Month: October 2011

Mumbai, October 06: It seems Sonam Kapoor is itching for an image makeover. The actress says she would love to do a sexy item number.

“No one asks me to do an item number. I am just asked to do classical type of films. So, I guess people have to start looking at me in that way and see me as a sexy item number girl, ” Sonam said at an event here.

The actress was recently seen in Pankaj Kapoor’s “Mausam” along with Shahid Kapoor. Although the film hasn’t got great reviews, she is not upset.

Hyderabad, October 06: Govt. is continuing its efforts to arrive at consensus for Separate Telangana State. P.M.O. replied to C.P.I.(M). Mr. Prakash Karat had written to P.M. requesting him to take an early action to resolve Telangana issue.

Mumbai, October 06: Sonakshi Sinha is no longer papa Shatrughan’s little baby. Come Diwali, she moves to her own space, though not too far from her parents’ sight. The family bungalow Ramayan at Juhu has been demolished and re- constructed into apartment blocks.s

Shotgun has decided to give Sonakshi one independent apartment in the bungalow while her brothers Luv and Kush get to share another. This apparently because the Sinha couple felt that their children are grown up enough to need their own space.

New York, October 06: Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin says she will not run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.

“After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for president of the United States,” Palin said in a public letter Wednesday, adding
“family comes first”.

Palin said her decision was based on a review of what common sense Conservatives and Independents have accomplished, especially over the last year, Xinhua reported.

Mumbai, October 06: A security guard, who was an employee of the Tiger security agency run by Salman Khan’s bodyguard Shera, is being hunted by cops for having stolen Rs 6 lakh from a cash collection box of a suburban theatre.

Ironically, he was guarding money that had been collected from ticket sales of Bodyguard, Shera’s most well-known client’s recent release. The accused Arvind Kumar Suresh Pathak is a native of Farfara in Allahabad, and is now absconding.

Mumbai, October 06: It’s finally official we think. Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D’Souza are getting hitched pretty soon. A source reveals that the two actors got engaged at a hush hush ceremony held at the former Maharashtra CM and father of the groom-to-be Vilasrao Deshmukh’s residence a fortnight ago.

Confirms a source, “They have been planning a wedding for a while now, and families of both stars thought that an official engagement would only be appropriate.” Interestingly, not a single friend of the couple’s from the industry was invited to celebrate their special day.

London, October 06: US-based television channel Lifetime is developing a movie based on the life of pop star Lady Gaga.

‘Fame Monster: The Lady Gaga Story’ will be written by Norman Snider and is based on Maureen Callahan`s 2010 book ‘Poker Face: The Rise And Rise Of Lady Gaga’.

The channel has sent out a casting call to find an actress to play the superstar in the movie as Gaga is not involved in the project, reports contactmusic.com.

-IANS

Mumbai, October 06: Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan will lend his famous baritone for the voice over in Shah Rukh Khan’s magnum opus ‘RA.One’.

Apparently, after roping in Tamil superstar Rajinikanth, SRK approached Big B, who readily agreed to be a part of the project.

New Delhi, October 06 : The nature of NASA’s space programmes is changing, says a former American woman astronaut, pointing to a growing gender imbalance on the US agency’s space flights and a focus on low cost shuttles.

“We were just a few years away from Mars when NASA’s human space exploration programme, ‘Constellation’, came to an end. But the new programme is more ambitious…it seeks to prepare our destinies as space-faring civilisations,” Mary Ellen Weber, who has twice been into space.

New Delhi, October 06: Fight graft only through political system, says Rahul Gandhi New Delhi: In an apparent rebuttal to social activist Anna Hazare, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Tuesday said corruption can be fought only through the political system.

Speaking at a Youth Congress convention here, Gandhi said people talk of fighting corruption but it can be fought through democratic means.

“If you want to fight corruption, then this can only be done through the political system, through democratic means,” he said.

Hyderabad, October 06: Osmania University students threatened the people of Andhra region that they would start “Andhras Go Back” movement today.

‘Telangana Vidyarthi Aiykiya Vedika’ has launched this programme with this slogan ‘Andhras Go Back’. Under this programme a movement would be launched to ask the people of Andhra region to leave Hyderabad city. The other unions of students OU Joint Action Committee and OU Telangana Students’ Joint Action Committee have also supported this movement.

——-Siasat News

Hyderabad, October 06: A Nampally court sentenced the proprietor of a construction firm and her husband to three years simple imprisonment for misappropriating the property of a doctor misusing the General Power of Attorney given to them at the time of signing an agreement. The III Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate recently sentenced Ch. Niveditha Reddy of Nischint Constructions and her husband Baba Prasada Reddy after finding them guilty under section 406 (criminal breach of trust) of the Indian Penal Code.

We all wish to seek Waseelah to Allah, i.e. to approach Him and to get closer to Him. Obviously, if we are closer to Allah, we will enjoy numerous benefits in this life and the hereafter. If Allah is happy with us, our Duas can be responded to faster, He will protect us from the challenges of this life, and in general we can enjoy a better life.

In this article based on the sermon by Shaikh Abdul Rahman Al-Saadi mentioned in Fawakih Ash-Shahiyyah (p. 36), we see that getting close to Allah is not that difficult.

Mumbai, October 06: Frustrated over his unrequited love, a Chembur-based hotel owner allegedly sought revenge by kidnapping the woman’s 12-year-old sister and four-month-old nephew, and then raping the minor girl at a hotel. The Nagpada police cracked the case within 24 hours and arrested the accused, Monu Sachdev (25), on Tuesday night.

Malegaon, October 06: 65-year old Mohammad Salahuddin is just 4th standard pass. His reading skill is limited to a glance or two on newspapers while sipping tea at restaurants and writing skill to dotting down some figures on the back of cigarette cases.

Mumbai, October 06: Bollywood’s King Khan Shahrukh has chosen to stay away from Big Boss 5 at any cost since it is being hosted by his rival Salman Khan. There had been a buzz that Shahrukh will guest-host the show when Salman is away on a film shoot, as the show’s other host, Sanjay Dutt, is a good friend of his. But that’s not going to happen anymore.

Shahrukh’s date diary is chock-a-block, “I won’t be going on Bigg Boss for the promotion of my film. I don’t think I will be able to go on the show as I won’t get time. I will be on city tours that time.” SRK told.

Hyderabad, October 06: Telugu Desam president N Chandrababu Naidu has declared that he is neutral on the demands for and against bifurcation of the state.

“I have already made my stance clear.

I have adopted a neutral stance on the agitations,” he told reporters here on Tuesday.

He said he had given freedom to leaders of all the regions to work as per the aspirations of the people of their respective regions.

“Party leaders become irrelevant if they do not take up the cause of the people they represent.

Hyderabad, October 06: Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) chairman M Kodandaram has exuded confidence that the Congress-led UPA Government will take immediate measures to resolve the T issue.

Speaking to reporters here on Tuesday after returning from Delhi, Kodandaram said the Central Government had realised the gravity of the situation in Telangana following Sakala Janula Samme.

A TJAC delegation also met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday demanding a separate Telangana state and apprised him of the situation in the region.

Hyderabad, October 06: The activists of Communist Party of India’s organisation Awaaz on Wednesday burnt the effigies of Gujarat Chief Minister Narender Modi near Charminar demanding release of IPS officer Sanjeev Bhat.

Ahmedabad, October 06: Gujarat High Court on Wednesday directed the state government to submit the correspondence between Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Governor Dr Kamala with regard to the ordinance seeking removal of Chief Justice from the committee that finalises Lokayukta candidate.

The division bench of Justices Akil Kureshi and Sonia Gokani sought the confidential letters exchanged by Modi and Dr Kamla between August 18 to August 26, in sealed cover.

Patna, october 06: Anand Kumar, who founded Super 30, Bihar’s widely acclaimed free coaching centre for Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) aspirants, has blamed the institutes’ entrance exam panel for the poor quality of students making the cut, a concern voiced by Infosys chairman emeritus N.R. Narayana Murthy.

Anand Kumar said if poor quality students, as felt by Narayan Murthy, were able to get into the IITs, it was the responsibility of the joint entrance examination (JEE) committee.

New York, October 06: Gandhi inspired world’s greatest leaders: US lawmaker Washington: Wishing millions of Indian-Americans and Indians around the globe on Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, a US lawmaker has said he shaped modern India and the world by inspiring some the greatest leaders of the time.

“Today, modern India is a leader as the world’s largest democracy, among the world’s largest economies, and as our close friend and ally,” New York Congressman Joseph Crowley said on the floor of the House Tuesday.

New Delhi, October 06: Actor Asin Thottumkal, who’s already a big name down south, said she’s fascinated to be a part of Bollywood, on a chat show hosted by Simi Garewal recently. “I feel very grateful to God to get an opportunity to be working with the best of the best,” she said.

New Delhi, October 06: Grappling with the Telangana issue, Congress General Secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad met party chief Sonia Gandhi amid reports that an all-party meeting would be convened to find a way out to the statehood demand.

Azad, in-charge of Andhra Pradesh, met Gandhi at her residence during which he is understood to have briefed her about the situation in Telangana region, which has been crippled for the past 24 days due to a general strike.

Ahmedabad, October 06: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged police encounter killing of Mumbai teenager Ishrat Jahan and three others in 2004 today submitted its progress report to the Gujarat High Court, officials said.

File photo: Zeenat Jahan Raza (R), 20, and Nuzhat Jahan Raza, 14, sisters of slain 18-year-old Ishrat Jahan. Reuters