Month: August 2010

PCB legal team in a fix on questions over Yousuf”s return

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Lahore, August 03: The Pakistan Cricket Board’s legal team is finding it hard to explain senior batsman Muhammad Yousuf’s return to the national team despite the fact that the ban on him for indiscipline has not yet been lifted.

PCB legal advisor Tafazzul Rizvi told PTI that Yousuf had been picked for the Pakistan team because he didn’t challenge his ban in March and retired from the international arena. “Since he didn’t challenge the ban it became permanent after the period of 30-days.

Me and Frieda laugh on our engagement rumours: Dev Patel

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London, August 03: ”Slumdog Millionaire” star Dev Patel admits that he and Freida Pinto laugh at their engagement rumours. The pair started dating after starring together in Danny Boyle”s Oscar-winning film in 2008 but Patel admits they have no intention of tying the knot yet, Contactmusic reported.

“We always laugh about these things. The last rumours I heard was that me and Frieda were looking for a wedding cake in Los Angeles.

Deepika missed a chance to romance Khan

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Mumbai, August 03: Deepika Padukone who recently said that she is keen to work with Salman Khan has apparently missed a chance to romance the stylish Khan on big screen.

Deepika was approeached by Salman’s brother-in-law Atul Agnihotri to play the female lead in Bodyguard since he felt that Deepika perfectly fits in the role.

After listening the script, Deepika immediately showed her interest to appear in the film however, her hectic schedule turned out to be the reason that made the actress move out of the project.

Sushma questions absence of ministers

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New Delhi, August 03: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj Tuesday questioned the absence of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Petroleum Minister Murli Deora and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar when the house was about to begin a discussion on the price rise and fuel hike issues.

‘No opposition leader will speak in the absence of the ministers who are answerable to the price rise and fuel price hike,’ Swaraj said pointing to the absence of Mukherjee, Pawar and Deora in the house after the lunch break.

Jacqueline believes she is better than Kat

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Mumbai, August 03: Jacqueline Fernandez is quite new to Bollywood. She has just done two films and right in the beginning she was compared to reigning queen Katrina Kaif.

And now it seems she already believes that she can better than Katrina and other actresses.

When she was asked what she would like to achieve to get her name in the record books the actress said, “I would like to become the highest earner!” The highest paid actress club right includes Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor and Katrina Kaif.

Saif breaks the partnership

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Mumbai, August 03: Saif Ali Khan and Dinesh Vijan who once believed that they have common goals in life so much so that after working together in Being Cyrus they went ahead to launch a production house in partnership. They did the Love Aaj Kal and Agent Vinod together.

But now we hear that the two have parted ways and will not be working together when Dinesh is going ahead and producing a film written by Imtiaz Ali. The film will star Imran Khan opposite Deepika Padukone.

SCR to run 102 special trains in Aug, Sept

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Hyderabad, August 03: To clear extra rush of passengers, the South Central Railway will run 102 special trains during August and September between various destinations. Hyderabad-Ajmer weekly train will depart from Hyderabad on August 6,13,20 and 27 and in the return direction it will depart from Ajmer on August 8,15,22 and 29.

Train No.0719 Secunderabad-Bikaner train will depart from Secunderabad on August 4,11,18 and 25 and in the return direction it will leave Bikaner on August 8,15,22 and 29.

Telangana issue: Congress nominees to meet Sonia

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Hyderabad, August 03: The Congress candidates who lost the byelection have only one demand: The party should start the process for creation of Telangana state.

After explaining to PCC chief D Srinivas, who himself was a loser in Nizamabad Urban, the factors that had led to their defeat, they decided to meet party president Sonia Gandhi and request her to take a clear stand on Telangana and initiate steps in that direction without any further delay.

TTD to move 270 deer out of Tirumala park

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Hyderabad, August 03: THE Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams has decided to shift the deer in the deer park on the Tirumala hills immediately in order to protect pilgrims from deerhunting leopards.

A decision to this effect was taken today by the TTD and the forest department. TTD chairman DK Audikesavulu met forest and environment minister P Ramachandra Reddy here today and discussed the leopard attacks which took place twice within a week on the pathway from Alipiri to Tirumala.

Austrian students to contribute for streetkids

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Vijayawada, August 03: Two Austrian students have flown all the way to Vijayawada to contribute for the upliftment of streetchildren. Sabrina Jamnig and Eva Mitterlehner who are pursuing post graduation in Vienna University, Vienna, will stay in the city for four months to work with the NGO Navjeevan Bala Bhavan trust. They have been teaching English and Mathematics to the trust students besides teaching craft.

Adah set to go places with Katrina

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Mumbai, August 03: What we hear now is that beauty cream company Olay has signed Katrina Kaif and Adah Sharma for their first commercial that has Adah chatting with Katrina who pops up on her laptop.

The ad has been out only few hours ago and there is already so much curiosity and that’s why the head honchos from Olay have already decided to air the commercial internationally.

Crushed Congress wary of holding civic polls

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Hyderabad, August 03: The bypoll setback has pushed the ruling Congress into second thoughts over holding elections to the municipalities and corporations in the state.

Though the government has been stating that the process has commenced and the elections would be held in December, the talk in the corridors of power is that they will not be held in the near future.

As per schedule, the government has to conduct elections to municipalities and corporations by the end of September and new bodies have to take charge immediately.

Naidu demands ban on iron ore exports from state

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Hyderabad, August 03: Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu has demanded that the state government ban export of iron ore from the state and also release a white paper on iron ore ‘illegally exported’ from here in last six years.

“Karnataka has banned export of iron ore from that state and estimated that 30 million tonnes of it was exported in the last few years. AP has more iron ore reserves than Karnataka and hence the quantity of ore exported illegally from the state could be much higher…Hence it should be banned,” Chandrababu told reporters at the TDP headquarters here today.

TD in total disarray in Telangana

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Hyderabad, August 03: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in Telangana is in a total disarray and the fear about their future is writ large on faces of the leaders from the region.

With complete rout in the byelections, several TDP MLAs from the region were apprehensive about their political future in a party, whose political philosophy on Telangana is hardly believed by the people.

‘Fill up vacancies of drug inspectors’

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Hyderabad, August 03: A division bench of the AP High Court comprising Justice A Gopala Reddy and Justice K C Bhanu, on Monday issued directions to the state government to notify vacancies and proceed with recruitment of 106 drug inspectors.

SI booked for murder bid on ACB officials

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Hyderabad, August 03: A case of attempt to murder was registered against a sub-inspector in the police station he is working, for opening fire on Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths who caught him accepting bribe last night. The SI opened fire on the ACB sleuths and fled by jumping the compound wall of the police station. This is probably for the first time that the ACB sleuths have come under attack by the government officials while discharging duties. The incident took place in East Godavari district.

TRS unhappy with outcome of CMs’ meet on Babli

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Hyderabad, August 03: The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has expressed disappointment over the outcome of the meeting between the chief ministers of AP and Maharshtra with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at Delhi today.

‘Take steps to check swine flu’

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Hyderabad, August 03: Chief minister K Rosaiah instructed the officials to take preventive steps and deployment of experienced doctors in the districts to contain swine flu.

Rosaiah, before leaving for Delhi, reviewed the situation with health minister D Nagendar, special chief secretary J Satyanarayana, secretary P V Ramesh and other officials.

Hema Malini deals with politics on TV

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Mumbai, August 03: Hema Malini was last seen on the Colors as judge of the dance reality show Dancing Queen and is now all set to produce a serial for the channel.

Lot of speculations has been made over the subject of her upcoming TV-series ever since the news of her producing TV-serial has leaked.

Stir against TTD ‘lapses’ acquires caste hue

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Tirupati, August 03: The campaign against alleged irregularities in the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams has assumed caste colour with leaders from various political parties belonging to a particular community terming it as the sinister move to prevent TTD chairman DK Audikesvaulu, popularly known as DK, from becoming the chairman again.

Leaders belonging to Balija (Kapu) community from the district have already started countering what they call ‘a disinformation campaign by the leaders of an upper caste, indirectly referring to the Kammas, with the sole aim of tarnishing DK’s image.

Priyanka Chopra amazed her co-star

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Mumbai, August 03: Priyanka Chopra is famous for her closeness to almost all of her co-stars. She’s not only a warm person but also as an actress she would mesmerize everyone around on the sets.

The latest we hear is that her co-star from Saat Khoon Maaf Niel Nitin Mukesh is completely smitten by the actor she is. when talking about her he said that it’s amazing to see the transformation of a chilled-out girl off-screen in to an intense actress onscreen.

CPM central panel meet in Vijayawada from August

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Vijayawada, August 03: The CPM central committee meeting would be held in Vijayawada from August 7-10 to discuss the current political situation, according to party politbureau member and state secretary BV Raghavulu. Decisions would be taken on the future action plan of the party, he added.

Speaking to reporters today he said, several issues including Kashmir crisis , increasing corruption, liberalisation, foreign investments in banks and educational institutions would be discussed in the meeting.

High-rise affects Kareena and Saif’s privacy

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Mumbai, August 03: Strangely, the prices of flats in the building opposite to that of Saif and Kareena’s have suddenly gone up. It has nothing to do with rise in real estate prices but just because the Bollywood’s most celebrated couple resides in Fortune Heights, the top storey flats in the upcoming apartment opposite to it are costlier.

Dusty roads causing eye problems for motorists

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Hyderabad, August 03: Motorists have a new problem to deal with in addition to bumpy roads and traffic gridlocks. Eye infection cases are on the rise in the twin cities since the monsoon started. Most of the people suffering from eye infections are vehicle riders and auto drivers.

With the number of vehicles increasing every day, the streets damaged by recent rains seem to gather dust storms whenever vehicles pass by.

Suspended teacher’s sexapades coming out

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Vishakapatnam, August 03: Even before the case of director of Parkwood School International Mohammed Salahuddin Ayub in Hyderabad has cooled down, yet another teacher has been found allegedly involved in sexual exploitation of school girls here.