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The
troubled life and times of Rahul Mahajan
 New
Delhi: His life is the kind of spectacle that television
thrives on. One reason perhaps is that Rahul Mahajan
understands television very well.
Not so long ago, when he was still an unknown entity,
Rahul Mahajan was a television producer for Doordarshan
but the spotlight turned on him, in May 2006 when
he lost his father to an alleged fratricide and
even before that faded in public memory, came another
shocker.
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1984
Sikh carnage was wrong: Rahul
 Amritsar,
November 18 Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi
condemned the anti-Sikh violence in the aftermath
of Indira Gandhi’s assassination, saying “whatever
happened was wrong”.
“The 1984 riots were wrong. I strongly condemn
the carnage,” Rahul said at a news conference
in response to a question on Operation Bluestar
and the riots. “There is no truth that there
is hatred among Sikhs against the Congress party.
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Indian
Navy sinks pirate vessel off Somali coast
 Gulf
of Aden, Nov 19: Within days of preventing the hijack
of an Indian merchant vessel, Indian Navy’s
warship INS Tabar, after exchange of fire, sank
a pirate vessel off the Somali coast.
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FM calls for
price cuts, CEOs divided
 NEW
DELHI: Finance minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday
called on sectors like housing, automobiles, hotels
and airlines to cut prices to boost demand
and beat the slowdown. The auto sector ruled
this out as unrealistic in the current situation,
while airlines — looking for
a lifeline from the government —
seemed more receptive to the suggestion. Real estate
companies, however, remained noncommittal.
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Season of
pinkslips? Here are the firms hiring in India
 NEW
DELHI: Citigroup on Tuesday decided to cut 53,000
more jobs, triggering fears of more layoffs across
industries. A lowdown on some sectors and companies
which are on a hiring spree (TOI) TOI, however,
has decided to be contrarian. Instead of only writing
about pink slips, it hunted out companies that are
actually hiring. Here are the sectors that are hiring:
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RSS, Bajrang Dal are not terrorist groups:
British government
London,
Nov 19: The British government has said that neither
the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) nor the Bajrang
Dal are terrorist organisations and their members are
not banned from entering Britain.
"The government do not
consider the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or the Bajrang
Dal as terrorist organisations," British Minister
of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Lord
Malloch-Brown told the House of Lords.
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SALMAN RUSHDIE’S
MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN TO BE ADAPTED TO THE SCREEN
New
York(Raj Rahi) : – Deepa Mehta and Salman
Rushdie will collaborate on a film version of Rushdie’s
acclaimed novel Midnight’s Children, the two announced
today during the 8th annual Mahindra Indo-American Arts
Council (MIAAC) Film Festival.
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India-born responsible for Glasgow attack:
Co-accused
 London:
One of the Glasgow bombing accused has blamed
India-born Kafeel Ahmed solely for the attack.
Bilal Abdulla, an Iraqi doctor, who was in the
jeep with Ahmed when they drove into the Glasgow
airport after which the latter succumbed to severe
burns, said the attack on the airport came ''out
of the blue'' and he only threw Molotov cocktails
because he was trying to get rid of them.
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Slain journo Soumya Viswanathan honoured
by Stockholm
 Stockholm:
Six Indian journalists, including Delhi journalist
Soumya Viswanathan, among the 87 worldwide who
perished in their line of duty during the past
12 months, were among those honoured at the Stockholm
Journalists' Memorial 2008.
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Indian
origin journo`s book nominated for UK literature
prize
 London,
Nov 19: The Times journalist Sathnam Sanghera
is the latest British-Asian to blaze a literary
trail as his book on the travails of his Sikh
immigrant family has been short listed for the
biography prize at the British Costa Book Awards
for 2008.
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California
holds fund raiser for eye hospitals in India
 San
Francisco, Nov 19: Having completed setting up
three eye hospitals in India this year, the US-based
non-profit Sankara Eye Foundation (SEF) has now
begun raising funds for two more charitable eye
hospitals in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.
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India rise to third in ODI rankings
India moved up
two places from fifth to third position on the
Reliance [Get Quote] Mobile ICC [Images] ODI Championship
table after beating England [Images] in the opening
two matches of the seven-ODI series currently
taking place in India.
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Katrina refused to work with Salman's
foe
No one can deny this and
not even Katrina Kaif that Salman is her 'Godfather'.
He is the man who has introduced her to the Hindi
film industry. Though Katrina many times claimed
that she takes all decision by herself and does
not take Salman’s advice, the truth is that
the serene beauty does care for his priority. Considering
his animosity with Vivek Oberoi, Katrina refused
to work with him.
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Ash-Abhi
to live separately from Pa
 Ever
since Abhi and Ash married, they are living together
with Amitabh and Jaya in Jalsa but now the rumor
is rife that Abhishek and Aishwarya will move out
of the family and live separately. The couple is
planning to shift at a flat in Juhu's Pinnacle Dreams
which has 7 flats of approximately 2000 sq ft. each.
Ash-Abhi are currently busy shooting in deep jungle
of Kerala and speculation is that they will take
this drastic step soon after returning from Kochi
where they are shooting for Mani Ratnam's Ravana.
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Aamir romantically linked with Asin
 When
you really love someone, you need not have to pretend
that you seriously love the person but your eyes,
your expression will speak everything and you need
not have to take the help of words to speak out
your feelings. Perfectionist Aamir Khan exactly
wants the same. He will love south sensation Asin
in Ghajini and he wants the romance between them
to look very realistic. Aamir knows very well that
to perform any romantic number, he needs to understand
his actress in a better way and vice versa. With
this aim, he is romantically linked with her for
time being. To understand one another in a better
way, they are spending maximum time together apart
from shooting schedule.
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World's ugliest buildings and
monuments
Sydney,
Nov 17: Travel can open your eyes to some of the
world's most beautiful sights and buildings --
and to some of the ugliest. Web site (VirtualTourist.com
www.virtualtourist.com) has come up with a list
of "The World's Top 10 Ugliest Buildings
and Monuments" according to their editors
and readers. Reuters has not endorsed this list.
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MIAAC and the IAAC celebrate the
Eighth Film Festival
New
York – Both the Mahindra Indo-American Arts
Council and the Indo-American Arts Council recently
celebrated a joint collaboration of a week long
film festival in New York. The films were screened
at various theatres across the city including
the prestigious Lincoln Center, Tribeca Cinemas,
Museum of Arts and Design and the ImaginAsian
theatre.
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