Lucknow, September 04: The Madhya Pradesh kho-kho secretary and coach M.S. Bhatt was found dead in his hotel room in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district late Thursday night. The police said he was suffering from diabetes and have ruled out foul play.
The Madhya Pradesh team is in Ballia to participate in the 43rd Senior National Kho-Kho Championship and is staying in the Ashoka Hotel owned by a Congress leader Bachcha Pathak.
Los Angeles, September 04: Michael Jackson’s family members rolled their ways to his funeral place by a fleet of “Rolls Royce” which was headed by this master piece Rolls Royce Phantom limo.
This royal style would have cost them a fortune but that’s what they are good at!
According to TMZ online, “Since the family members are regular customers, they even got ’em at a reduced rate, which no doubt helped lower the already “extraordinary” burial costs.”
That is indeed extra-ordinary! Hush…
–Agencies
Lucknow, September 04: The Madhya Pradesh kho-kho secretary and coach M.S. Bhatt was found dead in his hotel room in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district late Thursday night. The police said he was suffering from diabetes and have ruled out foul play.
The Madhya Pradesh team is in Ballia to participate in the 43rd Senior National Kho-Kho Championship and is staying in the Ashoka Hotel owned by a Congress leader Bachcha Pathak.
New York, September 04: As it goes it is tough to avoid something that is natural, following the same, French first lady Carla Bruni is learnt to have accepted a proposal of acting in Woody Allen’s next venture.
According to a media report, it has come to light that Allen Woody went to Paris to convince Sarlozy’s wife Carla Bruni for a new venture.
Now, the desire of the film director has turned into a reality as Carla Bruni is alleged to have agreed to the proposal.
London, September 04: A vintage train carrying Holocaust survivors pulled into London on Friday, ending a three-day trip across Europe that marked the 70th anniversary of their extraordinary rescue by a young British stockbroker.
Waiting to greet them at London’s Liverpool Street Station was Nicholas Winton, age 100, who organized the rail “kindertransports” that carried hundreds of mostly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to safety in 1939.
The steam train carried 170 people, including about two dozen survivors of the evacuations and members of their families.
New Delhi, September 04: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday applauded the breakthrough reached at the mini-ministerial meeting here of some 40 members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that would lead to resumption of talks to conclude the Doha round of negotiations.
“This will uplift the animal spirit of economic agents all over the world,” an official quoted the prime minister as having told trade ministers who participated at the two-day meet.
New Delhi, September 04: The body of an unidentified man, aged about 23 years, was found hanging at a basketball court in Chanakyapuri here Friday, police said.
“We received a call around 7 in the morning that a body has been found hanging at a basketball court near the Bangladesh embassy,” a senior police officer said.
Police suspect it to be a case of suicide.
London, September 04: Infuriated by an Australian journalist’s comments on his fitness regime and unhealthy habits, Hollywood actor Russell Crowe not only challenged the journo to a cycling duel but also defeated her.
The star was infuriated when Sydney’s Daily Telegraph published an article headlined – “Smokes and fatty foods the fitness regime for Rusty” – after he was spotted puffing cigarettes and eating fast food during a bike ride, reports imdb.com.
Hyderabad, September 04: Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, 37, who has emerged the front runner to succeed his father Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy as the Andhra Pradesh chief minister, is a media baron who runs popular the Telugu daily Sakshi and a television channel by the same name.
The state cabinet presided over by K. Rosaiah, who was installed as caretaker chief minister Thursday, passed a resolution urging the Congress party’s central leadership to let Jaganmohan take over the mantle of the state, though the high command is yet to decide on YSR’s successor.
New Delhi, September 04: India is keen to bridge differences with Bangladesh over sensitive issues like the Tipaimukh hydrolectric project and move ahead on trade and transit as Foreign Minister Dipu Moni arrives here Monday on a four-day trip, ahead of Sheikh Hasina’s visit here later this year.
This will be Moni’s first official visit to New Delhi after Sheikh Hasina rode to power in Dhaka on the strength of landslide victory in December polls last year.
Shimla, September 04: Surya Roshni, the largest exporter of GI pipes and flagship company of Surya Lights, Friday announced it is setting up two more units with an outlay of Rs.550 crore.
“We are setting up two pipe manufacturing units, one each in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, with an outlay of Rs.550 crore,” J.P. Agarwal, chairman and managing director of Surya Roshni, told IANS here.
He was here to launch a consumer awareness campaign, which would cover 250 cities, to educate consumers about the benefits of GI pipes and hazards of using spurious pipes.
Chennai, September 04: Her debut movie “Luck” bombed at the box office, but the film’s failure hasn’t detterred Shruti Haasan from making Mumbai her home and trying hard to get a foothold in the Hindi film industry.
“I actually wanted my debut film to be a Tamil movie, but it wasn’t to be. Whatever might have been the response to ‘Luck’, I feel that I should settle down in Mumbai to seek greener pastures in Bollywood,” Shruti, who is planning to buy an apartment in central Mumbai, told IANS.
New Delhi, September 04: The vaginal swabs of Aarushi Talwar, the Noida schoolgirl who was murdered at her home in May 2008, were substituted with samples from an unidentified woman, forensic experts have found.
Sources in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics in Hyderabad found the swabs had been tampered with last year. Investigators cannot establish if Aarushi had been sexually assaulted because of the vaginal swabs being tampered with .
New York, September 04: French first lady Carla Bruni has reportedly accepted filmmaker Woody Allen’s offer to star in his next movie.
Allen visited Paris back in June this year and announced his desire to sign the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy up for a film project and now it appears his wish has come true, reports buzzhollywood.com.
The news came in effect after French newspaper Le Parisien claimed that Bruni has agreed to his request and will work with the famed director in a new movie, scheduled to begin filming next year.
Salmon, Septembe 04: The American West is losing its autumn colors as global warming begins to bite and there is far more at stake than iconic scenery.
Aspen, the white-barked trees with golden leaves that gave their name to the famed Colorado ski resort, have been dying off across the Rocky Mountain states. The die-off is puzzling but some foresters point to climate change.
New Delhi, September 04: Indian challenge at the $10,000 International Tennis Federation (ITF) tournament was over with the loss of Ashutosh Singh and Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan in the semi-finals at the DLTA complex here Friday.
Ashutosh, a former national champion, threw away the match from the brink of victory against sixth-seeded Japanese Kento Takeuchi 6-1 4-6, 3-6 while Ranjeet was dispatched for the third time in the three successive weeks by experienced South Korean second seed Young-Jun Kim, who won 6-2, 6-2.
Mumbai, September 04: Delhi Stock Exchange (DSE) has received 110 membership applications from brokers for deposit-based trading and plans to launch an online trading platform, said a top official here Friday.
One of India’s premier demutualised stock exchanges, DSE will become operational soon and trading is expected to commence by Diwali festival as part of a revival strategy, said DSE executive director H.S. Sidhu.
Kolkata, September 04: The West Bengal government has decided to sell potatoes through the public distribution system (PDS) to check the skyrocketing price of the commodity.
“The state government will sell potatoes through ration shops at Rs.13 per kilogram and for that we’ll have to give a Rs.9 crore subsidy a week,” said state Finance Minister Ashim Dasgupta.
Dasgupta also held talks with state agricultural retail minister Mortaza Hossain and senior state police officials Thursday to discuss the process of implementation of this new system.
Washington, September 04: The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision of a half-century-old formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations in the cost of living.
Washington, September 04: On September 8, in what the Department of Education is touting as a “historic” speech, President Obama will be talking directly to students across the U.S., live on the White House website. But some parents and conservatives are blasting the president, calling the speech an excuse to brainwash American children.
Last month, in an interview with 11-year-old student reporter Damon Weaver, the president announced his big back-to-school plan:
New Delhi, September 04: All of a sudden Salman Khan is a part of Indian sport. He wants to buy a team in the Indian Premier League and he is the brand ambassador of Indian football. So what’s prompting the Bollywood superstar to take this sporting journey? CNN-IBN put all the important questions to Salman Khan in a freewheeling chat.
You are the brand ambassador for Indian football and you are also interested in buying a IPL team. How does that work?
Bangalore, September 04: Mohammed Siddikur Rahman of Bangladesh hung on to the lead at the Global Green Bangalore Open 2009 (an Aircel PGTI event) with yet another tenacious effort of three-under 69 at the Karnataka Golf Association (KGA) course, here Friday.
Rahman now has a total of seven-under 209. Chandigarh’s Ranjit Singh ended the day in second place as he too fired a 69 to be placed one stroke behind Siddikur.
Chennai, September 04: Indian bikers had a mixed outing with Krishnan Rajini and Preetham Dev Moses clocking sixth and eighth fastest in the first qualifying session (timed free practice) in the SuperSports 600cc class at the Petronas Asian Road Racing Championship, here Friday.
With dry weather prevailing following heavy overnight rains, Rajini and Moses, both representing team Red Rooster Racing, and on a Yamaha, enjoyed a good outing, though they were well below the pace of the front runners.
Mumbai, September 04: Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan will return to the small screen after a gap of four years to host the third season of Colors’ popular reality show “Bigg Boss”, a well-placed source confirmed Friday.
” ‘Bigg Boss’ is set to get bigger. And Amitabh Bachchan is going to take over as host from Shilpa Shetty, who hosted it last season,” the source told IANS.
Kunduz, September 04: A U.S. jet blasted two fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, setting off a huge fireball Friday that killed up to 90 people, including dozens of civilians who had rushed to the scene to collect fuel, Afghan officials said.
The airstrike is likely to intensify concern over civilian casualties in the Afghan war. Top NATO commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has ordered curbs on airstrikes after a strong backlash among Afghans over civilians killed in military operations.