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Shatrughan Sinha avoids Dabangg!

News Team — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:14:22 PDT

Believe it or not, braveheart Shatrughan Sinha has still been able to bring himself to watch his darling daughter Sonakshi’s debut in Dabangg. Like the father of a bride about to be married he is just too tense and anxious to watch his daughter’s maiden performance. Whenever there’s a screening Shatru is miraculously out of [...]

CLT20 kicks off amid spot-fixing gloom

News Team — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:02:26 PDT

Under the watchful eyes of the ICC’s Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU), the glitzy Champions League Twenty20 starts on Friday with the shadow of the spot-fixing scandal, that has shaken the core of the game, looming large. Featuring the top three Indian Premier League teams and the top two each from Australia, New Zealand, Sri [...]

Pentagon wants to destroy copies of Afghan war memoir

News Team — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:55:26 PDT

Washington: Defense Department officials are negotiating to buy and destroy all 10,000 copies of the first printing of an Afghan war memoir they say contains intelligence secrets, according to two people familiar with the dispute. The publication of “Operation Dark Heart,” by Anthony A. Shaffer, a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer and a lieutenant colonel [...]

US soldiers cut off Afghans’ fingers as trophies: Report

News Team — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:52:54 PDT

Washington: Five US soldiers who served in Afghanistan have been accused of murdering three Afghans and cutting off fingers and other body parts to keep as trophies, the Seattle Times reported on Thursday. The charging documents released on Wednesday say the murders were committed in January, February and May by the soldiers from a brigade [...]

Pastor cancels Quran-burning, then reconsiders

News Team — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:50:34 PDT

Florida: An anti-Islamic preacher backed off and then threatened to reconsider burning the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, accusing a Muslim leader of lying to him with a promise to move an Islamic center and mosque away from New York’s ground zero. The Rev Terry Jones generated an international firestorm with his [...]

Shiney’s domestic help, family go missing

News Team — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:45:33 PDT

Mumbai: Mystery shrouds the sudden disappearance of the domestic help who had, in June 2009, accused actor Shiney Ahuja of raping her. Mid Day went to her home near Roha in Raigad district yesterday. Strangely, the entire family has been missing from the village for the past fortnight and no one knows about their whereabouts. [...]

CPM raps Rahul Gandhi for ‘two Bengals’ remark

News Team — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:43:30 PDT

Rae Bareily: The CPM has hit back at Rahul Gandhi for his recent remark in Kolkata that there are two Bengals: one that is backward and full of poor people and another that’s controlled by CPM cadres. The CPM in their party weekly, People’s Democracy, says even the most backward district of West Bengal fares [...]

Delhi flood alert: Yamuna continues to rise, govt says no need to panic

News Team — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:41:13 PDT

New Delhi: The water level in Yamuna river in Delhi is steadily rising. It crossed the danger mark of 204.83 meters on Thursday afternoon as Haryana released over eight lakh cusec water in the last two days from the Hatnikund barrage, causing it to swell. It is now flowing close to one meter above the [...]

Does Sri Lanka’s Dilshan have bookie link?

News Team — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:38:02 PDT

In a shocking turn of events, top Sri Lankan batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan has turned out to be the leading Sri Lankan cricketer the ICC’s Anti-corruption and Security Unit has been monitoring for alleged links with a bookmaker. The ‘Daily Mail’ today claimed that Dilshan was the player named in a Sri Lankan Cricket Board report [...]

Cleansing, Exfoliating & Moisturizing – A Real Easy Way To Look Really Good

News Team — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:58:44 PDT

Until recently, it just wasn’t right for a guy to spend more than 10 minutes on himself in the bathroom. But over the past few years, a new breed of guys have begun tip-toeing out of the cosmetic cabinet, calling themselves, ‘Metrosexual Men’. Though we strongly believe men are neither ‘metro-sexual’, neither ‘retro-sexual’ but merely [...]