A star-studded dream debut opposite the ‘King Khan’ of Bollywood, followed by astounding success and skyrocketing glory is nothing short of a fairytale. A tale that turned into reality for the doe-eyed beauty Deepika Padukone, who at the young age of 21 had achieved more name and fame than many acquire in a lifetime.
New Delhi, June 14: With eyes on ‘aam aadmi’, Congress is expected to give its wish list to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee who is expected to meet AICC office-bearers on Monday to accommodate party’s views in the upcoming Union Budget.
The budget, to be presented in the first week of July, is likely to keep the focus on the ‘aam aadmi’ (common man) who was the trump card of the party, catapulting it to power in the Lok Sabha elections.
New Delhi, June 14: BSNL has dropped its plans to bid for telecom licence in Tunisia as the PSU finds the returns not enough to enter that market through bidding of licence.
“We did not bid for Tunisia… we did not find returns on our investment,” a senior BSNL official told PTI.
Earlier the PSU’s CMD Kuldeep Goyal had said BSNL was planning to bid for telecom licence in Tunisia and get a footprint in the African market, which has immense potential.
Mumbai, June 14: A new south sensation is going to firm her foot in Bollywood opposite stunt hero Akshay Kumar. South star Trisha is going to make her Bollywood debut with director Priyadarshan’s ‘Khatta Meetta’ to be produced by Akshay’s production company Hari Om.
It is learnt that Trisha is the personal choice of Akki. He saw some of Trisha’s Kollywood films and impressed with her acting and style. When he expressed his desire to meet the actress, Trisha flew down to meet him. Impressed with her, Akshay Kumar signed Trisha.
Mumbai, June 14: Hrithik Roshan’s professional life may be going great guns but his personal life is filled up with all sorts of disturbances. His differences with wife Suzanne is soon followed by trouble with papa Rakesh Roshan and his decision to move out of his father’s abode.
The main cause of all those problems is said to be Hrithik’s Kites co-star Barbara Mori with whom the actor established a relationship more than just friends. To get over the personal problem and to get some peace, Hrithik Roshan bent towards alcohol.
Mumbai, June 14: Farhan Akhtar says Shah Rukh Khan will be performing daring stunts in Don 2.
He’s always game for the audacious. But the health problems really frustrate him,” says the director referring to the SRK’s shoulder surgery this year.
But now SRK is all set to bounce back with a full-on actioner in Don 2.And there’s Priyanka Chopra for company again.
Bipasha Basu who has been eased out of Race 2 firmly believes leading ladies don’t have a future in sequels.
High food prices have pushed another 105 million people into hunger in the first half of 2009, the head of the U.N. World Food Programme said on Friday, raising the total number of hungry people to over 1 billion.
Urging rich nations at a meeting of G8 development ministers not to cut back on aid, Josette Sheeran said the world faced a human catastrophe as more people struggle to eat a decent meal.
“This year we are clocking in on average four million new hungry people a week, urgently hungry,” Sheeran told.
Macau, June 14: Bollywood director Ashutosh Gowarikar’s historical love epic ‘Jodhaa Akbar’ swept the 10th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards here, taking home trophies for best picture, best director and best actor.
The movie tracing the rise of the great Mughal emperor Akbar in the 16th century and his romance with Hindu princess Jodhaa took home 10 trophies in total including the gong for the ‘Best Film’.
Mumbai, June 14: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 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.
In the first of its appeals, the I-T department seeks to claim a sum of Rs 19.43 lakh from the actor, out of a total exemption of Rs 72.67 lakh for the assessment year of 1998-1999.
Mumbai, June 14: Actress Antara Mali has married Che Kurrien, the editor of GQ India magazine in a secret ceremony on Friday evening. Antara Mali
Once the leading lady of many a Ram Gopal Varma film and celebrity photographer Jagdish Mali’s daughter,
Antara fell in love with the 29 year-old editor of the leading men’s luxury magazine. Before helming GQ, Che has worked with the Reuters, Time Out Mumbai and The Indian Express.
Mumbai, June 14: Salman Khan over coffee… that’s what we present in this free, frank and no-holds-barred interview with the hunk conducted uncharacteristically Salman Khan shows off his eight-pack abs. More Pics
amidst the chaos of a sea-facing cafeteria close to his house in Bandra.
Dubai, June 14: Emaar Properties, which is already building the world’s tallest skyscraper in Dubai, has won a chance to outdo itself with a tower rising to a height of more than a kilometre — this one in Saudi Arabia.
Kingdom Holding Company, a Saudi property company, announced on Saturday that it has picked Emaar to build a 100 billion riyal ($26.6 billion) mixed-use real estate project called Jeddah Kingdom City and Kingdom Tower, outside the Red Sea city of Jeddah. The tower will be “the highest in the world,” Kingdom said in a news release.
Mumbai, June 14: Neil Nitin Mukesh has a habit, he calls his close buddies- sweetheart, and his latest co-star from New York is his latest close buddy and that’s where the trouble began.
Panaji, June 14: When police in Goa first arrested Mahanand Naik, little did they know that he would soon send shockwaves through the Indian resort state popular with tourists from all over the world.
Detectives picked up the auto-rickshaw driver on suspicion of rape and blackmail in April but after weeks of questioning found themselves faced with a serial killer who admitted to snuffing out the lives of 16 young local women.
Ahmedabad, June 14: Various organisation of students, parents and social activists have jointly given a call for a “Surat bandh” on Monday to protest the gang-rape of a minor girl by three youths on Friday.
The incident involving sons of policemen has caused so much anger that the accused were beaten up by an angry group when they were brought for medical examination at the civil hospital on Saturday.
Mumbai, June 14: There has been a huge buzz in the film industry and media circles about Deepika Padukone’s lip lock with her Love Aaj Kal co-star Saif Ali Khan in their film.
When we caught up with the Om Shanti Om girl at the media meet of Love Aaj Kal and removed the topic about the same, Deepika appeared pretty cool about the whole thing.
Mahalingam’s body found in Kali river near Kaiga plant
Kaiga, June 14: The body of the missing scientist of Kaiga nuclear plant in Karnataka, N Mahalingam, has been found in Kali River near Kaiga nuclear plant.
Ending the mystery over the disappearance of the Kaiga Nuclear power plant scientist, N Mahalingam, naval divers today recovered his body from the Kali river, six days after he went missing.
Hingalganj, June 14: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday travelled in an autorickshaw to meet Cyclone Aila victims in remote areas of this North 24 Parganas block.
Bhattacharjee, who had been heckled and jeered by the disgruntled cyclone survivors owing allegiance to the Trinamool Congress during his on June 2 visit to the block, was well received by people who showered petals and raised slogans praising the state’s Left Front government.
Kolkata, June 14: A 25-year-old employee of a jewellery shop committed suicide after the owner allegedly confined him in the shop for the past two days, accusing him of stealing cash. Two days ago, Abhijit Das, the victim went to Burrabazar with his employer’s money and was robbed by a gang. Rabindranath Ghosh, the owner of the shop, did not believe the incident had taken place and put pressure on him to refund the money.
Probe revealed that Das, a resident of Rishra in Hooghly, worked at Ghosh’s shop on Jadu Pandit Lane in north Kolkata for the past few years.
Chennai, June 14:A 27-year-old MBA graduate hanged herself at her residence in Virugambakkam on Friday afternoon, allegedly due to dowry harassment. The body of Geetha Arthi, a resident of Mahalingapuram, Nungambakkam, was sent to the government hospital in Royapettah for autopsy.
Lucknow, June 14: Another self-proclaimed godman was nabbed here by the crime branch of Lucknow police for duping a man by faking his identity and selling a 20 beegha plot in Jalalpur village of Kakori for Rs 10 lakh. The plot belonged to a spiritual guru.
Kolkata, June 14: Mohammad Rehan Ali, a two-and-a-half-year-old boy, was electrocuted when he touched a water tap at a south Kolkata school on Saturday morning. Probe revealed that the metal outlet of the water tank had been touching a live wire hanging from the meter box.
Rehan’s father Mohammad Siraj is one of the security guards of the school Ballygunge Park Day School on Syed Amir Ali Avenue. The family stays on the school campus.
Hyderabad, June 14: Tennis star Sania Mirza may be a millionaire but her face appears on a ration card belonging to a below poverty line (BPL) family in Andhra Pradesh.
The white ration card, which makes a family eligible to get rice at a highly-subsidised price of Rs 2-a-kg and social security benefits health insurance and a permanent housing, has been issued to one Laxmi of Vizianagaram district with a photograph of Sania.
London, June 14: Umar Gul bulldozed New Zealand with a sensational five-wicket haul as Pakistan defeated New Zealand by six-wicket to keep their semifinals hopes alive in the World Twenty20 here on Saturday.
Gul’s incredible fast bowling spell resulted in Kiwi’s complete demolition as they were all out for a paltry 99 in 18.3 overs after deciding to bat in this Super Eight match.
Gul, introduced as late as in the 13th over, wreaked havoc in his three-over spell and emerged as the first bowler to claim five wickets in T20 Internationals.
Hyderabad, June 14: It seems jealousy not debt was the motive in Sameera Begum’s tragic death. The 18-year-old was allegedly pushed off the Charminar by her boyfriend on Thursday.