the vehicle got stuck at the railway line. There was no report of any injury, railway sources said. The train later left for its onward destination, they said, adding senior railway officials visited the spot.
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India’s diplomatic efforts to resolve a controversy relating to Russian state prosecutors’ bid to get a Russian interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita banned and branded extremist literature will be put to test again with a high court in the Siberian city of Tomsk set to deliver its final verdict Tuesday.
: Aggrieved over his resignation as Railway Minister after facing the wrath of Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee, Dinesh Trivedi today rued that there is too much of politics in the country and that the system should be above it.
“There is too much of politics in India and India cannot survive with too much of politics on a day-to-day basis. System should be above politics and it is applicable to every ministry,” Trivedi, who put in his papers last night, told reporters.
TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu is a very happy man these days. Not that the Congress is in shambles facing corruption charges but he was able to make inroads into Telangana for campaigning. Kadiyam Srihari the senior TDP leader says that from no entry a few years ago to entry and campaigning is a lot of progress. And if Kadiyam has to be believed, the mass response to TDP has been pretty good coming as it after his Rytu Pora Bata.
Naidu is happy because this all mean the TDP will have a bright prospects in the 2014 elections. And, the that thought is making his adrenalin run faster.