Mumbai, June 12: Hollywood film-maker of Indian origin Nagendra Karri (whose last film Where Are You Sophia? was showcased at Cannes this year) is now making a thriller called Mobster in which superstar Johnny Depp is tipped to play a CIA agent. But what makes this project more interesting is that the director is plotting to remake the film in Hindi that might see Aamir Khan or John Abraham stepping into Johnny’s shoes.
London, June 12: After being an international style icon for years, Victoria Beckham, it seems, has lost her mojo.
After being an international style icon for years, Victoria Beckham, it seems, has lost her mojo.While stepping out in London on Wednesday, the singer-turned-fashion designer gave an eyeful- courtesy her protruding nipples, reports the Sun.
The former Spice Girl attended appointments in London after leaving Claridge’s hotel in Mayfair wearing a nipple-flashing top.
Mumbai, June 12: Producer Vashu Bhagnani’s war with his director Vivek Sharma just got murkier.
One of Vivek Sharma’s demands on his producer is to let Shah Rukh Khan share the publicity hoardings with debutant Jackky Bhagnani.
But Vashu protests, “Vivek had worked with Shah Rukh in Bhootnath. He came and told me he wanted to bring Shah Rukh into a cameo in Kal Kisne Dekha and now he wants it publicized. How can I single out Shah Rukh for prominence when there’re other big stars making guest appearances in Kal Kisna Dekha?
New Delhi, June 12: Apparently fed up with strained relations with his wife, a 25-year-old man allegedly axed his two minor daughters to death at a
village here, on Friday police said.
Yogesh Sharma murdered his two daughters – Aarti (4) and one-and-half-year-old Priyanshi – with a sharp edged weapon on Thursday when his wife Rinki was not present in the house at Jever village in Gautam Buddha Nagar district, Superintendent of Police (Rural) S K Verma said.
Hyderabad, June 12: India Friday reported one more swine flu patient, taking the number of cases to 16, with a six-year-old girl who had arrived here from the US testing positive for the H1N1 virus.
The samples of the girl, who arrived here along with her parents and six-month-old brother from New York on June 9, had tested positive for influenza A(H1N1), commonly known as swine flu, doctors said.
She has been quarantined and is being treated at the Andhra Pradesh Chest Hospital, the nodal centre for dealing with flu cases.
Hyderabad, June 12: The Congress appears to be preparing for an all-out offensive against the Telangana Rashtra Samithi. Apparently taking a cue from Chief Minister YS Rajansekhara Reddy’s tirade against Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president K Chandrasekhar Rao in the Assembly on Wednesday, ministers belonging to the Telangana region as well as PCC chief D Srinivas stepped up their campaign against the TRS.
Mumbai, June 12: Terrorists are still trying to penetrate the country’s, especially Maharashtra’s, coastline. The November 26 terror attacks had exposed the vulnerability of the state’s porous coastline.
Mohammed Omar Madani, the Laskar-e-Tayiba operative arrested by officers of the special cell of Delhi police on June 4, has told them that his primary duty was to make inroads into the Konkan coast of Maharashtra and the Malabar coast of Karnataka. But in the course of interrogation, police learnt that Madani was entrusted with multiple tasks.
Cairo, June 12: Though Muslims enjoy a unique atmosphere of tolerance in Brazil, many of their mosques are closed because of the rarity of imams, something that threatens the Islamic identity of many Muslims, particularly the younger generations.
“One third of the mosques are closed due to the absence of imams,” Al-Sadiq Al-Othmani, head of the Islamic Affairs Department at the Sao Paulo-based Center of Islamic Da`wah in Latin America, told IslamOnline.net over the phone.
There are mosques in all the major capitals of the Brazilian states and some cities in the interior.
Mumbai, June 12: Bollywood’s khiladi No. 1 Akshay Kumar met a bigger khiladi in size, at least in his Mumbai home yesterday morning. WWE superstar Kane, an idol of Akki’s son Aarav, visited the actor’s family, and the six-year-old was almost sleepless the night before, overcome with excitement.
Greater Noida, June 12: In a startling revelation, a father confessed murder of two daughters alleging his wife to have illicit relationship, here.
A man, resident of Mangrauli area, killed his daughters. The ‘frustrated’ father went to the police station and confessed the crime saying that his wife had illicit relationship. He alleged that the girls were not his children and were born out of his wife’s illegal relationship.
Mumbai, June 12: Saif Ali Khan is just five minutes away before he addresses the Indian media on his maiden venture into production for his film Love Aaj Kal in which he stars opposite the beautiful leggy Deepika Padukone. But inside the PVR theatre, the room temperature is high and our mind is on overdrive. He has it all.
A successful career and a blissful relationship with Kareena Kapoor. Media keeps waiting for more than an hour but they don’t complaint because the man in question is a ‘nawab’.
Hyderabad, June 12: Adilabad Assistant Superintendent of Police Tarun Joshi on Thursday warned that ragging by students outside the college premises also attracted the stringent penal sections of the AP Prohibition of Ragging Act, 1997. He said students who indulged in ragging of juniors can face problems even later in life once they are found to be guilty under this Act.
Hyderabad, June 12: Both Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy and Leader of Opposition N. Chandrababu Naidu are changed persons after the general elections, at least going by what they said about each other.
Mr. Naidu said “I am told the Chief Minister has changed his ways of late and I hope to see a different Rajasekhara Reddy”.
The Chief Minister observed about his rival, “I found a change in his attitude. I welcome it totally”. As these compliments were traded on the floor of the Assembly, they cannot be treated lightly.
Hyderabad, June 12: A 22-year-old woman, Chinna, working with the housekeeping section of My Home Navadeep apartment complex beside Cyber Towers in Madhapur, died after falling from the 10th floor of one of the buildings on its premises on Thursday.
–Agencies
Mumbai, June 11: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has summoned forensic and ballistic experts to help probe the murder of Congress leader Pavan Raje Nimbalkar allegedly by his cousin and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MP Padamsinh Patil, an official said here Thursday.
The team will assist the CBI probe the murder, which has created a political storm in Maharashtra and led to Patil’s suspension from the NCP.
Lucknow, June 11: Congress president Sonia Gandhi, on a visit to her Rae Bareli parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh, Thursday said that development would top the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s agenda for the next five years and also urged party workers to gear up for the next assembly elections.
“We are not going to compromise with the issue of development as it will continue to remain on top (of the agenda) for our government,” Gandhi told a gathering of party workers at the Feroz Gandhi Degree College in Rae Bareli, some 80 km from here.
New Delhi, June 11: Can you tell them apart? Can they tell themselves apart? MTV’s new game show featuring identical twins promises to answer all these questions and more.
Titled “Airtel MTV Connected”, the show will have 10 sets of identical twins who will be tested to find out how “connected” they are. The winner will earn a trip to the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur.
Kathmandu, June 11:Will Madhur Bhandarkar, the man who exposed the murky side of the media in “Page Three” and the fashion industry in the Priyanka
Chopra-starrer “Fashion”, now delve into the six-year-old saga of Charles Sobhraj, who is imprisoned in a dingy jail in Nepal?
Hyderabad, June 11: Karnataka’s minister for tourism and leading industrialist Gali Janardhan Reddy Thursday presented a diamond-studded gold crown, estimated to be worth Rs.450 million (Rs.45 crore), to the famous Lord Venkateswara temple at Tirupati.
Janardhan Reddy, who owns Brahmani steel plant and Obulapuram mines in Andhra Pradesh, made the rich offering on the occasion of his birthday.
He refused to publicly divulge the value of the crown but it is estimated to be Rs.450 million. The crown weighs 30 kg and it took nine months for the diamond workers to make it.
Patna, June 11: Eight-year-old Satyam was kidnapped, sodomized and killed by 14-year-old Avinash and 13-year-old Khursheed alias Monu, all neighbours at Ashok Nagar under the Kankerbagh police station.
The gory killing had the residents of Kankerbagh seething in anger. They came out on the streets, set ablaze the kirana shop owned by Avinash’s father and blocked traffic at Ashok Nagar and on the New By-pass Road on Saturday morning.
New Delhi, June 11: Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh has called for making it a “current party” and admitted that it had failed to effectively convey its message to the masses, leading to its election debacle.
“There is a need for ideological distillation of thought. The BJP has to be a current party. It can’t be a party of yesterday. I think there’s lack of clarity on what Hindutva means,” the former central minister told a news channel in an interview on Wednesday.
Most Western analysts of political Islam make the same mistake. They instinctively assume that conflict with the West has mainly to do with specific foreign policies, particularly of the US with respect to Israel, the Arab world and Iran, and, if those changed, all would be well.
In fact, my intensive contact over the years with Iranian clerics, Hezbollah and Hamas suggest that the conflict with the West is much deeper. It is rooted in radically different world views about human nature and the good society.
Ahmedabad, June 11: Three members of a family allegedly committed suicide by consuming some poisonous
substance in Jundagadh district on Thursday, police said. The incident came to light when residents of Meghna society in Keshod town found the bodies of Govind Devecha (57) his wife Ranjan (45) and son Kumar (28), at their residence this morning, they said.Police suspect that financial problems may be one of reasons behind the extreme step.
—Agencies
Gandhinagar, June 11: As is the prevalent practice, all newly elected members of parliament from the state were called to attend a meeting here on Wednesday before they go back for the parliament’s monsoon session. The meet discussed pending issues of the state before the central government.
Mumbai, June 11: The intra-gang war in the Dawood Ibrahim group has intensified so much that one of the faction leaders Chhota Shakeel has fled Pakistan. Apparently, Shakeel fears for his life. The factions, led by Anees Ibrahim, Dawood’s younger brother, and Shakeel have been at loggerheads for several months now.