Mumbai, April 29: Just two months after her marriage to Rahul Mahajan on national television, Dimpy Ganguly is bringing their private life back on the small screen. She tests her husband on a TV show to prove to the world that he is loyal.
Rahul and Dimpy episode is the grand finale of UTV Bindass’ “Emotional Atyachaar” – a show about infidelity. And Rahul has emerged clean.
Ahmedabad, April 29: A team of military doctors backed by country’s National Defence Research Centre is studying an 83-year-old holy man who claims to have spent seven decades surviving without food or water.
The long-haired and bearded yogi, Prahlad Jani, has been sealed in a hospital in the western city of Ahmedabad where he is under 24-hour observation by 30 doctors and will be subjected to a series of medical tests.
New Delhi, April 29: Based on intelligence inputs, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs on Thursday issued a terror alert for Kolkata.
The specific alert, which has been sent to the West Bengal Police, points to heightened activity of sleeper cells of some terrorists groups in the eastern metropolis.
As per reports, Subash Chandra Bose International Airport, Kalighat Kali Mandir and 24 Parganas, are the possible targets.
Mumbai, April 29: Top mobile phone maker Nokia is set to launch a new phone called the X2, photos posted on the firm’s Web site showed.
Details of the phone were not immediately available, but the pictures showed it has a 5-megapixel camera.
The firm declined to comment on the photos.
—Agencies
Mumbai, April 29: Former Union Finance Minister C D Deshmukh was the only Marathi leader in Delhi with self-respect, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has said.
C D Deshmukh, who quit his post to register his protest against the idea of not letting Mumbai be a part of a separate Marathi-speaking state of Maharashtra, was the only Marathi (leader) in Delhi to show self-respect and all others turned out to be cowards, Thackeray said.
Mosul, April 29: Iraqi military forces have discovered an unmanned aerial vehicle, belonging to the US Army, among a cache of weapons and explosives in a depot in western Mosul.
“A force from the third division of the Iraqi army found on Wednesday a US unmanned aerial vehicle in a stockpile of weapons and explosives in al-Yarmouk neighborhood in western Mosul,” a military source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The operation was carried out after the army received intelligence on the ammunition storage, which also contained a number of bombs and light weapons, the source added.
New Delhi, April 29: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) got over 370,000 complaints against the police force related to human rights abuse in the last 10 years most of them from Uttar Pradesh, a document of the rights body has revealed.
According to the available documents, the NHRC registered 377,216 complaints against the police.
“Among the complaints registered with the commission until March 31, 2010, those relating to police are the highest. Those pertaining to service matters is also quite high,” an NHRC official said.
Agartala, April 29: Five people, including two children, were killed and 11 injured in lightning strikes in different parts of Tripura, officials said Thursday.
Eight-year-old Rajiv Bhoumij and his six-year-old sister Sunimalal died on the spot and their parents suffered burns in the incident in west Tripura district’s Bishalgarh block Wednesday night. The family was sleeping when lightning struck, an official said.
Besides, a woman was killed in Teliamura in west Tripura and two youths died in Kanchanpur in north Tripura. Nine more people were injured in these incidents.
Mumbai, April 29: A new ravishing Lara Dutta is there for everyone to see, especially over the year gone by. First she sizzled in a big way in BLUE and audience couldn’t get enough of her. Now in HOUSEFULL, she is one of the three actresses (including Deepika Padukone and Jiah Khan) who bring a charm of their own once they appear on screen.
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Bridgetown, April 29: An unbeaten 61 from Chamara Kapugedera was in vain as Sri Lanka slumped to a five-wicket defeat to South Africa with three balls to spare in a World Twenty20 warm-up on Wednesday.
Kapugedera and veteran Sanath Jayasuriya helped Sri Lanka post 137 for 8 before a 61-run partnership between Mark Boucher and Johan Botha allowed South Africa to squeeze home in the final over.
Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkara opted to bat first after winning the toss at the Kensington Oval but Tillakaratne Dilshan fell first ball to Rory Kleinveldt.
Mumbai, April 29: Actor Emraan Hashmi, seems much inspired by his ONCE UPON A TIME IN MUMBAI co-star Ajay Devgn. A news leaked out recently that Ajay and Emraan are keeping a very good company and guess what; Emraan is actually taking his bonding to a new level.
Actually, all the cast n crew of ONCE UPON A TIME…. including Emraan used to frequently visit Ajay Devgan’s farm in Karjat while on shoots, where Ajay grows his own veggies and fruits and several times Ajay and Emraan spent a good time there trying their hands at a bit of farming.
Mumbai, April 29: APARTMENT has released but hasn’t found many takers at the box office. Still, its lead actors Neetu Chandra and Tanushree Dutta have gained some decent appreciation for their work. One asks Tanushree if she was expecting this Jagmohan Mundhra directed psycho thriller to bring her much better mileage.
Mumbai, April 29: Nana Patekar has done it again. The moody actor walked out of a press briefing without informing anyone including his director much to shock of everyone present.
Buzz is that Nana was supposed to meet the press for his upcoming film RAAJNEETI. Though he showed up on time but soon he made an exit without informing anyone.
Ranchi, April 29: Jharkhand’s political cauldron has churned out seven governments in the last nine years. And with the state facing another bout of political uncertainty after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) threatened to pull out of the Shibu Soren government, it might see the eighth one soon.
The BJP, a junior partner in the government led by the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), threatened to pull the plug after Soren voted for the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in the Lok Sabha Tuesday.
Mumbai, April 29: Katrina Kaif might have scores of Bollywood hits and millions of star struck fans, however, when all by herself, the svelte actress craves for companionship.
News has it that Katrina is fighting loneliness. The svelte actress has lost oodles of weight and is yearning for her family. Living alone in Mumbai, Katrina says, “I’m starting to miss living with family too much lately.”
Agra, April 29: Tension prevailed in Shahganj area of the Taj city after a bust of the architect of the Indian Constitution, Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar, was found desecrated this morning. According to police, some anti-social elements threw a white substance on the statue of the leader at Ramnagar Puliya last night.
A mob of locals took to the streets and staged demonstration in protest.
The agitators were seeking action against the guilty.
Meanwhile, police have been deployed for the maintenance of law and order.
—Agencies
New Delhi, April 29: Ford India today announced the appointment of N Raja as Vice President, Sales, with effect from April 1. He replaces Timothy Tucker, who was appointed President and CEO, Ford Japan, a company statement said.
Mr Raja will report directly to Ford India, Executive Director (Marketing, Sales & Service) Nigel Wark.
New Delhi, April 29: India’s annual food price inflation eased in mid-April, but fuel price inflation quickened maintaining an upside pressure on the wholesale price index that could prompt further monetary tightening by the central bank.
The food price index rose 16.61 percent in the 12 months to April 17, lower than an annual rise of 17.65 percent in the previous week, government data showed on Thursday.
The fuel price index rose an annual 12.69 percent, marginally higher than the previous week’s reading of 12.45 percent.
Jaipur, April 29: Three persons, including a couple, were today killed when a car in which they were travelling had a head-on collision with a truck at village Rawaliya, about 14 km away from Chittorgarh, police said. The couple hailing from Tamil Nadu were on their way to Kwaja Moinuddin Chisti dargha at Ajmer when the mishap occurred.
All the three bodies have been taken to Chittorgarh hospital for post-mortem. The deceased were yet to be identified.
—PTI
London/Islamabad, April 29: Pakistan Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud, who was thought to have been killed in a US drone attack early this year, is alive and “basically OK”, claimed a senior ISI official.
The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency official told The Guardian: “He (Mehsud) is alive… “He had some wounds but he is basically OK.”
Mehsud was believed to have died in a drone strike in South Waziristan in January. Though a Pakistani minister had then said that the Taliban chief had been killed, his death was not confirmed by either US or Pakistani intelligence.
Thimphu, April 29: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday emphasised the need for all political parties in Nepal to sink their differences and come together to push the peace process as he met his Nepalese counterpart Madhav Kumar Nepal here.
Singh and Nepal met on the sidelines of the SAARC Summit during which they held detailed discussions on the status of the peace process in Nepal, including the redrafting of the Constitution.
Washington, April 29: Pakistan has moved 100,000 troops from its borders with India, thinning the lines, to bolster its campaign against Taliban and other militants on its restive border with Afghanistan, the Pentagon said today.
The mass shifting of troops is an acknowledgement of the fact that terrorism and internal insurgency were posing more threat to Pakistan now, the Pentagon said in a report to the US Congress.
New Delhi, April 29: The government today said that the Indian woman diplomat arrested on charge of spying for Pakistan did not have access to highly classified material and investigations in the matter are continuing.
“The position occupied by the official did not involve access to highly classified material. The official is now cooperating with us in our inquiries,” Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur said in a suo motu statement in the Lok Sabha.
Mumbai, April 29: Neither Aishwarya nor Akshay Kumar have any dates to spare to shoot a song for Vipul Shah’s “Action Replayy”. The filmmaker agrees that his stars have a genuine problem, but he is not ready to release the movie without that number.
To bail Shah out, Aishwarya has suggested that he should fly down with his unit to London. She would fly from Cannes to London and shoot the song with Akshay in night shifts when the actor wouldn’t be shooting for “Patiala House”.