Month: April 2011

Ranbir has pseudonym for his girlfriends

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Mumbai, April 29: After spilling the secret about saving the number of his girlfriends under the pseudonym Low Battery, Ranbir Kapoor has changed his tactic.

A source that had access to his cell phone revealed that Ranbir has nicknames for the girls on his phone. They go by the names ‘Blondie’, ‘Dusky’, ‘Vixen’, etc.

The source says, “He’s a young guy and loves to have his share of fun. Now that he’s not committed to anyone, he’s on a roll.

All his friends keep making fun of him but RK refuses to change his wicked ways.”

-Agencies

SC Rejects ‘Premature’ PILs on Lokpal Bill Panel

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New Delhi, April 29: The Supreme Court today refused to go into a batch of PILs challenging constitutional validity of the notification on composition of a committee to draft the Jan Lokpal bill, saying the petitions were “premature”.

A bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia posted the matter for hearing in July.

The bench said, “The petitions are premature and can’t be taken as the Lokpal Bill was yet to be passed.”

“It is still not the law,” the bench, also comprising justices K S Radhakrishnan and Swatanter Kumar said.

SRK’s Strange Fetishes

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Mumbai, April 29: Shah Rukh Khan recently shot for 12 hours for a shaving cream commercial. He shaved about seven times, fought with three Ninja girls a la Ra.One style, did a photoshoot and met some 63-odd people.

The ad features a lot of high-level VFX, which has been used to create five SRKs in one frame. King Khan told people that in the ad he’s shot with three sexy, gorgeous babes.

“Mein muchdandos se nahi fight karta (with references to Don and Roma). The girls play germs and attack him.

SRK’s Fetishes:

*He revealed that he has to shave every day.

Let me give the Catholic boys a nice surprise: Katrina

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Mumbai, April 29: Choreographers Bosco and Ceasar had an unexpected late night visitor over for dinner on Easter Sunday: Katrina Kaif. Unexpected, because the actress recently took ill while shooting for Mere Brother Ki Dulhan.

In the end, it appears she just had to sample the delicacies on offer. Her co-star Imran Khan was also at the dinner.

Says Bosco, “We had wound up choreographing a song that features Imran and Katrina. We invited everyone over for a homely Easter dinner at my home in Versova.

Salman throws a party for Pune Warriors loss

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Mumbai, April 29: Salman Khan hosted a dinner for the IPL team Pune Warriors last night. It was an impromptu party held at Salman Khan’s temporary house in Film City where he is shooting for Bodyguard.

Though the Pune team lost the match to Chennai but it didn’t dampen Salman’s spirit to treat the young cricketers.

A source says, “Salman is very close to Subrata Roy of Sahara Group who owns the team and his sister Arpita Khan is a close pal of the captain of Pune team, Yuvraj Singh. Salman hosted the party jointly with his buddy Baba Dewan.”

Woman sues Saudi govt. for vote ban

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Jeddah, April 29: In a rare protest to Saudi electoral system, a woman has filed a lawsuit against the government for keeping a ban on women taking part in polls in the monarchy.

Samar Badawi said she filed the suit at the administrative court in Mecca against the municipal affairs ministry for denying women the right to register as voters for the municipal election.

Women demand an “immediate end to all preparatory measures related to the elections until a verdict is reached in this lawsuit,” she was quoted as saying by Media on Thursday.

Match-fixing is common in SL

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Colombo, April 29: Dropping a bombshell, former Sri Lanka skipper Hashan Tillakaratne has claimed that match-fixing is common in his country since 1992 and promised to reveal names of those involved, soon.

Tillakaratne, who played 83 Tests and 200 ODIs for Sri Lanka, made the sensational claim while appearing in a TV show.

“I can tell this in agreement with my conscience. Match fixing is not something that started happening yesterday or today. According to my knowledge, it happened since 1992. I say this with great responsibility,” Tillakaratne said.

Sallu dating Kat’s lookalike?

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Mumbai, April 29: Zarine Khan is looking very much like Katrina Kaif these days. Zarine had to lose around 8 kilos for her character in Salman’s ‘Ready’ and the slimmer Zarine could pass for Katrina any day.

Zarine Khan credits her ‘Veer’ co-star Salman Khan for her cameo in director Anees Bazmee’s ‘Ready’ and says she has got a very glamorous makeover for the role.

Zarine Khan made her debut opposite Salman in ‘Veer’. She then got the nickname ‘Fatrina’ because of her striking resemblance with Katrina Kaif, the only difference being she a chubbier version of the latter.

Impotency Injections to focus on Jihad, not women

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Washington, April 29: An Al-Qaeda henchman used impotency injections so that he could focus on carrying out jihad and not on womanising, according to investigators.

Abd al- Rahim al- Nashiri was captured in November 2002 after becoming one of the terrorist cell’s most senior members with strong links to Osama bin Laden.

During interrogations at CIA camps he is said to have confessed to injecting himself with the powerful chemicals to stop himself being distracted by women.

Dubai’s new world record, The Torch

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Dubai, April 29: Dubai’s growing list of world records, including the tallest tower and the largest man-made island on this planet, gets a dazzling new addition — the world’s tallest residential tower, ‘The Torch.’

The 86-storey tower stands tall at 348 metres at Dubai Marina, 25 metres higher than Q1 Tower of Gold Coast in Australia, the previous holder of this distinction.

Convicted prisoner escapes from Cherlapally jail

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Hyderabad, April 29: A convicted prison escaped from the high security Cherlapally jail of the city here on Thursday.

According to details, Ayub Khan hailing from Nalgonda district was imprisoned in Cherlapally jail after he was pronounced life sentence in a murder case in the year 2007.

Thursday morning Ayub Khan went out of jail with the jail staff to work in the garden. When the prisoners were counted in the evening it was found that Ayub Khan was missing.

Jail staff tried to search for him but in vain.

Siasat news

Bahrain sentences four men to death for killing two policemen

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Bahrain, April 29: A Bahraini national security court has sentenced four men to death for killing two police officers during the pro-democracy protests that were crushed by the authorities last month.

The sentences are likely to deepen divisions between Bahrain’s Shia majority, which has been demanding greater political and civil rights, and the Sunni monarchy, backed by Saudi Arabia and the Sunni-dominated Bahraini security forces.

A further 400 people who have been detained are expected to be prosecuted, according to the state news agency.

–Source: Independent.co.uk

Pappu Yadav helped Kim Davy?

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New Delhi, April 29: So finally the million dollar question of who let Kim Davy alias Niels Christian Nielsen to fled from India has been solved. Or is it? Well, perhaps the final answer is yet to be revealed still the name which is coming into light is the jailed Bihar politician Pappu Yadav. Last night , in a television interview, Davy himself revealed that it was yadav ho helped him sneak out from India.

Sonakshi seems to be getting really possessive for Sallu!

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Mumbai, April 29: Salman Khan’s next release ‘Ready’ is all set to come out soon and the trailors are on air. Music of the film was released recently. To celebrate the successful music release, Sallu threw a party at his house for his close group of friends and cast of the film.

Sallu invited, Asin, the film’s leading lady and also Zarine Khan who has done an item song in the film. Apart from the film crew he also invited his ‘Dabangg’ co-star, Sonakshi Sinha.

Jagan will soon join BJP: Chandrababu Naidu

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Hyderabad, April 29: Stating that BJP leader Sushma Swaraj had recently announced that a young leader would be joining the BJP ranks, TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu said that the young leader is none other than YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.

He accused Jagan of getting closer to BJP with the sole intention of protecting his own interests and safeguarding his ill-gotten wealth.

Threat SMS to Rahul Gandhi

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New Delhi, April 29: A woman sent a threat SMS to Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi in a desperate attempt to draw his attention to her husband’s plight.

But the security agencies have not taken the threat SMS, sent by Sampa Gulia of Rohtak in Haryana, lightly. The Intelligence Bureau has issued a memo, putting the Special Protection Group men, guarding Rahul Gandhi, on high alert.

Andhra Univ launches MBA in hospital administration

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Visakhapatnam, April 29: Andhra University (AU) Vice-Chancellor B Satayanarayana launched a new MBA course in hospital administration in Technical collaboration with Government King George Hospital(KGH), one of the premier Hospitals in Andhra Pradesh here.

Impact of Siasat news

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Hyderabad, April 29: With reference to the news published in Siasat dated April 12, Minority Welfare Minister Mr. Ahmed Ullah forwarded a letter to Chief Minister Mr. N Kiran Kumar Reddy, Home Minister Mrs. Sabitha Indira Reddy and chief secretary S V Prasad besides DGP and drew their attention towards the critical issue.

It was stated in Siasat daily that communalism has also emerged in the police department and Muslim employees’ beard rankles top police officials of the districts. At some places Muslim police force is forced to refrain from Islamic principles.

NRIs alleges bias in listing India on Watch List

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Washington, April 29: The decision of the US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to place India in the ‘Watch List’ of countries along with Russia, Afghanistan and Cuba raises questions of bias and flawed methodology, a Washington-based eminent Hindu group said here.

“USCIRF’s decision to club India in with a dozen or so of the worst violators of religious freedom in the world, while overlooking others, again raises questions of bias and flawed methodology,” Prof Ramesh Rao of the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) alleged.

Sharia law is now legal in UK

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London, April 29: Five Sharia courts in Britain now have “official” powers to rule on Muslim civil cases, according to a report.

The rulings made by the five courts in London, Birmingham, Bradford, Manchester and Nun-eaton in Warwickshire are enforceable with the full power of the judicial system, through the county courts or high court, according to the Sunday Times. The issues that the “official” Sharia courts can rule on range from financial rows to divorce and domestic violence.

Failed Intermediat student hangs self

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Hyderabad, April 29: Hours after the Intermediate second year results were announced on Thursday, a student of Sri Chaitanya Junior college committed suicide in his residence at Jeedimetla after he came to know that he failed in the exam.

Jeedimetla police said that B Ravi Teja hanged himself to death when his family members went out.

Teja, an MPC student, after checking results, found that he failed in Maths paper II.

Earlier, on knowing about the result, Subba Rao advised his son to preparefor the supplementary.

William-Kate wedding a ‘legitimate target’ for terror attack

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London, April 29: The royal wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on Friday is a ‘legitimate target’ for a terrorist attack because of Britain’s foreign policies and the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, a radical Islamic group has claimed.

“There is a legitimate Islam opinion that those who have been attacked have the right to retaliate,” The Telegraph quoted Assad Ullah, a Muslims Against Crusades leader, as saying.

Bill Collector in ACB net

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Hyderabad, April 29: Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) today trapped a Bill Collector when he was allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 20,000 in neighbouring Ranga Reddy district.

B Ramaiah was caught when he demanded and accepted the bribe for doing an official favour of collecting property tax on a renovated building of the complainant at old rates, an ACB release said here.The case is under investigation.

-PTI

SIT summons 12 accused policemen:Ishrat case

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Ahmedabad, April 29: In a major turn of events, the Special Investigative Team (SIT) probing the infamous Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, on Friday summoned twelve police officers accused in the case.

The officers summoned by the SIT include Deputy Superintendent of Police Tarun Barot, GS Singhal, PP Pandey and KR Kaushik. It should be noted that Barot and Singhal had previously appeared before the SIT in March.