London, April 30 – Singer Ricky Martin used his appearance at the Billboard Latin music awards to voice his outrage over a tough new anti-immigration law in Arizona. He fumed over the legislation, which allows cops to question any individual who they suspect is an illegal immigrant on stage at the awards show. The singer [...]
Film: ‘Housefull’; Starring: Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Arjun Rampal, Lara Dutta, Jiah Khan, Riteish Deshmukh; Directed by: Sajid Khan; Rating: *** This is a sly tongue firmly and stubbornly in cheek, slick and chic comedy about a loser, or a panauti – a word that recurs ad nauseum in this glorious gasbag of giggles, winks, [...]
Los Angeles, April 30 – Socialite Paris Hilton has confirmed that she is back with ex-fiance and fashion model Jason Shaw. ‘We’ll see what happens. I love him so much. We’re very close and I’ve known him a very long time,’ she said. The 28-year-old beauty admits she’s nervous about dating new people. ‘It is [...]
Kolkata, April 30 – Days after the Income Tax raid, service tax department sleuths of the West Bengal government Friday swooped down on the Eden Gardens to check papers relating to the alleged financial wrongdoings related to the Indian Premier League. Five service tax officials raided the Cricket Association of Bengal headquarters at the stadium, [...]
London, April 30 – Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez says her relationship with Ben Affleck broke down due to the pressure of being Hollywood’s super couple. The 40-year-old said they felt ‘under siege for two years’ because of their popularity. J-Lo says she still loves Ben but husband Marc Anthony has a ‘different approach to fame’ which [...]
Raipur, April 30 – A district and sessions court awarded life imprisonment to a constable in Chhattisgarh’s Korea district Friday for shooting dead a Maoist leader in judicial custody. Justice T.K. Jha, gave the ruling of life imprisonment for constable Shyamlal Chauhan, who shot dead Ramdhan alias Dhanraj in October 2007 when he was handed [...]
Los Angeles, April 30 – ‘America’s Got Talent’ judge Piers Morgan lashed out at pop singer Madonna’s charity work in Malawi, as he accused some celebrities of treating charity work like ‘a fashion accessory’ ‘I regard anything Madonna does with deep cynicism. There are people out there who literally view charitable work, from what I [...]
Raipur, April 30 – Maoists opened ‘random firing’ Friday night near a camp of the paramilitary Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) at Errabore in Chhattisgarh’s violence-hit Dantewada district, police said. ‘It was just a one or two rounds of random firing from distance in an area in Errabore that has a SSB camp besides a police [...]
Guyana, April 30 – Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara won the toss and elected to bat against New Zealand in the opening match of the World Twenty20 here Friday. Teams: New Zealand: Daniel Vettori (captain), Brendon McCullum, Jesse Ryder, Martin Guptill, Ross Taylor, Scott Styris, Gareth Hopkins (wicket-keeper), Jacob Oram, Nathan McCullum, Shane Bond, Tim [...]
New Delhi, April 30 – Senior Congress leader and party in-charge of West Bengal K. Keshav Rao met Trinamool Congress chief and Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee here Friday to seek seat-sharing ‘adjustment’ between the two parties ahead of next month’s Kolkata civic body elections. ‘I conveyed to her what the party wants. There is need [...]
London, April 30 – Singer Cheryl Cole says she always feels nervous before being photographed and doesn’t enjoy the endless preening that goes on. ‘I don’t tend to enjoy photo shoots, they’re my worst nightmare. I don’t like being pampered all day, you know the fluffing of the hair, the pulling on the dresses and [...]
Shillong, April 30 – Meghalaya Home Minister H.D.R. Lyngdoh Friday said that a police probe has been ordered into the extortion demands of militant outfit, the Garo National Liberation Army, (GNLA) to politicians and businessmen. ‘We have received some information about GNLA sending SMSes to some politicians and businessmen demanding money from them,’ Lyngdoh told [...]
Jaipur, April 30 – The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Rajasthan police has arrested a person with links to some right-wing Hindu groups in connection with the 2007 bomb blast in the Ajmer Dargah Sharif, police said Friday. The ATS said more arrests would be made soon. Three people were killed and at least 30 injured [...]
New Delhi, April 30 – The Delhi University (DU) will pay compensation to the six people affected by the radioactive material sourced to it and found in the scrap market of Mayapuri in west Delhi and give a job to the dependents of the man who died, a varsity official said Friday. Rajendra Prasad’s family [...]
Bhubaneswar, April 30 – Two boys Friday drowned in a river near this Orissa capital, police said. The boys went along with seven others from a city slum to take bath in the river during the hot summer day, Deputy Commissioner of Police H.K. Lal told IANS. Other seven boys were safe, he said.
New Delhi, April 30 – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has called its party leaders from Jharkhand to Delhi Saturday for consultations on forming an alternative government in the state after the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)’s offer to support a BJP-led regime. JMM leader and Chief Minister Shibu Soren’s son Hemant Soren, who has offered [...]
Gandhinagar, April 30 – Chief Minister Narendra Modi Friday announced a bonanza for government employees on the eve of Gujarat’s 50th foundation day. ‘Karmayogis (government employees) will get an increase in the Dearness Allowance (DA) of 8 percent from the existing 27 percent to 35 percent with effect from Jan 1, 2010,’ he announced. The [...]
Hyderabad, April 30 – Gun-totting policemen kept a tight vigil in Hyderabad for the third consecutive day Friday in view of warnings by intelligence agencies of possible terror attacks. P olice also cracked the whip on some shopping malls for poor security measures. Police continued large-scale searches in the city amid warning of possible terror [...]
New Delhi, April 30 – India Friday concluded 104 rounds of an auction to award spectrum for third generation (3G) telecom services in the country, with the provisional winning price for a nationwide licence crossing Rs.9,500-crore mark. At the end of the 18th day of the auction, which began April 9, the provisional winning price [...]
New Delhi, April 30 – A 28-year-old driver has been arrested on charges of stealing his former employer’s car in Feburary this year, police said Friday. Sunil was arrested from Mukarba Chowk of outer Delhi Wednesday. ‘Sunil was angry as his employer scolded him for stealing petrol. He was also fired from the job. He [...]
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