Month: August 2010

Parvati Singhal, Kapil crown Comedy King

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Mumbai, August 29: Pair of Parvati Singhal and Kapil Sharma pipped famed comedy couple Krishna and Sudesh Lahiri to bag the Comedy Circus Ke Superstar title.

The Pratigya girl ‘Parvati’ and Kapil defeated best pair of the Sony’s Comedy Circus ke superstar to become Comedy king.

Parvati and Kapil overwhelmed the judges with their act and received praises for their unprecedented humour. The duo received 10 out 10 points from the judges.

Ali Asgar also managed to grab third place in the stand-up comedy show.

Volcano erupts in Indonesia

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Indonesia, August 29: For the first time in 400 years, a volcano erupted on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Sunday.

The volcano shoots black smoke and ash up to 1,500 metres into the air and thousands of residents evacuated.

Mount Sinabung in the Karo district of North Sumatra province thundered to life shortly after midnight, shooting lava and other volcanic materials from its crater.

CWG 2010 theme song CD will be available soon

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New Delhi, August 29: Despite all odds, alleged irregularities and delay in projects, finally one thing went in favour of Commonwealth Organising Committee.

It was a sigh of relief for Suresh Kalmadi and Delhi government when renowned Music Director AR Rahman launched the Commonwealth Games Theme Song ‘Swagatham’.

In a gala ceremony at Kingdom of Dreams in Gurgaon, Rahman crooned “Hey-o, khelo jeeyo, let’s go… yaaro India bula liya”.

The CWG 2010 theme song had been downloaded thousands of times just after its inauguration on Saturday evening.

Match fixing ghost returns to haunt Pak cricket

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Islamabad, August 29: Match fixing ghost once again returned to haunt the Pakistan cricket.

As many as seven Pakistani players, including skipper Salman Butt are under scanner following arrest of a bookie by British Police.

Acting on a sting operation conducted by a leading British tabloid, police arrested a fixer Mazhar Majeed on suspicion of match fixing in the last Test against England at Lords.

According to the English tabloid, Pakistani pacer Md Aamer and Md Asif blatantly delivered three no balls.

Govt offers cash to Naxals who surrender

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New Delhi, August 29: Having achieved limited success in defeating the Maoists militarily, the government is now dangling attractive monetary rewards to those Naxalites who are willing to surrender with arms.

The Centre has asked Maoist-affected states to draw surrender policies similar to the one announced by it about a year ago that includes a package of nearly Rs two lakh if the Naxalite comes with arms.

Woman, her father, brother get lifer for killing her husband

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New Delhi, August 29: A Delhi court has sentenced a woman, her father and one of her brothers to life imprisonment for killing her businessman husband in 2005 to avoid returning Rs 10 lakh borrowed from him. Additional Sessions Judge Virender Kumar Goyal also imposed a fine of Rs 75,000 each on Anju Verma, her father Purushottam Lal and her brother Baljinder Singh after holding them guilty of murder, criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence under the IPC.

CP asked to probe officials for misleading HC on Sharma parole

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New Delhi, August 29: The Delhi High Court has directed the city Police Commissioner to conduct a probe against some department officials for misleading the court on a parole plea of former Youth Congress leader Sushil Sharma, sentenced to death for killing his wife Naina Sahani 15 years ago.

The court took strong objection to the stand taken by a senior police officer who had favoured parole for Sharma which was contradictory to the stand of Delhi government which had rejected the plea of the former leader.

Azad wasn’t killed at point blank range: AP police

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Hyderabad, August 29: The Andhra Pradesh police has denied that Maoist leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad was killed at point blank range.

Andhra Pradesh police chief R.R. Girish Kumar denied on Saturday that Azad was killed in a stage-managed gunfight and termed it as a “real and genuine” one.

7 Pak cricketers in match-fixing probe

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Karachi, August 29: Pakistan cricket has been once again rocked by fixing scandal with team management in England confirming that some players were under investigation by Scotland Yard for having taken bribes for spot-fixing in the ongoing Lords Test.

“Scotland Yard detectives had visited the team hotel where they had taken statements of captain Salman Butt, fast bowlers Muhammad Asif and Muhammad Aamir, and wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal,” Pakistan team manager, Yawar Saeed told PTI from London.

3 years after rolling out, 108 spreads wings across Gujarat

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Ahmedabad, August 29: Started with 14 ambulances in Ahmedabad, the service now boasts of 453 emergency vehicles in the state

As the 108 ambulance service completes three years of operations in Gujarat on August 29, GVK EMRI, the trust that runs the service, released statistics from its history, facilitating institutional deliveries being its most creditworthy intervention, said the emergency services officials.

Frieda has no takers in Bollywood

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Mumbai, August 29: After Slumdog Millenium actress Frieda Pinto may have no takers in Bollywood but she continues to create waves abroad. She has three releases in the times to come – You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, Miral, Rise of the Apes and Immortals and none of them are Indian films.

About which the actress says that since she has done no films in India it’s hard for people to accept her as an actress. She believes that they either don’t really know who she is or probably don’t take her too seriously.

Amitabh is farmer and informer!

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Mumbai, August 29: Last it was reported that Amitabh bought acres of land as a farmer in UP and now we hear that he has become a police informer in Jharkhand.

As per government, police informers are paid for their daredevilry but the out of nowhere police has raised a bogus informer in the name of Amitabh Bachchan that says he is getting details about Maoists’ activities.

The Secret Service Fund scam involves Rs. 8 crore and million dollar name in it. The alleged scam was exposed in July by an informer who was made to receive payments under the assumed name of the megastar.

Katrina now eyes Deepika’s friend

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Mumbai, August 29: Already Katrina’s growing proximity to Deepika’s ex has been cursed by all those who loved Deepika and Ranbir’s chemistry and now we hear that Katrina is also befriending her longtime best friend.

Ambitious Katrina is now these days hanging out with Ayan Mukerjee of Wake Up Sid fame. Sometime back, Deepika was also reported to be in close association with the young gun. Of course the common link for both the girls is Ranbir Kapoor who starred in his directorial debut.

Karan convinced SRK’s wife

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Mumbai, August 29: Have you been wondering what and who made the elusive Gauri Khan agree to model for a lifestyle brand? None other than filmmaker Karan Johar! A fact that even superstar Shah Rukh Khan acknowledges, that it was his friend who got his wife to agree to model.

“Gauri has never modelled before. It was a challenge for her as she’s shy and doesn’t believe in coming in front of the camera. She’s happy playing the role of my producer, taking care of my movies and of course, our most important production, our children,” quips Shah Rukh.

Rosaiah spends saturday on blessing bridal couples

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Hyderabad, August 29: The Chief Minister, Mr K Rosaiah, has earmarked Saturday to bless bridal couples and attended four marriage functions on the day.

As programmed earlier, in Hyderabad alone, the Chief Minister turned up at three marriage functions of the sons of GHMC Chief Engineer, Mr Jairam Reddy, the CPI (M) leader, Mr Nomula Narasimhaiah and grandson of freedom fighter, Mr Narsa Madhava Rao.

Jethmalani optimistic on Srikrishna panel report

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Hyderabad, August 29: The BJP MP, eminent legal luminary and president of Bar Council of Supreme Court, Mr Ram Jethmalani, on Saturday exuded confidence that “something good” will come out of the Centre-sponsored Justice B N Srikrishna Committee Report.

PM should sack Chidambaram if he does not resign: BJP

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New Delhi, August 29: The BJP on Saturday stepped up its attack against Home Minister P. Chidambaram for his “saffron terrorism” remark demanding that he be sacked.

A day after Congress appeared to distance itself from the remarks saying terror has no colour and that care should be taken on use of words, BJP MP Balbir Punj demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sack Mr. Chidambaram if he does not resign for using the “insulting” term.

Sonia’s silence over illegal mining deafening: Yerrannaidu

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Srikakulam, August 29: Telugu Desam Party politburo member Kinjarapu Yerrannaidu on Saturday criticised All India Congress Committee president Sonia Gandhi and party General Secretary Rahul Gandhi over their silence on the issue of illegal mining and ‘official’ encroachment of lands.

Talking to media person, the senior TDP leader reminded that Ms Gandhi had vowed that her party will not tolerate injustice against tribals at any cost.

ACB raids teacher house, unearth unaccounted wealth

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Nalgonda, August 29: Anti Corruption Bureau officials on Saturday conducted raids on the residence of a Secondary Grade Teacher after unearthed movable and immovable property worth around Rs one crore.

The ACB raids began after the agency was tipped off that the SGT, identified as Ravinder Reddy, has amassed wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income.

According to ACB sleuths, the raids revealed that Ravinder Reddy owned four independent houses and eight flats in Hyderabad and Suryapet.

Ravinder Reddy is a resident of Kudukudua in Chivvemla mandal.

Conservatives flood Washington rally

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Washington, August 29: Conservatives from the US heartlands packed the nation’s capital Saturday, answering a call from right-wing TV commentator Glenn Beck and Republican politician Sarah Palin to “restore honour” to the country.

Sporting American flags and carrying folding chairs, the crowd of mostly white and older activists came to the Lincoln Memorial to honour the US military but also to protest high taxes, health insurance reform and what they say are the “socialist” policies of US President Barack Obama.

‘Cops killed Kargil braveheart in fake encounter’

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Bhopal, August 29: A Congress leader has alleged that her husband Amjad Khan, a former Army jawan who had fought in the Kargil conflict, was killed by Madhya Pradesh Police in an alleged fake encounter for medals and promotions.

“My husband was killed in cold blood by the Bhind Police to get medals and promotions,” Yasmin Khan said at a press conference in presence of Congress leaders at party’s office in Bhopal on Friday evening.

Yasmin is Lahar block unit Congress President in Bhind district.

300 big target but batsmen failed to apply: Dhoni

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Dambulla, August 29: Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni today conceded that 300 was a big total to chase on a sporting pitch but felt his batsmen failed to apply themselves after getting starts by most of them in the tri-series summit clash against Sri Lanka here. “Of course 300 was a stiff target, especially on a sporting pitch like at Dambulla. But the game could have been close had we applied.

1 held for fixing no-balls in England-Pakistan Test

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London, August 29: The ghost of match-fixing returned to the world of cricket today with Scotland Yard arresting an alleged fixer after a British tabloid revealed sordid details about corruption in the Pakistan cricket team currently facing defeat in the Lord”s Test.”The News of the World” tabloid splashed details of a sting operation it conducted on one London-based individual, Mazhar Majeed.

Mera Paisa De Do Ramu, Says Esha Deol

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Mumbai, August 29: Hema Malini’s daughter Esha Deol has shown her anger against filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, who has been alleged to have not paid her dues for the movie Darling. She has even filed a complaint against RGV for the same.

A friend of Esha was quoted saying that the actress waited for a long time for Ram Gopa Varma to clear the dues but he did not respond even after repeated reminders.

One year back, Esha also filed a complaint in the Cine and TV Artistes’ Association (CINTAA) and the filmmaker even did not reply to the letters from the association.

Angelina Jolie loves red meat

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London, August 29: Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie says she enjoys eating red meat and it is one of her ‘guilty pleasures’.

The ‘Salt’ star says when she had turned into a vegetarian, it had negative effects on her health, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

‘I joke that a big juicy steak is my beauty secret. But seriously, I love red meat. I was a vegan for a long time, and it nearly killed me. I found I was not getting enough nutrition,’ she said.

——-IANS