New Delhi, July 01: Iconic batsman Sachin Tendulkar has been appointed as the new Brand Ambassador of electronic giant Toshiba Corporation.
Sachin will be Toshiba’s Brand Ambassador across various product categories including laptops, LCD TVs and Home Appliances and for corporate branding in India.
Jamaica, July 01: Chris Gayle has said he is keen on continuing as West Indies captain despite the team’s dismal run of form over the past few years culminating in a 0-2 reversal in the home Tests against South Africa.
“Definitely I want to go on,” Gayle said. “Before the series I was brought into a meeting and had a discussion about my future and gave them my everything so we will see what happens.”
London, July 01: Cricket Australia is standing by John Howard and seriously considering whether to repeat its push to have him installed as ICC vice-president despite his swift rejection in Singapore. The appointment of Howard was stopped at an ICC board meeting on Wednesday by a group of Asian and African members in a result that left Australian and New Zealand officials “gutted”.
London, July 01: British officials have been dealing with several cases of young Indian-origin women being forced into marriages against their will, but recent cases show a sharp increase of men facing such ordeals.
Britain has set up a Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) that deals with cases of British citizens being forcibly taken to the Indian sub-continent and married against their will for cultural, immigration or family reasons.
Hyderabad, July 01: Two new missile manufacturing facilities will be set up in Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister K Rosaiah announced here today.
The new units similar to the Bharath Dynamics Limited (BDL), country’s premier missile making facility, will be located with ”huge investment,” the Chief Minister said, while releasing the state 2010-2015 new industrial policy here.
Mumbai, July 01: A day after a 42-year-old Muslim engineer was reportedly picked up near the Israeli Consulate at Nariman Point and questioned by the Marine Drive police just because he was sporting a beard, the Mumbai Police said they would probe if there was any basis to the allegations.
Kuwait City, July 01: Over 93,000 Kuwaitis and Kuwait-based foreigners have been banned from getting out of the country after they failed to pay their debts, a news report has said.
Out of the 93,099 people, 30,970 are Kuwaitis who owe 785 million Kuwaiti dinars to people or establishments and the rest are expatriates who reportedly owe 543 million dinars, Ali Al Dhubaha, the chairman of the Sentences Enforcement Department Counsellor, told Kuwait’s Arab Times daily.
Under the law, Kuwaiti citizens who are banned from travel are allowed to go overseas for treatment only once.
Tel Aviv, July 01: Now men too can take quality measures to prevent birth control as scientists have now developed contraceptive pills for them.
Scientists were working on the contraceptive pills for years and hormone jabs were given to the selected group of recipients by doctors. Trials were conducted on these men to find the effect of the contraceptive pills. Some of them developed side effects like failure of libido and depression after trying out the pills.
Mystery of sex worker’s murder solved
Hyderabad, July 01 (Siasat News): Police Banjara Hills solved the murder mystery of an unidentified woman by arresting to suspects.
The deceased is identified as Radhabai. Inspector Banjara Hills Mr. Sudarshan said murderers slit Radhabai’s throat at KBR Park the day before. She was the native of Adilabad and having four children.
However, she had left her husband and came to the city. According to the police she was involved in flesh trade.
MUmbai, July 01: It’s been 3 years since Abhi and Ash tied the knot and the two lovebirds still act like newlyweds.
Their wedding was the industry event of the year and the press continues to try to get.
As much information as they can about their relationship. Speculations are.
Also constantly made about things that the couple decides not to disclose.
One of the most popular rumors is claiming that Ash is pregnant. The two are featured on the cover of the July issue of Vogue India.
The sultry cover shows off their true chemistry. In their interview with Vogue magazine.
Tabriz, July 01: An Iranian woman faces being stoned to death after being accused of committing adultery with two men involved in the killing of her husband, the local media reported Wednesday.
If the barbaric sentence is enforced it would be the first stoning to take place in the hardline Islamic Republic in years, the media said.
Infidelity is outlawed in Iran and usually punished with lashes or prison. Execution is permitted under Iranian law but stoning is rare, experts say.
Mumbai, July 01: Mallika Sherawat loves the US. The actress donned a dress on twitter that resembles an American flag.
The tweeter queen also tweets about the fun she is having in Hollywood. It seems like Sherawat feels right at home in H-town.
Now Mallika gets to showcase her love for the US onscreen. In her next flick Mallika’s character loves US President Barack Obama.
Sherawat plays Aretha Gupta, a beautiful, idealistic local Obama volunteer coordinator. She ends up falling.
Melbourne, July 01: Jayant Patel, an Indian origin doctor held guilty of manslaughter and causing grievous bodily harm on patients at an Australian hospital, was Thursday sentenced to seven years in prison.
The sentence was read out in Brisbane Supreme Court.
“In view of the verdicts of the jury, there is no denying the gravity of your offending (and) your repeated serious disregard for the welfare of the four patients,” brisbanetimes.com.au qouted Justice John Byrne as telling 60-year-old Patel.
Los Angeles, July 01: Oscar winner Dame Helen Mirren has laughed off suggestions that she is too old to pose naked.
The 64-year-old recently posed naked for a magazine shoot, which was criticised by some who said a woman of a certain age should not bare all, reports digitalspy.com.
“I like the photos because I thought they were naked in the proper sense of the word naked. I’ve got very little make-up on. There’s no elaborate lighting. He (photographer) just used a flash. And it’s simple and it’s real. I think that was the intention of the photographs,” said Mirren.
Los Angeles, July 01: ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ star Dev Patel says his mother was upset when she read online that he had got engaged to his long time girlfriend Freida Pinto and had to explain to her that the reports were incorrect.
‘I was like, Mum, ‘I didn’t (get engaged) trust me,’. Nothing’s happened. Everything is fine. I’m just shooting a film,’ people.com quoted Patel as saying.
The 20-year-old admits that sometimes the rumours about his relationship status grows so strong that his mother is forced to clear them herself.
Kuala Lumpur, July 01: The Malaysian government plans to recruit more Tamil and Chinese language teachers from next year to fully implement its Pupils Own Language (POL) policy in 7,000 primary schools nationwide.
This is to boost the profile of national schools and cater to parents and students who want Tamil and Chinese to be taught in schools.
Multi-racial Malaysia is home to significant Indian and Chinese ethnic minorities. A bulk of the 1.7 million Indians are Tamils.
London, July 01: A car which can fly if caught in a traffic jam is soon to become a reality as the US aviation authority has given its nod for commercial production of “ligth sport” aircraft.
The aircraft “Terrafugia Transition”, which requires 1,700-feet runway to take off, will be the smallest aeroplane with a maximum weight of 1,320 lb (about 600 kg).
Bhopal, July 01:(Pervez Bari) The Bharatiya Janata Party ruled Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced to constitute a one-member enquiry commission to look after all the issues related to Bhopal gas tragedy focusing mainly on the release of Warren Anderson, the then CEO of the Union Carbide’s killer pesticide plant.
Talking to newsmen here on Wednesday Chouhan said a retired judge of the High Court will be the head of the commission. He, however, did not announce the name of the judge.
Patna, July 01: Girls have outperformed boys in the examinations held by Bihar’s Madrassa Education Board for the second consecutive year.
“Girls have outperformed boys in the madrassa results. Maulvi, Fauquania and Vastania topped in the Class 12, Class 10 and middle school examinations,” Maulana Ajaj Ahmad, chairman of the Madrassa Education Board of Bihar, said Thursday.
Mumbai, July 01: Salman Khan is one actor who stands by his producers and directors in need. This time veteran Producer Vinay Sinha approached the actor to work with him. It has been heard that the veteran producer has been going through a bad patch and when he approached Salman to do a film with him, the actor immediately agreed.
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Cairo, July 01: Scientists say that alcohol drinking during pregnancy might damage the future fertility of sons, asking women to think twice before pouring that glass of wine.
Pregnancy drinking habits could affect the would-be sons’ ability to father their own children in the future, Danish researchers told the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology conference in Rome.
The researchers said mothers’ drinking habit give these men a harder time getting their partner pregnant.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has called on parliaments of Islamic countries to join hands in defending the rights of the Palestinian nation.
“The Palestinian issue, in particular the besieged people of Gaza, is among the critical issues in the Islamic world, which needs to be examined,” IRNA quoted Larijani as saying in a meeting with Pakistani, Saudi, Lebanese and Bahraini parliament speakers on Wednesday night.
Mumbai, July 01: TV film producer Ekta Kapoor has been offered the female lead in a film by Nikhil Saini. She will be starring opposite filmmaker Anurag Kashyap.
Says a source in Balaji Telefilms, “Though Ekta has played herself in her brother Tusshar Kapoor’s film C Kkompany (2008) and has done cameos in her TV serial Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi. But this is the first time she will play a fictional character and a full-fledged role. It’s a romantic drama and currently everything is hush-hush till the casting falls in place. Ekta has always been apprehensive about facing the camera.”
Mumbai, July 01: Kajol, who is expecting her second child, is loving every minute of the pregnancy. We hear she has been guiltlessly munching on food from various cuisines.
Since she has all the reason to eat without exercising, she seems to be extremely happy about it.
A source close to her tells us that she recently had a strong craving for South Indian food. Immediately Kajol requested Muthuswami, a famous South Indian caterer from Mumbai to come to her house and cook sumptuous dishes.