Reena Patel- Indian origin girl wins the title of Miss Bollywood in London

It seems Bollywood is calling all the beautiful babes from the west and at the same time also giving tough competition to it’s own desi(Indian)babes. Time has come now, where one can see a total Â Indo western fusion culture in Bollywood films. Well said, After it’s a small world. Honestly speaking, I feel little sympathetic [...]

Dinara Safina and Federer at the US Open

Dinara Safina, the top-ranked player in women’s tennis, will be the No. 1 seed when the U.S. Open tennis tournament at Flushing Meadows, N.Y. starts Monday. The Moscow native goes into the Open having been a finalist at this year’s Australian and French Opens and a semifinalist at Wimbledon. Her first opponent in the upper [...]

Adnan Sami in trouble again

Playback singer Adnan Sami, facing charges of cruelty and cheating in a criminal case filed by his wife Sabah Galadari, has been arrested and granted bail. Sami was called to Oshiwara police station last night. He was asked to give two sureties of Rs 15,000 each, his lawyer Vibhav Krishna said today. Sami was granted [...]

Elaxim – Tenectaplase as the Clot buster

Elaxim – Tenectaplase truly deserves to be called life saving drug as the ‘Clot buster* can abort the Heart attack. Injection can be given as I.V. bolus, easy to be administered either at Patient’s residence or in ambulance or in Intensive coronary care units. Timely given injection can make difference between life & death. Tenectaplase [...]

Yoga vitalizes Charlize Theron

Oscar winner Charlize Theron (Monster) reportedly listened to Indian chanting music for ‘relaxation’ during her latest Dior campaign shootout. Theron, 34, was participating in fast-paced photo-shoot for Dior’s fragrance named J’Adore. She reportedly depended on relaxing Indian chants to deal with the fast pace of the shooting and remain inspired. She is the face of [...]

Beyonce at MTV Video Music Awards

US pop star Beyonce Knowles will perform at the annual MTV Video Music Awards, which is being held next month in New York. The 27-year-old is up for nine awards at the ceremony – including video of the year – and will perform her latest hit single Sweet Dreams. Beyonce’s husband Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, Taylor [...]

In the news again: Berlusconi

Italian state TV is refusing to show a trailer for a film featuring Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, stating it is “offensive” to his reputation. The ad for Videocracy shows scantily-clad women and statistics claiming Italy has a low press freedom rating. Film-maker Erik Gandini says his work, which is premiering at the Venice Film Festival, [...]

Scottish sheep sold for world record

A sheep has sold for a world record 231,000 pounds ($376,200) at a Scottish livestock auction, a British sheep society said. Deveronvale Perfection, a Texel breed admired by his new owner for his “great body and strong loin”, will be used for breeding. Experts are predicting the tup, the farming term for an uncastrated sheep, [...]

India loses Moon satellite links

India’s first moon mission, launched amid much fanfare last year, came to an abrupt end Saturday after the country’s lunar craft lost contact with its controllers, the national space agency said.Â All communication links with the only Indian satellite orbiting the Moon have been lost, India’s space agency says.Â Radio contact with the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft was lost [...]

Priciest neighborhoods in the United States

The priciest neighborhood in the United States is Alpine, New Jersey, home of hip hop stars such as Sean “Diddy” Combs, according to Forbes.com, which on Friday released a list of the most expensive zip codes.Â Around 20 miles from Manhattan, Alpine (zip code 07620) is a small community of sprawling mansions with a median asking [...]

Madonna booed

For years now,Â Madonnaâ€™s tours have stirred controversy, either because she chooses to make a statement on art by being strapped on a mirrored cross or because of her dance moves and the way she dresses. The other night, though, as the singer performed in Bucharest, Romania, it was something that she said that got a [...]

California girl freed after 18 years

A California girl abducted at age 11 in 1991 has been found alive, police said on Thursday, adding her kidnapper apparently fathered two children with her and kept all three living in tents and sheds behind his house. Jaycee Dugard had been missing since she was abducted near her home in South Lake Tahoe, east [...]

Two for the Weekend -’Love Khichdi’ and ‘Daddy Cool’

By E. Nina Rothe
There are two fun Hindi films opening this weekend, light and easy. The first – â€˜Love Khichdiâ€™ is touted as a true â€˜date movieâ€™ by some of the bloggers in India and Iâ€™ll allow them to tell me what they know best. The second â€˜Daddy Coolâ€™ is with a favorite, though highly [...]

Is blood thicker than water? — Kissan

India is a land of farmers and Indians take great pride to this fact. Off late Indian farmers have incurred various losses and most of them were Â in debt. Infact a number of suicides were also commited by Indian farmers very recently. Bollywood film Kissan reveals all about our dear farmers and their families.

Starring : [...]

Miley Cyrus’ “Party In the U.S.A.” is at No. 2

The Black Eyed Peas extended their unprecedented run at the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart to 21 weeks on Thursday, while Miley Cyrus kept partying at No. 2.The hip-hop group led the field with “I Gotta Feeling,” whose eight-week reign directly followed a 13-week run by “Boom Boom Pow,” both tracks from its [...]

Risky stars of cyberspace

Actress Jessica Biel has overtaken Brad Pitt as the most dangerous celebrity to search in cyberspace, according to Internet security company McAfee Inc.
For the third consecutive year, McAfee surveyed which A-list celebrity was the riskiest to track on the Internet after Pitt topped the list last year and Paris Hilton came in first in 2007.
Biel, [...]

James Cameron’s new ‘Avatar’

James Cameron’s forthcoming Avatar has been trumpeted as the future of cinema, pointing the way to a brave new world of 3D computer-generated film production. But could it be that this future has already come and gone – flopping at the box office back in 2008? In the distant future, a human ex-marine is thrust [...]

Michael administered Drugs Propofol

A SLEEPLESS Michael Jackson spent his last hours begging his doctor for a powerful anaesthetic. For six hours, Dr Conrad Murray resisted, fearful that the singer had developed a dangerous addiction to propofol, according to court records. Instead, Dr Murray administered the sedatives Valium, lorazepam and midazolam five times over six hours. But none put [...]

Engendered Presents I-View Film in NYC

By E. Nina Rothe
Come this weekend, everyone who knows me also knows where to find me: At Lincoln Center, bum flatter for the wear and heart happier for the view, watching South Asian cinema at its best. That’s when the I-View Film festival organized by the Engendered organization for Human Rights takes over the Stanley [...]

A new Miss Universe 2009 today from Venezuela

Venezuelan Stefania Fernandez, an 18-year-old brunette, won the Miss Universe 2009 title on Sunday, giving her South American country its second consecutive win and its sixth title in the beauty pageant. The first runner-up was Miss Dominican Republic, Ada Aimee de la Cruz, while Miss Kosovo, Gona Dragusha, was second runner-up. Fernandez enjoys tennis and [...]

Dementieva beats Sharapova

Fourth-seeded Dementieva defeated Williams 7-6 (7/2), 6-1 and then Russian compatriot Maria Sharapova to win the Toronto Cup. Former world number one Dementieva , who is battling to regain peak fitness after being sidelined for 10 months by a shoulder injury, had earlier beaten Alisa Kleybanova 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 in the semifinal. This was the [...]

Hadippa

The film tells the story of Veera (Rani Mukerji), a fire-cracker of a girl who lives in a small village but dreams of playing cricket in the big league.Â She works in a local theatre group though. Yes, believe it or not, she wants to play with Tendulkar and Dhoni for India.Â Rohan (Shahid Kapoor) is an [...]

Before The Rain – worth watching film

Before The Rains, directed by Santosh Sivan, is a tragic tale of love, death and guilt set against a backdrop of the emerging nationalist movement in the 30s.Beautifully shot and dramatically performed,Â Before The Rains has an inherent sincerity that makes up for the occasional plot holes, and at a running time of 98 minutes, the [...]

MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT 2009 and Miss Universe Organization

Miss Universe 2009, the 58th Miss Universe beauty pageant will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Miss Universe 2008, Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela, will crown her successor at the end of this event. About 80 countries and territories are going to compete and the pageant will be broadcast live on NBC and Telemundo. Croatia was [...]

Brazilians going Indian ways – Caminho Das Indias

Welcome to the Â Brazilâ€™s number one soap opera â€”Caminho Das Indias
This is the very Â first evidence that the relentless march of desi culture has breached a new frontier: South America. As an true Indian and a true Â patriotic at my heart, I am so thrilled and relieved about the fact that Indian television based shows [...]

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