Kangana in Double Dhamaal

The awakening Bollywood added is all set to accomplish a improvement in Reliance Entertainment's and Maruti Internationals Double Dhamaal. The blur sees Kangna Ranaut comedy a appearance aggressive by Jaya Bachchan's role in Sholay.

Says a antecedent from sets, "The quintessential added anatomy Sholay is aback with Kangana in Double Dhamaal. Aggressive by Sholay's iconic widow, played by Jaya Bachchan, the administrator has styled Kangana in a agnate attending for one of the scenes in the film. Instead of cutting accustomed clothes appropriate for the scene, the administrator told the stylists to accord Kangana an old white saree, aloof like the ones widows in old films wore."

Director Indra Kumar says: "It is a bluff a funny arena all in acceptable humour. We are not authoritative fun of or casual aspersing animadversion on Jayaji and Sholay. It's aloof that in beforehand times all widows were stereotyped. They wore white sarees and would alone baker gajar ka halwaand aaloo parathas for their mothers. The accurate scene, with all the added actors, is a bluff area she is in a widow's apparel with basal make-up. In the film, she plays a modern, acute and adult adolescent secretary to Sanjay Dutt."

Deepika Padukone working with Rajinikanth

It is not aloof Deepika Padukone who is aflame about alive with the Superstar for the aboriginal time but additionally the film's art administrator Rajeevan. Administrator KS Ravikumar has roped in accepted art administrator Rajeevan to actualize the sets for Rana and causeless to say Rajeevan is awful excited. The art administrator said that 90% of Rana will be attempt in sets and he cannot delay to actualize some abundant ones. He additionally added that the blur will be set in the 17th aeon and that will accord him a lot of ambit to appearance adroitness but it additionally involves all-embracing research. Rana's cutting took a aerial alpha on the 29th of April at AVM Studios with a pooja and with K Balachandar administering the aboriginal shot. Rana will accept music by AR Rahman and the music administrator will be basic 6 tracks. Ganja Karuppu will booty affliction of the ball allocation and assignment is activity on to agree two added heroines who will brace up with Rajinikanth.

Ajith fans' request

Ajith admirers are a abashed lot anytime back the brilliant appear that he is disbanding all the fans’ associations that are operating beneath his name. The admirers from all over the accompaniment are planning to accommodated in Chennai and actuate Ajith from reconsidering his decision.

The admirers accept said that they accept never defied their star’s wishes and accept consistently abided by his commands. They feel it is arbitrary that their affiliation is actuality disbanded at a time back they are complex in a cardinal of amusing account activities. Will Ajith amend his accommodation and acquiesce his admirers to abide with the association?

bipasha basu latest News

Time and afresh our Bollywood celebrities accept belief to tell. As an aftereffect of her cutting assignment for 'Dum Maaro Dum' in Goa, Bipasha Basu too has one such news to tell. Apparently during one of her alfresco schedules for the film, she came beyond an Indian who was acutely absorbed in arresting a chat with her. Though Bipasha kept her ambit from the man as she is acclimated to bodies blind out on the sets of her film, the man insisted that he sees her for a abbreviate while at the least. On actuality continously pursuaded Bipasha did accede to say 'hello', alone to realise that the man was absolutely a Russian. "Can you accept it? This guy looked as Indian as you and me but couldn't say a distinct chat in Hindi. All he was accomplishing was bang bottomward a few things in Russian. So you know, you can never be too abiding of what's activity to appear your way in Goa," smiles Bipasha. She goes on to elaborate, "I accept empiric how Russians, Africans and absolutely a few Europeans accept absolutely fabricated Goa as their home. They accept their own lives and lifestyle. Absolutely a lot of hippie activities go about with these people. Also, back they amalgamate with anniversary added a lot, it additionally after-effects in babies with altered nationalities. It isn't aloof the Indians now who are the locals there. I assumption Goa is appealing abundant a all-around village." Rest assured Bipasha you won't be absorbed such a apple as continued as you get pleasure a fan-base amidst European nationals as well.

Leela may partner with Mukesh Ambani

New Delhi, Apr 18 (PTI) The accommodation alternation Leela Group Chairman C P Krishnan Nair, who is set to retire from alive administration this June, today said he will accede partnering Mukesh Ambani if there are adverse takeover threats from battling ITC. "If at all, there is a blackmail from ITC, Mukesh is available...If at any point of time I appetite (a partner), Mukesh will be my ideal partner," Nair said. He was responding to a concern if the Leela Group was afflictive with ITC gradually accretion pale in his firm. ITC has been boring accretion its pale in Hotel Leelaventure Ltd. As of the division concluded December 2010, ITC and its advance arm Russell Credit Ltd calm authority 11.7 per cent pale in the company. Nair said that while the Leela Group did not apprehend ITC to accomplish any attack for a adverse bid, "you never apperceive in the accumulated relationships". In such a scenario, accompany will appear to help, he said, highlighting the claimed accord that the apostle Nair ancestors has with chief Ambani. Mukesh Ambani''s Reliance Industries had aftermost year best up 14.80 per cent pale in EIH Ltd that runs the Oberoi and Trident brands of hotels and resorts. On his assumption plans, Nair---the 90-year-old accommodation veteran--- said he will be backward from alive administration by June and his sons Vivek and Dinesh will be elevated. "My son Vivek will booty over as the Chairman and I will become the Chairman Emeritus. The adolescent son Dinesh will be the Managing Director. This will be put up for shareholders'' approval at the Annual General Meeting of the aggregation to be captivated in June," he said. At present, Vivek Nair is the Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, while Dinesh Nair is the Joint Managing Director of the company. The Nair ancestors will calm abide to run Leela and alike the third bearing will accompany the business, he added. "I accept already put my will in place. The ancestors will abide to run the business together. My sons will accept according pale in the aggregation and if at all, any one of them wants to exit, again the aboriginal appropriate to shop for the pale will be with the other," he said. Nair additionally said that his grandchildren were already complex in the business and they would be animated to the akin of Executive Directors back the change of bouncer takes abode in June this year.

Rapidly rising property prices have fuelled discontent in many cities in China

China's property price growth slowed in March, as fewer Chinese cities saw an increase in the price of new homes. Prices of newly-built homes in 49 out of 70 cities rose in March from the previous month, according to a survey by the National Bureau of Statistics.

That is down from 56 cities in February.

The Chinese government has been implementing tightening measures as the country continues to battle high inflation in property and food prices.

Decreasing prices

House prices in 67 cities rose in March from a year earlier. That is compared to 68 cities in both January and February, according to data released on Monday.

House prices in the capital Beijing rose 4.9% in March from the previous year, slowing from a 6.8% increase in February.

In Shanghai, prices climbed 1.7% last month, again easing from the 2.3% increase in February.

The city of Sanya, on Hainan island, saw declines in house prices.

At the beginning of this year, China's National Bureau of Statistics announced it would release data on housing prices in individual cities instead of an average for the country.

Property tax

The government has been taking steps to try and rein in property prices.

In January, it implemented a property tax on residences in Shanghai and Chongqing after prices sky-rocketed in 2010.

It has also raised the minimum down payment for second-home buyers to try and crack down on speculative buying.

US cinema goers army to Rio film

Animated ancestors ball Rio has topped the North American box appointment according to antecedent figures.

The blur about a birdnapped macaw, which appearance the choir of Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway, took $40m (£24.6m) in its aboriginal three days.

It was the best aperture weekend balance so far this year, assault addition activated comedy, Rango, by $2m (£1.2m).

Horror aftereffect Scream 4 - the aboriginal blur in the authorization for 11 years - entered the blueprint at two with $19.3m (£11.9m).

Chose the right course and right college

“I spent one year accomplishing engineering and ped out, because my absorption was Physics,” says Senior Advocate and arch accessible absorption advocate Prashant Bhushan, who assuredly acclimatized for law. But actual few acceptance accept the affluence of time to change advance mid way. So it is acute that one identifies the appropriate advance the aboriginal time. Here are some pointers on how to go about. Course Vs College: A academy apprenticeship is not alone about studies, but additionally about the opportunities one gets, the associate accumulation one interacts with and activity continued friendships one can form. “Old boy arrangement is animate and kicking,” says S.Rajaram, a media able and above apprentice of Maharaja’s college, Ernakulum. So irrespective of the abode one studies, belief in a accounted academy consistently helps. Between a academy and a course, abnormally in non-professional programmes the academy wins easily down. But do not get into any course, aloof for the account of entering a college. For some one who hates numbers, accomplishing Mathematics alike from Delhi’s anointed St. Stephens would not help, because he or she will not get pleasure the course. So as far as accessible abstraction what you like and what your capabilities acquiesce you. Says Prof. Sanjay Srivastava, a PhD in Psychology and Dy. Director General of Amity Business school, “When it comes to alternative of a course, it is important to accept what one dislikes and not to do that.”. Rest would, of course, abatement in line, back absorption and passions change over time. Passion is an abused word: Narayana Murthy was a amorous Marxist and capital to be a politician. But affection is a brief abnormality according to Murthy, who eventually went on to become the ancestor amount of Indiancomputer application industry. So unless one is actually sure, or one has the accustomed ability or aptitude for sports or music, pay added absorption to opportunities that are aperture up and accept a advance that would advice you realise them. For example, communication-related options are affluence now. So, according to Career Counsellor Arun Sarma, courses like English Literature, Journalism and Mass Media are accepting currency. But Dr. Dheeraj Sanghi, an architect, warns that absorption affairs back it comes to able courses. One who is not acceptable at tinkering with abstracts shouldn’t opt for automated engineering. Sciences are not superior: Prof. Deepak Kumar, a assistant of apprenticeship at JNU, says, “What is important is to aspire for arete in any area you accept to study. No accountable is around more good than the other.” Data on the added duke is in favour of sciences. A contempo abstraction appear in the annual US News says that science graduates out-earn abstract by a agency of two. But Abstract too action a lot of options, abnormally in fields like communications, administering and administration. Interest does matter: Shirali Tyabji, who afresh accelerating from Shristi Academy of Design, on the added hand, says interests do comedy a role and charge not be ignored. This is accurate about courses which appeal a atom of talent, like design, arts, music, blur authoritative etc. Unless one has a ability for these domains do not adventure into these fields. But back it comes to Sociology and Economics or English Literature and journalism, one charge not be too attenuated and a alternative based on a aggregate of abeyant opportunities and interests charge do the trick.

Ajith Voting

Vijay and his admirers accept appear out into the accessible and about declared their abutment for the AIADMK. They accept alike criticized some of the behavior of the DMK. Ajith admirers are artlessly addled by this about-face of contest as they appetite their idol to additionally access politics. However, Ajith has and still charcoal non-committal in this affair and has fabricated it bright that he will never about-face out to be a politician. Since their hero is adjoin abutting politics, his fan club accept gone advanced and fabricated their own choice. The commune secretary of the Ajith fan club in Kanchipuram, Red Durai met the DMK abbot Anbarasan and promised their support. Ajith is yet to acknowledge to this aberration in the tale.

Jackson Committed Suicide Over Finances

The attorneys of Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's doctor, accept appear that the backward King of Pop ability accept committed suicide over his banking woes.

Defence advocate Ed Chernoff said his client, who is answerable with automatic manslaughter, was not amenable for the pop superstar's afterlife in 2009.

He claimed that Jackson was so agitated about the accompaniment of his diplomacy he took his own life, letters contactmusic.com.

'The body of the defence is activity to be that Michael Jackson affianced in a atrocious act and took atrocious measures that acquired his death. We accept at the time Michael Jackson died he was a atrocious man in affiliation to his banking affairs,' Chernoff told Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor.

However, Deputy District Attorney David Walgren has against the claims, adage the defence is artlessly staging 'an extraneous sideshow' aimed at confusing the board from the key affair of the trial.

Man kills wife shows Her Body On Webcam

A man who deadened his abundant wife and showed her comatose anatomy to his ancestor in Romania application a webcam has been arrested here, authorities said.

The adventure occurred Monday in the Madrid suburb of Torrejon de Ardoz and the arrest was facilitated by Romanian police.

The analgesic from Romania, articular alone as D.M., deadened his wife, additionally Romanian, Madrid badge administrator Emilio Alcazar told a columnist appointment Tuesday.

The 19-year-old victim allegedly told her bedmate that she advised to breach off their accord and said that the adolescent she was assured was not his.

After beheading her, the man contacted his ancestor in Romania by Internet and application a webcam showed him his wife's body.

He additionally told his ancestor that back his wife's 13-year-old sister got home, he was activity to annihilate her too.

It was D.M.'s ancestor who alerted Romanian badge to the homicide, and they in about-face notified the Spanish police.

Spanish badge admiral went to the couple's home and afterwards they rang several times, D.M. opened the door. Inside they begin the woman's anatomy on the bed and the victim's sister, who had aloof alternate home and was unhurt.

When she got home the adolescent babe allegedly asked area her sister was and D.M. told her that she was asleep.

The doubtable fabricated no attrition back he was arrested, but has so far beneath to accord a statement.

The victim's sister, for her part, has gone to alive with her mother, who additionally lives in Spain.

This afterlife brings to 17 the cardinal of women murdered in incidents of calm abandon in Spain to date in 2011.

Sathya Sai Baba's Condition Critical

Spiritual baton Sathya Sai Baba's action Tuesday remained analytical as hundreds of his afraid admirers connected to cascade in from altered genitalia of Andhra Pradesh and added states.

Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, area Sai Baba is beneath analysis back March 28, has been kept out of bound for admirers as the badge imposed ban orders in the crude boondocks to accouterment any eventuality.

Sources abutting to the Sathya Sai Trust said Tuesday that Sai Baba's action connected to be critical.

Tension absorbed the boondocks back Monday black back for the aboriginal time doctors accessory on him accepted that he was analytical as his basic systems are not abundantly responding.

As the agitated army of admirers approved to barge into the hospital and attacked cartage of some chief officials, the hospital issued a account backward in the night to allay them.

Hospital administrator A.N. Safaya said admitting Sai Baba's action is critical, they were application every accessible medical action and there is no account for anxiety. He appealed to the admirers to adjure for his accretion and not try to access the hospital.

As the account of Sai Baba's analytical action advance like agrarian fire, his admirers began acquisition alfresco the hospital.

'There is no bright advice about the action of Bhagwan (god). We appetite to see him,' said an agitated devotee.

The badge deployed armament alfresco the hospital as admirers from alfresco started accession aftermost night.

The angered admirers benumbed the car of Anantapur commune beneficiary Janardhan Reddy.

Anticipating added trouble, a badge official appear over the accessible abode arrangement that Sai Baba is abiding and there is no charge for any anxiety.

He additionally quoted Sai Baba's nephew Sharavan to say that Sai Baba opened his eyes and confused his fingers back he went central to blow his feet.

The 85-year-old airy baton was accepted to the hospital March 28 with pneumonia and breath problems. The doctors additionally built-in a pacemaker to adapt his heartbeat.

For the aftermost three days, he is on chase abutment for allowance his respiration and assimilation of the secretions from the lungs and additionally on CRRT (continuous renal backup therapy) arrangement to advice the activity of the kidneys.

Sathya Sai Baba, whose absolute name is Sathyanarayana Raju, had claimed in 1940 that he was an 'avatar' (incarnation) of god.

He became acclaimed with his miracles but for the aftermost two decades he had been absorption on amusing and accommodating work.

12th IIFA Nominations Announced

The IIFA 2011 nominations were appear with blur favourites – ‘Dabangg’, ‘Rajneeti’, ‘My Name is Khan’, ‘Band Baajaa Baraat’ and ‘Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai’.

The All-embracing Indian Blur Academy (IIFA) will bless the 12th Videocon IIFA Weekend and the Micromax IIFA Awards in Toronto, Ontario, Canada this year. The three day Weekend will be captivated from June 23rd-25th, 2011.

Supporting the Weekend and Awards at the appointment Longtime IIFA supporter, Indian Cinema cool star, Hrithik Roshan addressed the media saying, “As consistently it is a abundant honour for me to appear to IIFA and accompany in the carousal with the blow of the fraternity. Having witnessed so abounding IIFA’s, I see IIFA Toronto as a battleground for the Wizcraft aggregation and our fraternity, acknowledging the ability of Indian Cinema, and I could not be added captivated to represent this abundant industry and accommodated the admirers in Canada. Let the celebrations begin.”

After the success of the Micromax IIFA Awards in Colombo, Riteish Deshmukh and Boman Irani will already afresh comedy hosts at the Awards in Toronto. This will be Boman’s fifth time at the Awards, while acceptable acquaintance and fellow-actor Riteish will co-host for the fourth time. Talking of the 12th Awards and his hosting stint, Boman Irani said, “I am honoured to host the Awards for the fifth time this year. It is consistently admirable to be a allotment of this beyond than activity accident and hosting is an appointment that I attending advanced to anniversary year.”

The nominations were appear as a aftereffect of the industry voting for the Micromax IIFA Awards at the IIFA Voting Weekend 2011 captivated in March. Results of the industry voting were audited by PriceWaterhouse Coopers, the auditing close for the IIFA’s and the Oscars. The online voting for the Awards will go alive on the 15th of April, 2011 and will be accessible to audiences of Indian Cinema, beyond the world.

The Videocon IIFA Weekend, Toronto will be a alternative of mega contest that spotlights all-around absorption on Indian cinema. The Weekend includes the high-profile IIFA Apple Premiere, the FICCI-IIFA All-around Business Forum, IIFA Rocks, the aboriginal attending of a cardinal of Indian films, the IIFA Blur Workshop and the amazing Micromax IIFA Awards.

The Videocon IIFA Weekend is the better South Asian anniversary accident and the Micromax IIFA Awards is amid the most-watched all-around events, annually.

“IIFA is admiring to bless its 12th year in Toronto and feels it is Indian Cinema’s aperture to North America. This year’s celebrations will accept over 800 assembly from India, including the creme de la creme of Indian cinema and the all-embracing media. A third of the departer citizenry in Toronto comprises South Asians and we intend to accompany a aftertaste of home and accurate abracadabra to them.” said Wiz Sabbas Joseph, Director - Wizcraft All-embracing Entertainment.

Videocon will sponsor the IIFA Weekend, while Micromax will sponsor the IIFA Awards for the additional time. Rotomac Pens is the Associate Sponsor of the IIFA Weekend 2011, while Air India will accomplice with IIFA as the Official Airlines Partner.

President Felicitates Team India

Mumbai, April 3 (IANS) President Pratibha Patil Sunday black met the World Cup acceptable Indian candid aggregation at the Raj Bhavan actuality and congratulated them on their victory.

Patil and her bedmate Devisingh Shekhawat befuddled easily with anniversary Indian player, starting with skipper M.S. Dhoni.

Present on the break were Maharashtra Governor K. Shankaranarayan, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, abutment ministers Sharad Pawar and Vilasrao Deshmukh and others.

Many Mumbai industrialists including Mukesh Ambani, Adi Godrej, R.P. Goenka and Kumaramangalam Birla were additionally amid the invitees.

Katrina To Step In To South Screens

Yeah, that’s the hot fizz that’s activity in circles…. While we accept apparent our beauties aerial bottomward south, best recent speculations are that London’s amazing gori Katrina Kaif will anon adroitness the Tamil screens.

According to our sources, the extra is actuality advised for a mega account activity which will accept Vikram in advance – the south amateur who played Aishwarya Rai’s bedmate in ‘Raavan’. Titled ‘Karikalan’, the blur is accustomed to appearance some abracadabra on awning in agreement of beheld effects. The blur will be helmed by Kannan who is abaft the computer cartoon in best of Shankar’s films.

Now if this works out again this will be Katrina’s aboriginal booty in Tamil, and she would be administration the awning amplitude with such a accomplished amateur like Vikram.

Now Pay Your Income Tax Through ATMs

Now, annual holders of the state-run Union Coffer of India can pay their assets tax through the bank's arrangement of 2,600 ATMs.

'Implementation of assets tax acquittal on ATMs will go a continued way in accouterment easier tax administering for both government and tax payers,' Abbot of State for Accounts Namo Narain Meena said afterwards ablution the ability actuality Thursday.

He said government was committed to leveraging beforehand technology to accompany greater accuracy and accountability in administration cyberbanking resources.

With bulk cyberbanking technology enabling anywhere annex cyberbanking beyond the country, it has become accessible to ensure absolute time alteration of funds and adviser their appliance on an advancing basis, the abbot said.

Currently Union Coffer has a arrangement of 2,600 ATMs and a agenda abject of 6.5 million.

The coffer is extending a array of online tax acquittal services, including absolute taxes, axial excise, annual tax and customs.

Customers with Union Coffer debit agenda acquisitive of availing the ability accept to annals already their capacity on the bank's web portal. The abiding annual cardinal (PAN) and tax answer annual numbers (TAN) are accurate by the website application the NSDL site.

'When barter log in to the ATM and baddest the Assets Tax menu, it will affectation the PAN cardinal and will ask them to ascribe the Assets tax bulk with apprenticeship cess, annual astute capacity of any added bulk they appetite to accommodate in the tax payment,' the accounts admiral said in a statement.

'On confirmation, the tax bulk will be debited from their annual and the chump will be issued cancellation absolute Challan Identification Number,' it said.

The coffer has one focal point annex for all cyberbanking absolute tax payments. Payments of assets tax are affiliated at a focal point annex and remitted to the government.

India's Population Now Stands At 1.21 Billion

India's citizenry is now called at 1.21 billion, an access of added than 181 actor in the aftermost 10 years, according to the conditional 2011 Census address appear today.

The citizenry absolute 623.7 actor males and 586.5 actor females is about according to the accumulated citizenry of the United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Japan put together.

The citizenry has added by added than 181 actor during the decade 2001-2011, the address said. The advance amount in 2011 is 17.64 per cent in allegory to 21.15 per cent in 2001.

The 2001-2011 aeon is the aboriginal decade -- with barring of 1911-1921 -- which has absolutely added bottom citizenry compared to the antecedent decade, Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner of India C Chandramauli said in attendance of Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai.

Among the states and Union territories, Uttar Pradesh is the best crawling accompaniment with 199 actor bodies and Lakshadweep the atomic busy at 64,429.

The accumulated citizenry of UP and Maharashtra is bigger than that of the US.

The accomplished citizenry body is in Delhi's north-east commune (37,346 per sq km) while the everyman is in Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh (just one per sq km).

Child sex arrangement in 2011 is 914 changeable adjoin 1,000 male--the everyman back Independence.

According to the data, literates aggregate 74 per cent of the absolute citizenry age-old seven and aloft and illiterates anatomy 26 per cent.

The articulacy amount has gone up from 64.83 per cent in 2001 to 74.04 per cent in 2011 assuming an access of 9.21 per cent.

Saifeena "Agent Vinod" Climax In Delhi

Saif Kareena continued accessible band dhamaka ‘Agent Vinod’ is accepting its acme attempt in Delhi. Produced by Saif Ali Khan’s Illuminati films, the assembly aggregation has roped in one of the better activity admiral of all time to architecture and assassinate the acme scene.

Adds a abutting duke from Delhi, “The burghal is abuzz with account that the casting and aggregation of Agent Vinod are cutting actuality - the bureaucracy is beyond than activity and seems to accept anybody excited.”

Directed by Sriram Raghavan, the blur is a news of a spy.

‘Agent Vinod’ is accepted to absolution on 9 December, 2011.

India's Tiger Count Rises To 1,706

There are 1,706 tigers in India today - 295 added than in the aftermost calculation in 2006 - says the most recent tiger demography appear Monday.

The demography was appear at the March 28-30 All-embracing Tiger Appointment hosted by Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh.

The demography indicates that the Shivalik Gangetic plains has 353 tigers, axial India and Eastern Ghats accept 601 tigers, Western Ghats 534, the northeast hills and Brahmaputra floodplains 148 and the Sunderbans 70.

The appointment is a aftereffect to the St. Petersburg accommodated captivated aftermost year in Russia. It will altercate challenges, affairs and priorities for implementing the Global Tiger Recovery Programme (GTRP), which aims to bifold the agrarian tiger citizenry by 2022.

It is actuality organised in accord with the Global Tiger Forum (GTF), an inter-governmental anatomy that additionally has associates of the civic and all-embracing NGOs and the World Bank's Global Tiger Initiative (GTI).

Besides the demography report, a blur on India's 30 years back the barrage of Project Tiger will be appear at the conference.

The aftermost demography in 2006 had apparent a aciculate abatement in tiger population, at 1,411 tigers in the wild. India was home to about 3,000 tigers about two decades ago.

Katrina, Priyanka To Share Screen

Yeah, that’s the hottest account which is authoritative circuit in the industry. And our birdies alike begin out what cine it is….. Just apprehend on…

Katrina Kaif and Priyanka Chopra, the accepted awning queens, are declared to be calm in Hrithik Roshan’s best speculated activity – ‘Krrish 3’! Already the account was out that Priyanka will be the capital advance in the film. Now birdies heard that a fresh role has been accounting in for addition extra in the superhero aftereffect that is best apparently Katrina.

It is rumoured that Hrithik who formed with Katrina in Zoya Akhtar's ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’ had endless of fun together. And so he is because her to accompany ‘Krrish 3’…. But annihilation is accepted from any of the anxious parties.

Speculations were abounding that both PC and Kat had beforehand approved alienated actuality casting in aforementioned projects. But now looks like Krrish’s aftereffect is activity to be adamantine for them to resist…..

Earth Quake Kills 74 In Burma

A magnitude-6.8 convulsion dead at atomic 74 bodies in northeast Myanmar and one in Thailand, admiral said Friday.

About 74 bodies died and 111 were afflicted in Tarli and Tachilek towns, abreast the Myanmar-Thai bound in Myanmar's Shan state, and destroyed 244 houses, nine government offices and 14 Buddhist monasteries, government-run Myanmar television reported.

The epicentre of the convulsion was about 50 km arctic of Tachilek, a bound boondocks 680 km arctic of Bangkok.

Myanmar Minister for Social Welfare, Abatement and Resettlement Maung Maung Shwe was reportedly en avenue to the quake-hit breadth for an appraisal tour.

The Myanmar Red Cross and Crescent Society has accomplished 1,000 abatement bales to the area, but admission to the arena is difficult.

'It takes about four canicule to ability the afflicted breadth by car from Yangon and there are flights alert a anniversary into Tachilek's airport,' aid accumulation Medecins Sans Frontieres said in a statement.

There were no letters on casualties in Yangon and Naypyitaw, Myanmar's above and accepted capitals, respectively.

The convulsion addled at 8.25 p.m. (1355 GMT) Thursday, with its epicentre in northeast Myanmar, 589 km northeast of Yangon, and 772 km arctic of Bangkok, according to the US Geological Survey.

In Chiang Rai, Thailand, Hong Khamping, 55, died back a accurate bank in her home burst on top of her. The bank was ailing constructed, Thai admiral said.

'There were no added deaths or injuries in arctic Thailand,' said Chiatha Mositrat, arch of the Chiang Rai Disaster Prevention Office.

Tourists in Chiang Rai, including associates of the Syrian triathlon team, abandoned their auberge apartment for several hours.

Rishi Kapoor Has Always Been An Inspiration, Says Hrithik

Bollywood hunk Hrithik Roshan who gets into the shoes of the iconic appearance Vijay Dinanath Chauhan in the accommodate of 'Agneepath' is alive with Rishi Kapoor for the aboriginal time. Calling him a antecedent of inspiration, Roshan praises the adept actor's activity and fettle at this age.

Besides the affecting scenes, the two actors accept additionally done some activity scenes calm in the blur directed by Karan Johar.

'Chintu uncle (Rishi Kapoor) has consistently been a antecedent of afflatus for me, not aloof me but I anticipate every Indian amateur has about approved to challenge the amphitheater of activity that is Rishi Kapoor. And he continues to inspire,' Roshan Jr said in a statement.

'I was afraid at his akin of backbone and fettle while cutting the activity sequence. He took some bad falls, was bruized n aching but aloof kept going!'

The iconic appearance was played by megastar Amitabh Bachchan in the aboriginal adaptation of the film, directed by Mukul Anand.

The blur couldn't accomplish it at the box-office but it brought Bachchan his aboriginal National Award.

Laptops For All DMK's New Poll Bait

DMK admiral and Tamil Nadu Arch Abbot M. Karunanidhi Wednesday promised chargeless laptops to all the first-year acceptance of government-owned and government-aided able colleges in the accompaniment irrespective of their caste.

He additionally bargain the accommodation age of arch citizens for chargeless bus passes to 58 years from the beforehand promised 60 years.

Kick-starting his acclamation attack from his home boondocks and his constituency Tiruvarur, about 300 km from here, for the April 13 poll, Karunanidhi said: 'Acceding to the appeal of allies and others I accept absitively to swear chargeless laptops to all the aboriginal year acceptance irrespective of their caste.'

The 86-year-old arch abbot is acceptable to book his choice Thursday. Karunanidhi is aiming for the arch minister's column for the sixth time and is in the affray to become a administrator for the 12th time.

The DMK affair had beforehand promised chargeless laptops to aboriginal year acceptance acceptance to the astern classes, the best astern classes and Dalits.

With the retirement age anchored at 58 years, he said the chargeless bus canyon arrangement will be offered to all those citizens who attain that age. The DMK beforehand promised chargeless bus passes to those age-old 60 years and above.

Referring to the attendance of kangaroo courts in the state, Karunanidhi, who additionally holds the badge portfolio, appear that an adapted law would be anesthetized to put an end to this annoyance already the DMK is re-elected.

Referring to his accommodation to challenge from Tiruvarur, he said it was to blackout those who asked him to prove his backbone in his home town.

Citing leaders of accord parties who said that he would become the arch abbot for sixth time, Karunanidhi appealed to the Tiruvarur voters to advice him accomplish that target.

He said he capital to challenge in the Tiruvarur constituency continued aback but was not able to do so as it was a aloof seat.

He said the DMK government implemented several schemes that were not mentioned in its 2006 poll acclamation and cited the Kalaignar Apartment Arrangement - about-face of thatched houses into accurate roof abode at an outlay of Rs.75,000.

In the 2011 poll manifesto, the DMK has promised to access the sum beneath the apartment arrangement to Rs.100,000.

Referring to the DMK-led front, Karunanidhi said the accord was formed to accomplish the ethics and goals for which anniversary one of the advanced basic strived for.

The DMK battling in 119 constituencies has sewed up alliances for the actual 115 seats with the Congress (63), the PMK (30), the KMK (7), the MMK (1), the VCK (10), the IUML (3) and a Nadar accouterments (1).

Leaders of all the accord parties batten above-mentioned to him at the meeting.

Election to the 234-member accumulation will be captivated April 13. The aftereffect will be out May 13.

Aamir The ‘Maharashtrian of the Year’

The Perfectionist of B-town had added yet addition calamus to his cap…

Aamir Khan was honoured with the ‘Maharashtrian of the Year’ accolade forth with Maharashtra Home Abbot R.R.Patil, at a action captivated recently. The accolade was instituted by arch Marathi circadian Lokmat.

While Aamir accustomed the accolade in the ball category, Patil accustomed it in the backroom category.

The accident was additionally graced by Union Sports Abbot Ajay Maken, accompaniment apprenticeship abbot Rajendra Darda, actors Jackie Shroff and Jeetendra and baron Gautam Singhania.

Others who accustomed the accolade on the break accommodate Kalpana Joshi, Sanjay Gaikwad (industry), Bhagwan Rampure (arts), Kavita Raut (sports), Dr Ravindra Kolhe and Smita Kolhe (social service, science and technology).

The board associates included above High Court adjudicator B.N.Deshmukh, Dr Raghunath Mashelkar, Anna Hazare, Lila Poonawala, Gulzar, Rajdeep Sardesai and Dilip Vengsarkar.

Speaking on the occasion, Maharashtra Chief Abbot Prithviraj Chavan said, “Democratic systems and chargeless media are accurate strengths of the state”.

Delivering the acceptable speech, Lokmat administrator and Rajya Sabha MP, Vijay Darda, accurate apropos about malnutrition, apathetic automated advance rate, and farmers’ suicide amid added aspects afflictive society.

The accident additionally apparent a amusing account area Sanjeev Gupta of the arch alfresco branding bureau Global Advertisers donated a sum for an adivasi (tribal) association clinic, earning acclaim from the audience.

Double misery for car makers

Faced with surging raw actual costs, Indian car-makers now face three added austere challenges, including a curtailment of key components, which could appulse their achievement this year.

While they could canyon on the accountability of added ascribe costs to customers, a curtailment of components, circuitous by the March 11 tsunami and convulse in Japan and the Reserve Bank''s most recent amount backpack -- which could affect car costs -- accept fabricated them afraid over their affairs in the short-to-medium term.

"Yes, the industry is adverse problems, but we are demography it as a big challenge. We anticipate this is a casual appearance -- we see ablaze at the end of tunnel," General Motors India Vice-President P Balendran told PTI here.

A curtailment of analytical components, abounding of them sourced from Japan area abounding auto facilities, besides others, accept been damaged by the able convulse and tsunami, has fabricated the activity boxy for the industry, which is acceptable to acquisition it difficult to accommodated its sales targets, he said.

"Frankly, it is difficult to accommodated beforehand projected (sales) amount this time. A curtailment of components, including tyres, casting and steel, has fabricated things difficult," he said.

The backpack in key ante by the Reserve Bank, which is accepted to advance up absorption ante on auto loans, could avert abeyant buyers, Balendran said.

The General Motors controlling said, "It is difficult to adumbrate a timeline for the problems to be resolved." Home-grown auto above Mahindra & Mahindra is assured of the abiding abeyant of the industry, but feels the area is acceptable to be balked by the Japan crisis and RBI amount backpack in the short-term. .

Wipro's CEO Gets Rs 10cr Salary Package

T K Kurien, the fresh arch of the IT business and CEO of Wipro, will get an anniversary bacon amalgamation of up to Rs 10 crore .

As per the acceding of arrangement of Kurien, bacon is in the ambit of minimum of Rs 3 crore to a best of Rs 10 crore a year, Wipro said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.

This would accommodate alternate increments, capricious pay (based on achievement criteria), leave biking allowance, abode hire allowance, aggregation provided car and driver, appliance and accessories and provident armamentarium amid others.

Kurien''s is one of the accomplished bacon bales in the IT industry.

According to TCS'' Anniversary Address 2009-10, aggregation CEO and Managing Director S Ramadorai accustomed Rs 3.61 crore in salary, allowances and allowances and agency for the aeon amid April 1, 2009 and October 5, 2009.

Infosys CEO and MD S Gopalakrishnan accustomed Rs 1.01 crore during the budgetary 2009-10, says the company''s anniversary report.

Kurien will get 12 months bacon as severance allowances in case his casework are terminated. This account will be affected on the base on the aftermost fatigued bacon afore the termination.

"If the aggregation terminates the agreement, the aggregation will acquaint the aforementioned in autograph to the CEO and the CEO will be acceptable for severance allowances as follows: 12 months aftermost fatigued salary," the filing said.

Salary for this purpose includes basal pay, allowances and allowances and capricious pay, it added.

In January this year, Wipro appointed Kurien to advance Wipro''s IT business afterwards burglary collective CEOs -- Girish Paranjpe and Suresh Vaswani and dismantling the collective CEO system.

While allotment Kurien as the fresh CEO, Wipro Chairman Azim Premji said the aggregation was activity aback to the distinct CEO anatomy as it capital a bacteria and added able firm. PTI SR SKB

Companies Hike Salary by 40%

With circadian active axis costlier, companies accept aloft salaries to as aerial as 40 per cent abnormally at the inferior levels, say experts.In contempo times, aggrandizement has been at aerial levels due to aerial prices of capital commodities.

"Inflation has afflicted the bacon hikes appear the college side," controlling chase close GlobalHunt's administrator Sunil Goel told PTI.

"As aggrandizement has aloft amount of living, so absolute appulse is arresting added at inferior and access akin area companies accept added salaries up to 30-40 per cent," he said.

Last month, aggrandizement climbed to 8.31 per cent as compared to 8.23 per cent in January. Food aggrandizement stood at 9.42 per cent in the anniversary concluded March 5.

As such abrasion ante forth with aggrandizement had prompted companies to enhance the all-embracing basal bacon structures to "15-20 per cent at all the application levels", Gi Staffing Services' Branch Head (Mumbai) Swapnil Jain said.

India is accepted to see one of the accomplished bacon hikes this year at 12.9 per cent, according to all-around HR consultancy Aon Hewitt. Aftermost year, absolute access was about 11.7 per cent.

"Inflation decreases the ability to save; accordingly the organisations try and bout up to the bacon bales of the advisers to the aforementioned extent," Elixir Web Solutions' HR Manager Geeta Verma said.

Elixir is a arch application action outsourcing firm. "The backpack in aggrandizement ante has enabled organisations to accommodate aggressive salaries so that arrangement of expenses/savings charcoal commensurable to the accretion levels of inflation," Verma noted.

Aon Hewitt has projected salaries of general/entry akin agents to be 12.7 per cent in 2011 as compared to 11.4 per cent aftermost year. It had acicular out the acceleration could be attributed to aerial about-face (attrition) ante and aerial aggrandizement rates.

However, experts feel that aggrandizement has not pushed salaries to college levels in companies beyond the lath back some entities additionally attending at pay adequation for their employees.

Bangkok Beautiful For Asin And Zarine

Recently Zarine Khan fabricated a adornment in Salman Khan's 'Ready'. For her baby appearance, she had to biking to Bangkok area she was alien to Asin, the arch adult of the film. However the chat amid Asin and Zarine was not aloof belted to 'hi' and a 'hello' on the sets but additionally above the cutting hours.

Informs a chief aggregation member, "Since Asin is absolutely accustomed with Bangkok, she took Zarine to some of the best arcade malls and absolute aliment destinations. For Zarine too it angry out to be a mini-holiday of sorts as she opened up anon enough. Asin too understands that for a one blur old babe like Zarine, it can get awkward to acclimatize herself to a assemblage which has been calm for added than bisected a year."

None of the two women admitting are authoritative a big accord about it and affirmation that gone are the canicule back arch ladies got afraid about disconnected absorption during the authoritative of a film.

When asked to detail her affair with Zarine, all that Asin was accommodating to animadversion was, "For me it is a being who affairs and not his/her profession. It doesn't amount if she was an extra or a ancestors friend. Zarine was a bedfellow for all of us out there and I advised her as any host would do to her guest."

Salman's Share In Ready

Salman Khan is axis a 'partner' again, admitting of a altered affectionate for his abutting absolution READY. He is now in a accumulation administration accord with Bhushan Kumar who is bearing the film. This is in assiduity to the advancing trend area top superstars get into a affiliation approach for the blur (hence arch to accident actuality distributed) instead of demography a fat pay analysis home.

Informs a barter insider, "When READY was launched, it had a huge account allocated to it. (Salman) Bhai was additionally active at a actual aerial amount and the producers didn't accept any averseness as the bazaar was dispatch up with revenues accepted in the ambit of the 125-150 crores. Admitting abounding were afraid if such accretion would be a achievability in today's clashing market, the makers still went ahead."

However, 2010 saw the better of multi crore extravaganzas falling collapsed at the box appointment with KITES, RAAVAN and GUZAARISH actuality the better causalities. All of this led to a rethinking and quick activity was taken to ascendancy the spending on READY. Correction in the industry additionally meant that there was allowance for renegotiation. This is back a fresh plan was chalked out for Salman and the amateur taken on board.

Confirms Bhushan who is aboveboard abundant to accept that a account abridgement was a audible charge of the bearings for READY to advance any further, "Yes, Salman and I did accept a heart-to-heart babble about this. He too has been in business for continued and understands how the dynamics work. We restructured the absolute accord and he was blessed with the proposal. The administration blueprint works for all involved."

The ambassador maintains admitting that there is no accommodation on the film's affection and the account would still blow about 55-60 crores. "To balance that affectionate of spending is still appealing abundant possible. With DABANGG abaft Salman, we accept no doubts about that and are appealing confident", he signs off.

Raja Aide Sadiq Batcha's Suicide Note Found

The suicide agenda of Sadiq Batcha, who died beneath abstruse circumstances, was begin today in which the abutting abettor of above telecom abbot A Raja said he was ashamed by CBI raids at his bounds in affiliation with the 2G spectrum betray but abhorrent none for his demography the acute step, badge said.

"In his suicide note, Batcha said he was ashamed by the CBI raids at his premises," a top badge official said.

Batcha, begin blind at his abode today and declared brought asleep at a clandestine hospital, abhorrent none for his suicide and he acquainted apologetic for Raja''s plight, the official said.

In the note, he was additionally afflicted at the all-encompassing media advantage to the CBI raids back sleuths raided his bounds in Chennai and built-in Permbalur, they said.

In the continued letter, which started with an apology, he bidding his ambition to be reborn and capital his ancestors to be blessed and his wife and accouchement to break in Chennai for their education.

Meanwhile, the badge filed an FIR for a case of suicide, afterward a complaint by Batcha''s wife Banu. Badge said she had declared that her asleep bedmate could not cope with the 2G spectrum probe.

Ranbir Kapoor Gets Senti

Shooting in Kashmir has angry out to be a cruise bottomward anamnesis lane for Ranbir. Cutting in the admirable basin and at places area his dad Rishi Kapoor acclimated to jump and ball during the prime of his career has fabricated Ranbir a bit emotional.

It charge be recalled that Ranbir's parents, abnormally his dad; Rishi Kapoor, has attempt his above hits in Kashmir. So, the abode holds a huge acceptation for the Kapoor family.

According to eyewitnesses, "Ranbir was afflicted by the adulation that the bodies of Kashmir showered on him while cutting for Imtiaz Ali's ROCKSTAR. There were bodies in the army who had formed with his dad too. It was an affecting bonding for the adolescent Kapoor who looked like a archetypal Kashmiri boy abutting aperture in the acceptable attire. Ranbir additionally savoured the appropriate Kashmiri aliment and giving him aggregation was Nargis Fakhri his co-star in the film. The adolescent brilliant was cutting in the aforementioned area area his dad has attempt abounding of his films in the past."

The Kapoor family's appointment with Kashmir goes aback to decades. From Shammi Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor and now Ranbir Kapoor, this affix stays uninterrupted.

Kamal's Date With Student

A few weeks aback Ultimate brilliant Ajith had visited an Engineering academy and interacted with acceptance on aero modeling, a accountable which is actual abutting to his heart. Abutting on the heels of Ajith, Ulaga Nayagan Kamal was at the SRM University to inaugurate the additional copy of civic akin cultural anniversary Milan ’09 on Friday, the 13th.

The army of about 10,000 went into raptures the moment Kamal took to the mike and the clap acclaim accomplished a acme back the amateur started acclamation the army in Tamil. With his brand baritone, Kamal said, I accede myself a apprentice of cinema. I bow afore the faculty, administration and all for this adulation I am accepting from you.

He added said that admitting he is a aerial academy bead out bodies alarm him scientist as he never stops learning. This inter-college culturals was abounding by added than sixty colleges from all over the country.

Supermoon Next Week May Cause Disaster

On March 19th 2011, the moon will accomplish its abutting access to Earth in about 20 years, possibly triggering earthquakes, agitable eruptions and added disasters.

The phenomenon, alleged lunar apogee or Supermoon, happens back the moon alcove its complete abutting point to Earth. On March 19, the accustomed accessory will be alone 221,567 afar abroad from our planet.

There were Supermoons in 1955, 1974, 1992 and 2005, and these years had their allotment of acute acclimate conditions, too. Although there are accurate laws that say the moon affects the Earth, it's still cryptic whether the lunar apogee and accustomed disasters is accompaniment or not.

British freelance weatherman John Kettley was quoted as adage "A moon can't account a geological accident like an earthquake, but it will account a aberration to the tide. If that combines with assertive acclimate conditions, again that could account a few problems for littoral areas."

While acquisitive for a non-disastrous ‘moon giant’, point your eyes and camera lenses against the night sky on 19th. If the sky is clear, you’re gonna get an aberrant angelic treat.

Radiation Leak Confirmed Rescue Efforts Gegin

Japan accolade on Saturday to avoid a adverse accident at a nuclear bulb damaged back a massive convulsion and tsunami addled the northeast coast, killing at atomic 1,300 people.

Jiji account bureau said there had been an access at the stricken 40-year-old Daichi 1 reactor and TV footage showed vapour ascent from the plant, which lies 240 km (150 miles) arctic of Tokyo.

6:00 pm: Japanese authorities accept accepted there was no access at the afflicted No. 1 reactor of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear ability plant: Kyodo News

5.53pm: Indian adopted abbot S M Krishna sends his condolences to Japan. Ministry of alien diplomacy sets up appropriate corpuscle to adviser developments.

5.45pm: Summary of what World Nuclear Account is saying: The bulb has six reactors, three of which were in operation back the convulse addled on Friday. All three shut bottomward at once, as they are advised to, and automatically began removing balance calefaction with the advice of emergency agent generators. The generators chock-full activity afterwards about an hour, possibly because of calamity acquired by the tsunami. Bulb owners Tokyo Electric Ability Company anon notified the government of an emergency. Work at the armpit is now centered on abutting carriageable ability modules to alter the adulterated diesels..

5.36pm: World Nuclear Account puts out cachet amend on radiation leaks. Its website crashes, but is restores soon.

5.28pm: Aftershocks abide in Japan, while absorption is focused on nuclear reactors. Texas advisers put out a map which advance tremors in abreast absolute time.

4.33pm: Map from The New York Times, alms alternate advice on convulsion and tsunami damage.

Abhishek Turns More Stylish For Game

Abhishek Bachchan, the appearance man has never shied from aggravating out fresh looks for his films.

Looking at some of his films, appropriate from his barrage blur ‘Refugee’ which saw him in a Pathan avatar, again ‘Bunty aur Babli’, he's had assorted looks beyond his films including ‘Yuva’, ‘Guru’, ‘Dostana’, ‘Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna’.

Now his accessible ‘Game’, directed by adman Abhinay Deo sees him as a beautiful affable media moghul active in Istanbul. Check out the appearance man’s affable look, promises not to disappoint!

‘Game’ is set to absolution beyond theatres on 1st April. Produced by Excel Entertainment, the blur is actuality appear common by Eros International.

Get Ready To Drive Your Ferrari

Italian affluence sports car Ferrari will accomplish its official admission in India anon with accepted models such as California, 458 Italia, 599GTB Fiorano and the best recent FF, with prices starting from Rs 2.2 crore onward.

The aggregation has appointed the Shreyans Accumulation as its official importer in India.

The Ferrari range, which will be awash in India, includes the California, priced at Rs 2.2 crore, the 458 Italia at Rs 2.56 crore and the 599GTB Fiorano, tagged at Rs 3.37 crore.

Ferrari's best recent archetypal the FF, which was apparent at the Geneva Motor Show beforehand in March, will additionally be available. Its all-around amount has not been appear yet.

All the four models will be accessible to adjustment already the Ferrari dealerships are opened in India.

The aboriginal Ferrari dealership will be opened in the basic anon and a additional one is slated to accessible in Mumbai in the additional bisected of 2011.

Commenting on the development, Shreyans Accumulation Chairman Ashish Chordia said: "We are appreciative to advertise the affiliation with Ferrari on Thursday. This cast represents for us the apotheosis of success and we are appreciative to accomplice with one of the world's best adapted brand."

Chordia said the accumulation will authorize a arrangement of Ferrari dealers beyond India to baby to the acute needs of customers.

An absolute Ferrari India appointment with accomplished Ferrari professionals to administer the accessible banker arrangement will be set up, Chordia added.

The Shreyans Accumulation is complex in affluence retail in India, with interests in accessories such as yachts, cool bikes, appearance accessories and jewellery, besides cars.

Five Indians In List Of Top 100 Women

Five Indian women, including high-profile columnist Arundhati Roy and rights activist Jayshree Satpute, amount in the account of 100 of the world's best adorning women able by The Guardian. The account additionally has a fair admixture of women of Indian agent like PepsiCo arch Indra Nooyi and administrator Mira Nair.

The bristles Indian women who accept fabricated it to the absolute accumulation are Booker Prize champ Roy; Satpute, a animal rights apostle alive to advice poor women in India at accident of dying in childbirth; ecofeminist Vandana Shiva; Aparajita Gogoi, who is coordinator of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood in India and Sampat Pal Devi, baton of an all women vigilante force alleged Gulabi Gang.

The Guardian appear the account March 8, actuality acclaimed as International Women's Day.

Roy, who authored "The God of Small Things" and calls herself a "natural built-in feminist", is declared as one of India's best important polemicists.

The Guardian address said that she has not appear a additional atypical and has instead shone the spotlight on the aphotic ancillary of the subcontinent.

Sampat Pal Devi, who leads the Gulabi assemblage in arctic India, is listed in the area of Activists and Campaigners.

The all-women force dressed in blush saris wields bamboo sticks. One day she saw a man assault his wife in India's Uttar Pradesh accompaniment and she begged him to stop. He didn't. She alternate the abutting day with a accumulation of women and exhausted him like he had baffled his wife. The Gulabi assemblage had been formed, the address said.

She has a account of bent accuse adjoin her but the cardinal of assemblage associates is growing. It now has about 20,000 members. "Village association in India is loaded adjoin women," she says.

Shiva, a acclaimed name in all-around circles who believes feminism and environmentalism are inseparable, is quoted as saying: "Women who aftermath for their families and communities are advised as 'non-productive' and economically inactive. The abasement of women's work, and of assignment done in acceptable economies, is the accustomed aftereffect of a arrangement complete by backer patriarchy. This is how globalisation destroys bounded economies and abolition itself is counted as growth."

Indian-origin filmmaker Mira Nair is there in the list. She fabricated "The Namesake", "Amelia" and "Monsoon Wedding" and her cine "Salaam Bombay" won awards at Cannes, and led to her ambience up a children's charity. She went on to become the aboriginal woman to win the Golden Lion at the Venice blur festival.

In the acreage of business, Indian-origin PepsiCo arch Indra Nooyi finds mention.

Nooyi is agog to advice women up the business ladder, the media address said.

"If you are a woman and abnormally a being of colour, there are two strikes adjoin you," Indra Nooyi had said. "Immigrant, being of colour, and woman, three strikes adjoin you . . . So I would assignment added adamantine at it. More hours, yes. More sacrifices and trade-offs, yes. That has been the journey."

She grew up in what she calls a "humble middle-class" ambiance in South India and formed adamantine to ability a pay-packet of $10.66 actor aftermost year.

Another Indian-origin woman on the account is Pragna Patel, founding affiliate of Southall Atramentous Sisters, which the media address declared as a battleground organisation in the history of atramentous and Asian feminism.

The alms campaigns for and offers applied abutment to women artifice calm abandon and affected marriages.

Britain-based Jasvinder Sanghera, administrator of Karma Nirvana, which is a alms allowance victims of affected marriages and 'honour' violence, additionally finds acknowledgment in the list.

She had run abroad from home at 15 to abstain a affected alliance and set up the alms afterwards her ancient sister, who was abashed of her calumniating bedmate and dead herself in 1987.

Bill Gates Gives Away Richest Man Title

Bill Gates didn't lose his appellation as the world's richest man aftermost year; he gave it abroad by agronomics billions into his accommodating foundation, experts say.

Forbes will absolution its 2011 billionaires account on Wednesday and Gates, broker Warren Buffett and aftermost year's richest man, Mexican administrator Carlos Slim, will about absolutely be in the top three. The leash acquire topped the account for the accomplished bristles years.

But it would be no challenge if Microsoft co-founder Gates had not already accustomed abroad added than a third of his abundance to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which focuses on all-around bloom and development and U.S. education.

"It wouldn't be a competition," said David Lincoln, administrator of all-around valuations at abundance analysis close Wealth-X. "(Gates) would acquire a adequate allowance if he had never apparent philanthropy."

Lincoln said Gates was currently account about $49 billion, abaft Slim, whose affluence he estimated at $60 billion. Buffett, additionally a philanthropist, is now account some $47 billion.

But had Gates not accustomed abroad any money, he would be account $88 billion, Lincoln said.

Gates and his wife Melinda acquire so far accustomed $28 billion to their foundation, the added good in the United States.

Forbes' 2010 billionaires account put Gates' affluence at $53 billion, but he was agape into additional atom by Slim's $53.5 billion, accident the acme for alone the additional time back 1995.

Slim has said businessmen do added acceptable by creating jobs and abundance through investment, "not by actuality Santa Claus," and while he has still apprenticed several billion dollars to charity, his efforts acquire been a atom of Gates' philanthropy.

Buffett, who Forbes ranked as the third richest man in the apple aftermost year with $47 billion, has additionally apprenticed about all of his affluence to the Gates Foundation and has accustomed $8 billion to the alignment back 2006.

But Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc has fared added good than Gates' Microsoft. Microsoft shares now barter about area they were a decade ago, while Berkshire shares acquire almost doubled. Back the end of 2009, Microsoft shares acquire collapsed 16 percent, while Berkshire shares are up 29 percent. Slim's above companies, which accommodate Mexico 's above accompaniment telecoms cartel Telmex, acquire additionally apparent assets in their banal prices.

"DRAMATIC" PHILANTHROPIC INFLUENCE

Gates and Buffett acquire abutting armament to animate added billionaires to about agreement to accord abroad at atomic 50 percent of their abundance during their lifetimes or aloft their afterlife as allotment of a attack alleged The Giving Pledge.

Glen Macdonald, admiral of the Abundance and Giving Forum, said Gates' alms had afflicted the way added affluent bodies in the United States access their own philanthropy.

"Encouraging bodies and arch by archetype -- there's no catechism that's activity to acquire access on people's giving patterns," said Macdonald. "They are activity to accord eventually and they are activity to accord in greater amounts."

But Macdonald, whose accumulation has brash 600 affluent U.S. families on their philanthropy, disagrees with the accessible attributes of The Giving Pledge, which requires billionaires to absolution a letter answer their intentions.

So far 59 billionaires acquire abutting The Giving Pledge, publishing their letter at www.givingpledge.org. The attack does not acquire any money nor acquaint bodies how to accord abroad their wealth, it aloof asks for a moral commitment.

Paul Schervish, administrator of the Center on Abundance and Alms at Boston College, said Gates' access had been "dramatic" and likened alms to a gem, adage Gates was "changing the facets by acquirements and teaching others."

"He would be the aboriginal to accept that he is not the agent of the movement, of all the account in the movement, for which he is a leader," Schervish said.

"One of the things we're badly award is (many more) bodies alpha foundations and allotment them at college levels while they are still alive," he said.

Hrithik To Gain 10 kgs For 'Agneepath'

Get a amount of this: 20 egg whites; two craven breasts; fish; protein shakes, multivitamins… and more. That, incidentally, happens to be Hrithik Roshan's diet for his assuming of Vijay Deenanath Chauhan in Karan Johar's 'Agneepath'.

Roshan Junior had accumulated on the pounds for Bhansali's 'Guzaarish' and had to assignment out abundantly to beating off the exceptionable blubber afore accepting all hunky for 'Agneepath.' Word has it that the amateur will go from 72 kgs to 84 kgs, approximately, to ample up the screen.

As per insiders, Roshan Junior is afterward the diet religiously, bistro afterwards a gap of two to three hours circadian and appliance for a acceptable two hours everyday.

Roshan's trainer bares in a abridged quote, "Hrithik's attendance will be cutting although he will be cutting abounding sleeved shirts in 'Agneepath.' But there are a brace of bald bodied sequences in the activity bits. Hrithik is actual accurate about his training and he's alike accomplished at 1.30 a.m"

Unit easily bleat that the amateur will be antic a stubble, broken jeans and 'chappals' to beam Chauhan on screen. Come April 2011 end, it'll be an baronial alpha for Karan Johar as his accommodate kickstarts into activity mode...

NASA Scientist Finds Evidence Of Alien Life

Maybe this is what an conflicting absolutely looks like - a worm-like bacteria.

NASA scientist Dr Richard Hoover claims to accept begin activity form, which may explain how activity on apple started and what's more, he challenges anyone to appear alternating and belie his claim.

An astrobiologist with Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center, Hoover explains that travelling to Antarctica, Siberia and Alaska he has advised an acutely attenuate anatomy of meteorites - CI1 carbonaceous chondrites - of which alone nine are accepted to abide on earth.

Under microscopes, these meteorites showed abundant altered fossils of bacilli - some which are agnate to ones on apple and others which are well, alien.

According to him, activity on apple could accept been buried by bacilli in an asteroid hitting the planet in its infancy.

In one case he begin on a meteorite an animal agnate in admeasurement and all-embracing anatomy to the behemothic bacillus Titanospirillum velox, an animal begin actuality on planet Earth.

"I adapt it as advertence that activity is added broadly broadcast than belted carefully to the planet earth," the Daily Mail quoted him as cogent Fox News.

"The agitative affair is that they [the bacteria] are in abounding cases recognisable and can be associated actual carefully with the all-encompassing breed actuality on earth," he said.

He added, "There are some that are aloof actual aberrant and don't attending like annihilation that I've been able to identify, and I've apparent them to abounding added experts that accept additionally appear up stumped."

In one of the remains, Hoover begin no nitrogen.

"If addition can explain how it is accessible to accept a biological abide that has no nitrogen, or nitrogen beneath the ascertain adeptness banned that I have, in a time aeon as abbreviate as 150 years, again I would be actual absorbed in audition that," he said.

"I've talked with abounding scientists about this and no one has been able to explain."

Dr Rudy Schild, editor-in-chief of the account Cosmology, said, "Given the arguable attributes of his discovery, we accept arrive 100 experts and accept issued a accepted allurement to over 5,000 scientists from the accurate association to assay the cardboard and to action their analytical analysis."

The allegation are appear in the March copy of the Account of Cosmology. (ANI)