Mumbai, May 31: While Salman’s fans are waiting to witness his much talked about chemistry with Sonakshi Sinha in their upcoming film ‘Dabangg’, reports reveal that Katrina too has been roped in for the flick.
While the buzz about Sallu-Sonakshi’s bonding on the sets of ‘Dabangg’ has been grabbing headlines for long now, grapevine has it that Katrina too has been signed on for doing a special appearance in the movie.
Srinagar, May 31: A gunbattle broke out between a group of militants and security forces in Baramulla district of North Kashmir Monday afternoon, police said.
Based on specific information about the presence of militants, troops of One Para, 32 Rashtriya Rifles and 40 Rashtriya Rifles raided Nardagi forest area, 60 kms from here.
Police said the militants, believed to be around four in number, started firing on the personnel, forcing them to retaliate.
The gunbattle was still on, they said.
-PTI
On Board President’s Special Aircraft, May 31: Upbeat about her “fruitful” talks with China’s leadership, President Pratibha Patil today said that she had accomplished her goal of enhancing “trust, friendship and understanding” between the two countries.
Citing the support of the Chinese leaders on several crucial issues, including India’s bid for membership of the UN Security Council and correcting the trade imbalance now heavily in favour of China, Patil said that Sino-Indian relationship has gone beyond purely bilateral aspects and had acquired a global dimension.
Bangkok, May 31: Thailand’s Prime Minister faced accusations on Monday of violating human rights by ordering a deadly Army crackdown on opposition protesters, during a heated no-confidence debate in Parliament.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva survived more than two months of street protests by the anti-government “Red Shirts” but is now facing questions about his administration’s handling of the unrest, which left 88 people dead.
Mumbai, May 31: Dushmans Vivek Oberoi and Salman Khan will use the same platform to announce the charities they support
Salman Khan and Vivek Oberoi are known to do charity work, independent of each other. Now, VO’s Project Hope is likely to clash with Salman’s Ambassador of Change. We give you a heads-up on what to expect…
WHO: Salman Khan
WHAT HE’S UP TO: Will be part of IIFA’s charity initiative.
WHERE: At the IIFA awards in Sri Lanka this weekend.
Mumbai, May 31: Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra sizzled on screen as a cute pair in Vishal Bhardwaj’s hit movie Kaminey and then there were rumors about them being lovebirds off screen as well. Though, they never confirmed anything about their romantic liaisons, the real life chemistry was obvious.
The rumors of their link up surfaced, when they were shooting for Kaminey, then it was almost confirmed when, Shahid moved in to Priyanka’s building.
Mumbai, May 31: Eva Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and Vivien Leigh… these are four of Hollywood’s legendary beauties whom director Madhur Bhandarkar will use as direct reference-points for Kareena Kapoor’s character in Heroine.
And to make Kareena’s job manageable and easily accessible Madhur has prepared a 3-hour documentary on the quartet of Hollywood greats.
But where on earth are the female legends of the Indian cinema?
Mumbai, May 31: Salman Khan’s team won the celebrity Indo-Pak cricket match held in Dubai on Thursday. The 15-over match was part of Khan’s initiative to raise awareness about his Being Human Foundation in the desert emirate.
Pakistani cricketers at the match included Shoaib Akhtar and Shoaib Malik, and singer Atif Aslam. The Pak team scored 120 and Khan’s team reached the target with one ball to spare.
Khan’s team included actors Mahesh Manjrekar, Riteish Deshmukh, Sanjay Kapoor, Vatsal Seth and Aashish Chaudhary.
Mumbai, May 31: Bollywood actors Aishwarya Rai and Shah Rukh Khan will not be seen together in Yash Raj Films (YRF) next project, a spokesperson from the production house said.
“Despite our categorical denial of this baseless rumour, the tabloid continued to publish this with an ambiguous quote from a person at YRF. It is totally baseless and not true, ” said an official statement from YRF.
“The least that should have been done was to have quoted us correctly and preferably not have carried this concocted story at all, ” it added.
Mumbai, May 31: Just few months back, so many actresses in Bollywood had headed for the most talked about ‘size zero’ trend. Now, everyone seems to have taken a back turn, stating that it’s not really a fad anymore.
Kareena Kapoor, who had gone size zero with her movie Tashan, now has a fuller body. In a statement, Kareena in her own words had said that beau Saif thought she resembles a hanger so she regained her curves.
Ranchi, May 31: Jharkhand could be headed for a short spell of president’s rule as the three major political parties informed Governor M.O.H. Farook that at present they do not have the numbers to form an alternative government.
The governor is preparing a report on Jharkhand, which is likely to be sent by late Monday night to the union home ministry.
According to sources, the governor could recommend president’s rule in the state as no party has shown interest in forming an alternative government, a day after Shibu Soren resigned as chief minister.
——IANS—
Mumbai, May 31: The much waited ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi’ season three, as we know, will see the Bollywood Hotty Priyanka as the host but the hot question now is whether the show will role on schedule.
As reported earlier, the makers of the show are having a tough time to rope in cricketers for this season all thanks to the Lalit Modi controversy. Cricketers are maintaining a low profile these days to avoid any controversy and it seems that this is reflecting on the show.
Mumbai, May 31: If it’s a Shahid Kapoor film, there must be some heavyduty dancing. Or so it seems, going by the way the music in his father’s directorial debut Mausam has been moulded to accommodate Shahid’s dancing shoes.
According to a source very close to the project the film’s aesthetically-inclined director Pankaj Kapoor had initially planned an exclusive heavily melody-based music score based only ragas.
In fact Pritam Chakraborty who ‘s doing the music score in Mausam has just recorded a raga-based love melody in the voice of Rashid Khan.
Mumbai, May 31: The sequel to the Akshay-Lara animation film is in the pipeline
Remember Percept Picture Company’s Jumbo the animation film about an elephant with voiceovers by Akshay Kumar and Lara Dutta? It released in December 2008 and didn’t really light up the box-office.
But despite the lukewarm response, the production house is going ahead with a sequel.
Confirming this, a source close to Percept says, “Yes Jumbo 2 is very much in the works and we plan to release it this Diwali. Akshay Kumar and Lara Dutta are in talks and everything is being worked out.
Thiruvananthapuram, May 31: Leader of the Opposition in Kerala Assembly Oomen Chandy today alleged that the CPI(M) was responsible for the new violent incidents and political murders in Kannur district.
Addressing a press conference here, Mr Chandy alleged that the Home Department was fully responsible for the new political violence and murders in Kannur, the home district of Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan.
Hyderabad, May 31: Tennis beauty Sania Mirza might be happy that she put full stop to all gossips and rumours with her marriage, but she couldn’t stop people peeping into her personal life. Bollywood producer PD Garg is making a Hindi film on Sania Mirza’s controversial life story. Jaya Shankar will be directing this movie.
Manila, May 31: Four soldiers were killed in an attack by communist rebels in the eastern Philippines, an army spokesman said Monday.
The troops were ambushed Sunday in Presentacion town in Camarines Sur province, 255 km south-east of Manila, Major Harold Cabunoc said.
He said the rebels threw grenades and opened fire at the soldiers as they were negotiating steep terrain, killing four and wounding three.
Cabunoc said the troops were pursuing a group of guerrillas who had earlier killed a soldier in an attack on an army outpost guarding a government road project.
New York, May 31: Sarah Ferguson hasn’t always been so greedy, according to her biographer, who says that she turned down plenty of money offers over the years, including 3 million dollars from a Saudi prince she called ‘Rubber Lips’ who wanted to bed her.
Allan Starkie, the author of “Fergie: Her Secret Life” (1996), has come to the defence of Duchess of York, who was caught on film accepting 27,000 pounds in cash to fix access to her ex-husband Prince Andrew, Britain’s trade envoy.
New Delhi, May 31: The Supreme Court today took serious note of caste violence in Haryana and sought an explanation from the Hooda government regarding the lack of action taken against the perpetrators of atrocities against dalits in village Mirchpur in district Narnul, Haryana.
Forty houses of dalits were allegedly set on fire by Jats in the area on May 21, when they were protesting against the killing of a dalit woman by setting her afire.
Cuttack, May 31: Another policeman of the Cuttack- Bhubaneswar Commissionerate has been arrested on charges of robbing gold ornaments from two Gujarat traders, police said today.
Earlier, Mangalabag police had arrested two constables and a city-based jeweller in connection with the case.
Police said though constable Sangram Naik’s alleged involvement was known in the incident, his arrest was delayed as he was in Jammu and Kashmir as a member of a special police squad to probe into a kidnap case.
Beijing, May 31: Six people died and seven others fell seriously ill after they mistakenly ate poisonous plants in China’s northwest Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
The victims, all workers at an iron mine in Toli County in Tacheng Prefecture, fell ill after they ate potherbs they had mistaken for celery yesterday, state-run news agency quoted a county government spokesman as saying.
Four of the victims died on the way to hospital. Two others failed to respond to treatment and died last night.
As of today, conditions of seven others were critical.
—-PTI
Meerut, May 31: A trader along with his family was brutally murdered by some unidentified persons at his residence in the Begum Bagh area here, police said today.
55-year-old liquor trader Narendra Kumar was found murdered along with his wife Sangeeta (48) and two sons aged 14 and 12 at his apartment yesterday, they said.
The incident came to light when some children of the area went to call Kumar’s sons to play cricket. On finding the door locked, they peeped inside and saw blood everywhere. The neighbours soon called the police.
Lucknow, May 31: At least 24 people were killed in Uttar Pradesh as thunderstorm hit several parts of the state, uprooting trees and electric poles, officials said today.
While nine persons were killed in Pratapgarh, eight deaths were reported from Aligarh, two each from Jaunpur and Mau and one each from Sultanpur, Lucknow and Nawabganj in storm-related incidents since yesterday, they said.
Trees and electric and telephone poles were uprooted at a number of places, disrupting train and vehicular movement on national highways.
Mumbai, May 31: Walkwater and Abhishek Sharma’s Tere Bin Laden has managed to do what no one has so far – it recreated Karachi in our very own Indian cities.
Tere Bin Laden, a tongue-in-cheek comedy about an ambitious young news reporter from Pakistan, who is desperate to migrate to the US in pursuit of the American dream, required everything to authentically look like it was truly Pakistani, right from the locations, costume design, language et all. Walkwater and Abhishek Sharma made sure that no stones were left unturned in doing just that.
Kanpur, May 31: To provide information on students, Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University here will be providing 17-digit Unique Identity (UID) numbers to all its pupils taking admission this academic session.
“Every student will be provided with an UID number. They will also have a web page which will contain all significant information about examinations, attendance, results, co-curricular activities,” Vice Chancellor of the University Prof Harsh Kumar Sehgal told.