Samad Mumbai, June 24: How has Team India’s swashbuckling opening batsman (and vice-captain) Virender Sehwag begun his convalescing period at home while Messrs Dhoni & Co take on the West Indies in the Caribbean islands?
Rather well, it would seem, if reports of how Sehwag is recovering from his IPL shoulder injury are anything to go by.
Mumbai,June 29: Rumour has it that Fardeen Khan and his sister Laila’s boyfriend Farhan Furniturewala do not get along.
Late Saturday night, both men nearly came to blows at a nightclub in Andheri East. Fardeen, Laila, Farhan, Farah Ali Khan and her husband DJ Aqeel were together when the fight happened.
An eyewitness said, “It all started with a heated discussion, which soon became an ugly argument. A point came when they both got physical. Onlookers were extremely shocked at their behaviour.”
Mumbai, June 29: It was all about looking into the future for Bollywood with films like ‘Aa Dekhen Zara’, ’13 B’ and ‘Kal Kissne Dekha’ hitting the screens in recent times. But now it is flashback time and forthcoming movies will see popular actors exploring the times that have gone by.
These include Saif Ali Khan’s production debut ‘Love Aaj Kal’, “Akshay Kumar’s ‘Action Replay’ and ‘Once Upon a Time in Mumbai’ that stars Emraan Hashmi.
Washinton, June 29: Yep, you heard it right. Today’s senior citizens are proving that you can enjoy sex well into your 80s. During a survey, published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, conducted by the University of Chicago, men and women ranging in the ages of 57 to 85 were asked questions regarding their sexual activity over the past year. Based on the information gathered, it seems some men and women are enjoying their sex lives well into their later years.
Washington, June 29: Sleep is one of the most important necessities of life, as is evidenced by the plethora of studies and articles recently published about this daily occurrence. Whether it is the comforts necessary for a good night’s sleep or the fact that many people find that good sleep helps them keep their personal and professional dreams, what I have found is that sleep acts much like a nutrient, vital for keeping you healthy, just like the foods, beverages, and supplements people consume everyday.
Hyderabad, June 29: The Tirupati East Police has busted a racket and arrested 10 people for allegedly selling Srivari Darshan token in the black market here.
Mumbai, June 29: When 12-year-old Paridhi Shah lied to her friends at school, she presented her mum Alpa with a delicate parenting dilemma: should she react as an understanding friend, or as a disciplinarian parent with zero tolerance for duplicity of any kind?
Tokyo, June 29: North Korea has vowed to shoot down any Japanese planes that violate its airspace, accusing Tokyo of spying near one of its missile launch sites.
The military “will not tolerate even a bit the aerial espionage by the warmongers of the Japanese aggression forces but mercilessly shoot down any plane intruding into the territorial air [of the North] even 0.001 mm,” the air force said in a statement on Saturday.
Kolkata, June 29: Security forces on Sunday arrested two Maoist rebels, defused seven landmines and were busy gathering intelligence inputs before launching an assault on the rebels’ remaining stronghold at Kantapahari and its surrounding areas of West Bengal.
The two Left wing extremists were picked up from Sarenga near Kargil junction in neighbouring Bankura district, minutes after two landmines were found from the area by the joint force of the central paramilitary troopers and West Bengal armed police.
The two rebels were being interrogated at the Khatra police station.
Toronto, June 29: A 59-year-old Toronto man convicted three times for possessing child pornography, is now facing a fourth such charge.
Blair Evans, a retired nuclear physicist, was arrested at a branch of a public library in Toronto.
In 2005, Evans received a 47-month sentence related to child porn, the toughest-such sentence imposed in Canada at the time.
He served eight months because of credit received for 17 months of pretrial custody and was freed on probation in July 2006.
New Delhi, June 29: Picture yourself doing this. You buy a plasma TV at a high price. The salesman is not only rude, but treats you like dirt. You swallow the humiliation, for you badly want that TV.
New Delhi, June 29: Yashpal, said Kolkata in his recommendations regarding the National Curriculum Framework 2006 he had suggested the abolition of “traumatic board exams”, but not to do away with the state boards.
Mumbai, June 29: Making a comedy became a sure-shot success formula at the box office in 2008, but it hasn’t worked well for filmmakers so far this year with biggies like “Chandni Chowk To China” and “Billu” biting the dust at the ticket window.
But many still feel that the genre hasn’t lost its charm and will prove its worth with upcoming films like “Kambakkht Ishq” and “Dil Bole Hadippa”.
Hong Kong, June 29: An increasing number of Hong Kong teenagers are selling sex to earn money for designer clothes, in a trend called “compensated dating”, a survey released on Sunday indicated.
One in 10 students questioned said they believed schoolgirls were involved in the practice and 6.6% said they knew fellow students who had done it.
87% of the 3,000 interviewees said they believed teenagers got involved in the practice to earn money to buy branded products. Police have arrested several men in recent months for allegedly working as pimps for schoolgirls as young as 13.
New Delhi, June 29: Akshay Kumar has worked with both Kareena Kapoor and Katrina Kaif in several films, but can’t decide who is better. The action king says both are “wonderful actresses” and have “sexy bodies”.
“Both Kareena and Katrina are really good but who is the better among them depends on their roles in the films. Otherwise, both of them have sexy bodies and are absolutely wonderful actresses,” said Akshay when asked to choose his favourite of the two.
Jamaica, June 29: West Indies levelled the series 1-1 by defeating India by eight wickets at the second one-day international at Sabina Park Sunday. The game was dominated by West Indies from the start. A painstaking 95 from skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his defiant 101-run ninth-wicket partnership with Rudra Pratap Singh helped pull India out of a hole and reach a decent 188 after being 82 for eight.
Mumbai, June 28: Only Indian greats, left-arm spin magician Bishen Singh Bedi, prolific opener Sunil Gavaskar and champion all rounder Kapil Dev, have been named by the International Cricket Council in its 55-strong Hall of Famers list, which has 22 Englishmen in it.
The ICC, while announcing Colin Cowdrey as the 19th cricketer to be formally inducted in its elite list of cricket greats, provided the list of persons who have been chosen for the Hall of Fame, but yet to be formally inducted.
Mumbai, June 28: Even as Bipasha Basu rushed back from Goa to Mumbai to watch her boyfriend John Abraham’s performance in New York, the film’s leading lady Katrina Kaif, whose performance has been praised, is yet to convince her boyfriend Salman Khan to see her film.
Mumbai, June 28: Hoardings and trailers are things of the past.Movie production houses are now looking at novel marketing techniques to get audiences to the theatres. And with several movies lined up for release, we’ll see more innovation in this arena.
Mumbai, June 28: I am shocked at the untimely passing away of Michael Jackson, one of the greatest musicians of our time.
MJ pushed the milestone of pop music to unbelievable levels through the 80s and 90s. I’m yet to find an artiste with that energy, perfection and vision.
Mumbai, June 28: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has been nominated to receive an honorary doctorate in arts and culture from Britain’s University of Bedfordshire.Shah Rukh, the first foreign actor to be conferred the Malaysian title of Datuk – akin to a British knighthood – last year, will receive his first doctorate July 10.
The actor was chosen for the doctorate by NGO Routes to Roots, a member of the World Association of Non-Governmental Organization (WANGO) that works closely with universities and educational trusts in various countries, said a press release.
Mumbai, June 28: He is 49 and he still does daring stunts. Sanjay Dutt jumped off a speeding train blindfolded and with his hands tied behind his back – for a death-defying Rs.1.5 crore (Rs.15 million) scene in “Luck”.
According to director Soham Shah, Sanjay’s sequence is the “biggest and the most expensive” highlight of the film.
“It is Sanju’s (Sanjay’s) introductory sequence. Along with other actors, he jumps from a running train, blindfolded with his hands tied behind his back. The scene is about these characters testing their luck,” Shah said in a press statement.
Mumbai, June 27: There’s no doubt that Akshay is a complete professional. Akki has recently completed his old shelved movie Purab Ki Laila Paschim Ka Chaila.
Akshay had given commitment to director Shabnam Kapoor and has finally completed shooting for the film. Apparently this old shelved film has been revived and renamed as Hello India.
Mumbai, June 27: Shah Rukh Khan is in no mood to take any more chances with his health. His film, Ra 1 to be directed by Anubhav Sinha, will only go on the floors next year as Shah Rukh has not recovered fully from his shoulder injury. As a result, the film will roll in mid 2010 instead of September 2009.
Mumbai, June 27: ‘New York’ is a contemporary story of friendship set against the larger than life backdrop of a city often described as the centre of the world. Omar ( Neil Nitin Mukesh) has gone abroad for the first time in his life and soon enough he begins to see and love America through the eyes of his American friends – Sam (John Abraham) and Maya (Katrina Kaif). It is the story of these three friends discovering a new world together.