London, Dec 31 – American comedienne and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has been named woman of the year by animal rights organisation, People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), for promoting a lifestyle which is friendly to nature. Tim Gunn, who appears on fashion programme ‘Project Runway’ in the US, was named man [...]
London, Dec 31 – British actor Tim Roth is urging movie bosses to resurrect ‘The Incredible Hulk’ for a sequel, because he would love to reprise his role for a second instalment in the comic book blockbuster franchise. Roth tackled Edward Norton as the green giant in the 2008 movie and the star admits he [...]
Islamabad, Dec 31 – The UN said Thursday it was planning to temporarily relocate some of its international staff out of Pakistan to ‘safer places’ due to security reasons. Ishrat Rizvi, the UN information officer here, said ‘some percentage’ of the organization’s foreign workers will be relocated to other countries in accordance with the ‘re-alignment [...]
Kolkata, Dec 31 – The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) and the city police seem on a collision course over fixing responsibility for the Dec 24 light fiasco during the India-Sri Lanka one dayer at the Eden Gardens. While CAB president Jagmohan Dalmiya virtually rubbished the report of a seven-member committee probing the matter, saying [...]
London, Dec 31 – Singer Rihanna has made new year resolutions to give up all bad habits. The Barbados beauty, who had a difficult 2009 after being assaulted by then-boyfriend Chris Brown in February, plans to get rid of as many of her bad habits as possible next year, reports fashion.ie. ‘I want to stop [...]
Washington, Dec 31 – AT&T announced Thursday that it is to end its sponsorship deal with scandal-tainted golfer Tiger Woods. ‘We are ending our sponsorship agreement with Tiger Woods and wish him well in the future,’ the company said in a statement. Accenture and Gillette have already pulled out of sponsorship deals with Woods after [...]
Brussels, Dec 31 – A total of 137 journalists were killed in 2009, one of the most lethal years for media workers on record, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said Thursday. The Brussels-based organization said that 113 of the journalists had fallen victim to targeted killings, overshadowing the decrease to 109 killed in 2008. [...]
London, Dec 31 – Music star Simon Cowell has confessed he is envious of the success of popular US animated series ‘The Simpsons’ and says he wants to create a rival show. Cowell, who earned an estimated $75 million in 2009, has revealed despite being a fan of the animated series, he is jealous of [...]
Islamabad, Dec 31 – Pakistan said Thursday that the US-led international forces should not leave war-torn Afghanistan until the country was strong enough to take care of itself. ‘As a matter of fact what we say is that a hasty withdrawal would not be desirable,’ the country’s foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Basit told a press [...]
New Delhi, Dec 31 – As a New Year gift, the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Thursday declared that it will provide free education to prisoners henceforth. ‘All jail inmates in the country will now be able to access free and quality education according to their choice,’ a senior administrator of IGNOU said. In [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 31 – Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao is confident that Telangana state would be a reality in 2010. Talking to reporters here Thursday, Rao appealed to people of Andhra and Rayalaseema regions to bid adieu to 2009 by parting as friends. KCR, as Rao is popularly known, also advised leaders [...]
Panchkula/New Delhi, Dec 31 – Disgraced former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore, convicted of molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra, Thursday landed in deep trouble as her brother emerged from the shadows after 16 long years and filed a fresh case accusing the cop of abetting her suicide. The dramatic development, accompanied by brother Ashu’s first meeting [...]
Lucknow, Dec 31 – Uttar Pradesh’s Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) Thursday arrested two men in Mau district with heroin worth Rs.75 lakh, an official said. ‘Pankaj Gaur and Mohammad Fahad were arrested after a brief gunfight in the Mau district,’ Additional Director General of police (Law and Order) Brij Lal told reporters here. Gaur and Fahad [...]
Dubai, Dec 31 – Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Thursday issued a decree specifying the limits on increase in property rent values for the year 2010, WAM news agency reported. The decree aims at ensuring stability of Dubai’s property market and preventing any rental increases that are not based on clearly defined [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 31 – The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) hopes that the credit growth will be between 15 to 20 percent during the current financial year and said the hike in interest rates would depend on the situation. RBI Deputy Governor K.C. Chakrabarty said the central bank would review the interest rates later this [...]
Gandhinagar, Dec 31 – The Gujarat government Thursday issued notice to the Asaram Bapu Ashram in Navsari district in the southern part of the state to immediately vacate the land it had encroached upon in and around the ashram, officials said. According to official sources, the Asaram Ashram was allocated about 10 acres of land [...]
Sydney, Dec 31 – New Year’s Eve revellers flocked to Sydney Harbour Thursday for celebrations featuring a fly-over by 15 vintage aircraft and a flotilla of 55 decorated ships. But the big draw, this year as every year, was the fireworks. The biggest bangs and fiercest flashes came at the stroke of midnight to usher [...]
Kabul, Dec 31 – At least eight villagers were killed and two injured in an airstrike by NATO forces in Helmand province in Afghanistan, officials reported Thursday. A spokesman for the provincial government said a house near the provincial capital Lashkar Gah was hit in the airstrike. The spokesman did not provide further details. On [...]
Seoul, Dec 31 – An India-South Korea trade agreement going into effect Friday would immediately eliminate tariffs on 7,044 goods traded between Asia’s third and fourth-largest economies. South Korea and India signed their comprehensive economic partnership agreement in August after three years of negotiations as Seoul seeks to ink trade deals with the world’s largest [...]
New York, Dec 31 – Former ‘Friends’ star Jennifer Aniston’s activism has been the force behind a new state law in California that restricts the paparazzi. Aniston’s activism was instrumental in the success of Assembly Bill 524, which takes effect from Jan 1, according to Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, who revealed that the actress’ horror [...]
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