Mumbai, Ausut 24: Murder, robbery, drugs or extra-marital affairs whatever the problems, item girl Rakhi Sawant who has a knack for getting into controversies will now be seen solving problems on “Rakhi Ka Insaaf”.
Known for her glamorous and often outrageous avatar, Rakhi looks forward to connecting with masses and common people through the show that will be aired on Imagine TV.
New Delhi, August 24: Daman Singh, the writer daughter of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, is planning to write a book about her parents which will “explore the experiences that make them what they are”.
“I see this (the book) as a way to try and understand them as individuals, not merely as my parents,” says Daman, the second of Singh’s three daughters.
For Daman, whose second novel “The Sacred Grove” released last week, her father is her favourite politician. “I admire his integrity the most,” she told PTI in an interview.
Kuala Lumpur, August 24: A Malaysian Muslim prayer hall was vandalised Monday, police said, in the first incident since a spate of assaults on places of worship earlier this year that heightened ethnic tensions.
Eleven churches and two Muslim prayer halls were pelted with Molotov cocktails, stones and paint in January, as a row raged over non-Muslims using the word “Allah” as a translation for “God”.
In Monday’s incident, red paint was hurled on to the wall and window of a new prayer hall in the central state of Negri Sembilan, state police chief Osman Salleh told AFP.
Florida, August 24: A scandal that began with a late-night collision between an SUV and a fire hydrant and went on to tarnish one of the most valuable brands in sporting history ended at a Florida divorce court yesterday, when it emerged that Tiger Woods had finalised his divorce from Elin Nordegren, the long-suffering mother of his two young children.
Mumbai, August 24: Gone are the days when Farah Khan and Shahrukh Khan used to be think buddies. Now priorities changes and Farah Khan thinks SRK with whom she worked in ‘Main Hoon Na’ and ‘Om Shanti Om’ won’t be suitable for her new flick, ‘Tees Maar Khan’. She opted for Akshay Kumar instead of SRK for the lead role.
The story doesn’t end here, Farah Khan is now friend with the man whom King Khan dislikes the most. He is Salman Khan. Now Sallu is Farah’s close buddy. She once expressed her desire to work with Sallu in coming days.
Dubai, August 24: Two years after its launch, the website of Prophet Mohamed has reached 70 million visitors and ranked first in a regional competition.
The website, called The Prophet of God, was launched in 2008 in the wake of the Danish cartoons that sparked outrage all over the Muslim world, said site manager Mohamed Ashour.
Site Manager Mohamed Ashour”We wanted to respond to insults with mercy,” he told Al Arabiya. “And we made sure that the website does not end up as a temporary reaction to a specific incident. It has been going on since then and visitors reached 70 million.”
Dhaka, August 24: A court in Bangladesh, an Islamic republic, has directed the government to ensure no woman is forced to wear burqa or religious attires in the educational institutions and offices across the country.
Mumbai, August 24: Remember last time, when the posters of Anjaana Anjaana were all out. The poster showed the lead cast Priyanka Chopra and Ranbir Kapoor lying in opposite direction, their heads resting on each other’s shoulders.
The poster was an exactly a copy of Hollywood film An Education and A Walk In The Clouds. Director Siddharth Anand was baffled at all the negative publicity and allegations of plagiarism. So the creative team has come out with a new poster.
Mumbai, August 24: Neil Nitin Mukesh has never hidden his fondness for Bollywood’s king Salman Khan. The actor also doesn’t feels shy in admitting that he is one of the biggest fan of Salman Khan’s biggest fans.
Neil quips that he gets smitten every time he sees the way Salman leads his life.
Neil, whose Lafangey Parindey just hit the theatre on last Friday further says that he admires him so much as he is one actor who is not afraid to wheel his life on his self-made terms.
Mumbai, August 24: Its bad news for all Isabelle fans as she won’t be in bollywood in next 6 months.
Though sister Katrina has already been talking with filmmakers for her sister’s launch project, but Isabelle has told her that she would first consider West and then she would come to Bollywood.
Isabelle will complete her acting course in New York and she would continue to audition in West for 6 months. After she has realized her dreams in West, she would think of venturing into Bollywood.
Mumbai, August 24: Its’ strange but true; Aamir Khan is habitual of not carrying his wallet along once he is out of home. In fact, he deliberately keeps it at home for some reason best known to him. Read on how he survives without wallet the whole day.
Our reliable sources reveal, “Aamir never carries his wallet along when he is out for he completely relies on his assistants who come to his rescue for any financial need.”
Ahmedabad, August 24: The Gujarat High Court today directed the state government to get the view of the special investigation team (SIT), probing some 2002 riot cases, if it was willing to take investigate the Ishrat Jahan encounter case.
The direction was issued by a division bench of justices Jayant Patel and Abhilasha Kumari, while hearing a petition seeking review of the high court’s order transferring the probe in the Ishrat case to Supreme court-appointed SIT.
New York, August 24: A law intended to speed up development of new drugs for US kids has ended up financing clinical trials in poor countries, where the medicines might never become available.
That’s the conclusion of a new report whose authors say the situation raises ethical concerns. More than a third of the published trials performed under 1997 legislation called the Pediatric Exclusivity Provision were carried out at least partly in developing or transitioning nations, such as Uganda and India, researchers found.
Mumbai, August 24: Niel Nitin Mukesh is evidently very overjoyed with the decent box-office opening of his recent release, Lafangey Parindey.
This is Neil’s first solo hit after Aa Dekhen Zara.
The actor said, “It wasn’t easy to play One Shot Nandu. There were layers to this character and everything had to be understated. The characterisation and mood of the film was such that things had to be conveyed in a subtle manner rather than on-your-face. This only makes the job of an actor further difficult.”
Mumbai, August 24: Shahrukh Khan doesn’t want to repeat something for which his family had to face trouble some years ago. Perhaps, that’s the reason why a son-in-law in him is extra-cautious of not disturbing his wife’s father R C Chhiba and thus, has not yet visited him even once after Chhiba was admitted in the hospital.
Mumbai, August 24: After Rakhi Sawant and Rahul Mahajan, it seems Mona Singh wants to be the next one to tie-knot on a reality show. If go by the buzz created by her one of the jury members Anu Malik and co-anchor Vishal Malhotra in Entertainment Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega, she is mostly like to take that crucial step.
Anu and Vishal on the occasion of the inauguration of season 3 of Entertainment Ke…, announced her swayambar. Not just this, one of the contenders for the swayambar Monty, was also introduced who also happens to be a contestant in the Entertainment Ke… season 3.
Mumbai, August 24: Lara Dutta seems to be all set to impress King Khan, after all who doesn’t want to be in good books of Shahrukh. Actually, the actress is the new entrant in the sequel of Farhan Akhtars’ Don which has SRK and Priyanka Chopra in the lead role.
So, the gorgeous actress is leaving no stone unturned to match up with the style which the movie demands off. She is nowadays experimenting with her looks with Farhan who will eventually take the final call.
Islamabad, August 24: Maulana Noor Muhammad Wazir, a ‘good Taliban’ who always spoke against suicide attacks in Pakistan himself became a victim of suicide bombing on Monday.
The killing of the Maulana is not only a big blow for his followers but it is an irrecoverable loss for the government of Pakistan, as the Maulana always criticised the activities of the Tehrike Taliban Pakistan and other anti-state factions.
Mumbai, August 24: Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone were once the talk of the town for their sizzling chemistry and lovey-dovey behavior.
Both the ‘hotties’ have handled their break up pretty well and have moved on quite soon in love and life.
While Deepika seems to be finding her perfect man in Siddharth Mallya, the young Kapoor is absorbed by his work.
But has Ranbir completely forgotten Deepika, or does he yet interested to know her whereabouts?
He says, “Deepika is still a very dear friend. It is just that we are not girlfriend and boyfriend anymore. We still do meet.”
Jharkhand, August 24: A teenaged village girl in Jharkhand tried to commit suicide after discovering that a boy from her village her circulated a pornographic MMS involving her, police said on Monday.
A resident of Giddi village in Ramgarh district, around 45 km from Ranchi, Rajni (name changed) belongs to a very poor family. A student of Class 8, she tried to commit suicide by slashing her veins on Sunday.
She was, however, rushed to hospital in time and her condition is said to be stable.
Beijing, August 24: About 70 percent of Chinese college students want to marry immediately after graduation while 46 percent want a rich spouse, a study has found.
“I would rather cry in the back of a BMW rather than laugh on a bike,” said a participant in the survey conducted by matchmaking website hongniang.com.
It’s quite popular among youth to marry the rich, but it also reflected a gloomy view of marriage and love, People’s Daily reported quoting the study Monday.
Agartala, August 24: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is on a mission to reach out to farmers in remote and far-flung areas with the latest global information on farming and agriculture, a senior university official said here Monday.
“IGNOU is trying to reach people in remote areas with the latest global information in agricultural research and development,” IGNOU’s School of Agriculture (SOA) senior professor B.S. Hansra told reporters.
New Delhi, August 24: The monsoon session of the Delhi assembly was adjourned sine die Monday after a five-day meeting, which saw discussions on the Commonwealth Games and price rise besides law and order.
After a discussion on the Municipal Corporation of Delhi got over at 7 p.m., Speaker Yoganand Shastri announced adjournment of the house sine die.
He congratulated Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and opposition leader Vijay Kumar Malhotra among MLAs and officials for the effective running of the house.
Lucknow, August 23: Five Bangladeshi nationals were arrested Monday at the Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport here with fake passports, police said.
The five men, who are being interrogated by police and intelligence officials, had managed to get the fake passports from Kathmandu in Nepal.
“The five reached here today from Saudi Arabia on an Oman Airways flight,” Additional Director General (law and order) Brij Lal told reporters here.
Preliminary enquiry revealed that the five had travelled from Lucknow to Saudi Arabia on the same passports.
Panaji, August 24: Israeli drug dealer Yaniv Benaim alias Atala who was alleged to have links with Goa Home Minister Ravi Naik’s son has gone missing for more than a month, according to police Monday.
Atala, who was arrested in March along with seven other policemen during the drug mafia nexus investigation, had been released on bail in June.
Speaking to reporters, Deputy Superintendent of Police Chandrakant Salgaonkar said that Atala was last seen at the resort he was residing in July 9.