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- Arrest warrant issued against Musharraf
- Space commission meet begins
- Delhi doctors remove 7 kg ovarian tumour
- Spears wants to do film for Phillips, Apatow
- In ‘Bheja Fry 2′, idiot’s journey continues abroad: Director
- Lady Gaga on US Vogue cover
- Cyrus hidden fashion secrets
- Jewellery store owner doesn’t want charges against Lohan
- A pivotal moment in history: Biden
- Obama extols non-violence, says Egyptians ‘inspired us’
| Arrest warrant issued against Musharraf Posted: 11 Feb 2011 11:14 PM PST
According to the Geo TV, the warrant was issued by the anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi. The former military dictator was aware that the Taliban was plotting to kill Bhutto, but he did not pass on the information to the authorities concerned, said a team probing the 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto. The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) found that Musharraf knew that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud was plotting the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, but withheld that information from agencies concerned, the Dawn reported Thursday. Sources said that JIT head Khalid Qureshi has briefed interior ministry officials about the challan submitted by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Rawalpindi’s anti-terrorism court (ATC) earlier this week. The challan contained 12 charges against Musharraf. Bhutto was assassinated Dec 27, 2007, as she was leaving Liaquat Bagh in a motorcade after addressing an election rally in Rawalpindi, the twin city of Islamabad capital. A teenaged shooter was seen aiming for her head in the CCTV footage before a powerful suicide blast killed at least 24 people participating in the rally. Musharraf’s name was added to the list following a statement of former Rawalpindi city police chief Saud Aziz. Aziz claimed that Musharraf had given the order to change Benazir’s security in-charge. He also claimed that the murder scene was immediately washed on Musharraf’s orders. Musharraf ruled Pakistan for nine years after taking power in a bloodless coup in 1999. He stepped down in 2008 and left Pakistan. He now lives in London. |
| Posted: 11 Feb 2011 11:12 PM PST
In the backdrop of the S-band spectrum controversy, India’s Space Commission Saturday began a meeting here and is expected to discuss restructuring of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and its commercial arm Antrix. The meeting is attended by V. Narayanasamy, the Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon and top officials of the ISRO. It is not clear whether a specific discussion on the S-band controversy would be taken up at the meeting, sources said. The meeting is held amidst reports that the Space Commission may consider separation of Antrix from its parent organisation ISRO by appointing a new chairman for the commercial arm. After the row broke out over alleged loss of revenue to the government in the Antrix-Devas contract for lease of S-band spectrum, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday formed a two-member commission comprising Planning Commission member B.K. Chaturvedi and Space Commission member Roddam Narasimha to probe the matter. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in its report indicated that the alleged deal between Antrix and Devas caused the nation an estimated loss of Rs.2 lakh crore. |
| Delhi doctors remove 7 kg ovarian tumour Posted: 11 Feb 2011 10:27 PM PST
The 45-year-old woman was admitted to the Action Cancer Hospital in Paschim Vihar area of west Delhi Jan 27 following complaints of abdominal distension and the doctors detected the 7 kg, 10-inch tumour. “A team of doctors headed by S.K. Das, senior consultant of Gynae-Oncology, performed the surgery” the official said. The surgery was done without a break and the patient was discharged six days later,” Das said. |
| Spears wants to do film for Phillips, Apatow Posted: 11 Feb 2011 10:16 PM PST
“I love to act and would love to be in a Todd Philips or Judd Apatow movie (sic),” contactmusic.com quoted her Twitter post. Phillips is currently working on the sequel to his 2009 comedy “The Hangover” while Apatow has projects like “Bridesmaids” and “Wanderlust” coming up. |
| In ‘Bheja Fry 2′, idiot’s journey continues abroad: Director Posted: 11 Feb 2011 10:13 PM PST
“In ‘Bheja Fry 2′, the idiot’s journey continues abroad. It has a much bigger star cast and much higher budget,” Sagar told IANS in an interview. “Bheja Fry” shows how Ranjeet Thadani (Rajat Kapoor), a bored, arrogant music company executive, has fun at the cost of some simple people. But his meeting with an idiot, Bharat Bhushan (Vinay Pathak), doesn’t go the way he wanted it because of his bad back. The result is utter chaos let loose by the idiot, who cannot do a single thing without messing it up. After the unprecedented success of “Bheja Fry”, why did he take four years to decide on the second part? “In 2007, ‘Bheja Fry’ became a very big hit and after that many producers approached me. My decision of choosing a producer was not based on money but on creative freedom. Sahara Motion Pictures was giving me the most creative freedom and I started making ‘Kachcha Limboo’,” said Sagar. Asked if it’s a mainstream commercial film, he said: “For me, any kind of film you make is a commercial film because ultimately it’s going to the commercial arena. But, yes, it’s not the run-of-the-mill kind of commercial cinema. It’s a different kind of commercial film. “Thankfully, these different kinds of cinemas succeeded last year. I think after ‘Bheja Fry’ and ‘Khosla Ka Ghosla’, big and small films are coexisting and basically it’s helping the industry in building an audience base.” Before he starts the second instalment of “Bheja Fry”, the director is looking forward to the release of his second film, “Kachcha Limboo”, about the transitional feelings of children when they enter adolescence. ” ‘Kachcha Limboo’ is about a 13-year-old and his relationship with his parents, school friends and teachers and how everything goes wrong at one point of time. When a kid enters adolescence, hundreds of feelings start creeping into his head,” said Sagar. Though actor Atul Kulkarni and Sarika play lead roles in “Kachcha Limboo”, he roped in Vinay Pathak for a special appearance. “Vinay is there. After ‘Bheja Fry’ I couldn’t do without him. He has a small special appearance in ‘Kachcha Limboo’.” Releasing Feb 18, “Kachcha Limboo” was written before “Bheja Fry”, but Sagar was unable to get a producer for a children’s film. “I wrote ‘Kachcha Limboo’ when I was in film school in Kolkata. But you don’t get producers when you come out from film school, so then I thought let’s do a comedy first. I had two ideas. Both ‘Kachcha Limboo’ and ‘Bheja Fry’ were ready with me and I went for ‘Bheja Fry’,” said the alumnus of the Satyajit Ray Film Institute in Kolkata. The director would continue making comedies. “I enjoy making people laugh. I will continue making comedy films. I will make other kinds of films too,” said Sagar. After “Kachcha Limboo”, he has another romantic comedy “Hum Tum Aur Shabana” starring Shreyas Talpade, Tusshar Kapoor and Minissha Lamba, releasing this year. |
| Posted: 11 Feb 2011 10:10 PM PST
Gaga has been photographed by world renowned photographer Mario Testino for the shoot. She will be seen wearing a silk kimono robe designed by Haider Ackermann. The singer also sports a sharp bowl cut pink wig and deep red lipstick. “The fashion community in general got me much earlier than everyone else. But actually, I felt truly embraced by this London cultural movement, that MCQueen, Isabella (Blow) Daphne Guinness wing of the English crowd. I remember when I first started doing photo shoots, people would say, ‘My God, you look so much like Isabella Blow, it scares me,” contactmusic.com quoted Gaga as saying. |
| Posted: 11 Feb 2011 10:04 PM PST
The 18-year-old singer-and-actress loves to customise her own T-shirts when she has the time and admitted it is the only thing she can do well besides “dance, sing and act”, reports contactmusic.com. “I can dance, sing and act and I don’t really feel like I have another talent. But I can rip shirts really well, I can cut things, I’m good with scissors,” she said. Miley often causes controversy with her raunchy stage outfits, but she has previously said she feels “claustrophobic” wearing frills. |
| Jewellery store owner doesn’t want charges against Lohan Posted: 11 Feb 2011 10:00 PM PST
Lohan was officially charged with felony grand theft in a Los Angeles court Wednesday over allegations she stole a necklace from the Kamofie & Company jeweller’s in Venice, California last month. However, according to TMZ.com, a police report suggests that the store’s owner, Sofia Kaman, changed her original story in a statement, initially telling cops Lohan had put the necklace into her handbag before claiming she actually left the store with the piece around her neck. Now it has been revealed that in the same report, Kaman insisted she did not want the actress to be charged, and asked police to keep the incident out of the public domain. The statement says Kaman “was hesitant in making the police report” and added she “stated that she does not want to press charges. She stated that she only wants her necklace returned… she wants this incident handled with the utmost discretion”. |
| A pivotal moment in history: Biden Posted: 11 Feb 2011 09:53 PM PST
“What has happened in Egypt will be felt beyond its borders,” Biden was quoted as saying by CNN. Mubarak resigned Friday evening as president of Egypt after 18 days of protests against his government. |
| Obama extols non-violence, says Egyptians ‘inspired us’ Posted: 11 Feb 2011 09:50 PM PST
“Egyptians have inspired us, and they’ve done so by putting the lie to the idea that justice is best gained through violence,” he said in praise of the Egyptian revolution hours after President Hosni Mubarak finally stepped down Friday. “For in Egypt, it was the moral force of nonviolence – not terrorism, not mindless killing – but nonviolence, moral force that bent the arc of history toward justice once more,” Obama said in a six minute speech from the White House. “And while the sights and sounds that we heard were entirely Egyptian, we can’t help but hear the echoes of history – echoes from Germans tearing down a wall, Indonesian students taking to the streets, Gandhi leading his people down the path of justice,” Obama said. “As Martin Luther King said in celebrating the birth of a new nation in Ghana while trying to perfect his own, “There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom,” he said. “Those were the cries that came from Tahrir Square, and the entire world has taken note. “Today belongs to the people of Egypt, and the American people are moved by these scenes in Cairo and across Egypt because of who we are as a people and the kind of world that we want our children to grow up in,” Obama said. “The word Tahrir means liberation. It is a word that speaks to that something in our souls that cries out for freedom.” “And forevermore it will remind us of the Egyptian people – of what they did, of the things that they stood for, and how they changed their country, and in doing so changed the world,” Obama said. |
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) has issued a warrant for arrest of former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf in the assassination case of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, a media report said Saturday.
Pop star Britney Spears, who made her movie debut in “Crossroads” in 2002, has revealed she is a big fan of filmmakers Todd Phillips and Judd Apatow and would love to appear in one of their films.
In 2007, fresh-out-of-film-school director Sagar Bellary had made audiences laugh their hearts out with the satire “Bheja Fry”. After four years, he is set to hit the same chord with a sequel and says this time the ‘idiot’ will continue his journey abroad.
Pop star Lady Gaga is set to appear on the cover of the March issue of US Vogue.
Singer Miley Cyrus has revealed she has a gift for customising T-shirts by ripping them up.
The owner of the jewellery store from where actress Lindsay Lohan is accused of stealing a necklace didn’t want to press charges against her.
US Vice President Joe Biden described Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s stepping down as “a pivotal moment in history”.
US President Barack Obama, a self-confessed follower of Mahatma Gandhi and his ideals, heard echoes of history in the way Egyptians brought about change through nonviolence like Gandhi “leading his people down the path of justice.”| You are subscribed to email updates from Latest News To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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