Mumbai, December 07: Here’s proof that Katrina Kaif’s becoming the next big thing in Bollywood.
Event organisers of a Dubai concert on December 2 featuring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif went into a tizz when the actress was diagnosed as having a low haemoglobin count in Mumbai and advised bed rest.
Mumbai, December 07: Genelia is currently in Chennai shooting for a South Film. So she couldn’t make it to the premiere of Abhishek Bachchan’s recent release.
However, that didn’t stop Gen from watching the film. On her day off yesterday, she caught the film in a theatre in Chennai.
She absolutely loved the film and also congratulated AB Jr on the film on a social networking site on being part of such a brilliant film. She also told him how much she liked both him and Vidya Balan. And, of course Auro. When Abhishek heard that she went to the theatre he was truly touched.
Peshawar, December 07: Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar shook again on Monday with an explosion in a vehicle near a crowded court complex in the heart of the city, killing two people and wounding 20.
Witnesses said the blast occurred in an auto-rickshaw outside the sessions court complex on Jail Road in Peshawar. About 20 people were injured in the attack, six of them seriously.
Police cordoned off the area and sealed key roads as ambulances took the injured to nearby hospitals.
Authorities are still investigating the nature of the blast.
Mumbai, December 07: Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor has said that she was not disappointed with the poor performance of ‘Kurbaan’ at the box office.
An elated Kareena said that she is positively looking ahead and she hopes her forthcoming flick Aamir Khan’s ‘3 Idiots’ will compensate the loss.
A confident Kareena believes that ‘3 Idiots’ will be a hit one at the box office.
If sources are to be believed, Aamir Khan also praised Kareena for her performance in the movie. Aamir has promised her to do another film together after impressive performance in ‘3 Idiots’.
Hyderabad, December 07: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah tonight met Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) President K Chandrasekhara Rao (KCR) at the Intensive Care Unit of Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) in an attempt to diffuse the volatile situation as the fast entered in the eight day.
Accompanying Mr Rosaiah in the late night visit was Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) President Ajith Singh who is reportedly close to TRS President.
Athens, December 07: Police fired teargas at rioters who threw rocks and firecrackers in central Athens as thousands gathered to mark the first anniversary of the police shooting of a teenager.
Clashes broke out as about 3,000 people, mostly students, anarchists and leftists, began a march to parliament. More protests were expected on Monday. An evening memorial service was planned in the Exarchia district, where 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos was shot dead.
Bhubaneswar, December 07: The main accused in the gang rape of a nun in Orissa’s Kandhamal district during last year’s communal clashes has been arrested, police said on Monday.
“We have arrested Gururam Patra from Dharampur area of the district Sunday evening,” investigating officer B.K. Mohanty told IANS.
Hyderabad, December 07: It was a tragedy of a different kind at the Jangoan railway station, about 80 km from here in Warangal district, where a youth who jumped from a train shouting Jai Telangana was overrun by a passing train.
The youth, who is yet to be identified, had jumped from Krishna Express shouting Jai Telangana and fallen on the second track.
He was overrun by the AP Express coming on the second track on electric traction and was killed on the spot. Investigation is on. A TRS activist committed suicide by hanging himself at his home near Sanga Reddy is Medak district.
Baghdad, December 07: U.S. commanders are donating up to $30 million worth of passenger vehicles, generators and gear to Iraq from each facility they leave, as they scale back deployments, up from a previous cap of $2 million, the Washington Post reported in its Monday editions.
The new limit applies at scores of posts that the U.S. military is expected to quit as it leaves about 280 facilities for six large bases and a few small ones by the end of next summer, the Post said.
Taiwan, December 07: Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou, a propoenent of closer ties with China, ordered a review of weekend local election results that saw his party lose support as his own approval ratings fell, the party said on Monday.
Ma’s Nationalist Party (KMT) lost a county east of the capital to the anti-China opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Once robust support thinned in other cities and counties that voted in the first mid-term elections since the president took office in 2008.
Tehran, December 07: Iranian riot police have surrounded Tehran University to prevent the opposition from hijacking a state-organised rally on Monday, a witness said.
“There are hundreds of riot police, (they are) everywhere around Tehran University and nearby streets,” said the witness, who asked not to be named.
Mumbai, December 07: The 26/11 Mumbai terror attack trial is expected to be wrapped up within a week, with only 35 formal witnesses remained to be examined in the case in which Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab and two others are charged with killing 166 people.
Of the total 331 formal witnesses, whose affidavits were submitted to the court recently, the evidence of 296 persons was led this week,” Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam told PTI.
Peshawar, December 07: An explosion near a court complex rocked this Pakistani frontier city Monday, Geo News reported.
Peshawar is the capital of the North West Frontier Province.
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Mumbai, December 07: When I met Rati Agnihotri after the screening of her Bengali film “Aainata’ which figured in the Indian Panorama section of the International Film Festival of Goa which concluded a couple of days ago, Rati said that she connected to Goa right from the time that she had acted in her first film in Hindi- “Ek Duuje Ke Liye’ in which Kamal Haasan was her leading man and confessed that she has always been very attached to Goa ever since she had shot for “Ek Duuje Ke Liye’ three decades ago.
New Delhi, December 07: In yet another mishap involving the Delhi Metro, three labourers were injured after they fell off an elevated platform at the under-construction station in Govindpuri in south Delhi.
Acting swift after the mishap, the DMRC ordered an internal inquiry into the incident that took place late last night at the Govindpuri station, which is part of the Central Secretariat-Badarpur line.
The three workers, who were placing ‘shuttering plates’ on the raised platform inside the station, fell from the platform around 11 pm last night, DMRC sources said.
Indore, December 07: Two employees of a drug manufacturing company here were killed and six others took ill after inhaling poisonous gas leaked from the production unit.
The incident took place at Rinilife Science Private Ltd in the city’s industrial area on Sanver road late on Saturday night, police said, adding the gas leaked in the production unit of the company.
The deceased were identified as Subhash Pal (28) and Dinesh Borana (30), police said today. The two died on the spot, they said.
Lucknow, December 07: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi begins his two-day visit to Uttar Pradesh Monday to boost the membership drive undertaken to re-activate the youth wing of the party.
Gandhi commences his journey from Aligarh, where he will also visit the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). He then proceeds to Etah and Hardoi where he hopes to spend the night.
On Tuesday, he would visit Lakhimpur-Kheri, Bahraich, Ambedkar Nagar and Sitapur.
New Delhi, December 07: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Moscow on Sunday to ink billions of dollars of weapons deals and for talks on a landmark nuclear deal that could significantly widen atomic fuel imports from Russia.
India, along with China, is one of Russia’s biggest clients for arms sales but New Delhi has been upset in recent years by long delays in the delivery of a refurbished Soviet-era aircraft carrier under a $1.6 billion contract.
Copenhagen, December 07: Ahead of the key climate summit in Copenhagen that begins on Monday, representatives of the G-77 group of developing nations and China spent two days in a conference room, discussing their strategy for the meeting and speculating on possible outcomes and their position on specific issues.
Mumbai, December 07: After the lukewarmly received “Kambakkht Ishq’ producer Sajid Nadiadwala is making another super-expensive film “Anjaana Anjaani’, which is being shot all over the world.
To his surprise the lead pair Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra, both riding high at the box-office offered to keep their fee at the most reasonable level.
Kathmandu, December 07: India has agreed to resume military cooperation with Nepal, which was suspended following the 2005 takeover of power by former King Gyanendra, besides providing training to Nepalese security personnel as part of efforts to step up defence cooperation.
Nepal and India also agreed to share intelligence and to cooperate on constructing an airbase for the Nepalese Army in western Nepal, at the three-day joint-secretary level meeting that concluded here yesterday.
New Delhi, December 07: A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) team arrived in India on a two-day visit with information on Pakistan-born suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Rana presently in US custody.
“Investigations are on in the matter. The FBI team is here and we have been assured of all cooperation from the US,” External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said on the sidelines of the India-Africa Hydrocarbon Conference here.
New Delhi, December 07: With Parliament scheduled to discuss the Liberhan Commission report from today, Congress and BJP are expected to try to put each other in the dock over the issue of demolition of Babri Masjid.
BJP, several top leaders of which have been indicted by the Commission, is cut up with the virtual clean chit given to former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao by the panel, an issue on which it appears to be making a common cause with the Samajwadi Party.
Bajaur, December 07: A bomb blast in Pakistan’s tribal district of Bajaur has left at least two anti-militant elders dead and two others wounded amid rising militancy.
The incident happened on Sunday outside a mosque in Malangi village, which was the focus of a recent army operation against the pro-Taliban militants.
Both tribesmen are said to have been respected elders who spoke out against militancy in the region.
The attack comes two days after forty people died when militants targeted worshippers attending Friday prayers in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
Bhopal, December 07: The three-day 62nd International Tablighi Ijtema (Islamic congregation)here ended today with offering of a grand ” Dua ” (prayer) for the well being of community, peace and harmony in the world.
The “Dua” was delivered by Maulana Saad Saheb of Nizamuddin Markaz, New Delhi who prayed to almighty Allah to forgive people across the globe and shower blessings on them.