wajid Toranto,June 27 :The Bollywood- crazy crowd snubs two- time Oscar winner Swank as it chants King Khan’s name
TWO- TIME Oscar winner Hilary Swank would surely want to forget her maiden brush with Bollywood in a hurry. On Saturday evening at Toronto’s sprawling Roger’s Center, Swank, Academy Award winner for her roles in Boys Don’t Cry and Million Dollar Baby, sashayed in on the green carpet of the IIFA Awards 2011.
Trivanthapuram, June 23: A Victim’s complaint has blown the lid off a mega flesh trade racket. Saudha Beevi, 50, who was running a chain of brothels in Sharjah and Dubai and had smuggled out nearly 300 girls from Kerala, surrendered before the special investigation team of the state’s police on Wednesday.
Mumbai, June 23: Ever since Amitabh Bachchan tweeted on Tuesday night that bahu Aishwarya is expecting her first child, the film industry has sat up to take note of how the film trade could be affected because of the superstar actress’s current condition.
Ash has two films in motion right now, Madhur Bhandarkar’s Heroine and Rajkumar Santoshi’s Ladies And Gentleman. While work on Heroine has already started, Santoshi is yet to start pre- production of his film.
Mumbai,June 15 :A local court has summoned actress Sadhana on Wednesday to record her statement in connection with a private complaint filed by builder Yusuf Lakdawala charging her for making defamatory statements against him.
Sadhana had in August last year lodged a complaint with the suburban Santacruz police accusing Lakdawala of issuing death threats and trying to force her to vacate her 3000 sq ft house in Santacruz.
New Delhi,June 15: WOMAN suffered a miscarriage after she was thrashed by her landlady and the landlady’s brothers at her residence in Mandawli on Sunday evening because of a dispute over her rented apartment.
Anjum, 27, who was pregnant with her first child, had to be rushed to the Lal Bahadur Shastri hospital after being kicked in the stomach by Pushpa Devi’s brother.
Zia Ul Haq, the victim’s brother said: “ Pushpa Devi ( the landlady) has been harassing us. She came to the house with her brothers and started throwing out our belongings.
Mumbai, June 13: The Maharashtra government is sitting on a direction by the Centre for it to recommend a CBI inquiry into the alleged illegal occupation of waqf property by Mukesh Ambani with the help of former chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh.
Patna,June 13 :FILMMAKER- turned- activist Mahesh Bhatt has drawn the ire of BJP leaders in Bihar by his remark that an incident of police firing on unarmed Muslim villagers in a Bihar village was the “ reflection of a communal mentality”. Four persons, including a pregnant woman and a 10- month- old infant, were killed in the June 3 incident, when the police opened fire on a mob of villagers from Bhajanpur, who were protesting against the setting up of a glucose and starch factory near Forbesganj in the minority- dominated Araria district.
New delhi,June 10 :A BOLD editorial in the party’s mouthpiece, bashing the government’s dimwitted decision to prostrate before Baba Ramdev, has led the Congress to conspicuously withdraw the latest edition of Congress Sandesh . Sandesh , which is edited by Anil Shastri — an invitee to the Congress working committee — questioned the wisdom of the government over sending its four cabinet ministers, including the seasoned Pranab Mukherjee, to the Delhi airport to explain the government’s position on black money to the yoga guru.
London, June 07: The Killing of al- Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri raises the question whether 26/ 11 Mumbai terror plotter David Coleman Headley had offered the US any intelligence on his whereabouts.
While it is nearly impossible to confirm what specifically Headley might have revealed to the US federal investigators and whether that helped establish Kashmiri’s location, his plea deal with the government and his testimony point to his close ties with the HuJI leader.
Srinagar, June 07: TRUST Ram Jethmalani to stir a hornet’s nest with his comments. The veteran lawyer and Rajya Sabha MP from the BJP has compared the alleged atrocities committed in Kashmir by the state government and the police with those committed in Nazi Germany.
Srinagar, April 08: After Mohali Summit, India and Pakistan are looking forward to foreign secretary level talks between the two countries with the intention of moving towards a comprehensive and broad- ranging engagement. Despite somewhat modest forward movement on 26/11 issues, Pakistan agreed to the visit of judicial commission from India during the recently concluded talks between the home secretaries.
New Delhi,January 04 : After questions were raised over his claim, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh could be having the last laugh on the issue of his telephonic conversation between him and slain Mumbai ATS chief Hemant Karkare.
Singh has called a press conference here tomorrow saying he would release the call record of the phone call he made to Karkare hours before he was killed in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
Patna,August 15 :IF YOU are a financially challenged Muslim student in Bihar, even government scholarships won’t help you get a better education — not until the banks in the state change their attitude.
Thousands of poor minority students in the state have been unable to avail the central government’s sponsorship scheme because banks allegedly refused to open zero- balance accounts in their names.
New york,August 15 :PRESIDENT Barack Obama has come out in favour of allowing a mosque to be built near the site of the World Trade Centre, destroyed nine years ago by terrorists in hijacked airliners.
The site is near where almost 3,000 people died on September 11, 2001, after hijackers of Muslim faith flew two hijacked aeroplanes into the centre’s twin towers, which crumbled as New Yorkers fled in terror.
Kolkatta, August 14: NATIONALITY of cricketers should not matter in the Indian Premier League and franchises should be allowed to pick the best players from around the globe, feels Kolkata Knight Riders ( KKR) CEO Joy Bhattacharya, who recently signed a deal with rookie Pakistan pacer Muhammad Irfan.
“ It shouldn’t matter which country they belong to. But we want to be in a position where we can sign on the best available players,” Bhattacharya told Geo Super channel on Wednesday.
Mumbai,August 12 :SONAM Kapoor’s weight loss is going from inspiring to alarming.Weighing 80 kg at one point, she lost all that extra flab before she made her debut in Sanjay Leela Bhansali- directed Saawariya in 2007. That was something she often talks about in her interviews.
Patna, August 12 :EVERY political party in Bihar is dashing to court the state’s Muslim voters who hold the key to forming the next government after the assembly polls.From mainstream parties to fringe organisations — they are jostling with each other to project themselves as “ genuine” well- wishers of the community.
All this for the polls which are just three months away.That’s hardly surprising considering that the Muslims account for 16.4 per cent of Bihar’s population and hold the key to victory in at least 60 of the 243 assembly seats.
Mumbai, August 02 :Rahul Mahajan who is a known wife basher and sometimes called as a boxer rahul proved his friend correct by making a patch up with wife dimpy.Rahul Mahajan and wife Dimpy patch up and pray at temple
RAHUL MAHAJAN and Dimpy Ganguly put up a show of togetherness in public for the first time on Sunday after his model- wife walked out following a tiff on Friday.
However, she went back to the Mahajan residence in Worli the same day following an apparent patch- up.The couple, who got married this March, visited the famous Siddhivinayak temple in Mumbai in the afternoon.
New Delhi,July 07 :A RAPE convict, who was released on the orders of the Delhi High Court after he cleared the civil service examination from jail, has not been responding to a notice issued to him on an appeal by the National Commission for Women ( NCW).
A public notice was published in two newspapers on behalf of the Supreme Court on December 8, 2009 but there was no representation on behalf of Ashok Rai alias Amit during the hearing on Monday.
The public notice had to be issued because notice could not be served as Rai’s house was found locked on two occasions.
Patna,June 22 :Ever since the Narender modi advertisement episode opened up in Bihar both the partners Jdu and BJP are at loggerhead .Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar is keeping his political cards close to his chest amid speculation over his next move.
“ Relax, ( there’s) no need to get tense,” Nitish said here on Monday when asked about the growing rift between his JD( U) and the BJP over his decision to return a Rs 5- crore cheque donated by the Gujarat government towards Kosi flood relief.
Cochin,June 17 :ON A February morning in 1999, I got a call from Kerala’s then minister of transport and forests, A. Neelalohithadasan Nadar. He asked me to meet him at the government guesthouse at Kozhikode. I was the divisional forest officer in the state at that time. I had never met him before and went with my files and books. There were three other men who left at the end of the discussion. When I, too, was about to go, Nadar suddenly grabbed me. I was caught completely unawares and fell on top of him. Somehow, I managed to escape from the room.
Mumbai,June 17 :IS POP sensation Shakira to make her debut in Bollywood? Well, if reports are to be believed, the Latin American singer will croon a cabaret song in soon- to- be started project.
Composer duo Salim- Sulaiman will come up with a rocking track for the Prashant Chadha- directed film, which stars entrepreneur Sachin Joshi in the lead. Joshi is one of the sponsors of Kolkata Knight Riders, an Indian Premier League team.
Ramanathapuram, June 17: A 15-year-old student delivered a baby inside a toilet of a private institution here and later abandoned it, prompting school authorities to issue her transfer certificate.
The teenager, who gave birth to the baby girl early this week, was issued a transfer certificate by the management of the institution on Tuesday after the issue snowballed into a controversy. Chief Educational Officer Balasubramanian said “neither her parents nor the teachers were aware that the X standard student was pregnant as she was very fat.”
Binjore , June 16:As the sun set on this dusty village near the India-Pakistan border, the sounds of qawwalis rent the air and hundreds of couples from across the country lay a chadar on what they believed to be the tombs of the legendary lovers Laila-Majnu with a prayer that their love too would be immortal.
According to folklore, Laila-Majnu were two star crossed lovers who were forcefully separated. But on June 15 every year they have been bringing hundreds of couples together in this village in Rajasthan’s Sriganganagar district, over 575 km from the state capital Jaipur.
Washington,June 16 : Top US lawmakers voiced strong concern about the direction of president Barack Obama’s war effort in Afghanistan on Tuesday at a congressional hearing halted abruptly when a key general fainted.
General David Petraeus, a prostate cancer survivor who oversees the Afghan war effort as head of the US central command, briefly collapsed about an hour into the hearing in the senate armed services committee.
In what one observer called “a frightening moment”, the general suddenly slumped face-forward on the large desk where he sat to give testimony.