Mumbai, June 15: New director Abhinay Deo thought that casting actors from the theatre circle in his film Delhi Belly will save him from starry tantrums.
But it was not so. Deo, who has also signed up Imran Khan — the only known name — for the film, is reportedly disappointed with his starry tantrums.
Rather than concentrating on his acting, Imran, like mamu Aamir Khan, is interested in giving instructions and inputs to the entire crew, including Deo.
Mumbai, June 15: It seems Salman Khan doesn’t want to keep grudges against King Khan. That’s the reason he decided to appear on Shah Rukh’s best friend Farah Khan’s chat show which has been produced by SRK’s production house.
After Salman-SRK’s big fight it was even impossible to think that the duo will cross each other’s path. But we hear that Salman has shot for Farah’s chat show along with his mother. It seems Farah’s playing mediator in this. Interestingly, Farah who shares a good rapport with Salman has choreographed a song for Salman’s Main Aur Mrs Khanna .
Kolkata, June 15: The Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee flagged off Howrah – Digha Kandari Express at Howrah Station.
Speaking on the occasion Miss Banerjee informed another new train Tamralipta Express will also start running between Howrah and Digha from on Monday.
The Railway Minister said her Ministry is preparing a plan to connect rail communication with all important tourist spots in the country.
Mumbai, June 15: King Khan might have been Bollywood’s highest advance tax payer last year. But the I-T department has not forgotten that the man still owes them Shah Rukh Khan More Pics
money from nearly ten years ago.
The Bombay High Court on Thursday admitted an appeal, by the I-T department, challenging an order of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), which had ruled in the star’s favour in June 2008.
Mumbai, June 15: When Hrithik and Sussanne Roshan walked the ramp at the IIFA on Friday night, they looked like a perfect loving couple. And that is exactly what they are, now it turns out, since the ‘Hrithik is close to Mexican hottie Barbara Mori’ rumour was apparently spread by the Roshans themselves to promote their film Kites, as revealed to HT City by a source close to the family.
Mohali, June 15: Police here arrested three people in the early hours Monday for allegedly creating a ruckus outside the house of Anuradha Bali aka Fiza, the estranged wife of Chander Mohan alias Chand Mohammed.
‘We have registered a case against four people out of which three were arrested. Police have also impounded a Bolero car with a Haryana registration number. We are still investigating and expect to make more arrests today (Monday),’ Deepinder Singh, investigating officer of the case told IANS.
New Delhi, June 15: MG Vaidya, a top Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of failing ‘Hindutva’ by being ‘inconsistent’ on the ideology.
“The BJP has failed to convey the real meaning of ‘Hindutva’ to the people (in the recent elections). Probably, they thought they were not deemed to climb the pedestal of power with ‘Hindutva’ line. Hence, BJP should now disassociate itself with ‘Hindutva’,” Vaidya wrote in a column for the Marathi daily Tarun Bharat.
Toronto, June 15: A Canadian woman was forced to strip at the Montreal airport to check a pink tattoo on her butt after her name and birth date matched that of a wanted criminal.
Sylvie Menard, 43, who is a manager with a wine company in Montreal, was returning home after holidaying in Mexico in April when the airport computer flagged her since her name and birth date matched that of a criminal sought by police, the Canadian Press reported Sunday.
Mumbai, June 15: If you thought 2008 was the year of Kareena Kapoor then wait till you hear what’s in store for this stunner in 2009.
“For starters, ” she begins as she packs for her much-awaited week-long vacation in Europe with Saif Ali Khan, “I’ll finally be moving into my new home in January. It’s just a hop and skip away from where I stay on Hill Road in Bandra. I can’t give up being close to my mom and living in Bandra.”
Tezpur (Assam), June 15: Four frontline combat aircraft Sukhoi-30MKI were formally inducted in India’s sensitive north-eastern region on Monday, a strategic decision to move advanced assets close to the Chinese border, defence officials said.
A defence spokesperson said four multi-role strike fighter jets at the Indian Air Force (IAF) base in Tezpur, about 185 km north of Assam’s main city of Guwahati, would soon be part of a Sukhoi-30MKI squadron comprising of 18 aircrafts.
Melbourne, June 15: Anshu Tiwari, 22, from Ludhiana has been in Melbourne barely for a week, but already he realises he’s been suckered. “I’m here to do a diploma in computer arts and crafts, which I was told would support my ‘PR’ (permanent residence) application after I complete it. But after coming here, I realise it won’t be so easy,” he told on a train to Epping, a northern suburb.
Melbourne, June 15: There seems no stopping to the list of violent racist attacks in Australia as yet another Indian student was bashed in Melbourne’s eastern suburb.
Noida, June 15: With the rising demand of Graphics and Animation business in India the president of Marwah Studios Sandeep Marwah decided to go ahead for the launching in a formal way the school of Graphics and Animation under the banner of Asian Academy of Film And Television [AAFT].
In the presence of large gathering of media persons, students and National press Marwah introduced The Brand Ambassador and the chief guest of the day The Super Model, Actress and Singer from Germany Claudia Ciesla who was looking stunning, gorgeous and became the centre of attraction of the whole show.
Kolkata, June 15: A few days after taking charge as the Railway Minister, Mamata Banerjee on Sunday flagged off a daily train to Digha, the Howrah-Digha Kandari Express.
Banerjee, in her election manifesto, had promised to turn Digha into another Goa, which the state government failed to do in the last 32 years.
The day she joined the office as the Railway Minister, she had announced that within a month the Howrah-Digha Express would chug out from Howrah and she fulfilled her promise 12 days before it ends.
Ahmedabad, June 15: Raising her voice against mental and physical torture for not bearing a male child, a 32-year-old woman from the city has accused her Vadodara-based husband and in-laws of forcing her to abort female foetuses five times in the last nine years.
Ludhiana, June 15: There has been no headway in the gory incident at Jaspal Bangar village where an NRI shot dead his wife and then killed himself with his licensed single barrel rifle in the wee hours of Saturday.
The post mortem on the bodies of the deceased NRI, Sardool Singh (65) and his wife Paramjit Kaur (62) was conducted at the Civil Hospital and then their bodies were handed over to their relatives for cremation.
New Delhi, June 15: They say nothing is personal in the cyber world. Everyone and anyone is vulnerable and can be hacked. Taking a cue, the Indian Army recently issued a circular asking its personnel not to post work-related information like ranks, place of posting etc on social networking sites like Orkut and Facebook.
“The circular has been issued recently in a bid to create cyber awareness among the net users in the army. It has been sent to all the units of the army across the country,” a senior army official confirmed to reporters, requesting anonymity.
Patna, June 15: In view of a spate of desertions of leaders from RJD and other Opposition parties, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday said he would welcome them “with open arms” if they wished to switch over to ruling JD(U).
Setback to Lalu, close confidante Nihora resigns”Choice of joining the JD(U) is open to all, including those who recently left RJD and other Opposition parties,” Kumar said when his attention was drawn to his arch rival and RJD boss Lalu Prasad’s trusted aides Shyam Razak and Ram Nihora Yadav parting ways with the former railway minister.
Mumbai, June 15: Upneet Pansare speaks to the Common Entrance Test toppers and a candidate who appeared a second time and ranked 3rd
Udit Chitalia
1st, engineering
The Patkar College student’s 200 out of 200 makes him the overall topper. An aspiring astrophysicist, he says, “I see myself working at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) after studying computer science at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), Matunga, and then doing a PhD.”
Mumbai, June 15: Two more jail employees, said to have witnessed a fight between aides of gangsters Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Rajan in the Arthur Road prison in 2005, have turned hostile in court, denying any such incident took place.
A police sub-inspector had been injured but he too has turned hostile. The last remaining witness in the jail alarm case is investigating officer Nankishore Potkare, who will be examined on June 22.
Nagpur, June 14: Mired in bitter infighting after the poll debacle and questioned for lack of clarity on Hindutva by its leaders, BJP today came under attack from RSS which accused it of “inconsistency” on the issue and warned that shunning the core ideology will “automatically snap” its “umbilical cord” with the Sangh.
Mohali, June 15: An unsuccessful bid to abduct Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Chander Mohan alias Chand Mohammad from the house of his estranged wife Anuradha Bali alias Fiza was made on Sunday evening, police said.
A group of about 100 people tried to abduct Chand Mohammad from Fiza’s house, where he had returned back after almost five months, Mohali police said.
Upon receiving the information, a police team, led by ASI Sohan Singh, reached the spot but the mob attacked them.
Mumbai, June 15: Former Miss India and Bollywood actress Sayali Bhagat, who is upbeat about the release of her upcoming film ‘Paying Guests’, says she wouldn’t hesitate doing any role at the moment as long as it excites her.
‘At the moment there is no role that I wouldn’t do. I will not leave any stone unturned. I’m willing to do anything that excites me,’ Sayali told IANS over phone from Mumbai.
Mumbai, June 15: Sanjay Dutt talks about the ill health of his political mentor, Amar Singh
Although Sanjay Dutt is physically present in Goa, where he is shooting for Ajay Devgan’s home production, All The Best, his heart is with his political mentor Amar Singh, who’s in Singapore for a kidney transplant.
Mumbai, June 15: Actor may evade tough punishment if forensic report concludes that actual weight of cocaine in the 9 gm of contraband allegedly seized from him is less than 2 gm
Actor Fardeen Khan, arrested more than eight years ago for allegedly possessing contraband, may not have to spend years in jail if laboratory analysis of the seized substance reveals a low percentage of cocaine in it.