Mumbai, May 31: Muktha George is on a roll; the young actress, who was one of the sought after actresses in the South, is currently facing a little bad luck in her career. The actress, who has a number of hit films in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu to her credit, has now signed one more movie.
New Delhi, May 31: It’s World Tobacco Day today, with a special emphasis on marketing to women. Activists believe tobacco advertisements and trends are increasingly targeting young women.
Did you know that 8.3 percent of Indian girls between 13-15 years of age consume some form of tobacco? The statistic acquires significance as World No Tobacco Day is observed Monday with an emphasis on the marketing of tobacco to women.
Kochi, May 31: Eight Somalians, who were taken into custody by Indian Navy off Kavaratti coast, have been remanded to 14 days judicial custody. The Somalians were produced before the Judicial First Class magistrate here yesterday and later shifted to the sub-jail at Mattancherry, police said.
Police said they would seek custody of the Somalians for interrogation. CBI, Intelligence Bureau, Navy and Coastguard would jointly interrogate the Somalians, they said.
London, May 31: Actress Angelina Jolie says she is attracted to “vulnerable” characters and that she can’t think of playing fantasy roles like Cinderella.
“I play women that I think are vulnerable. Like in ‘Girl, Interrupted’, I have a huge breakdown – very emotional, very unhappy, but she’s considered psychotic and a scary, tough woman,” contactmusic.com quoted her as saying.
“The cleaning the floors or the knight in shining armour? I don’t know, I don’t think any of them sound like me,” she added.
——IANS
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 rumours about them being lovebirds off screen as well. Though, they never confirmed anything about their romantic liaisons, the real life chemistry was obvious.
Mumbai, May 31: A chartered flight carrying Salman Khan’s friends and family including Arbaaz, Sohail and David Dhawan to Dubai on Thursday for his Being Human concert had to be delayed by almost an hour, as Sajid Nadiadwala suddenly fell ill.
Apparently, there was alarm and panic on-board. A doctor had to be rushed to the flight. On examining him, the doctor announced that Sajid was not fit to travel and was advised to de-board. Salman’s flight had to leave without Sajid.
Melbourne, May 31: An Indian salesman in Australia was sentenced to jail Monday after being convicted of sexually assaulting children and possessing child pornography.
Mujahed Ur-Rahman, 29, pleaded guilty to sexually penetrating a child aged under 16 and two other charges relating to separate incidences on another victim, committing an indecent act on a child aged under 16 and possessing child pornography.
The Victorian County Court sentenced Mujahed to three years and nine months’ jail, with a non-parole period of two years and three months.
Hyderabad, May 31: (Siasat News) Congress president Sonia Gandhi sought the support of the Praja Rajyam President Chiranjeevi for the ensuring Rajya Sabha elections.
Mr. Chiranjeevi assured her that within two days his party would take a decision and the congress would be and kept informet Mr. Chiranjeevi and hisparty leader visited delhi on the invitation of the congress high command.
Srinagar, May 31: In a case of rivalry between two top militants, a terrorist belonging to Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) shot dead his commander during a shootout in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir today, police said.
Chota Bashir, district commander of the outfit in Doda and his newly recruited associate Abdul Lateef exchanged fire in Lolore area this morning, in which the latter was killed, they said.
Lucknow,May 31 :Rahul Gandhi the heir apparent is wooing dalits and muslims to win the congress confidence in UP . Rhaul babu is busy visiting dalits houses and eating food with them and now concentrating in muslims areas .RAHUL Gandhi, it appears, has little confidence in the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee ( UPCC) going by his decision to deploy a parallel team to assist him in the 2012 assembly polls.
Srinagar, May 31: A youth was today murdered by unidentified assailants who attacked him with sharp-edged weapons in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.
24-year-old Kuldeep Kumar was attacked by a group of 3 to 4 armed men at Talpad village in Udhampur district at 6 am today, they said.
The assailants escaped after stabbing him, police said, adding the victim was taken to a hospital where doctors declared him brought dead. A case has been registered and investigation has started into the incident, they said.
—-PTI
Chandigarh, May 31: Disgraced former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, sentenced to an 18-month prison term by a court here in a molestation case, today failed to get any relief as the Punjab and Haryana High Court deferred the hearing on his revision petition seeking bail till tomorrow.
68-year-old Rathore’s lawyer wife Abha Rathore had filed the review petition on his behalf in the High Court on May 26 seeking bail, a day after he was sentenced and lodged in the high-security Burail jail here.
The single vacation bench of Justice Ajay Tewari deferred the case till tomorrow.
New Delhi, May 31: Gold futures traded Rs. 71, or 0.38 per cent lower at Rs. 18,394 per ten gram, as traders booked profits amid higher dollar.
Weak trend in the other Asian markets also put some pressure.
All the three running contracts -June, August and October-were trading in negative zone with losses up to 0.38 per cent.
At the Multi Commodity Exchange, gold for delivery in June contract traded Rs. 71, or 0.38 per cent down at Rs. 18,394 per ten gram, with a turnover of 968 lots. It ended 0.20 per cent higher at Rs. 18,465 per ten gram in the previous session.
Hyderabad, May 30: (Siasat News) Muslim girls student were made to remove their Burqa and boys students were also forced to unwear their skull cap (Tupi), before they were allowed to attend the EAMCET at Vijaya Rural Engineering College, Nizamabad.
The S.I.O and some other muslim leaders organized a Dharna (Sit in) protest against the management of the college. As usual police lathi charged the peacefull protesters but the principal of the college rose to the occasion and his intervention pacified the agitating students.
New Delhi, May 31: A steady agricultural sector and a robust manufacturing sector drove GDP to 7.4 per cent in 2009-10, better than the February projection of 7.2.
Driven by a robust performance by the manufacturing sector, the Indian economy grew by 8.4 per cent in the last quarter of 2009-10, pushing up the overall growth to a better-than expected 7.4 per cent.
The manufacturing sector grew by 16.3 per cent in the fourth quarter (January-March 2009-10) and 10.8 per cent in the fiscal.
Mumbai, May 31: Poverty led the unemployed men to put themself on sale. Residents left red-faced after posters advertising ‘male companionship’ spring up by the dozen on upmarket Carter Road and Nargis Dutt Road.
Residential buildings and bungalows on upmarket Carter Road and Nargis Dutt Road in Bandra, including those of some Bollywood stars, have a never-seen-before kind of poster adorning their walls. These posters — simple printouts on white paper — advertise ‘companions for lonely middle-aged women’, or, put simply, gigolos, for Rs 5,000 per hour.
Paris, May 31: Four-time champion Justine Henin made a triumphant return to form as the Belgian beat Russian rival Maria Sharapova 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 on Sunday to reach the fourth round of the French Open tennis.
Henin, a former world number one and darling of the Roland Garros crowds, was playing her favourite event for the first time since 2008 when she announced a retirement from the game that lasted only 20 months. Between them, 12th seed Sharapova, winner of the Strasbourg title last weekend, and Henin share ten Grand Slam titles, with Henin winning seven including her Paris quartet.
Mumbai, May 31: A 20-year-old marine engineer committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan at his Andheri residence on Saturday night.
According to the police, Vinayak Hotkar, who worked in the Merchant Navy, was in love with a older, married woman. However, his parents objected to the affair. “He met the woman through a common friend,” said a senior officer from DN Nagar police station.
At the time of the incident, Hotkar was alone at home.
The police have recovered a suicide note. “In the note, he asked his parents to inform his lady love,” another officer said.
Mumbai, May 31: The next time you log on to Orkut or Facebook, you might find a post asking you to register for voting or to vote for a certain candidate. The message won’t be from a politician, but from candidates aspiring to book themselves a place in the decision making body of the Mumbai University.
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 Delhi, May 31: Woman allegedly robbed her two mothers-in-law of Rs 24 lakh, nabbed by police after 15-day hunt
She can make a mean mango shake. If the police are to be believed, Meetu Talwar (28) is not the daughter-in-law of dreams.
Mumbai, May 31: A strategic realignment of political forces prior to the elections for six Rajya Sabha and 10 state legislative council (MLC) seats in Maharashtra has left chief minister Ashok Chavan in a tricky situation.
Chavan, who is already wary of sabotage within the party, senses a political embarrassment with the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) veering towards the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena grouping.
Bulawayo, May 31: Rohit Sharma hammered his second successive ODI century as India crushed Sri Lanka by seven wickets in its second match and put its campaign back on track in the cricket tri-series here on Sunday.
Chasing 243, India made a rather slow start and lost both its openers inside 10 overs before one-down Virat Kohli (82) and Rohit (101 not out) resurrected the innings to help India romp home with 6.3 overs to spare at the Queens Sports Club.
New Delhi, May 31: Here’s good news for patients. The Centre plans to bring in regulation to reduce arbitrariness in private medical practice, and to hold private hospitals and doctors accountable for every stage of treatments they prescribe. For this, the Right to Information Act will also be made use of.
Mumbai, May 31: If it’s a Shahid Kapoor film, there must be some heavy duty 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.