Mumbai, August 09: After MP3 – MERA PEHLA PEHLA PYAAR, Ruslaan Mumtaz is now being seen on the big screen again in Satish Kaushik directed TEREE SANG. Since there is a two years gap between the two films, wasn’t it frustrating to wait for so long?
Mumbai, August 09: Like his film title Shahid Kapur turned a pucca kamina! Well the heartthrob made fool out of the debutants on the sets of KAMINEY.
Confirms with us the newcomer Chandan Roy Sanyal who plays a character-oriented role named Mikhail in KAMINEY. ”Shahid is a big time prankster. He would take me on the sets saying I was called for the shoot. As soon as I would reach on the sets, no one would be there.”
—Agencies
Mumbai, August 09: Eros International has announced an unprecedented opening for Imtiaz Ali’s LOVE AAJ KAL – an Illuminati Films production in association with Eros International. Eros International released the film worldwide on 31st July 2009 and the film has since grossed Rs. 108 crores in its first week, making it the highest grosser of the year with over Rs. 75 crores coming from India (Rs. 45 crores net).
Mumbai, August 09: Producers Burmawala Partners comprising of the number one thriller director duo Abbas-Mustan, their editor brother Hussain Burmawala and Studio 18, come together for a drama-comedy, LIFE PARTNER. The director Rumi Jaffri is an old war horse in Hindi cinema and not new to comedy, having written hilarious scripts as well dialogues for the once upon a time comedy king, director David Dhawan.
Washington, August 09: Sony has planned a new technology ‘Exmor R’ sensor in its newest Cyber-shot cameras — DSC-TX1 and DSC- WX1 which offers the best result even in the dim-light photography.
As the “Exmor R” image sensors technique just gather more and more light will be available in conventional sensors. This technology improves shooting in low-light scenarios, enhancing image clarity and drastically reducing grain.
Guntur, August 09: Senior TDP leader and former Rajya Sabha Member Laljan Basha, expressing his concern about drought situation in Andhra Pradesh, today slammed Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy for his “despair” and “preoccupation” with encouraging defections to the Congress from other parties.
He alleged that Chief Secretary of the state failed to submit a report on drought situation to the Prime Minister at recently held Chief Secretaries meet.
Mumbai, August 09: Now-a-days, the hot couple of Bollywood is in media for a long past since the gorgeous actress changed her life partner from Shahid to Saif. So, the fans are having a lot of statements and gossips of the couple spinning in their minds.
Kareena is madly in love with her beau Saif Ali Khan. As she woke up in the morning she loves to see the face of yoga guru and when she go to sleep, she love to see the face of his charming partner Saif Ali Khan.
Jammu, August 09: The Excise Department collected revenue of Rs 46.71 crore in July this year, Rs 13.80 crore more than raised in July last year, a top official of the department said.
So far, in the current fiscal, the department registered a hike of Rs 20.82 crore in its revenue collections till July this year as compared to the same period last year, he said.
Vadodara, August 09: National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC), country’s largest power utility, is likely to set up power plants in Nigeria and Srilanka, a top NTPC official said here.
“Proposal is being pursued with the Federal Government of Nigeria for setting up coal and gas based power plants in Nigeria and sourcing of gas for NTPC’s plants in India,” Chairman and Managing Director, NTPC, R S Sharma told yesterday after his visit to 648 MW gas based power plant at Jhanor, about 100 km from here.
New Delhi, August 09: Veteran journalist and former editor of The Statesman D.P. Kumar died of a massive cardiac arrest in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, at 5 p.m. Sunday, his family members said.
“Debu” to his friends, Kumar was 79 and is survived by his wife Bindi, two daughters Shalini and Himani and son Siddharth, who is also a journalist working with the German news agency DPA.
The venue for the last rights was being decided.
–IANS
Dehradun, August 09: About 100 villages in Uttarakhand are prone to natural disasters, a recent official report stated.
According to a report of state’s Disaster Management and Mitigation Centre (DMMC), about 35 villages have been found unsafe in Chamoli district where as in Pithoragarh 23 villages are prone to natural disasters like landslides and earthquakes.
Both Chamoli and Pithoragarh districts are seismically highly sensitive and fall in Zone-V.
Rajahmundry, August 09: East Godavari District Collector, Gopalakrishna Diwadi said that Malaria fever will be controlled in the tribal areas of the district within a week.
Diwadi said yesterday that 21 vacant posts of doctors will be filled shortly and action will be taken against the medical officials for negligence in their duties in tribal areas.
All necessary medical kit with equipment has been kept ready to control Malaria fever in these areas, he said.
Vijaywada, August 09: B Sumanth will lead the Andhra Team in Buchi Babu All India Invitation Tournament for the year 2009, at Chennai, Andhra Cricket Association said here today.
Chandigarh, August 09: The bulk of swine flu cases from Haryana have been reported from industrial township Gurgaon while a doctor from Sirsa also tested positive for the virus today.
“Out of 38 positive cases of influenza A H1N1, 33 alone are from Gurgaon while today a doctor from Sirsa also tested positive for the virus,” Haryana’s Nodal Officer for the swine flu cases, Dr Aparjita Sondh told.
Srinagar, August 09: Jammu and Kashmir government has submitted three reports on project to the Centre for funding to upgrade the tourism related infrastructure in Zanskar valley in Kargil district.
The projects costing Rs 4.85 crore has been sent to the Union Ministry of Tourism and approval from the Centre would be received soon, state Tourism Minister Nawang Rigzin Jora said while chairing a meeting of the Zanskar Tourism Development Authority (ZTDA) here today.
Srinagar, August 09: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has underscored the importance of showcasing state’s potential for adventure sports and said efforts should be made to integrate sports events and tourism activities.
“This (integration of sports and tourism) would give new dimension to the efforts of the government to revive the tourism sector and generate large scale economic activities,” Omar said after giving away prizes to the winners of 2nd Kashmir Cup International Rafting Championship at Sonamarg, 100 kms from here, yesterday.
Srinagar, August 09: Employees of the Jammu and Kashmir State Road Transport Corporation today deferred their proposed strike tomorrow following an assurance by Minister for Transport Qamar Ali Akhoon that the state government is aware of their problems and will solve them.
The assurance was given by the minister to a deputation of SRTC workers union led by its president Shakeel Ahmad Kuchey here today, official sources said.
Akhoon stressed the maintenance of better coordination between workers and management to bring the corporation back on track.
—Agencies
Thane, August 09: Activists of BJP today staged a road blockade and courted arrest across the district to protest against Congress-NCP ruled state government.
The agitation was held at Talasari, Bhayander, Jawhar, Mokhada, Murbad, Vasai and other places that held the traffic in the areas for hours before the party activists were rounded up by police.
Tribals and farmers in the district also took part in the agitation and aired their grievances.
Pune, August 09: Upset with the remarks of union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, the family of 14-year-old Reeda Shaikh, India’s first swine flu fatality, has demanded that he either apologise or resign for saying that Reeda could have spread the disease to 80 others while changing hospitals during treatment.
“We want an apology from the government. He (Azad) has hurt a mother… he has blamed our child, Reeda for having infected 80 others by going to four hospitals. He needs to get his facts right,” Reeda’s emotional mother told reporters here today.
Rajahmundry, August 09: District administration of East Godavari District has formed teams to verify the genuine ration cards.
Collector Gopalakrishna Diwadi said 420 verification teams have been formed to verify the ration cards.
The move is aimed at weeding out bogus ration cards, he said.
Diwadi told media persons yesterday that process of verification will be complete in three months.
The main objective of this is to provide ration cards to eligible persons in the state and weed out bogus ration cards, besides providing houses and pension to poor, he said.
Mumbai, August 09: Bipasha Basu’s ex-beau Dino Morea has taken exception to media reports calling them to coming close another time.
The reports have suggested that Dino was dating his ex-girlfriend, Bipasha Basu. Dino’s friend said, “Recently, they did meet at a party and spent some time together, but there is no relationship brewing between the two. Ever since Dino and Bipasha parted ways, they have been friends and wish each other well.”
Dino is in the state of shock after the new surfaced and has denied that there was not any possibility of a patch-up between the two.
Chennai, August 09: The mantra to success is hard work mixed with smartness and intelligence, says Tamil superstar Rajnikant.
Speaking Sunday at the audio release of “Eeram”, produced by Shankar’s ‘S’ Pictures and directed by newcomer Arivazagan, Rajnikant said: “Shankar is an example of hard work, coupled with smartness and efficiency.”
Rajnikant, after the success of “Sivaji – The Boss”, has teamed up with Shankar for “Endhiran”, which also stars Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai.
Agartala, August 09: The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has forgotten its electoral promise and is working hard for ‘khaas aadmi’ (special people) instead of ‘aam aadmi’ (the common man), said senior Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Brinda Karat here.
“The Left parties would launch a nation-wide stir with a mass convention in New Delhi on Aug 26, demanding food for all and adequate food security for people living below the poverty line, ” the CPI-M politburo member said here Saturday evening.
New Delhi, August 09: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday said the spiralling prices of essential commodities was due to the ruling UPA giving more importance to “multinational companies, share holders and power brokers” than the aam admi.
The party plans to hold countrywide protest demonstrations against the price hike on Aug 17.
“Our economist Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is looking at the society through the share market…The current price-rise is because of political reasons rather than the effects of nature,” BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told IANS.
Hyderabad, August 09: England team Sunday withdrew from the World Badminton Championships, beginning here Monday, over reports of a specific Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist threat.
Badminton England said they were not prepared to take such a risk to the safety of their players.