Adilabad, September 28: An ICICI employee Swarnalatha was allegedly
kidnapped by some unidentified persons in Mandamarri area of this
district on Tuesday.
The victim’s husband has lodged a complaint with the police about the
kidnap. The police have registered a case and taken up investigation.
Reasons for the abduction are not immediately known. (NSS)
Guntur, September 28: A man and his wife attempted to end their lives
due to financial problems in the Bhavana Rushinagar area of
Sattenapalli on Tuesday.
While the man died in the attempt, the condition of his wife is stated
to be serious.
Police suspect that financial problems might be the reason for their
extreme step. (NSS)
Mumbai, September 28: Aishwarya Rai will be walking the ramp for designer Manish Malhotra at the upcoming third edition of the India Couture Week.
“Beautiful Aishwarya is going to be the showstopper at my couture week show, ” Malhotra posted on micro-blogging site Twitter.
The designer, who has worked on Aishwarya’s looks for the mega-budget Endhiran and Action Replayy, is known to have given makeovers to many actresses, including Karisma Kapoor and Rani Mukerji.
He will be opening the couture week, starting Oct 6-10.
Mumbai, September 28: Usually it is the girls who fall for actor John Abraham’s good looks, but the launch of the karaoke CD for his upcoming film “Jhootha Hi Sahi” saw men asking him to take off his shirt.
John unhesitatingly complied to their demands at the event here Sunday, but said: “I am too shy for all this. ”
As it happened, men gathered there were overwhelmed by his presence and wanted to see his chiselled body. They started screaming and asking John to strip off his shirt.
London, September 28: Why doesn’t Viagra work for more than half the men who use it? Reason: Many of the men prescribed the drug by their doctors are actually suffering from low testosterone levels, which cannot be treated by Viagra alone.
This is because the impotence pill relies on those using it having sufficient levels of the sex hormone for it to work.
Instead, doctors recommend that men should have a blood test to determine their levels of testosterone.
Mumbai, September 28: Playback legend Lata Mangeshkar turns 81 Tuesday, with fans swearing by her golden voice even as she has chosen to cut down on assignments after singing for over 1, 000 Hindi movies.
Starting her career in 1942, she reigned over the film industry for decades and is still the first preference of many filmmakers like Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Madhur Bhandarkar and an inspiration to established singers of today.
Muzaffarnagar, September 28: A man allegedly tried to rape his daughter-in-law and when she resisted his attempt he forcefully threw her out of the house in Derpal at Aldi village, police said here.
The parents of the woman had lodged a complaint yesterday alleging that their daughter’s father-in-law tried to rape her. When she resisted his attempt, she was forcefully thrown out of her house, police said.
The woman is now living with her parents, they said, adding investigation is on.
–PTI
New Delhi, September 28: Memories of the riots that followed the Babri Masjid’s demolition on December 6, 1992, have made the state government jittery as the The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the petition to defer the Allahabad High Court’s impending verdict on Ayodhya regarding the settling of the Ramjanambhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit issue.
All parties to the Ayodhya title suit, except the Nirmohi Akhara, had opposed the plea of retired bureaucrat Ramesh Chand Tripathi seeking the verdict be postponed.
New Delhi, September 28: The Supreme Court has rejected the plea for deferment of the verdict on Ramjanambhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit by the Allahabad High Court after the Attorney General said that uncertainty should not be allowed to continue.
AG G E Vahanvati, appearing before a three-judge special bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia, said the most preferred solution to the problem would be settlement but it has not taken place and the uncertainty which is prevailing should not be allowed to continue.
Banglore, September 28: Buckling under pressure from AIADMK, Tamil Nadu government today decided to hand over to CBI five cases regarding repeated death threats issued to its party chief Jayalalithaa.
The DMK government’s decision comes a day after an AIADMK delegation made yet another representation to the Chief Secretary and Home Secretary demanding a CBI probe into the threats.
Karachi, September 28: Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt will leave for London today in a bid to resolve the ongoing dispute with the ECB and to sort out the issues related to the spot-fixing scandal. Well placed sources in the board told PTI that Butt will be accompanied by PCB legal advisor, Tafazzul Rizvi.
New Delhi, September 28: The Supreme Court was set to decide on a petition to defer the Ayodhya verdict at 2 p.m. Tuesday even as the government said it did not want “any uncertainty to continue”.
The apex court had last week ordered an interim stay on the pronouncement of the Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi title suit verdict by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court, acting on a petition by retired bureaucrat Ramesh Chandra Tripathi,
Mumbai, September 28: Mumbai attacker Ajmal Amir Kasab had reportedly attacked a jail superintendent at the high-security Arthur Road jail on September 1, 2010.
The prosecution has submitted CCTV footage as evidence before the special court which shows Kasab attacking the jail superintendent.
The prosecution made the claim after Kasab’s lawyer demanded that they should be allowed to talk to him without the jail staff within hearing distance.
But the prosecution countered the argument saying Kasab was a dangerous man and the presence of jail staff near him was very important.
Mumbai, September 28: Bollywood actor Emraan Hashmi was spooked for some moments when he went on the sets of a horror reality show recently, reports Media.
Emraan, say eye witnesses, was bragging to everyone on the sets that he doesn’t just doesn’t believe in ghosts. “It’s not like he was showing off, but Emraan was convinced that he will not be spooked at all. He was beaming with confidence,” says the source adding, “He was strolling in the supposedly haunted locations very coolly.
Mumbai, September 28: Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi spent some quality time with his fiancée Priyanka Alva in London, reports Mumbai Mirror. Both of them were spotted together on Saturday in London and they looked very happy together, the report says.
Vivek was in the UK to perform for three hi-profile stage shows in London, Wembley Arena and Leicester.
He also performed with Pakistani rock star Mustafa Zahid. His fiancée Priyanka was also in London with her friends for some last minute pre-wedding shopping.
Vivek marries Priyanka on October 29.
———Agencies
Mumbai, September 28: After a long list of cricketers-turned actors like Ajay Jadeja, Vinod Kambli, Sunil Gavaskar, Salil Ankola, Syed Kirmani and Sandeep Patil, it’s now the turn of Sachin Tendulkar to don the makeup paint, reports Media.
Tendulkar is reportedly set to do a role in Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Ferrari Ki Sawari, a film to be directed by Rajesh Mapuskar.
Tendulkar will do the important role alongside Sharman Joshi and Boman Irani in the film, informs a crew member.
Hyderabad, September 28 (Siasat News): Four new trains were flagged off by Union minister of state for railways K H Muniyappa at the Kacheguda station here on Monday including Hyderabad-Ajmer bi-weekly express, Kacheguda-Miryalguda DEMU, Kacheguda-Mahaboobnagar DEMU and the Matrubhoomi Special MMTS ladies’ service.
New Delhi, September 28:The Supreme Court will give its decision at 2 PM today on the plea for deferment of the verdict on Ramjanambhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit by the Allahabad High Court after the Attorney General said that uncertainty should not be allowed to continue.
AG G E Vahanvati, appearing before a three-judge special bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia, said the most preferred solution to the problem would be settlement but it has not taken place and the uncertainty which is prevailing should not be allowed to continue.
Mumbai, September 28: Verve magazine Sept issue, has Deepika revealing a lot of stuff about her life and relationships. Taking about relationships, she says when she commits to a relationship, she’s fully into it.
“For me, sex is not just about physicality; there are emotions involved. I have never cheated or strayed when I’m in a relationship. If I’m going to be fooling around, why would I be in a relationship?” Deepika said.
Talking about infidelity she’s faced in her relationships, Deepika said she’s caught her boyfriend cheating on her red-handed.
Mumbai, September 28: Rakhi Sawant’s realty show titled ‘Swayamvar’ will always remain fresh in our minds. Now this drama queen is all set do a TV show on the lines of ‘Aap Ki Kachehri’ by Kiran Bedi.
Rakhi Sawant said, “I’m not a law graduate to solve the problems. But, I’d show the path towards a solution. That’s enough.”
Mumbai, September 28: The latest buzz is that, ranbir and Katrina are keen on going public about relationship. Kapoor junior will be taking tips from his dear cousin, Kareena to confess his love for Katrina during the ongoing promotion of his film ‘Anjaana Anjaani’.
Katrina’s ex lover Salman still believes that her relationship with Ranbir is a pure gimmick.
Confirming the news a source said, “He believes the Ranbir-Katrina romance to be a gimmick to promote their films together. It started on the sets on Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahaani and became stronger during Raajneeti”.
Manama, September 28: A Kuwaiti politician says he will shave off half of his moustache, if claims made by a newspaper columnist against him proved to be true.
In his column ‘Exclamation Mark’ in Al Watan daily, Fuad Al Hashem wrote that the Islamic MP Waleed Al Tabtabai, one of a number of journalists aboard the Turkish flotilla taking aid to Gaza, was so scared when the Israelis raided the ship, that he hid in the cleaners’ bathroom.
The 58-year-old columnist claims he heard a recording of Al Tabtabai eagerly pleading with an Israeli soldier who insulted him.
New York, September 28: The imam behind the controversial plan to build a Muslim culture centre near the site of New York’s September 11 attack said on Sunday the project is meant to prevent a similar attack.
In an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes programme, Imam Faisal Abdul Raouf said he feels duty bound to help protect non-Muslim Americans from such violence.
Abdul Raouf said building the centre, which will include a prayer room, two blocks from the destroyed World Trade Centre is “the right thing to do… America needs it and the Muslim world needs it,” he said.
Hyderabad, September 28: In a significant remark, a top leader of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board has said that if the court verdict in Babri Masjid title case paves the way for the construction of a mosque and a temple side be side in Ayodhya, Muslims will not have any objection to it.
Moulana Abdul Rahim Quraishi, secretary and spokesperson of Muslim Personal Law Board, said in Hyderabad yesterday that there was nothing wrong in it because many places in India including Hyderabad has mosques and temples standing side by side.
New York, September 28: Parents at a school in New York were stunned when a 30-year-old teacher, who has a Master’s degree in fine arts, revealed she was a former sex worker.
Melissa Petro, a former hooker and stripper, has been teaching arts in a Bronx elementary school for the past three years, The New York Post reported on Monday.
The arts teacher, apparently “well-liked” by both parents and students, has posted online accounts of her previous jobs in Mexico and London, where she had worked as a prostitute earlier.