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- Australian Open: Sania out of doubles too
- Price rise: Court issues notice to Sonia Gandhi
- Three new ministers in Manmohan team
- Patel, Khursheed, Jaiswal promoted to cabinet
- Pathan, Harbhajan clinch another thriller for India
- Facebook backs down over contact info controversy
- Hangover? Coffee is the best bet
- Teenaged dancer asked Berlusconi for 5 mn euros for her silence
- Important for me to let go off my skill: Aamir Khan
- Lindsay has changed, I’m proud of her: Michael Lohan
| Australian Open: Sania out of doubles too Posted: 19 Jan 2011 04:50 AM PST
Sania and Voracova went down to top seeds Gisela Dulko of Argentina and Flavia Pennetta of Italy 4-6, 1-6. Sania is already out of contention in the singles, losing in the first round to 11th-seeded Belgian Justine Henin. |
| Price rise: Court issues notice to Sonia Gandhi Posted: 19 Jan 2011 04:28 AM PST
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Anshul Berry issued a notice and fixed April 7 as the next date of hearing in the case. “The UPA government is directly responsibly for the price hike because they are at the helm position in the country. Besides, the common man is getting harassed for the last many months and his right to life has been badly hit by this,” petitioner Arvind Thakur, a lawyer and chairman of NGO Global Human Rights Council (GHRC), told IANS. “The UPA is not doing anything to control this situation,” he said. “We have filed a petition against Sonia Gandhi because her (Congress) party’s policies are responsible for this glitch. Taking cognizance of the petition, the court has issued a notice to Sonia,” he added. |
| Three new ministers in Manmohan team Posted: 19 Jan 2011 04:25 AM PST
They are Beni Prasad Verma, who has been made minister of state for steel (Independent Charge); K.C. Venugopal, minister of state for power; and Ashwani Kumar, who has been made minister of state for planning and parliamentary affairs and science and technology and earth sciences. This is the first reshuffle of the council of ministers in the second term of the United Progressive Alliance government. |
| Patel, Khursheed, Jaiswal promoted to cabinet Posted: 19 Jan 2011 04:21 AM PST
Patel, a member of key ally Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), gets heavy industries and public enterprises. Congress veteran Khursheed is water resources minister with additional charge of minority affairs and Jaiswal is coal minister. |
| Pathan, Harbhajan clinch another thriller for India Posted: 18 Jan 2011 11:13 PM PST
Chasing 221 runs, India were struggling at 93/5 before Pathan (59 off 50 balls) and Suresh Raina (37) brought the visitors back in the game with a 75-run stand. South Africa struck through Morne Morkel (3-28) and Dale Steyn (2-31), removing the duo and clawing back in the match. But Harbhajan Singh scored an unbeaten 23 off 25 balls to clinch victory. Harbhajan, who struck two sixes off Morkel and Wayne Parnell, and Zaheer Khan (14) put up a vital 26 run stand. They lived dangerously but kept the scoreboard moving, taking advantage of the last batting powerplay taken in the 43rd over. India went 2-1 up in the five-match series, having got the better of South Africa by one run in Johannesburg. India lost Murali Vijay early, caught and bowled by Steyn in the third over, but Virat Kohli (28) and Rohit Sharma (23) stitched 52 runs. In-form Kohli, who stroked five well-timed fours, nicked Morne Morkel behind the stumps. Sharma followed Kohli as part-time spinner Jean Paul Duminy trapped him leg before. Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Yuvraj singh did not trouble the scorer much and soon India were staring at a huge task. Pathan and Raina batted sensibly to steady the innings. Big hitter Pathan struck off spinner Johan Botha for three sixes in one over. He continued with his belligerent batting, hitting six fours. Just when it looked, Raina and Pathan will comfortable take India past the target, Morkel and Steyn struck in quick succession. Morkel got the wicket of Raina and then took a brilliant catch at third man to get rid of dangerous Pathan as South Africa bounced back in contention. But Harbhajan once again came good with the bat to take the team home with 10 balls to spare. Earlier, debutant Faf du Plessis (60) and Duminy (52) rescued South Africa from a top-order collapse but India kept the noose tight at the death to bowl out the hosts for 220. South African captain Graeme Smith (43) elected to bat, but the Indian bowlers got good purchase from the track to reduce them to 90 for four. Zaheer (3-43) and Munaf Patel (2-42), who scripted India’s brilliant comeback victory at Johannesburg, troubled the batsmen with their incisive spells upfront. Zaheer bowled Hashim Amla (16) before Harbhajan (2-23) and Pathan (1-27) struck crucial blows. All-rounder Faf du Plessis and Duminy then added 110 for the fifth wicket, before the former was dismissed by Munaf, caught by Kohli, that triggered another collapse. Zaheer soon rattled the stumps of Duminy, putting pressure on the South African tail in the last five overs. The South African lower order cracked as they lost six wickets for 20 runs and folded up with four balls left in the innings. |
| Facebook backs down over contact info controversy Posted: 18 Jan 2011 11:05 PM PST
Facebook announced the change late Monday night just three days after the introduction of the new feature was met with howls of protest from privacy advocates. The new feature appeared whenever users installed a new application. In the past, such actions prompted a menu in which users were asked whether they wished to share personal details such as their name, picture, friends lists and other general information with the application provider. Under the new system, the same menu also asked users to share their contact information, without providing any extra warnings about the possible perils of doing so. Privacy advocates immediately blasted this omission, and to Facebook’s credit, the company acted quickly to close the security loophole by disabling the new feature. “Over the weekend, we got some useful feedback that we could make people more clearly aware of when they are granting access to this data,” Facebook wrote on its developer blog. “We agree, and we are making changes to help ensure you only share this information when you intend to do so. We’ll be working to launch these updates as soon as possible, and will be temporarily disabling this feature until those changes are ready. We look forward to re-enabling this improved feature in the next few weeks.” |
| Hangover? Coffee is the best bet Posted: 18 Jan 2011 10:59 PM PST
Scientists have confirmed that the traditional morning-after boost is better than modern alternatives like organic honey, or a raw egg, reports express.co.uk. The caffeine in coffee and anti-inflammatory ingredients of aspirin combat the alcohol, said Philadelphia researcher Michael Oshinsky. He discovered this by inducing headaches in rats using small amounts of ethanol or pure alcohol. The animals then had doses of caffeine and anti-inflammatories which cleared the pain. “None of the commonly cited cures for hangovers could have caused this response,” said Oshinsky. |
| Teenaged dancer asked Berlusconi for 5 mn euros for her silence Posted: 18 Jan 2011 10:57 PM PST
Karima El Mahgroug, now 18, and Berlusconi deny they had sex over several months in 2010 when she was 17. Berlusconi is being formally investigated over the case for allegedly having paid a minor for sex – a criminal offence in Italy. In an intercepted phone call in possession of prosecutors, El Mahroug says to a friend named as Poiana: “I have denied everything. I’m trying to save him (Berlusconi), so I can make some money out of this.” “How much? Five million euros. My case is the most shocking one of all, it has overtaken D’Addario and Letizia,” she says in another phone conversation with her ex-boyfriend Sergio Corsaro’s mother. The teen was referring to the escort Patrizia D’Addario, who claimed to have slept with Berlusconi at his Rome residence in November 2009 and released audio tapes of their conversations which were published by left-leaning Italian magazine L’Espresso and daily La Repubblica. Noemi Letizia is the teenage Naples underwear model whose 18th birthday party Berlusconi attended in April 2009 and whom he gave a 6,000 euro gold and pearl pendant. The following month, his second wife Veronica Lario announced she was leaving Berlusconi, saying she could not stay with someone who was “unwell and frequents minors”. In another intercepted phonecall in late October 2010, El Mahroug is allegedly heard telling her ex-boyfriend: “We’re not worried. Silvio is calling me all the time and has told me to appear deranged, to spout nonsense.” “He says I’ll give you whatever money you want, I’ll shower you with gold, but it’s important that you hide everything and don’t say anything to anyone,” she said. Milan prosecutors Monday sent a request to the Italian parliament’s lower house for authorisation to question Berlusconi and search his offices in Milan in what is a widening prostitution probe that has also targeted three members of Berlusconi’s entourage. A parliamentary commission is expected to review the prosecutors’ request Wednesday, according to a lower house spokesman. The 74-year-old media mogul and billionaire financially supported and slept with a “significant number” of young women who prostituted themselves with him, according to prosecutors. As a member of the lower house of parliament (chamber of deputies), Berlusconi is shielded by a law that requires a chamber commission to sign off on any request by prosecutors to search members’ properties before they are carried out. Berlusconi could also face abuse of office charges for personally ordering police in Milan to release El Mahroug also known as Ruby, who they were holding on an unrelated theft charge in May 2010. In their request to parliament, prosecutors also named nine other women, who Berlusconi allegedly housed in rent-free apartments in his Milano suburb and gave cash payments and gifts, allegedly in exchange for sex. In a video message to supporters Monday, Berlusconi denied as “absurd” claims he had slept with El Mahroug, and said he had had a steady girlfriend since May, 2009. He did not name the woman in his address. He repeated his often-stated claim that he has never paid a woman for sex, saying he would find this “degrading”. |
| Important for me to let go off my skill: Aamir Khan Posted: 18 Jan 2011 10:53 PM PST
After more than two decades in filmdom, Aamir has come to be known as a perfectionist, but he still craves to learn more. The learning process continued with “Dhobi Ghat”, which releases Friday and stars first-timers Monica Dogra and Kirti Malhotra as well as one-film-old Prateik Babbar. “The one big lesson I learnt while working with these newcomers is that it’s very important for me to let go off my skill. Unfortunately, it’s a lesson I learnt at the end of the film, otherwise I would have applied it… because when I saw the film I was suddenly hit by their real raw performances,” Aamir Khan told IANS in an interview. “There was too much skill in mine. I wish I could drop my skill a little bit. So in my next film, I’m going to try and forget or unlearn everything I have learnt in so many years. Some things look good, natural,” added Aamir. “Dhobi Ghat”, scripted and directed by Kiran Rao, is about Mumbai, its people and its life. While Aamir plays pivotal role in the film, the director also tells her story based on her personal experiences through the three other main actors. It’s a film Aamir is looking forward to enormously, not just because it is made by his wife. Sitting comfortably in his office here, the 45-year-old, dressed in black, says candidly that he has no intention of misguiding his audiences whom he has been entertaining for the last 22 years. “I am reducing my audience consciously. I am doing that because I have a relationship with my audience which is now more than 22 years old. So they have grown to trust me. It’s very easy for me to market this film as a regular film of mine and bring in the audiences in large numbers and take a huge opening. But I don’t want to do that,” he said. “I don’t want a person to come to see my film thinking that it’s another kind of film. I think what we have made is an unusual film and I would be very happy if more and more people come to see it, but I have to be honest to them before they buy tickets. “I have to inform them that if you are looking for an entertaining film, a lot of dhamaal, action, thrill and fast pace, then this film is not that. It depends on them whether they want to see it or not.” “I believe the film is made for an audience who are maybe more interested in music, art, painting, poetry, reading or people who want to try something different. I also feel people who are a little more sensitive will like the film more. I think women will like this film more. I could be wrong, but that’s my sense of it,” he said. Aamir, a doting husband, also clarifies that he decided to produce the film because he liked the script and not because it was being made by his wife. “The only reason to produce ‘Dhobi Ghat’ was that I loved the script and I saw in Kiran the abilities of a good director. If I hadn’t liked the script, then I would have not produced it even though it was written by Kiran. I would have politely told her that it didn’t excite me, I can’t be a part of it. I would still support her as a husband, but I would not have directly connected with the film in any way. “So it’s only on merit that I produced the film,” said the actor, who is playing a reclusive painter in “Dhobi Ghat”. |
| Lindsay has changed, I’m proud of her: Michael Lohan Posted: 18 Jan 2011 10:49 PM PST
The 24-year-old star completed her court-ordered rehab stay earlier this month and her father Michael Lohan said she has been keeping her addictions at bay by attending Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings, reports express.co.uk. “We went to an AA meeting last night, then went home and had a quiet night. She changed back to the girl she used to be. When she was at her best – literally. She’s done a 180 and I’m very proud of her,” he said. |
Sania Mirza’s campaign in the Australian Open tennis got over Wednesday when she and her Czech partner Renata Voracova lost in the first round of the women’s doubles event here.
Congress president and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi was Wednesday issued notice by a local court on a petition filed by a city-based NGO over the issue of price rise.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday inducted three new faces in his team of ministers.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday promoted three ministers to cabinet rank — Praful Patel, Shriprakash Jaiswal and Salman Khursheed.
Yusuf Pathan and Harbhajan Singh’s batting heroics saw India clinch another thriller by two wickets in the third one-day international against South Africa here.
Facebook has backtracked over a new feature that would have shared users’ addresses and mobile phone numbers with developers of applications on the popular social networking site.
The best cure for a hangover is a cup of coffee and an aspirin.
The teenage Moroccan nightclub dancer whom Italy’s prime minister Silvio Berlusconi allegedly paid for sex, asked the premier for five million euros in exchange for her silence, according to tapped phonecalls.
He will try to “drop” his skills for his next film and forget what he’s learnt over the years, says Aamir Khan who believes the “real, raw performances” by newcomers in wife Kiran Rao’s “Dhobi Ghat” make it an unusual and delicate film that is likely to appeal more to women viewers.
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