Mumbai, August 14: Hollywood hottie and hotel heiress Paris Hilton is all set to make her debut on Indian screen. Yes, you read it right. The socialite turned actress is making plans to appear on filmmaker Karan Johar’s much talked about show ‘Koffee with Karan’.
London, August 14: Freida Pinto says her beau Dev Patel is her action hero and loves his down-to-earth attitude.
The two have been dating ever since they met on the sets of 2007 movie ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, reports a website.
“He’s my own action hero. He is one of the cutest, cutest boys I have ever met, very down-to-earth, very humble,” she said.
“It is really funny when you introduce him to any celebrity he just goes like a little kid and jumps about all over the place,” she added.
-IANS
Dubai, August 14: Using bad language while fasting diminishes its benefits, according to a new fatwa.
Fasting Muslims should avoid bad manners or risk invalidating their fast according to guidance issued by the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowments (GAIAE) in Abu Dhabi.
The latest release is part of a series of fatwas aimed at helping Muslims answer questions concerning fasting.
Bhopal, August 14 (Pervez Bari): Here is a real life story of how a daughter served his father till his last breath in his fight against prostate cancer. The emotional story was narrated by her brother Mr. Shahnawaz Akhtar, IANS Correspondent of Madhya Pradesh based in Bhopal, on Daughters’ Day (11th August).
It was March, 2010 when cancer was diagnosed in my father’s prostrate.
Bhopal, August 14 (Pervez Bari): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mr. Shivraj Singh Chouhan was presented a dividend cheque for Rs. 19.20 crore by Chief Executive Director of N.H.D.C (Narmada Hydroelectric Development Corporation) Mr. K.M Singh for the year of 2010-11 on Friday.
N.H.D.C is a joint company of N.H.P.C and the Madhya Pradesh Government. On this occasion, senior officers of the corporation were also present.
Bhopal, August 14 (Pervez Bari): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mr. Shivraj Singh Chouhan has written a letter to Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, (MORTH), Mr. C.P Joshi urging for an early decision on handing over to the State Government the National Highways passing through Madhya Pradesh.
The Chief Minister has written in his letter that a resolution has also been passed by the State Cabinet to this effect. Photographs showing extremely poor condition of National Highways in the state have also been annexed with the letter.
Hyderabad, August 14: Dear readers! He is out of sight for the last 21 years but his face still sticks to the minds of people. Qadeer’s face! This is the face of a poor person who is bearing the suffering and agony of imprisonment. Constant imprisonment has weakened his body so much so that he looks much older than his age. The incident occurred on December 12, 1990. Since then he is bearing the suffering and agony of imprisonment. Though he has completed his sentence of 14 years but he is not released till now. Every one knows on what charges he was punished for.
Nagercoil, August 14: A college chairman has been arrested for allegedly raping an 18-year-old student of his institution here, police said.
Ashok Kumar (59), chairman of a private paramedical college, was arrested yesterday for allegedly raping the victim, a student of nursing, twice on Aug 11, police said.
According to a police complaint lodged by the victim, Kumar took her to the deserted boys hostel in the afternoon of Aug 11 and raped her. He raped her again the same day at around 9.30 pm near the girls hostel, it said.
Hyderabad, August 14: Telangana state may be a distant dream given the centre’s reluctance to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh but the people seeking it are giving expression to their demand in their own way.
From boards of government offices to names of eateries and from educational institutions to number plates of vehicles, Telangana is fast replacing Andhra Pradesh.
Hyderabad, August 14: Tou ghening its stand against extrajudicial killings by trigger-happy cops, the AP High Court on Friday delivered a verdict with a directive to book murder case against five police personnel, including a sub-inspector, involved in the encounter killing of a dacoit in 2010.
The court directed Nuzvid DSP K Sambaiah to register criminal cases under Section 302 of IPC against then Penamalur SI G V Vinaya Mohan, now working in I town police station in Vijayawada, and four constables.
A prominent lead actor in Hindi cinema during late 1950s and 1960s, Shammi Kapoor passed away today at 5.15 am. He was suffering from Renal Chronic failure and was admitted at Breach candy hospital, where he breathed his last. Born on October 21, 1931 in a Punjabi Khatri family, he is an Indian film actor and director.
New Delhi, August 14: On the eve of Independence Day celebrations, an elaborate ground-to-air security apparatus has been put in place in the capital to pre-empt any terror strike.
Thousands of Delhi Police and paramilitary personnel were deployed in and around the city, especially near the Red Fort from where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will unfurl the tricolour and address the nation.
The Union Home Ministry has already issued a country-wide alert asking states to tighten security at sensitive locations and installations to thwart any attempt of terror strike.
New Delhi, August 14: Social activist Anna Hazare Saturday accused the government of betraying the nation’s trust, and said if he had known the government would cheat he wouldn’t have called off his fast in April.
Addressing a press conference ahead of his fast from Aug 16, Hazare said because of the government’s misgovernance, the US got the opportunity to pass remarks on the country’s internal matters.
Chennai, August 14: The Vice Consul of the US Consulate here Maureen Chao Saturday expressed her deep regrets over her remark – “I became dirty and dark, like a Tamilian” – that has stirred a major controversy.
Chao made the remark at a function Friday in SRM University here.
The US Consulate has also termed her comment as inappropriate.
New Delhi, August 14: After being attacked by the bombs of the terrorists (13/7, 2011), we are facing the barrage from the ideologues of Hate and divisiveness.
Many a ideologues of religious nationalism have come out with outpourings associating religion, Islam and so Muslims with terrorism and the need to confront this attack of terror by uniting as Hindus, voting a Hindu party, taking away the citizenship rights of Muslims, and declaring India as a Hindu nation (Subramanian Swamy 16/7, 2011).
Subramaniam Swamy’s recent article, titled ‘How To Wipe Out Islamic Terror’, has provoked widespread comment in the media.
Gandhinagar, August 14: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Saturday sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention to stop “such blatant interference” from union ministers, especially Home Minister P.Chidambaram, which encourages indiscipline among some “delinquent” police officers of Gujarat cadre.
In a letter to the prime minister, Modi said this is the second time that the home minister has intervened in favour of such police officers and is thus encouraging indiscipline.
Islamabad, August 14: Burqa-clad women suicide bombers in Pakistan have posed a potent threat to the country as it grapples to deal with the Taliban.
This has been vindicated by two recent attacks on the security forces that appear to have rudely awakened the authorities to the new Taliban tactic.
Thursday’s attack on a security checkpost in Peshawar by women suicide bombers was the second such attack in less than two months. The previous attack was in Bajaur June 26.
Chittorgarh (Rajasthan), August 14: Twenty three-year-old Parvati Devi is no ordinary woman. Belonging to a remote village in Rajasthan’s Chittorgarh district, she goes hand-in-hand with her six-year-old son to school — to study.
Setting an example for almost 1.2 million dropouts in the state, Parvati joined school along with her son Ramesh last month during the recently-launched drive of the state government to connect each child with education.
Washington, August 14: Hollywood filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow has been given confidential access by the Obama Administration to make a film on the sensational raid that killed Osama bin Laden, prompting an American lawmaker to question the reported move for jeopardising national security.
Drawing attention of the administration to a media report that Sony Pictures and Bigelow have been given access to confidential information, New York Republican Congressman Peter T King has said it is the duty of authorities to inform public and lawmakers before declassifying such matters.
New Delhi, August 14: Dressed in a worn-out shirt and shorts, Rodu, all of 11, hopped past swank sedans and intimidating SUVs at a busy traffic intersection in south Delhi. Clutching a bunch of tiny Indian flags and waving them mindlessly, he pored through window panes, straining to find a potential buyer.
Independence Day for him, like most other street children, is no more than an occasion to have better sales of their merchandise.
New Delhi, August 14: An autobiography of Pakistani stump-wrecker Shoaib Akhtar, who holds the record for the fastest delivery in cricket ever clocking 161.3 km/h (100.2 mph), will offer revealing insights into the game, its intricacies and highs and lows – inside the dressing room and outside.
The book, unveiled by HarperCollins-India on the fast bowler’s birthday Saturday, will arrive in the market in September.
Hyderabad, August 14: The Hyderabad City Police on Saturday arrested a person on the charges of uploading porno clippings into the mobile phones.
According to police, the accused, 29-year-old Mohd Hafeez used to upload porno clips into the mobile phones of known customers from his shop ‘Young Seasons Gifts’ located at Karkhana in Secunderabad
Hyderabad, August 14: The Union Home Ministry on Saturday finalised an elaborate security plan for the Hyderabad Metro Rail.
Hyderabad, August 14: Baladeer and president of Telangana Praja Front Gadar on Saturday demanded that the legislators from Telangana regions must submit their resignations demanding creation of separate Telangana state.
Speaking at the Meet-the-Press program organized by Telangana Journalists forum at Press Club Somajiguda on Saturday, Gadar said resignations would certainly mount pressure on the Centre and it would be forced to take a clear stand on granting statehood for the region.