New Delhi, October 04: Instant money and fame has spoilt many Indian cricketers and BCCI should act as a guide to teach them how to deal with these early temptations, says former skipper Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi.
Pataudi said barring a very few players, like Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, easy money and fame has become distractions for most cricketers, especially youngsters, and affected their attitude towards the game.
Islamabad, October 04: Pakistan and the US were closing in on al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden about five years ago but suddenly lost track of him and now it was not known whether the world’s most wanted terrorist was dead or alive, according to former President Pervez Musharraf.
“It was some five years back when there was some intelligence that got picked up of a broad location…Then suddenly, we lost track,” Musharraf, currently on a lecture tour of the US, told a near-capacity crowd at a college at Sioux Falls in South Dakota.
Patna, October 04: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Sunday suspended Superintendent of Police and Sub-Divisional Police Officer in conection with Khagaria carnage, in which 16 people were killed by suspected Maoists in Amosi Bharen village three days ago.
“The chief minister has taken strong exception to the massacre and suspended Khagaria SP Indranand Mishra and SDPO Ajay Kumar Pandey. They have been charged with dereliction of duty, serious lapses and failure to reach the spot immediately after the incident,” Additional Director General (Headquaters) Neelmani told PTI.
Johannesburg, October 04: Pakistan captain Younus Khan yesterday lamented dropping in-form New Zealand batsman Grant Elliot, conceding holding on to the catch could have changed the complexion of the match.
Elliot, who top-scored with an unbeaten 75, was batting on 42 when he lobbed a Mohammed Aamer delivery to offer the simplest of catch to Younus at short cover.
The Pakistan captain tried to pouch the knee-high catch in the Australian way, only to see the ball pop out of his cupped palms.
Elliot did not look back after that and went on to play a match-winning note.
London, October 04: Both Harry Potter star Rupert Grint and “Twilight” actor Robert Pattinson are being tipped to play Prince Harry in a movie about the British monarch’s life.
Director Peter Kosminsky is set to begin casting for the biopic, titled “The Spare”. The film will depict the royal’s experience of losing his mother Princess Diana and serving for the Army in Afghanistan, reports imdb.com.
The filmmaker is said to be considering British actors Grint and Pattinson for the lead, as well as “Pride and Prejudice” star Rupert Friend for the role.
Istanbul, October 04: Climate change could depress the economic output of Africa and South Asia by as much as five percent per year, the World Bank warned Sunday.
The effects of a warming of the Earth’s temperature by even two degrees Celsius could put up to 400 million people at risk of hunger and leave up to two billion lacking enough water resources.
London, October 04: Hollywood actress Jennifer Garner has revealed she is a compulsive liar and that sometimes she hides the truth to save her loved ones’ feelings.
The 37-year-old actress admits she find it difficult to tell the truth, reports fashion.ie.
“I would not even attempt to go one day without lying. What if someone asks you how are you and you have to stop and tell them how you are really feeling? You would never get through the day. No, I have to lie. I think we all do,” she said.
Lucknow, October 04: Be it a mall, an office, a seminar venue or a social networking website, men are advised to be cautious in dealing with unknown women. The newfound weapon of private detective agencies is the lady detective, codenamed LD.
“It is a combination of technology and beauty. Collecting information about anyone, be it a man or a woman, is more economical and easy using LD than male detectives,” Shyam of Fox Detective Agency reveals.
New Delhi, October 04: India and the US may clinch the much-awaited “arrangements and procedures” agreement on reprocessing the spent nuclear fuel of American origin when they meet in Vienna soon.
The talks between officials of the nuclear establishments of the two countries are expected to take place within the next fortnight and will be observed very closely by US companies which are keen to set up nuclear power plants in India.
The first round of talks in July in Vienna were “very surprising for both the sides”, sources close to the negotiators said.
Mumbai, October 04: It wasn’t difficult for Riteish Deshmukh to play a shy lad in Sujoy Ghosh’s ‘Aladin’ as he says he was very much like his onscreen character during his own school days.
‘Aladin’, which releases on October 30, is produced by Eros International and Sujoy Ghosh and is a contemporary look at the classic fairy tale, where Riteish plays the title character.
Mumbai, October 03: That WAKE UP SID has worked with the audiences is a known fact by now. Friday response to the film has clearly stated that this Ayan Mukherji directed film is there to stay and make an impression for a good period of time even as the month of October will see one after another biggie arrive at the box office.
If one begins searching for the reasons that have made WAKE UP SID immensely popular amongst the youth, there are five that can be listed down.
1) The film has a constant ‘sur’ throughout which doesn’t slot it into a routine Bollywood affair
Mumbai, October 04: It wasn’t tough for Riteish Deshmukh to play a shy lad in Sujoy Ghosh’s ALADIN as he says he was very much like his onscreen character during his own school days.
ALADIN, produced by Eros International and Sujoy Ghosh, is a contemporary look at the classic fairy tale, where Riteish plays the title character.
Big B and Riteish ‘Make A Wish’!
Mumbai, October 04: Diwali ‘dhamaka’ BLUE has a running time of just under two hours, 1 hour and 58 minutes to be precise. This was recently disclosed by the director Anthony D’Souza. If one muses over the reason(s) it is very simple. The film is a taut thriller that needed to be short in order to be crisp so that it could provide a full on entertainment, edge-of-the-seat thrill, without getting into too may complicated sub-plots, thereby confusing the audience.
Akshay back to school for BLUE
Mumbai, October 04: Ranbir Kapoor appears in a statue look in his forthcoming film AJAB PREM KI GHAZAB KAHANI!
Well the film shows that Ranbir has the habit of talking to an icon that stands at the hub of the town. And one day he suddenly finds that the icon looks exactly like him.
—Agencies
Mumbai, October 04: Amitabh Bachchan may have sung numerous songs for his films but the legendry actor surprised musical duo Vishal & Shekhar while recording a song for Eros International’s ALADIN.
The song in question is ‘O Re Saawariya’ that is already famous for Mr. Bachchan’s signature pink pagadi & white kurta from his NAMAK HALAAL days.
The song is sung by Sudesh Bhonsle. While working on the song, at the spur of the moment Mr. Bachchan came up with an ‘alaap’ and hearing that the music directors Vishal and Shekhar decided to incorporate the ‘alaap’ in the song.
—Agencies
Mumbai, October 04: Work-alcoholic that Suparn Verma is, he was pretty much nicknamed as a ‘slave driver’ on the sets of his second film as a director, ACID FACTORY. That’s not all, since the young man is also bald; the term ‘takla’ [baldy] was added as a prefix to the nickname.
“Yup, I am never going to forgive Dino (Morea) for that”, laughs Suparn, “He was the one who started spreading the word on the sets I should be known as a ‘takla slave driver’. He started it all and soon everyone joined the gang. I was truly cornered.”
One understands the baldy part but why a slave driver?
Mumbai, October 04: While there are corporate houses like UTV that have always remained in news due to close to a dozen odd projects in different stages of production, there is also an independent production house of Karan Johar, Dharma Productions, which is not far behind and has already green lighted more than half a dozen projects.
While Ayan Mukherji’s WAKE UP SID has just released, another debutant Rensil D’Souza is getting ready to unleash his KURBAAN this November. Tarun Mansukhani is getting animation flick KOOCHIE KOOCHIE HOTA HAI in place while also working on DOSTANA 2.
Mumbai, October 04: Proud son Jackky Bhagnani is absolutely happy about his father Vashu Bhagnani’s film DO KNOT DISTURB success. Jackky also recently signed Remo D’ Souza’s directorial venture FALTU, which is yet to go on floors. However, Jackky surprisingly does not seem to get over his debut film KAL KISSNE DEKHA, which bombed at the box-office.
Mumbai, October 04: Tata DoCoMo, the GSM brand by Tata Teleservices and NTT DoCoMo is working on implementing various strategies that definitely help it stand out from the crowd. It started with its special pay per second offer for the customers and now it is all set to bring those favourite comic characters to the mobile platform.
Tata DoCoMo has entered into an alliance with the ACK Media and Walt Disney Animation Studios to introduce multimedia comics as a value added services for its users.
New York, October 04: Colombian pop star Shakira has laughed off reports that she recently went under the knife for a nose job.
The singer sparked surgery rumours after admitting that she visited a surgeon because she was unhappy with the size of her nose, reports younghollywood.com.
“So many things going on in the world and yet some invent stories about me getting a nose job! Why would a she wolf (apparently the title of her new album) want a smaller nose?” she posted on her Twitter.com homepage.
—IANS
Chandigarh, October 04: A 19-year-old engineering student from Canada who had come to visit his family in Punjab has tested positive for swine flu, health officials said here Sunday.
“This patient had come to visit his family in Ludhiana (in Punjab) and started exhibiting the symptoms of swine flu. We had collected his nasal and throat swab samples yesterday (Saturday) and his reports have come positive,” a Chandigarh health official said.
New Delhi, October 04: The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has urged the government to bring more areas under irrigation and improve farm techniques to ensure food security.
Less rainfall during this monsoon has led to a dip of 15 percent in the kharif output, FICCI said in a report.
Moreover, the shortage of water levels in the reservoirs would affect the rabi output and would lower agricultural production by 5 percent, it added.
New Delhi, October 04: The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham) has urged the central government to allow the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) to invest at least 5 percent of its funds in equities.
“The EPFO can also be a beneficiary of such emerging capital markets, provided it is permitted to invest a part of its corpus in index-based equity market – which is safer, reliable and remunerative,” Assocham said in a report.
New Delhi, October 04: Thanks to a divided and demoralized opposition, Haryana’s ruling Congress is confident of retaining power in the Oct 13 assembly elections and break a nearly four-decade jinx.
As the election day draws close, Congress leaders are upbeat. The last time a party returned to power in Haryana after ruling it for five years was in 1972.
New Delhi, October 04: It seems that recession has influenced Big Boss 3 that is all set to hit small screen today. This time Big Boss’ house is comparatively small than the earlier one. Alike Big Boss 2, in season 3 house of Big Boss has been built in Lonavala.
The house is very beautiful. It has been painted with dark red and green colours. It has an attractive swimming pool and a well-designed kitchen. The house has a window, but one can’t see through it. In all, this looks like a dream house.