subhan Mumbai, June 12: Akshay Kumar on the battle of the sexes Bollywood is back with a bang is what Akshay has said in his blog on facebook.
He had been enjoying all these while from his mother-in-law surprise birthday bash to the end of the strike of multiplexes strike. Now Akki is all set for the battle of sexes on screen with his up coming movie Kambakht Ishq.
Washington, June 12: A spokesman for President Asif Ai Zardari has rejected CIA chief Leon Panetta’s claim that Osama bin Laden is still in Pakistan and challenged the organisation to hand over any evidence it has to back it up.
Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar told reporters Friday, “There is no truth in this CIA statement. These are all rumors.”
Babar said, if the CIA knows he is in Pakistan, then it “should also know his exact location” and share it with Pakistan.”
Lahore, June 12: At least two people have been killed in near-simultaneous blast in Pakistan, officials say.
One blast took place inside the offices of the Jamia Naeemia religious school and mosque in the eastern city of Lahore soon after Friday prayers, police said.
One of those killed in Lahore was a prominent religious leader known to oppose the Taliban, police said.
“Unfortunately, Maulana Sarfraz Naeemi has been martyred,” Pervez Rathore, a Lahore police chief, told the Reuters news agency.
Another person was killed and at least six others hurt in the attack.
Mumbai, June 12: While Yash Raj Films is keeping no stone unturned to promote its upcoming movie New York there seems to be fresh tension within the family. Aditya Chopra raised a few eyebrows by almost skipping the special screening of the movie at the Yash Raj Studios and making an 11th hour entry. The obvious reason was the presence of ex-wife Payal Chopra in the screening.
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Mumbai, June 12: The latest buzz in the Bollywood rumour mill is that actor Salman Khan wants to extend his friendly hand to Shahrukh Khan. Sallu bhai has gone a step further and planning to invite his arch rival rival Bollywood King Khan to his popular show 10 Ka Dum.
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Kuwait, June 10: Two police officers have been arrested in Kuwait for raping two expatriate women from the Philippines.
The officers were arrested by officials from the Operations Department of the Ministry of Interior after being informed by a Kuwaiti, reported Al Qabas daily, quoting a police source.
Lucknow, June 10: Four policemen in Uttar Pradesh’s Basti district were suspended Wednesday for allegedly running a sex racket from their official quarters, an official said Wednesday.
“An enquiry has also been initiated against the four constables, who were caught with two call girls Tuesday night at the police residential quarters,” a district police spokesperson told IANS by phone.
Investigations revealed that Manoj Patel, one of the suspended constables, used to run a prostitution ring with the other three police men, who would solicit clients. Basti is 275 km from here.
Mumbai, June 10: Priyanka Chopra and Shahid Kapoor are the latest couple to sizzle around the industry. Well it was recently reported that Shahid has opted out of the IIFA Awards 2009, where he was supposed to perform with Priyanka from their upcoming film Kaminey.
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Shahid is busy with his commitment for Ken Ghosh’s flick. On the other side, Priyanka too is busy shooting in Singapore for Yash Raj movie Pyaar Impossible.
London, June 10: Pakistan wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal, who was named the man-of-the-match after his team’s 82-run victory over the Dutch, said he was relieved after the Greenshirts managed to qualify for the Super Eights in the ongoing World T20 Championship here.
Akmal, who struck a 30-ball 41 and then set a new T20 International record with four stumpings at the Lord’s yesterday, attributed his match-winning performance in Pakistan’s do-or-die game against the Netherlands to ”hard work”.
Mumbai, June 10: The organisers of IIFA Awards 2009 are unperturbed by Kareena Kapoor’s announcement that she would not attend this year’s event to be held at Macau. In fact, they feel that the Bachchans, consisting of Amitabh, Jaya, Abhishek and Aishwarya, can make any event a success.
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Mumbai, June 10: Rumourmongers know how to turn a mole hill into a mountain. They linked Salman Khan [^] with German model Claudia Ciesla just because they were spotted together. Then the story of his breakup with Katrina Kaif [^] started spreading like wildfire. The fact is, Katrina must be having a good laugh over the whole episode, as she knows the truth.
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The story goes like this… Claudia Ciesla, met Salman through a common friend. Sources said that Salman then introduced her to his family and Katrina to make her feel at home in Mumbai.
Mumbai, June 10: Having approved the relationship of Saif Ali Khan with Kareena Kapoor, sister Soha Ali, all set to make a debut on the small screen, now wants him on her first reality TV show.
Speaking about getting celebrities to the show, Soha says, she wants to play the game with her brother – Saif. Soha, who thinks that they (Saif and Soha) have a very good understanding of each other, felt her team work with bhai jaan will be super good and if they come to play on the sets of her new game show, they are sure to win a good prize.
Mumbai, June 10: After having successfully hosted Kaun Banega Crorepati and Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain? on Star Plus, Shahrukh Khan is all set to star in a Television soap. The biggest production house of Bollywood Yash Raj Films will soon be venturing into the small screen and produce soaps for a leading General Entertainment Channel.
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Mumbai, June 10: Thane resident Meghana Shah finds that her husband of two years, has another wife. Says he insisted on calling her Humera, which incidentally is also the first wife’s name
If you want to know what’s in a name, ask a conman. A man married two women and named them both ‘Humera’ to make life easier for him. And the trick worked for two years, till his luck finally ran out on Sunday, when both women met each other and found out the truth.
Mumbai, June 10: Hrithik Roshan will be seen in a brand new avatar for Sanjay Khan’s production Welcome To The Jungle.
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The film is an adventure tale set in the jungle and will have Hrithik and Zayed in the lead roles. As per sources, Hrithik plays the role of a wildlife explorer and will be seen wearing khaki shorts throughout the film. Sanober Kabir’s brother Farukh will direct the project.
Gaza, June 10: The Palestinian Authority Security Services’ spokesman has rejected an Israeli report saying Palestinian police have arrested three Qalqiliya women preparing for suicide bombings.
An Israeli news report on Tuesday morning claimed that the Hamas-affiliated women were preparing to blow themselves up amidst PA officers but were arrested and taken into custody.
Mumbai, June 10: Sharmila Tagore is just back in New Delhi after shooting in London with her daughter Soha for new director Sangeeta Dutta’s Life Goes On.
This is the first time that the maa-beti will be seen together on screen. Though she enjoyed working in the film, both thoroughly missed the doyen of Bengali cinema Soumitra Chatterjee who was supposed to play the lead.
Mumbai, June 10: On her 45-minute ride from the airport to the press conference venue (where she dispensed sagacious slices on the intricacies of hair grafting), Mahima Chaudhury had her sleepy daughter to tend to, a speeding driver to reprimand and make-up to apply. Needless to say, she juggled all these tasks without any difficulty.
Vadodara, June 10: A female health worker, Sarjan Parmar (28) from Vajeria village of Tilakwada taluka in Narmada district, has accused the Tilakwada block health officer, Dr Pramod Srivastav, of sexually abusing her. Not just that, Sarjan and her husband have threatened to stage a dharna in front of Narmada district superintendent’s office if the matter is not resolved. Srivastav has denied the allegation.
Mohali, June 10: Cracking the whip against flesh trade rackets in Mohali and Lalru, the district police arrested 20 persons on Tuesday. Those arrested including the two kingpins of the rackets, ten women allegedly involved in prostitution and eight alleged customers. The police said the owner of a hotel where the racket flourished and another man managed to escape.
Acting on a tip-off, two police teams were sent to raid a hotel in Lalru and a house in Phase VI, Mohali, Senior Superintendent of Police Jatinder Singh Aulakh said.
House taken on rent in May to run racket
Munich, June 10: BMW has no plans for forming a partnership with other manufacturers on battery powered electric vehicles and has its own plans to mass-produce “megacity” e-vehicles by the year 2015, BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer has announced.
The car maker will decide by the end of the year whether to establish a subsidiary for the “megacity vehicles” alongside the current BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce labels, according to Reithofer.
In contrast to other big car makers BMW has not undergone a partnership with a battery maker for electric vehicles.
New Delhi, June 10: A former IIPM student planned and murdered Anand Tiwari, 26, an MBA student at the South Delhi institute, along with two friends on May 25 as he did not like Tiwari’s intimacy with his alleged former girlfriend, the police said on Tuesday.
Rahul Chaddha, 28, who passed out of the Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) last June, was arrested from Mehrauli on Monday following a tip-off. His co-conspirators — identified as Arjun and Arun — are still on the run, the police said.
Mumbai, June 10: Cold war evident between Runway heroines At the music launch of action thriller Runway at Geet Indo Afro pub on Monday June 8th evening, the cold war between its two female leads Tulip Joshi and Deepal Shaw was more than evident. We were witness to the two pretty ladies’ cold shoulder to each other.