New Delhi, June 07: The German-made luxury car — the sportiest and most elegant SUV in its class, will easily become the benchmark for style, performance, safety, comfort and driving dynamics in its segment. It joins its ‘big brother’, the Audi Q7, in creating a new market for the smaller luxury SUV admirer in India.
Washington, June 07: The US does not intend to “meddle” in the Kashmir issue, but will support any effort by India and Pakistan to reduce their tensions,a key aide to President Obama says while pressing Islamabad to take the “first step” to bring to justice the Mumbai attack masterminds.
New Delhi, June 07: Angry over the spate of racial assaults in Australia, hundreds of Indian students on Sunday took out a massive rally in Sydney to protest against the attacks targeting the community.
The rally was organised by the Federation of Indian Students Association, Sydney Chapter, along with the National Union of Students.
Ranchi, June 07: Bokaro Steel Plant has planned to shave off up to Rs.225 crore in expenditure this fiscal on account of rising input costs and declining profits, according to a top company official.
“Profits came down as we had to bear an additional Rs.1,864 crore outgo because of rise in coal prices. It could have crossed Rs.3,000 crore if international prices had remained stable,” company managing director V.K. Srivastav told reporters in Bokaro today.
The company imports 80 percent of its coal requirement.
Hyderabad, June 07: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy today assured the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) there would be no political interference in its efforts to curb corruption, which has become a bane of the society.
Melbourne, June 07: In another attack on Indians in Australia, a car belonging to an Indian student was torched in Melbourne on Saturday night by suspected drug addicts. While the police have ruled out a racial motive, the student has claimed it was a racial attack.
Vikrant Rajesh Ratan, 22, told police that his car and two other cars belonging to Indians in the apartment complex where he lives were burnt by some drug addicts whom he had refused to give money.
“They asked me for money, but I refused them. Next night they burnt my car because of that,” Ratan told a news channel.
Mumbai, June 07: Television tycoon Ekta Kapoor, who turns 31 Sunday, has planned a big birthday bash a month later at her parent’s home, but says she is not inviting her dad Jeetendra and mom Shobha Kapoor as they still treat her like a 12-year-old.
London, June 07: Yuvraj Singh dazzled with the bat before Pragyan Ojha spun a web around Bangladesh as India thumped the minnows by 25 runs to begin their title defence with a bang in the Twenty20 World Cup at Trent Bridge on Saturday.
Ojha’s four-wicket haul in his maiden Twenty20 International broke Bangladesh’s back as the minnows finished at 155 for eight, a total they owe to Junaid Siddique (41) and Naeem Islam (28).
Mumbai, June 07: For the first time, Hrithik Roshan and his wife Suzanne will walk the ramp together at the IIFA Fashion Extravaganza in Macau during the IIFA weekend.
Just a few days remain for the three-day IIFA to begin in Macau and Hrithik and his wife are all set to strut down the catwalk for sister-in-law Farah Ali Khan.
The fashion extravaganza has been organised on June 12. Sonam Kapoor will be the show stopper for designer Anamika Khanna.
Mumbai, June 07: Despite having vowed to not do anymore cameos in films, Shahrukh Khan went out of his way to make a guest appearance in good friend Makrand Deshpande’s film ‘Shahrukh Bola Khoobsurat Hai Tu’.
The movie which carries the star’s name went on the floors on November 2 last year, which incidentally was also SRK’s birthday. But its idea germinated many years ago when Makrand was working with SRK in Swades and proposed to cast the actor in a small role in his directorial venture.
Mumbai, June 07: The two actors don’t talk to each other. However Shahid is a gentleman. He will not kiss-and-tell. So he never utters anything against his ex-lady love. As for Kareena, she too is not interested in commenting on her ex or any of his current flames.
Mumbai, June 07: As usual, Ekta Kapoor plans to host a big birthday bash a month after her actual birthday.
Though she turns 31 on June 7 the birthday bash will be held on July 11. This is the partying procedure followed by the capricious queen of soaps every year.
But this time there’s a difference. The party will be held in Ekta’s parents’ home. But her parents are not invited.
London, June 07: Yuvraj Singh dazzled with the bat before Pragyan Ojha spun a web around Bangladesh as India thumped the minnows by 25 runs to begin their title defence with a bang in the Twenty20 World Cup on Saturday.
Ojha’s four-wicket haul in his maiden Twenty20 International broke Bangladesh’s back as the minnows finished at 155 for eight, a total they owe to Junaid Siddique (41) and Naeem Islam (28).
Earlier, Gautam Gambhir (50) and Rohit Sharma (36) gave India a rollicking start but it was Yuvraj’s violent 18-ball 41 that propelled them to 180 for five in the Group A opener.
Mumbai, June 07: Padamsinh Patil, a Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MP and a former Maharashtra home minister, was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) late Saturday night in connection with the murder of a Congress leader in 2006, official sources said here. Patil, who represents Osmanabad in the Lok Sabha, was earlier detained after being questioned till late into the night, the sources said.
He is likely to be produced before a court in Panvel Sunday, the sources added.
Ghawhati, June 07: Fed up with the prolonged dry spell in the region, villagers in Assam married off frogs in a unique custom to please the rain god, asking for an early monsoon.
Residents of the entire Chipoha village turned out to witness the unconventional marriage ceremony of the two frogs, caught by the villagers themselves.
The frogs were decked up with fine clothes. The female frog was even gifted a necklace by the village women for the marriage, which was conducted by a priest according to traditional Hindu rituals.
Gaza City, June 07: At 29, Tahani is considered a spinster by the standards of deeply conservative Gaza. So in her search for a husband, she turned for help to the best in the marriage business: the Islamic militant group Hamas.
“I gaze at all the men on the street and think, ‘Oh God, isn’t there just one for me?”, said the young woman with dark skin and honey-colored eyes, set off by a maroon headscarf. Her application is among 287 from single women in the files of the Tayseer Association for Marriage and Development in Gaza.
Hyderabad, June 07: Personnel of Forest and Police department today seized about 2,360 kg of dry marijuana worth Rs one crore from a lorry at Khammam district, police said today.
The marijuana stuffed in gunny bags was concealed below other items in the lorry which was loaded from Orissa and was intercepted near Bhadrachalam town of the district, during a joint search operation by Forest and Police department.
Hyderabad, June 07: Farmers are up in arms against the land acquisition for the proposed National Security Guards (NSG) regional centre, 65 km from the city in the Greater Hyderabad area. The NSG centre is to be located in 1182 acres at Chandanvelli village of Shabad mandal.
The centre was proposed in the city after the terror attacks in Mumbai on November 26, 2008. This was part of the plan of the Union home ministry to have regional centres in cities like Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad. The state government had also promised to allot the land on a priority basis.
Hyderabad, June 07: The Bathini fish prasadam will be distributed from 10.30 am on Monday to 10.30 am on Tuesday non-stop at Exhibition Grounds in Nampally.
Briefing the media, Hyderabad collector Navin Mittal said 1.5 lakh murrel fingerlings would be kept ready for the prasadam. In all, 32 counters, including one for VIP, physically handicapped besides separate queues for men and women, would be set up.
District officials said three ambulances would be on standby to meet any medical emergencies.
Hyderabad, June 07: TDP former MLA and former government whip Gadde Babu Rao resigned from the party on Saturday. The two-time MLA from Cheepurupalli, Babu Rao (69) lost the election to Botsa Satyanarayana twice, once in 2004 and again in 2009.
The senior leader in the district cited his age and wife’s ill health as the reason for bidding adieu to politics. However, party sources said internal disputes in the party were the reason for his resignation. After the election results were announced, Babu Rao had alleged that some TDP leaders had colluded with the Congress to plot his defeat.
Hyderabad, June 07: Hyderabad is fast gaining the dubious distinction of becoming the swine flu capital of the country with three more cases getting confirmed on Saturday. Of the 8 cases of swine flu reported in India, six are from Hyderabad with Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu accounting for the other two.
New Delhi, June 07: In the first such order in the capital, a trial court has asked the police to register an FIR against six members of a family, including the bride, for giving dowry to the groom’s family.
New Delhi, June 07: The Pentagon has confirmed one of South Asia’s worst kept secrets – that Pakistan has used billions of dollars of US aid to buy a mind-boggling array of conventional American weaponary to use against India.
Hyderabad/New Delhi,June 06: India Saturday reported three fresh cases of swine flu, including a woman and her four-and-a-half-year old daughter, in the Andhra Pradesh capital, taking the total confirmed cases to eight so far.
Those who tested positive for influenza A (H1N1) also include the 24-year-old brother of a techie who had returned from the US May 31 with the infection. Doctors and health officials said this is the first indigenous case of swine flu in India.
First case of human to human transmission
Mumbai, June 06: Katrina Kaif has been voted the India’s Sexiest Woman yet again but this is one honour lovely lass is not ready to accept.
She says, “I would rather be thought of as pretty rather than sexy.”
Kat is also not bothered by men downloading pictures of her from the internet, she is not entirely comfortable with her racy image. What’s puzzling is that the lady has been covered up in most of her films and yet has been sparking men’s imagination more than those who’ve been stripping down.