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There is sad news for all Deepika Padukone fans. The pretty actress, who is currently in London shooting for Sajid Khan’s Housefull, is down with malaria since the last four days. While she continued shooting for some time, she couldn’t help but cancel the shoot yesterday due to her frail health.
A source from the unit of Housefull said, “Deepika recently shot for a soap ad with Pradeep Sarkar, in which she had to be under the shower for a long duration. She’s been feeling under the weather since a few days. On Tuesday, she visited a nearby hospital to get her medical reports and she was diagnosed with malaria. Yesterday, she was feeling so weak that she did not shoot for the film at all. She’s making it a point to get adequate rest because she has a long shoot schedule ahead and she also has to be in Mumbai for a couple of days to promote Love Aaj Kal.”
“Deepika was upset that the shoot was called off because of her but Sajid and the rest of the crew insisted that she take rest. Earlier too she had shot for Om Shanti Om when she was seriously ill and she did the same this time. But yesterday, she was so unwell that she couldn’t manage to get out of bed,” added the source.
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Salman Khan, the macho man of bollywood who has thrashed baddies and goons on the celluloid for umpteenth time, is all set to wrestle with a real lion for the first time in his upcoming mega- budget flick Veer. Salman Khan plays a nineteenth century warrior in the film and this particular scene has him protecting a British beauty, who is in the jungle on a hunting mission.
The character of British beauty is being essayed by Liza Lazarus, Miss UK Universe 2008. Salman Khan comes to rescue in the film when she is attacked by a lion during this hunting sequence.

Karan Johar’s next directorial venture, ‘My Name Is Khhan’, starring his favorite couple, Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, which was slated to release during the last quarter of 2009, has been postponed. According to the latest B-town gossip ‘My Name is Khan’ will be releasing in early part of 2010. It is said that, ‘My Name Is Khan’ will now release in February 2010.

This piece of news, for sure is bad news for Shah Rukh Khan-Kajol-Karan Johar fans if the strong buzz going around in the trade circles is to be believed. With this Shah Rukh won’t have any major release in year 2009.

Karan Johar’s Rensil D’Silva directed Saif Ali Khan-Kareena Kapoor-Vivek Oberoi starrer Qurbaan has been planned for a November end release. With the heavy dates shuffling happening, there may be a change in release date for this movie as well and be pushed ahead by a week or two.

My Name Is Khan was scheduled for mid December release, that is, at least two weeks before Aamir Khan’s 3 Idiots releases.

ISLAMABAD: There could be a ‘good news’ in two to four weeks about Balochistan as a result of secret ‘back-channel’ contacts, a minister told the Senate on Friday while ruling out talks with those seeking independence for the troubled province.

But Interior Minister Rehman Malik, while responding to an opposition member’s concern about a perceived ‘brewing conspiracy’ in the country’s largest but least populated province, ignored a query why Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had not yet convened a promised all-parties conference on Balochistan.

However, he assured the house that ‘all 14 points’ recommended by an earlier parliamentary committee on Balochistan ‘are going to be implemented.’

A young Pakistan Muslim League-Q senator from Punjab, Jamal Khan Leghari, complimented Mr Gilani for handing over to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh what Islamabad calls proofs of Indian involvement in Balochistan through its consulates in some border areas of Afghanistan when the two men met at the Egyptian seaside retreat of Sharm el Sheikh last week on the sidelines of a non-aligned summit.

The senator also voiced his serious concern about what he called a ‘East Pakistan-like situation’ developing in Balochistan where he said non-Balochi settlers, including teachers, were being ‘killed one by one’ and Pakistani flag was not allowed to fly on and national anthem not allowed to be sung in educational institutions in some areas.

Mr Malik, who said he ‘fully’ respected Mr Leghari’s sentiments, did not refer to India, which denies the charges, but told the house that Afghan President Hamid Karzai, whom he met recently, had agreed to the establishment of three bio-metric checkposts on the border to stop movement of militants he said were being trained in training camps in Afghanistan.

The minister acknowledged that the situation in Balochistan, which has witnessed a low-intensity insurgency for the past few years, ‘was bad,’ but said it was improving and would further improve in the future with the government seeking a consensus of all stakeholders about the future of the province.

‘But there can be no talks with those who talk of independence,’ he said and promised unspecified action against a Baloch nationalist leader, Harbayar Marri, over an allegedly separatist statement made in a recent interview in London for a Pakistani television channel.

‘With some back-channel talks going on, God-willing, problems will be resolved,’ Mr Malik said, and added: ‘Because of efforts to persuade those estranged, it is possible that I give you a better good news in 2-4 weeks.’

Mr Leghari asked why the government was not seeking deportation of Mr Marri, reported to be a leader of the so-called Balochistan Liberation Army that has claimed many incidents of violence in the province, particularly after the killing of Baloch nationalist leader Akbar Khan Bugti inside a cave hideout in a military operation in August 2006.

The minister called Mr Bugti a ‘martyr’ and said it was a fact that Balochistan had not been given its due rights and that the ‘distress will remain’ until these rights were given to the Baloch people.

He did not respond to Mr Leghari’s demand for the deportation of Mr Marri, a son of the veteran nationalist leader Khair Bkahsh Marri, but said ‘action will be taken’ regarding his statement that he did not recognise Pakistan.
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The censor board seems to have regular problems with Ram Gopal Varma and his films. After the modified version of the national anthem from RGV’s film Rann created quite some controversy, his latest film Agyaat is facing censor issues. And again this time for a song from the film Agyaat .

The censor board has objected to a song from RGV’s Agyaat where the lead actress Priyanka Kothari is dancing to a song that goes like ‘ Jai Shri Shambhu ’ and at the same time is seen puffing a chillum. A line in the song even says ‘ Dum maaro, yehi hai sahara… ’ (smoking is the only support). The censor board has objected to this line in the song as it depicts substance abuse and urges audience to take chillum as relief. The Board has asked Ramu to re-edit the song but only for television trailers as substance abuse can’t be shown on TV.
Source: ZoomTV

Salman Khan’s Dum has gained him the 5th position in the Bollywood’s top actor’s countdown, of last 5 years. With 13 releases, 3 hits and 10 flops in the last 5 year Salman Khan movies have managed to earn up to 350 crores at the box office! Sallu charges more than 20 crores, which highlights his stardom and producers, even today, are more than happy to pay him.

Next in the list and at n the 4th position is the ‘Kambhakkt Hit’ Akshay Kumar who has given many successful hits to the industry such as ‘Singh is King’, ‘Welcome’, ‘Namastey London’ and many more. He has worked across 17 films in the last 5 years and has also increased his fees with every hit movie and now charges a whopping 31 crores for one flick. Akshay Kumar too has 3 projects on hand namely ‘De Dhana Dhan’ paired with Katrina followed by ‘Hello India’ and ‘Action Replay’.

At no 3 is the ‘Shahanshah of Bollywood’ Hrithik Roshan who seems to be following ‘Mr.Perfectionist’ Aamir Khan’s footsteps by doing less movies a year and giving his best shot ensuring a 100% hit. He has given hits like ‘Krish,’ ‘Dhoom 2’ and ‘Jodha Akbar’ in the last 5 years which have earned a huge number of 215 crores. Sources say that Hrithik Roshan charges 15 crores for one movie; however no one knows what the exact charges are. Currently, he has an International film titled ‘Kites’ in which he is paired opposite the voluptuous Barbara Morrie. Plus he will also be seen pairing with the ‘Bachchan Bahu’ Aishwarya Rai for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Ghuzaarish’.

To the audiences disappointment ‘The King Khan’ is no more ruling the number one position, instead is at number 2. He has acted in 9 films in the last 5 years out of which 5 were block buster hits and the rest of them were a flop. However, these flops have earned the producers approximately 400 crores. Currently, Shah Rukh Khan has 3 projects on hand namely ‘My name is Khan’ followed by ‘Dulha Mil Gaya’, and his home production ‘Happy New Year’.

Last, but not the least is the number one position, which is ruled by none other than ‘Mr.Perfectionist’ Aamir Khan, who has got the audiences desperately waiting for his upcoming flicks. The list of hits given by him in the last 5 years include movies like ‘Rang De Basanti’, ‘Fanaa’,‘Tare zameen Par’,’Ghajini’ which has helped his producers earn 365 crores and made him earn the No.1 position too. He is now working on his home production ‘Three Idiots’ followed by a movie with wife Kiran Khan ‘Dhobhi Ghaat’!
Source:ZoomTV

The Unique Autosports Pool Table is by far the coolest pool table we have ever seen, it was created by Hurrican Billiards for their client Unique Autosports for their Miami showroom.
It is built around a chromed steel frame and the frame is mounted on four large wheels which are coated in ultra low profile rubber, plus it features a built in light kit which can display up to 1,000 different colors.


We have no idea how much it cost to make, I would love one of these mind you I doubt I would get any work done with this about.
Hurricane Billiards

OSLO: Norwegian telecommunications group Telenor ASA on Thursday reported a 61 percent slump in second-quarter profit, due to sliding revenues and losses in its stake in Russian mobile operator VimpelCom.

Net profit tumbled to 1.38 billion kroner ($220 million) during the quarter, a sharp decline from 3.54 billion kroner in the same period last year. Second-quarter revenues held steady, slipping slightly to 26.9 billion kroner this year from 27.1 billion kroner in 2008.

The group’s shares closed up 1 percent at 53.93 kroner in Oslo.

A strong quarter for Telenor’s Bangladeshi, Norwegian, and Pakistani operations contributed to the sustained revenue stream.

However, the Nordic group sustained heavy losses in the Ukranian market, due both to that country’s ongoing recession and to drops in the value of Ukraine’s currency, Telenor vice president Paal Kvalheim said.

This year’s second-quarter revenues from the group’s Ukranian operation were almost 1 billion kroner lower than they were in the second quarter of 2008.

In addition, a 414 million kroner loss from associated companies, in particular due to write downs of Telenor’s VimpelCom stakes, was especially damaging to the Norwegian concern’s net profits.

In April, a Russian court ordered Telenor to pay $1.7 billion to VimpelCom as restitution for earlier dealings in Ukraine. The court also froze the Nordic company’s 29.9 percent stake in VimpelCom, pending further litigation. Telenor has appealed both rulings.

In a statement, Telenor CEO Jon Fredrik Baksaas called the VimpelCom claims “unfounded.”

The Nordic telecom group warned that losses attributable to VimpelCom are estimates and may change following an external audit of VimpelCom-related finances, which Telenor will finalize in the third quarter.

“For the rest of the year we expect revenues to remain under pressure. We will continue to scale our activities to deliver a strong operating cash flow and sustain our market positions,” Baksaas said. AGENCIES.
Source: SAMAA

ISLAMABAD: The former President General (rtd) Pervez Musharraf constituted a committee of lawyers to defend him in cases filed against him at the Supreme Court, Geo News reported Friday.

The legal committee of the former president will be headed by Abdul Hafeez Pirzadah with Khalid Ranjha, Malik Abdul Qayyum and Chaudhry Fawwad as committee members.

Talking to Chaudhry Fawwad by phone from London, Pervez Musharraf said he did everything during his era for national interest.

The former President is quoted saying, ‘I saw good time, will see bad times now.’

It should be noted that the Supreme Court issued summon notice to the former president directing him to appear before court on July 29 in cases relating judges’ appointment and emergency.
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