Mumbai, August 06: Splitsville. It’s over between Sushmita Sen and Wasim Akram. The actor and the Pakistani cricketer were together for the past few months, but parted ways recently.
One learns that Sushmita’s growing closeness to Indian Premier League (IPL) chief Lalit Modi didn’t go down too well with Wasim.
They were serious about each other and had talked about living together in the future.
Vadodara, August 06: Gujarat’s first ever milk bank set up in Kashiba Gordhanbhai Children hospital here at Karelibagh here has come to the rescue to many new born babies, who are deprived of breastfeeding due to several factors.
Dr Arun Phatak, who took a lead in setting up this human milk bank in this hospital, said the initiative became necessary after direct breast feeding became nearly impossible to several new borns due to many medical factors such as caesarean deliveries and in many cases when infants are abandoned or are orphaned due to maternal deaths.
Houston, August 06: To expand its global footprint without compromising its core values, MIT Sloan is heading up for a new collaboration with Business schools in India, by entering into a partnership with Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
Although MIT’s Sloan School of Management was instrumental in starting Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta fifty years back, but never collaborated with B schools there.
“India was a gaping hole that existed in our strategy,” said Sloan Deputy Dean S P Kothari.
New Delhi, August 06: The government has sanctioned 24,521 National Means-cum-Merit scholarships in 2009-10, down from 54,564 in the previous fiscal, the Rajya Sabha was informed today.
Replying to supplementaries during Question Hour, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said states are not sending adequate number of eligible students for the monthly scholarship of Rs 500.
Mumbai, August 06: Sonam Kapoor, who plays the role of a matchmaker in her latest film ‘Aisha’, is taking her role a little too seriously. Well, she is playing the cupid in real life too. This time it’s for her younger brother Harsh. Harsh is a die hard fan of Piggy Chops. On hearing this, the concerned big sister Sonam is trying to get both acquainted.
No worries when Twitter is here. So it was easy for Sonam to convey her message to PC. “My brother thinks you are the hottest woman alive and wants you to know that he is young, single and very good looking,” Sonam tweeted.
Mumbai, August 06: Tanushree Dutta is one actor who would not shy away from getting saucy on-screen and she reveals that she is ready to go bold again.The actor had drawn flak from various quarters for her intimately physical act with Emraan Hashmi in Aashiq Banaya Apne.
But she is ready to walk the steamy path again and shed some clothes, now that most actresses have done so on-screen with ease and without criticism. Ask her how bold is bold and she shoots, “Pretty much like all other actresses these days, my threshold is the regular, nothing out of the ordinary.
Mumbai, August 06: Priyanka Chopra who is busy shooting for Vishal Bhardwaj’s ‘Saat Khoon Maaf’ got overstressed with her vocal chords during.
A screaming shot for the film. A source revealed, “Priyanka had to act as a member of the audience in a concert.
Which was being shot. The scene required her to enjoy the concert and scream very loud, louder than everybody else in the audience.
That scream had to stand out. After Vishal approved of the scene, Priyanka realised that her throat was not all that good.”
Bhopal, August 06 (Pervez Bari): Twentysix leading human rights activists from all over India starting from Arundhathi Roy have condemned the recent statement of Kerala Chief Minister Mr. V.S. Achuthanandan that the state is going to be Islamic with Muslim majority within 20 years.
“The remark of the Kerala Chief Minister Achuthanandan endangers the communal harmony of the state and we urge him to withdraw his remarks with immediate effect”. a joint statement released by these 26 activists on Thursday said.
Hyderabad, August 06: The Telugu Desam Party has decided to undertake padayatra in the Sri Ram Sagar Project catchment area to create awareness about the Babli project, being illegally constructed by the Maharashtra government.
The party chief, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, would lead the padayatra. This was decided at the Politburo meeting of the party on Thursday.
Chennai, August 06: Visitors’ entry at the airport here was banned from today for an unspecified period, airport sources said.
The move came following directions from Union Home Ministry for security reasons and visitors will not be allowed in both domestic and international terminals, they said.
The ban will be in force till further announcements from the Ministry, they added.
–PTI
Washington, August 06: Even though more than half of the country is seen as a safe haven for terrorists and al-Qaeda’s core here, a top American official on said that Islamabad is the front-line counter-terror partner for the United States.
“Pakistan, we must all remember, is a front-line counter-terrorism partner. More al-Qaeda operatives have been killed or captured in Pakistan than anywhere else,” Daniel Benjamin, Co-coordinator, Office of Counter-terrorism in the State Department said.
Sydney, August 06: Denying speculation over his retirement this summer, Ricky Ponting has said he is more than happy playing cricket for Australia and captaining his country.
Ponting, 35, had been expected to at least complete this summer’s Ashes campaign and the 2011 World Cup on the sub-continent before deciding on his future.
Last night, a television report hinted that the fifth Ashes Test in Sydney could be Ponting’s last.
However, Ponting’s manager James Henderson told media that the speculation was inaccurate, According to reports.
Mumbai, August 06: Kangana Ranaut is bold, beautiful and talented. The success of her recent film Once Upon A Time in Mumbai has made her even more popular but she is not the happy girl you see in films. In real life she is struggling to find a man who is ready to date her.
Kangana is unlucky when it comes to love. Her previous relationships did not work. Even her future doesn’t look bright. She complained that she just didn’t get time to date, as she is surrounded by married men (producers and directors). She added that she couldn’t go to a club and shout out loud that she’s single.
Mumbai, August 06: Well stop all speculations, it’s all out now. Aamir and SRK are buddies. We have all kinds of stories related to their enmity, fallout and ego counters, but this time it’s refreshing as it’s about their friendship.
A few weeks ago, it was reported that both SRK and Aamir had dinner together and then Aamir had invited SRK to watch Peepli Live with him. During a recent Interview with Zoom, Aamir said, I invited SRK to watch Peepli Live¸ but he‘s busy shooting for RA1, so I guess he will see it when he’s back in the city.”
Mumbai, August 06: Although born in a male body, Revathi who always considered herself a woman and even underwent a sex reassignment surgery to reaffirm her sexuality has landed in an identity crisis all in the name of a driver’s license.
Her unique driver’s licence sports two names and no gender specification.
“I finally had my driving licence. The licence did not specify whether I was male or female. Instead it referred to me as ‘Revathi who is Doraisamy'”, says A Revathi whose autobiography ‘The Truth About me: A hijra life story’ has been released recently.
Mumbai, August 06: Salman Khan still rules the hearts of million all over. Ironically, when recently, audience went out to watch Akshay Kumar starrer Khatta Meetha; they came out praising Salman and not Akshay. Read on to why?
Actually, Salman’s Dabangg is all set for the release and its’ first theatrical promo was shown during the screening of Khatta Meetha. Considering the debacle of the Akshay’ comedy on the box-office one could easily gauge that audience were left with no choice but raving about Dabangg and criticizing Priyadarshan’s comedy.
Mumbai, August 06: Kama Sutra, the ancient guide to love-making, has been turned into an audio book for the first time, which people can read anywhere, anytime.
Now Britons can listen to the classic text on erotic love in bed or on the bus or train, reports express.co.uk.
The publishers – Beautiful Books – hope that through this, a whole new generation will learn from the 1,600-year-old Hindu self-help guide to friendship, marriage and relationships.
London, August 06: Hollywood actress Julia Roberts reveals that she has been practising Hinduism after filming her new movie “Eat, Pray and Love” in India.
The 42-year-old admits she regularly goes to temple to “chant and pray and celebrate” with her three children and husband cameraman Daniel Moder, reports dailymail.co.uk.
She said: “I’m definitely a practising Hindu. Golly, I’ve been so spoiled with my friends and family in this life. Next time I want to be just something quiet and supporting.”
Mumbai, August 06: Mallika Sherawat broke all notions of sensuality in Indian cinema when she did 17 smooching scenes in Khwaish.
Subsequently, she also did movies like Murder and Pyaar Ke Side Effect where she had enough kissing scenes to put Hollywoof to shame. However as the promotions of her second Hollywood flick Politics of Love kick starts the actress promised her fans that this one will see much more than what she had shown in any of her Hindi films.
Mumbai, August 06: Even as people dig at the fashion statement that Sonam Kapoor makes every time she makes a public appearance the girl has been following another star religiously.
And that is Amitabh Bachchan.
Sonam loves the stars style sense.
“I like Big B’s socks,” she says, while enquiring if we have ever seen his socks.
“He always has these cartoon characters on his socks they are really cool and he is the only one who can get away with it,” she chuckles.
That’s quite an observation made.
Washington, August 06: A series of arrests in the US this week have highlighted the government’s growing concern over US citizens providing assistance to foreign terrorist organisations like Al Shabaab, an Al Qaeda affiliate in Somalia.
As the Justice Department announced charges Thursday against 14 people in three US states with ties to Al Shabaab, Attorney General Eric Holder said: “These indictments and arrests… shed further light on a deadly pipeline that has routed funding and fighters to Al-Shabaab from cities across the United States.”
Mumbai, August 06: Aamir Khan has already done a lot to promote Peepli Live. And as the film won the Best feature Film at the Dublin International Film Festival the producer gears up for more entertainment for the audience.
Aamir Khan has fixed a time on Saturday night to go live for a webcam chat with his fans across the world. This is something he had also done pre release of 3 Idiots while he was still on his secret tour. Looks like other celebrities need to learn from Aamir Khan on using technology to reach out to the audience.
New York, August 06: Consider the following statement offered by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a news conference last week. He was discussing Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks as well as the person who has taken responsibility for the vast, still ongoing Afghan War document dump at that site. “Mr. Assange,” Mullen commented, “can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family.”
Mumbai, August 06: The rumour that has been doing round about Rekha doing television now seems to be materializing.
Yesteryear seductress is set to do her television debut with Harry Baweja’s tentatively titled upcoming serial Ganga Ki Deej.
Hyderabad, August 06: Perhaps emboldened by the results of the recently concluded by-elections to 12 seats in Telangana region which the Telangana Rashtra Samithi won with sizeable margins, the TRS leadership feels it can make any statement.
The press conference by TRS Floor Leader in the Assembly Etela Rajender on Thursday was full of vitriolic where he spewed fire on Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy and his late father and former chief minister late YS Rajasekhara Reddy.