Dil Kare song in Ajay Devgan’s production All The Best-Fun Begins has been shot on a lavish scale costing nothing less than a whopping Rs 6.5 crore. Sultry actress Bipasha Basu will be seen not just shaking a leg but also belting out notes in this mad-cap comic flick. Bipasha will be seen in a [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Pranab’s tough message to G-20
On September - 5 - 2009
India on Friday said protectionist moves in the name of regulatory and financial reforms would retard global economic recovery at a time when 30 member-countries of WTO decided in New Delhi to resume the stalled Doha Round of negotiations for a global trade agreement. A joint communique, issued after a two-hour meeting of finance ministers [...]
Israel to build hundreds of houses in West Bank: Reports
On September - 5 - 2009
Israel’s hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will soon approve the construction of hundreds of new housing units in West Bank before he declares a moratorium, in an apparent snub to Washington’s call for total settlement freeze to push forward the fragile peace talks with Palestinians. Aides in the Prime Minister’s office were quoted by local [...]
Split one-day matches into four innings: Sachin
On September - 5 - 2009
Sachin Tendulkar came up with a new proposal to save the 50-over format from the Twenty20 wave which threatens its existence, suggesting that one-day matches be split into four innings of 25-overs-a-side. “I am for 50-over cricket. I think we should have 25 overs a side to start with. I thought of this during the [...]
Andhra’s succession battle: Ministers, MLAs lobby for Jagan
On September - 5 - 2009
YS Rajashekhar Reddy, one of Congress’ most successful Chief Ministers was given a full state funeral in his hometown of Kadapa on Friday. The party wanted to wait a bit before choosing his successor, but their choices are becoming limited. The MLAs are meeting on Saturday to push YSR’s son Jagan as their choice. And [...]
AI plane catches fire; probe ordered
On September - 5 - 2009
It’s every aviator’s nightmare, a fully fuelled Boeing 747 jumbo jet catching fire. That’s exactly what happened to an Air India jetliner on Friday in Mumbai as it was taxiing for take off. Fortunately, all the passengers were safely evacuated. In fact, the nightmare for these passengers had started much earlier. First, their original plane [...]
YSR, 4 others killed in chopper crash
On September - 3 - 2009
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and four others were killed when his helicopter crash-landed atop the Rudrakonda hill in the Nallamalla range, about 40 nautical miles east of Kurnool. “I’m formally announcing that the CM is dead,” said Home Minister P Chidambaram. In a formal statement to the media, he expressed “deep [...]
Obama hosts Iftar, calls Islam a great religion
On September - 2 - 2009
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday praised American Muslims for enriching the nation’s culture at a dinner to celebrate the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. “The contribution of Muslims to the United States are too long to catalogue because Muslims are so interwoven into the fabric of our communities and our country,” Obama said at [...]
Iran ready for N-talks with West
On September - 2 - 2009
Iran’s top nuclear negotiator has offered an opening for possible compromise with the West, saying the Islamic regime is ready to hold talks with world powers over its nuclear program. But Iranian lawmakers also sent a message of defiance to the world community, displaying strong support for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s nominee for defence minister even [...]
Over 45 militants killed; 100 surrender in Swat
On September - 2 - 2009
More than 45 insurgents have been killed and over a 100 Taliban fighters surrendered to the army in Pakistan’s Swat valley. Troops are carrying out a search and clean-up operation across the Malakand division in the country’s northwest province. The Pakistan Army claims a total of 105 militants surrendered to the army in Kabal sub-division [...]
