Month: January 2014

Selena Gomez says Justin Bieber split helped turn career around

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Selena Gomez has revealed that her split from Justin Bieber last January helped her to focus on her career and turn it around.

The pop starlet felt that she had stopped being challenged musically before she was 20 but her painful breakup from the ‘Never Say Never’ singer motivated her to re-evaluate and come back with pop hit ‘Come and Get It’.

She told Seventeen magazine that she questioned the way she looked, acted, sang, and wrote.

She said that she started becoming very stale with her music, and realised that she was doing things for other people.

Kim K wants to have six kids at least

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Kim Kardshian has revealed that after experiencing the wonder of bringing up her first daughter, North, she now wants at least six children.

The reality TV star gave birth to her first daughter, North, last June and is eager to go through the joys of having a child again.

She told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres that she always wanted about six kids, and after having North, she would like to have a million, Contactmusic reported.

Defeat Communal Forces in 2014 General Elections

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The general elections are but a few months away. Many of us have been working for years in the field of health, water rights, and women’s issues, civil rights. Many of us are writers, academics, teachers, students. While we may think of our work as deeply political, we have not been engaged directly in politics, or at least electoral politics. 2014, however is different. The danger of communalism is imminent. The portends are dark already. As we inch closer to the elections, the façade of development talk is forgotten and an unabashed Hindutva agenda begins to unfold.

Couple beats odds of 1/133225 to have four children born on same day

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A couple has beaten odds of 1/133225 to have all four of their children born on the same day.

Emily Scrugham and Peter Dunn have landed quadruple birthday for the kids Ryan, Sam and twins Brooke and Nicole, the Daily Star reported.

The couple revealed that the date was an absolute coincidence and none of the births were due on January 12. (ANI)

Four-year-old girl `accidentally` shoots and kills cousin

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In a tragic incident, a four-year-old girl accidentally shot and killed her four-year-old cousin.

Police have said they are investigating whether to press charges but added that they didn’t see any “malicious intent”, the BBC reported.

The children were playing at their grandfather”s home in Detroit when they found a loaded rifle under a bed.

The police officials revealed that the gun was a small-calibre rifle and the boy was shot once in the chest when the family was away and only a family friend was at the home.

The boy was pronounced dead in hospital. (ANI)

Salman Khan promotes `Jai Ho` in Mumbai

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Salman Khan and Daisy Shah were spotted promoting their upcoming action-drama movie ‘Jai Ho’ in Mumbai.

The film is a remake of a regional Telugu film ‘Stalin’ where the 48-year-old ‘Dabangg’ star plays the role of an ex-Army officer who aspires to bring a change in the society by making people help each other.

The film has been directed by Sohail Khan and music has been composed by Sajid-Wajid, Devi Sri Prasad and Amal Malik. The movie releases on January 24. (ANI)

`Small town girl` Julia Roberts clueless over rise to fame

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Julia Roberts has said that she is just a small town girl, who still can’t believe what all has happened to her.

The 46-year-old actress, who received an Academy Award nomination for her latest film ‘August: Osage County’, said that she thinks she is the same relatively simple person that she has always been, who has a flashy, wacky job, the Daily Express reported.

The ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ star admitted that she has never been one of those blindly ambitious actresses, and is really a girl from small-town Georgia in her mind

Kim K resorts to Instagram to select `new outfit` post wardrobe malfunction

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Kim Kardashian recently took to Instagram to get help from her fans in deciding the outfit for her interview on ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’, after she had a wardrobe malfunction.

The 33-year-old reality TV star shared pics of her possible sexy replacement outfits to wear on the show, Us Magazine reported.

The ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians’ star wrote that her dress for the show had fallen apart, and posted a pic of herself trying on an ultra low-cut white top and long curve-hugging tan skirt.

Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel spend `quality time` in Canada

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Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel were spotted together in Canada, despite their break-up rumors, it has been revealed.

The couple spent some quality time during the recent Canadian leg of Timberlake’s “The 20/20 Experience World Tour” and were working out together at the Fairmont Hotel MacDonald gym, Radar Online reported.

Biel was earlier spotted alone grabbing a “tall black” coffee from Transcend Coffee Garneau. (ANI)

New National Youth Policy to be announced soon: Jitendra Singh

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Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports Jitendra Singh on Saturday said that a new National Youth Policy will be announced soon. Addressing NCC Cadets at the NCC Republic Day Camp 2014 here today, he informed that the Cabinet has already cleared the New National Youth Policy last week. Singh said that a large number of people, especially youth from across the country, were engaged and consulted during the drafting of the new policy. Singh said that creation of an institutional mechanism between different departments and ministries for better synergy will be ensured in the new policy.

Sunanda Tharoor”s last rites underway at Lodhi Crematorium

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The last rites of Sunanda Tharoor, the wife of Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor, have begun at the Lodhi Crematorium here. Earlier, Sunanda”s body was brought to the crematorium from the Tharoor residence after performance of various religious ceremonies, and to allow family and friends to pay their last respects. Her body was carried into the crematorium by her husband Shashi Tharoor and her son from her previous marriage Shiv Menon. People from all walks of life were seen inside the premises offering their condolences to bereaved members of the family.

BJP claims Congress dividing nation on religious lines

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Rajnath Singh on Saturday accused the Congress of using religion to practice a brand of divisive politics.

Addressing participants at a meeting of the party’s National Executive Council, Singh reiterated that Narendra Modi wasIndia’s future, and that it was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who has been a disaster in terms of governance at the Centre for the past decade.

First black hole orbiting a ‘spinning’ star found

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Scientists have discovered the first binary system ever known to consist of a black hole and a ‘spinning’ star.

The discovery was made possible by observations from the Liverpool and Mercator telescopes at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos in Canary Islands, Spain.

‘Spinning’ star or Be-type stars are quite common across the Universe. In our Galaxy alone more than 80 of them are known in binary systems together with neutron stars.

Mohd.Khaleequr Rahman submits report of his Saudi’s visit

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Mohd.Khaleequr Rahman, a senior Congress Leader and the Member of the State Level Committee of the Andhra Pradesh Wakf Records who had visited KSA last week to study the expat issues and solutions in general and impact of the Nitaqat Law on the Indian community and the people of Andhra Pradesh in particular, submitted his detailed report to the government of Andhra Pradesh with his observations and the suggestions which he received during his interaction with the Indian community leaders and the NRIs during his visit.

Get ready to taste Iranian apples

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Second largest country in the Gulf wants to expand trade beyond oil

Apart from oil, apples, tourism and software education are high on Iran’s trade agenda with India, according to the country’s ambassador in New Delhi Gholam Reza Ansari.

Man held for impregnating daughter

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The Kumbalgod police have arrested a 55-year-old man on charges of raping his minor daughter for the past two months and impregnating her.

The accused was living with his wife, two sons and the 16-year-old daughter, a first pre-university student. While the accused is a construction labourer, his wife works in a garment factory here, the police said.

The accused allegedly raped his daughter over a period of two months, after she returned home from college.

He would threaten her with dire consequences if she revealed it to anyone.

City police secure Yasin Bhatkal’s custody

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The city police on Friday secured the custody of Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal for 10 days.

The police had filed a petition with the special NIA court in Delhi seeking his custody in connection with Chinnaswamy stadium blasts hours before the IPL cricket match between Royal Challengers and Mumbai Indians here in April 2010.

Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Hemanth Nimbalkar said Yaseen Bhatkal would be brought to Bangalore for questioning.

The police had filed a petition before the NIA court with a Magistrate court’s production warrant issued against him.

Biocon Chief rules out joining AAP

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Contrary to the recent trend of political activism of top some corporate figures who have joined the Aam Adami Party (AAP), Biocon Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw on Saturday ruled out joining any political party.

“I will not be a part of AAP and for that matter any other political party,” she told reporters on the sidelines of the launch of a Biocon product in Bangalore.

Ms. Mazumdar-Shaw said she would like herself to play the role of giving suggestions to political parties on good governance and economy.

China loses 27.8 mn micro-blog users in 2013

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China has seen a surprise drop in the number of online micro-blog users with more than 27.8 million people abandoning Sina Weibo in 2013.

According to News24, there has been a significant increase in users of mobile messaging platforms, with features similar to micro-blogs.

The China Internet Network Information Centre’s annual report revealed that there were 281 million users of Twitter-like micro-blogs at the end of 2013, down 9 percent from the previous year.

Call for Musharraf to be checked by civilian docs, instead of military

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Former Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf’s condition should be assessed by civilian cardiologists, instead of military doctors, head of the prosecution team for the treason trial of the former military ruler has said.

Advocate Mohammad Akram Sheikh objected to the composition of a medical board ordered to be set up by the special court and suggested the three-judge special court that top five cardiologists could have been appointed for medical examination of the accused, Dawn News reports.

China’s lunar probe observes stars, explores Moon

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China’s lunar probe mission, which made the first soft-landing on the Moon since 1976, has collected a large amount of space observation and exploration data, authorities said today.

The mission, comprising the lander Chang’e-3 and rover Yutu, was launched in December as part of the second phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Programme.

‘Mystery’ rock’s appearance in front of Mars Rover puzzles scientists

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A rock that mysteriously appeared in front of the Mars Rover a few days back, has left scientists baffled.

NASA Mars Exploration Rover (MER) lead scientist Steve Squyres of Cornell University reported appearance of a suspected gypsum near Endeavour Crater ‘s rim – a region of Meridiani Planum that Opportunity has been researching since 2011 – and the discovery of clays, which likely formed in a pH-neutral wet environment in early Mars, Discovery News reported.

‘Koffee with Karan’: Twinkle cant keep her mouth shut, says Karan Johar

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Bollywood star Akshay Kumar feels that his actress wife Twinkle is far from being diplomatic as she is not afraid of speaking the truth.

The 46-year-old actor was in conversation with filmmaker Karan Johar on his talk show `Koffee with Karan`, where he appeared for the first time.

Akshay said that his wife`s film `Mela`, starring Aamir Khan and brother Faisal, was the turning point of his personal life.

“She was very confident about Mela. She had said if the film didn`t work, she would get married. Fortunately for me, `Mela` flopped and we got married,” Akshay said.

Indian-origin mum held by UK cops in connection with death of young son

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Indian woman Rosdeep Kular has been detained in connection with the death of a young boy, alleged to be her three-year-old son Mikaeel Kular.

Police said that they have discovered the body of a young boy in the Fife area, 30 miles from Edinburgh, where Mikaeel went missing, Mirror.co.uk reports.

According to the report, Mikaeel”s family members have been informed of the recovery, while the body has been taken for examination.

The 33-0year-old mother of five had last seen Mikaeel on Wednesday when she put him to bed at their flat in Edinburgh.

Here is why doing action scenes were easy for Madhuri Dixit

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Actress Madhuri Dixit says there is no such word called difficult in her dictionary and she likes to conquer problems.

The Bollywood diva, who will be seen next in `Gulaab Gang`, has done her own stunts in the movie.

`Gulaab Gang` directed by newcomer Soumik Sen, is based on Gulabi gang, a group of Indian women vigilantes and activists dressed in pink saris, fighting against the social injustice and operating in Bundelkhand region of UP.