Month: November 2011

mUMBAI,nOVEMBER 29:Ever since word about The Dirty Picture started getting around, it was termed as a biopic on late southern siren Silk Smitha. Replete with kitschy clothes, dramatic song sequences and the whole retro works, the film was indeed reminiscent of that time in films when Silk Smitha had reigned and captured the moviegoers’ imagination.

As the Vidya Balan-starrer gears up for release this Friday, director Milan Luthria tells Sonil Dedhia how the film is not just about one iconic item girl from down south but the trend that she was a part of.

Ralegan Siddhi, November29: Outrightly rejecting the draft report on Lokpal Bill of the Standing Committee of Parliament in its present form, Gandhian Anna Hazare on Tuesday made it very clear that he will agitate again if a strong bill is not passed in the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament.

Ralegan Siddhi, November 29: Activist Anna Hazare Tuesday said he will sit on a day-long protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar Dec 11 against the draft Lokpal bill prepared by the government which had ‘cheated’ the people.

He also warned of a major agitation starting Dec 27 at Delhi’s Ramlila ground if changes were not made to the proposed anti-graft law.

‘I will sit on a day-long protest on Dec 11 at Jantar Mantar and I urge everybody to agitate and take to the roads peacefully for a day,’ Hazare told reporters here.

New Delhi, Nov 29 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday slammed the Central Bureau of Investigation for casting aspersions on the subordinate judiciary in Gujarat in a bid to seek the transfer of the trial in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh killing outside the state.

—-IANS—-

New Delhi, November 29: More than 2.9 crore farmers have benefitted from loan waiver scheme so far, for which the government has released Rs 52,419 crore, Parliament was informed on Tuesday.

A total of 1.04 crore farmers have been benefitted under the scheme from public sector banks, private banks and local areas banks, and 1.89 crore in respect of Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) and Cooperative Banks, Minister of State for Agriculture Harish Rawat said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.

New Delhi, November 29: The men in khaki simply refuse to change their rogue ways. In yet another instance of the police using their position to harass people, a constable stripped and beat up a woman in the Mehrauli area.

Constable Raj Kumar and his goons barged into the house of Sushma (name changed), wife of a LPG cylinder supplier, in Chhatarpur Extension and assaulted her and her three children.

Their only crime was that they had taken water from a public pump on which Raj Kumar claimed his exclusive right.

Mumbai, November 29: Actor Vidya Balan’s own stylist has created a furore by claiming that the actor is ‘half naked’ in her upcoming film. According to sources, Vidya herself is upset over the comments made by Natasha Khan who styled her in the film.

The comments were made on a reality show where a fan is allowed to live the life of their favourite star for a day and interact with his or her best friends. Vidya’s biggest fan Aman, had the chance to meet her stylist Natasha. The duo got along like a house on fire.

Mumbai, November 29: What seemed to be a speculation sometimes back has been confirmed now.

The much acclaimed couple of Bollywood, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor, will tie the knot in March next year.

The actor’s sister, Soha Ali Khan, happened to incidentally reveal the news to the paparazzi when she was in the Capital recently to walk the ramp for the Blender’s Pride Tour.

In the past, Saif had announced that the couple would marry early next year in 2012 but month and the date were never confirmed.

Twitter world was shocked to bits when it saw a bizarre tweet from Mahesh Bhatt’s twitter handle abusing celebrities like Poonam Pandey, Sunny Leone and KRK. “@ghantaasingh @kamaalrkhan @SunnyLeone @iPoonampandey #AapChutiyeHain,” read the tweet posted on Mahesh Bhatt’s page.

Guess this Words cant be of @MaheshNBhatt as he is a gem of person and a gentleman! #HACKED,” reacted Poonam Pandey on her twitter page. Poonam Pandey’s hunch was true as Mahesh Bhatt posted after a few hours, “Someone has hacked my account and used it to abuse Kamal Khan and few others. This is dangerous.”

Mumbai, November 29: Shazahn Padamsee has finally got a pout.

The actress who was for months spotted with swollen lips or in various stages of getting the pout right, was seen at Prateik’s birthday bash along with the her new acquisition.

Guess finally going under the knife has ended. Siblings Siddharth and Shraddha Kapoor were also present at the party.

-Agencies

New Delhi, November 29: The government Tuesday said several Naxal outfits, including the banned CPI(Maoist), and their frontal organisations are active in Delhi.

“The CPI (Maoist) operates in Delhi through the Delhi city committee of the outfit. Besides, the CPI (Maoist), several other Left Wing Extremist groups, including CPML-New Democracy as well as CPML-Liberation, are active in Delhi,” Minister of State for Home Jitendra Singh informed Lok Sabha.

New Delhi, November 29: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday defended the Centre’s decision to allow 51% FDI in the retail sector and said that it will create employment opportunities and benefit the country’s economy in the long run.

Mumbai, November 29: Malaika Arora Khan tells about her next item song and more in an exclusive during her touch-and-go visit to town yesterday

Your next item number is Anarkali Chali Disco for Sajid Khan’s Housefull 2.
I have collaborated with Farah Khan yet again. I dance with Akshay Kumar, John Abraham, Ritesh Deshmukh, Shreyas Talpade, Mithun Da and Boman Irani in the song.

It was great fun as this is not the first time I’m working in this environment, which is a Sajid Khan film. I have been a part of all his films.

Mumbai, November 29: It’s been over two years since the news of the sequel to Pyaar Ke Side Effects first appeared. However, it is only now that the new film is on its tracks.

Instead of the original cast of Rahul Bose and Mallika Sherawat, the filmmakers are putting a new cast in place for Shaadi Ke Side Effects.

And now, allegedly Vidya Balan who is to play the female lead, is asking for more money than the hero, Farhan Akhtar.

Mumbai, November 29: In this industry, where closeness with celebs and loyalties towards particular star camps holds as steady as a mound of quicksand, Salman Khan has more or less always been known to stand by his faithful friends in the face of adversity.

There was buzz that Salman gifted his ‘very good friend’ Asin an apartment in Mumbai, even recommended friend Zarine Khan to filmmakers, while promoting former girlfriend Katrina Kaif in Bollywood and gifting artworks to Aamir Khan.

Kabul, November 29: NATO helicopters on Monday fired four rockets into houses in Zhari district of Kandahar, killing three women and injuring two men, said Zalmai Ayoubi, the provincial governor’s spokesman, on Tuesday.

The Afghan official added that the US-led alliance had confirmed the attack.

Nine civilians, most of them children, were also killed in the same district during a NATO airstrike last week.

In another attack on Tuesday, US-led forces raided a house in Surkh Rod district of the Nangarhar province and killed two brothers.

Warangal, Nov 29 (INN): Telangana Political Joint Action Committee Chairman Prof M Kodandaram on Tuesday asked that the Congress and Telugu Desam Party leaders from the region to mount pressure on the State Government to introduce a resolution on Telangana in the ensuing assembly session beginning from December 1.

Hyderabad, Nov 29 (INN): The Telugu Desam Party on Tuesday claimed that the No Confidence Motion would unmask several politicians in the State.

Addressing a press conference at the NTR Trust Bhavan, TDP MLA P Keshava said that the No Trust Move would force the MLAs to express their real loyalties towards the parties. Referring to the MLAs supporting the YSR Congress party, he said the No Confidence Motion would ensure that a legislator remains on one side, instead of living a dubious life.

Hyderabad, Nov 29 (INN): Handlooms and Textiles Minister Dr P Shankar Rao alleged that he was repeatedly being subjected to humiliation by the officials at the instance of Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy.

Talking to reporters at the Congress Legislature Party office here on Tuesday, Dr Shankar Rao said that although he was a cabinet minister, city MLA and a senior Congress leader, the officials have completely ignored him in the Rachabanda programmes held in the limits of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.

Hyderabad, Nov 29: The CBI Special Court on Tuesday granted three-day CBI custody to senior IAS officer Y Sri Lakshmi for further interrogation into the Obulapuram Mining Corporation’s illegal mining case.

Abu Dhabi, November 29: A foreign female English language teacher entered class at a public girls secondary school in Abu Dhabi at the start of a normal work day.

Instead of giving the lesson, she swayed and started to hug the students, who quickly realised she was drunk when they saw the beverage bottle in her hand.

Nellore, November 29: Heavy rains continued to lash Chittoor and Nellore districts on Monday affecting normal life in both the districts. Under the influence of northeast monsoon and the cyclone brewing up in the Arabian Sea, both the districts received copious rainfall and in some places irrigation tanks have breached. Vidavaluru town was submerged in water.