Mumbai, June 08: After Kangna Ranaut and Adhyayan Suman surprised people by hooking up, they went on to make their relationship official with uninhibited public declarations of love.
News of their split, after a year of being together, has shocked many, including Kangna, as Adhyayan has initiated the move.
Mumbai, June 08: You may have heard of actors swimming under the moonlight. But have you heard of swimming in floodlit pools? But Bipasha Basu is different.
The actress and the female members of her staff — including her two dress designers and her hairdresser actually prefer to swim in the dark. In Goa, where they are currently shooting for All The Best, the dusky beauty waits till it is dark and then she and her entourage head towards the hotel’s swimming pool so that no one takes notice of them.
Mumbai, June 08: But this time around, it is not the aspiring crorepatis of the country who will face his rapidfire questions, but students of a B-school. Yes, Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) has roped in SRK to host their annual business and marketing quiz, not just for this time, but for the next three years.
Nagpur, June 08: A 25-year-old woman was stabbed to death by her stepsons over sharing of property in the wee hours of Sunday. The incident occurred at victim’s Farooque Nagar home. Victim Ishrat Jahan had married Yaar Mohammed, who is in his fifties and having ten children from his first wife, just a couple of months back.
Lucknow, June 08: In a daring robbery, an armed miscreant entered a jewellery store and decamped with jewellery worth over Rs 1 crore, moments after the store owner opened his shop for the day in Sarrafa Chowk area in Pilibhit on Sunday morning. The shop is located barely a 100 metres away from the local Puranpur police station.
Agitated over the incident, traders of Sarrafa Chowk announced that they would keep their shutters down till the accused(s) was arrested and the booty recovered.
Lucknow, June 08: Despite tall claims of the UP Police of initiating stringent action against eve-teasers and those involved in crime against women, a youth barged into a house in Auraiya and raped a teenaged girl, finding her all alone in the house. When the victim raised an alarm, the accused reportedly doused her in kerosene and set herself ablaze before making good his escape.
Ahmedabad, June 08: The state education department seemed to be luring toppers to take up civil services as a career option. Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) on Sunday organised felicitation function for class X and calss XII state toppers of 2008 and 2009. There were close to 200 students who made it to the toppers’ list and were given certificates by the board.
Ahmedabad, June 08: As bizarre as it may sound, police officials in Ahmedabad now say that an illiterate woman, who can’t even spell her name properly, is the brain behind conman Ashok Jadeja’s multi-crore scam.
Jadeja’s aunt, Manbai Rathod, 60, who is a witch doctor or ‘bhuva’, is believed to be the mastermind of the investment scam threatening to cross the Rs 1,000-crore mark. Though illiterate, Rathod coined the now-famous slogan, ‘Jai Madi’ (Jai Ma), which has become synonymous with Jadeja. She was responsible for Jadeja’s demigod status.
Hyderabad, June 08: Task Force police on Sunday arrested two persons for cheating gullible unemployed youth by promising them to send abroad.
Hyderabad, June 08: The chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on Sunday asked the Anti Corruption Bureau to intensify its raids against corrupt people and assured that there would be no political interference however big or influential the person might be.
Hyderabad, June 08: A body was fished out from Boduppal lake near Nacharam on Sunday.
Nacharam inspector V Venkateshwarlu said the body was identified as that of R Venkatesh, 40, an auto-driver who went missing on May 30. Incidentally, Venkatesh was a history-sheeter.
Venkatesh’s family had lodged a missing complaint with the Osmania University police station on June 3. Police suspect Venkatesh was done to death with a boulder as there was an injury on his head.
Hyderabad, June 08: The education department has asked shopkeepers not to sell pirated versions of textbooks in the city. In a release issued here on Saturday, DEO, Hyderabad, M Victoria Kumari has asked school authorities to buy textbooks only from authorised shops, the list of which will be sent to schools.
The DEO has further informed that no other item should be forcefully sold along with the textbooks.
Hyderabad, June 08: The jumbo menace has come back to haunt the villagers of Srikakulam and Vizianagaram districts. The wild elephants are on the rampage again, wreaking havoc in fruit orchards at Kottakota, Kusumuru and Titukpadu villages in Seethampet mandal for the past two days.
Sources said six pachyderms are roaming freely in Seethampet, Veeraghattam and Palakonda mandals, scaring the local tribals and farmers. A wild elephant attacked a couple from Kosingibhadra village of Gummalakshmipuram mandal when they came out to collect wood from the forest.
Hyderabad, June 08: With another suspect from the city testing positive for swine flu, taking the number to seven, National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), Delhi, has put in place stringent screening measures. Henceforth, a registry will be maintained at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Shamshabad, of all incoming international passengers.
With majority of the swine flu cases (seven out of nine) detected in Andhra Pradesh, an NICD team from Delhi was airdashed to the city.
Hyderabad, June 08: Finally, the southwest monsoon hit the city on Sunday, providing the much-needed relief from the sweltering heat. Though the monsoon entered the state on June 1, it took six days to reach the twin cities, missing the normal set date by two days, according to data posted on Indian Meteorological Department’s website. Also, cyclone Aila played its bit in slowing down the weather system.
Two spells of rain – one at around 4 pm and another at around 7.30 pm – sent mercury levels plummeting. By 8.30 pm, the city recorded 1.7 cms of rainfall.
SoPaulo, June 08:Search teams Sunday recovered the bodies of 17 people from the Air France plane that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean with 228 people on board June 1, a Brazilian Air Force spokesman said.
While Brazilian teams retrieved nine bodies, French teams recovered eight, Brazilian Air Force spokesman Henry Munhoz said in the northeastern city of Recife.
He said four of the bodies were male and four female, but didn’t identify the sex of the remaining nine victims.
New Delhi, June 08: A 30-year-old woman was arrested here for allegedly murdering her “alcoholic and abusive” husband after her father reported the matter to police, investigators said today.
Neha alias Sunita was arrested yesterday from her Rohini residence by police after her father reported the murder of his son-in-law Naveen (32) on Friday night, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Outer) Atul Katiyar said.
Chennai, June 08: The city woke up on Sunday to the macabre tale of a man’s body parts being recovered from three different parts of the city and his head still missing. With the help of a receipt found in his trouser pocket, the police identified the man as G Suresh Kumar, a 42-year-old man from Kodungaiyur who worked as an intermediary for gold sales. The motive behind the murder is yet to be established, though the police suspect business-related rivalry.
Chicago, June 08: A 90-year-old suburban Chicago woman who dropped out of school to help her family during the Great Depression now has her high school diploma.
Eleanor Benz left Chicago Public Schools’ Lake View High in 1936 during her senior year to take a job. Over the following decades she moved to the suburb of Gurnee and had 15 children, 54 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren.
Mumbai, June 08: Taking apparently tough notice to the case of Malegaon 06’ blast accused Abrar Ahmed’s nephew Aftab Ahmad who was beaten by allegedly some plain-clothed officials of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad outside Byculla Central Jail, state Home Minister Arif Naseem Khan has ordered ATS to probe into the incident.
According to media reports, the Home Minister called acting ATS chief Pramvir Singh at his office and ordered him to conduct a probe into the matter. Khan has promised that tough action will be taken against the culprits.
Aligarh: The Governor of West Bengal, Mr. Gopalkrishna Gandhi today urged the Aligarh Muslim University to play an important role in ‘exploring the deprived sections of society including women who suffered from lack of education’.
New Delhi, June 08 : The Bharatiya Janata Party lost the Lok Sabha elections due to absence of key allies who deserted the National Democratic Alliance feeling that the 2002 communal violence in Gujarat could cost them Muslim votes and the party did nothing about it, says a key BJP strategist.
In an article in the latest issue of the Tehelka newsmagazine, Sudheendra Kulkarni, a close aide to the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani, writes: “In the aftermath of the 2004 defeat, many of our allies left the NDA.
New Delhi, June 08: The BJP was “enfeebled” by so much “disarray” at the top never before witnessed in its history and its prime ministerial candidate L K Advani himself “failed” to assert his leadership at “crucial points”, says a key party strategist while analyzing its poll debacle.
Sudheendra Kulkarni, who is also a close aide of Advani, while giving an insight into the factors behind BJP’s defeat in the Lok Sabha elections cited confusion about Hindutva, failure to overcome the party’s limited social base, negativism in its campaign and a leadership in disarray.
London, June 08: England booked their place in the second round Super Eights of the ICC World Twenty20 with a 48-run win over Pakistan at the Oval on Sunday.
The hosts, 48 hours after their shock four-wicket loss to the Netherlands, bounced back to record a win which, because their net run-rate was now superior to that of the Dutch, ensured their progress in the tournament.
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Chennai, June 08: Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, one of the two Chennai-based institutions found charging illegal donations by a TOI-Times Now investigation, began offering the MBBS course in 2002, the same year that it received `deemed university’ status. Using the autonomy, the college designed its own courses, syllabus and teaching methodologies. Five years later, it awarded degrees to doctors under its own name.