Mumbai, September 01: Bollywood actress Dia Mirza is going to join the bandwagon of actor turned producer. She debuted with the movie Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein in 2001 opposite Madhavan and became a star overnight, although the movie did not do well at the box office.
Mumbai, September 01: Gauri Khan is a reticent wife as compared to the wives of other superstars, who love to flaunt their status. So, little is known about the marital life of the celebrity couple.
However, in a recent interview, Gauri Khan opened up and talked about hubby Shah Rukh Khan and their kids candidly.
“His (Shah Rukh’s) study is one of my favourite rooms. It feels good to see him moving around in that room, or just sitting there and working. It just feels nice to see him at home,” she said.
Mumbai, September 01: Bollywood Bombshell, Bipasha Basu was having a gala time shooting for high-octane deep sea action scenes in Rohan Sippy’s Dum Maaro Dum.
However, the actress’ excitement was cut short when ceaseless rains and unhygienic water forced to halt her driving classes.
Bips has fallen extremely ill and had to opt out of her schedule for the time being.
She had earlier been training along with Anees in the deep end of a swimming pool at a club in Bandra.
Mumbai, September 01: Actor Salman Khan is soon becoming a fast friend for actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha and his daughter, Sonakshi Sinha.
During his time Salman had introduced many leading ladies opposite himself on the silver screen. But never has he been as protective and paternal about any of them as he has been to Sonakshi.
During the making of his upcoming film, Salman apparently kept a hawk’s eye over the debutante’s well-being, dress, food and other details on location.
Tehran, September 01: A hardline Iranian newspaper stepped up its attack on French first lady Carla Bruni, saying that the “Italian prostitute” deserved to die for supporting an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning.
“This Italian prostitute’s indignation at Kayhan’s report came while she has had illegitimate relationships with different people before and after marrying (French President Nicolas) Sarkozy,” Kayhan said.
Lahore, September 01: It comes after a petition filed by Chaudhry Ishtiaq Ahmad, a lawyer, in the Lahore High Court requested to initiate proceedings against the cricketers.
According to The Daily Times, the petitioner stated that the players, by indulging in match fixing, had tarnished the image of the country.
“The players have seriously damaged the already-bad reputation of Pakistani players in the world of cricket and deserve severe punishment,” the newspaper quoted Ahmad, as saying.
Mumbai, September 01: Bollywood actress Vidya Balan, who started her career with Pradeep Sarkar’s movie Parineeta in 2005, had done several films all these years. She has received critical acclaims for many of them and some bombed badly at the box office. But, she did not get a chance to work with Sarkar, who made her popular with her first film.
However, the actress has now got the chance to work with her mentor once again after five long years. The duo shot together for an hair oil ad.
Kabul, September 01: The recent arrest of Mohammad Zia Salehi, the chief of administration for Afghanistan’s National Security Council, has risen tensions between the US and Hamid Karzai, AP reports.
Salehi was arrested in July, but has not been formally charged for allegedly accepting a car in exchange for his help in thwarting another corruption case involving a company that handles huge money transfers worldwide.
Karzai was outraged by the arrest of his top aid, so he intervened and ordered his release.
Jerusalem, September 01: Four Israelis were killed in a shooting attack near the West Bank town of Hebron Tuesday, an Israeli army spokeswoman said.
The incident occurred at about local time 7 p.m. (1700 GMT) when gunmen opened fire at four civilians travelling in a vehicle near Kiryat Arba, fatally wounding them, the spokeswoman told Xinhua.
Medical sources confirmed that the victims were from the same family.
Israeli army and police forces are in hot pursuit of the gunmen and are using a helicopter in the chase.
Washington, September 01: The official end of the US combat role in Iraq is no reason for celebration, US President Barack Obama said Tuesday.
“There’s still a lot of work that we’ve got to do to make sure that Iraq is an effective partner with us,” Obama told troops in Fort Bliss, Texas, who had seen service in Iraq.
Obama will mark the formal end of the US combat role in Iraq later Tuesday evening in an address from the White House.
Hyderabad, September 01: Mr T Ramadasappa Naidu, who claimed himself as a former follower of Mr Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy and a Congress leader on Tuesday alleged that the “Sakshi TV and the Sakshi newspaper” were resorting to telecasting and printing “false” news stories against his organizations as he severed his association with Mr Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Hyderabad, September 01: At last, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, would lay foundation stone for the NTPC-BHEL joint venture Mannvaram Power Projects Equipment Manufacturing plant on September 1 in the State.
The Rs 6,000-crore Plant would come up at Mannavaram in Chittoor district. The project was originally mooted during the regime of former chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.
Hyderabad, September 01: Hailing the decision of All India Congress Committee decision to console the families of those who died of shock or committed suicide following YSR’s death on September 2 last year by paying them Rs 1 lakh ex-gratia as laudable, Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Tuesday thanked the Congress president Sonia Gandhi for her gesture.
Talking to media persons after releasing a letter to Sonia Gandhi, Mr Jaganmohan Reddy urged the AICC to offer solace to the families of victims by permitting all MPs, MLAs and leaders without restrictions.
Hyderabad, September 01: The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, questioned the Forum for Better Hyderabad to explain as to why a YSR Park should not be laid on the Necklace Road in the State capital.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation had decided to lay a park in memory of late chief minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on the Necklace Road. However, the Forum for Better Hyderabad has challenged the GHMC decision in the Supreme Court and argued that the park should not be constructed on the Necklace Road on the banks of the Hussain Sagar Lake.
Vijayawada, September 01: Unidentified miscreants targeted a jewellery shop at Kambhampadu, Konduru mandal in Krishna district and decamped with gold and silver ornaments worth around Rs 30 lakh.
According to reports, the unidentified burglars broke the locks and lifted shutter of Harika Jewellers and decamped with the gold and silver ornaments worth around Rs 30 lakh, which includes one kilogram of gold and silver ornaments weighing more than 30 kg.
The theft was detected early on Tuesday morning after the shop owner arrived to open it.
New Delhi, September 01: Eleven Congress Members of Parliament from Telangana region on Tuesday requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to withdraw police cases filed against pro-Telangana students.
The MPs also requested the Prime Minister to declared the Pranahita-Chevella project as a National Project.
The lifting of police cases filed against the students from Telangana region at the height of the separate statehood agitation in 2009 and 2010 has been one of the major demands of all Telangana protagonists.
Hyderabad, September 01: Health Minister Danam Nagender said that All India Congress Committee’s decision to console the families of those who died of shock or committed suicide following YSR’s death on September 2, 2009, by paying them Rs one lakh as ex-gratia is laudable.
Mr Nagender opined that the move by the party is not designed to check the Odarpu yatra of YSR district (formerly Kadapa) MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy, but to offer solace to the families of ‘shock victims’ in the aftermath of YSR’s death.
Hyderabad, September 01: Chief Minister K Rosaiah on Tuesday cancelled his visit to New Delhi.
According to CM office sources, the Chief Minister was to visit the National Capital to participate in the process of filing of nominations for the elections of All India Congress Committee president.
However, the Chief Minister cancelled his visit last minute as Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is visiting state on September 1 to lay foundation stone for BHEL-NTPC joint venture project at Mannavaram in Srikalahasti in Chittoor district.
Hyderabad, September 01: The ongoing tussle between regionalists and the Osmania University authorities continued on Tuesday with the task of evaluating B Ed answer scripts by evaluators from Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions once again married by protests.
Tuesday’s protestors however were not students but evaluators from Telangana who demanded that the state government lift all the police cases filed against Telangana protagonists.
The protests began as soon as the evaluation process got underway amidst tight security.
Mumbai, September 01: Karan Johar is known for his tear-jerkers like Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Kal Ho Naa Ho but the producer says his upcoming film We Are Family is not a melodramatic film.
“The film is not melodramatic. There are emotions but there light moments too”, said Johar.
Directed by debutant Siddharth Malhotra, the film is a Hindi adaptation of Julia Roberts starrer 1998 hit film Stepmom and stars Kajol, Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Rampal in the lead roles. The film releases this Friday.
Ahmedabad, September 01: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday took a swipe at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying that even the Prime Minister’s personal “mopping up mission” would not help in cleaning the stigma of corruption attached to the preparations for the Commonwealth Games.
Mumbai, September 01: After all the hoopla around the release of the Commonwealth anthem by Oscar winner AR Rahman, all it seems to be getting from critics is brickbats.
While former sports minister Shahnawaz Hussain termed it “disappointing”, current Sports Minister M S Gill and Delhi’s Leader of Opposition V K Malhotra also lashed out against the theme song, released in Gurgaon on August 28.
New York, September 01: Sania Mirza won her fourth match on the trot to cruise to the second round of US Open but it was an early exit for Somdev Devvarman, who lost his opening round in the men”s singles event. Sania, who entered the women”s singles as a qualifier, scored an easy 6-3, 6-2 win over fellow qualifier Michelle Larcher de Brito of Portugal in the first-round match.
New Delhi, September 01: As many as 100 Indian prisoners, who were sent home by Pakistan authorities, arrived in India via Attari-Wagah border checkpost on Tuesday.
They are all fishermen from Gujarat and Maharashtra, who were arrested by the Pakistan Maritime Agency while fishing in the Arabian sea. Most of them had completed their jail sentence in Karachi in Sindh province and said they had inadvertently crossed into Pakistan’s territory and were arrested on trespassing charges.
Amritsar, September 01: An alert has been sounded as a Pakistani prisoner at the high-security Amritsar Central Jail went “missing” on Tuesday, sending the entire jail administration into a tizzy.
Anyait Khan had completed his jail sentence in February and with his verification okayed by the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi, he was likely to be sent back home.