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Tanishaa and Kajol - SISTER ACT

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

RISKY AFFAIR

Tanishaa, Kajol's younger sister is crazy about her didi. She is also majorly excited about the baby that is coming. Tich (as Tanishaa is fondly called) was in Bangkok recently for a shoot when riots broke out in the Thai capital. But that did not stop her from shopping for her pregnant sister Kajol. Apparently, she was warned to stay indoors till it was time to reach the airport. However, Tich didn't pay heed to any advice and made sure she bought her sister's gifts before boarding the flight back home.

Gwen Stefani - OBEDIENT WIFE

Fashion inspiration

American singer Gwen Stefani, who also owns her own fashion line, reveals she gets designing inspiration for her fashion label from her musician husband Gavin Rossdale's clothes. Gwen says she loves Gavin's rock'n'roll style and that she frequently tries to adopt that look in her fashion lines. "He has such great style, I get ideas from a lot of his clothes for the women's clothing line because I like that kind of mixture. I'll be like, 'Olh, we should do a girl version of this.' I use a lot of stuff in his closer." she says.

Gwen is also seen wearing red lipstick most often because hubby Gavin in likes it. "I wear it all the time. I wear pink, I wear gloss, i wear everything, but my husband prefers me wearing red," she adds.

Tamanaah - MISS GOODY

NAME

GAME

Tamanaah's rise to stardom may have been rapid, but the actress has her head firmly placed on her petite shouloders. And, the good-hearted soul that she is.Tamanaah is leaving no stone unturned to help her friends out.

The actress, whose career has been going great guns ever since she changed the spelling of her name on the recommendation of a renowned Mumbai based numerologist, has been telling other upcoming actresses too to approach him for better prospects.

"Tamanaah might be a big star now but she is a kind person. She suggested my name to three actresses - Vedhika (of Sakkarakatti fame), Kamna Jethmalani (Machchakaaran) and Sonia (Paiyaa and Telugu superhit Happy Days) - for numerological consultation," claims he, And if the actresses' careers take off in a big way after this, there's no doubt that part of the credit will go to none other than namma Tammu. Way to go, girl!

Salman Khan and Prachi Desai - ALL PRAISE

Smitten by Salman

Prachi Desai who recently worked with Salman Khan in a commercial, is in awe of the actor.

"To work with Salman, even in a commercial, was a dream come true. Those two days, when we shot the commercial, brought a lot of joy in my life. He is so much fun and, well, very unpredictable too, " gushes Prachi.

Sanjay Dutt - WAKE UP SANJU

Sanjay's friends

are sleepless

Sanjay Dutt has a great sense of humour, Sanju baba recently told his friends that he saw his reflection in the mirror one morining and realised that he had put on too much weight and had decided to quit drinking.

And now that he doesn't drink, he is bored out of his skull. So, the actor is keeping himself busy on micro-blogging sites. Also, Sanjay who's getting little or no sleep these days is busy buzzing his friends through the night. That's the only way Sanju has been able to keep himself occupied through the night. Well, along with Sanju, looks like his friens are sleepless in the city too!

Ruaawll Crowe - WHAT'S ON HIS MIND

Crowe coming to India

Hollywood star's date with India confirmed... but not the film with Sudipto Sen

Yes, it is true, Hollywood superstar Russell Crowe is coming to India, and he is set to arrive on June 27. But, not on a spiritual quest to refresh his body and mind after completing a gruelling shooting schedule, as has been reported by some media.

According to Crowe's agent, the visit is at the moment being kept out of public view. He just wants a quick vacation with his wife Danielle Spencer. But the Australian superstar of Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind is expected to meet Sudipto Sen, director of In Search Of Immortality, a film on a German writer's search for spirituality which takes him to the Kumbh Mela.

Sen, who is out of the country at present, admitted he will be back to meet Crowe and further discuss the project. If Crowe agrees to do the film, he will play the middle aged German writer who travels to the Kumbh Mela to attain moksha and falls in love with a 21-year-old Bengali girl. It is a bilingual film, to be made in Hindi and called Amrit Kumbh, and in English as In Search Of Immortality.

Though he is going to be here on a short visit and will probablyonly stick to north India, Crowe will observe the mannerisms of international tourists in the country, besides getting a first hand account of how holy places in India are and what the code of conduct at such places should be. There's also talk that Crowe might consider the rumour (that gained currency in Cannes last month) of teaming up with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan for a Hollywood film.

News: Early Humans lived in The Savannas

Early humans lived in

the Savannas, not forests

Washington: Pre-humans living in East Africa 4.4 million years ago inhabited savannas, grassy plains dotted with trees and shrubs, according to a team of researchers.

This theory opposes another theory - that of Berkeley researcher Tim D While - who said that early humans occupied forests as their natural habitat. "Our team examined the data published by white and his colleagues last October and found that their data does not support their conclusion that Ardipithecus ramidus lived exclusively in woodlands and forest patches," said Naomi Levin of The Johns Hopkins University's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

The claim that the 4.4 million-year-old fossil nicknamed "Ardi" lived in woodlands and forest patches was used as an argument against a longstanding theory of human evolution known as the "savanna hypothesis." According to that premise, the expansion of savannas prompted our ape-like forebears to descend from trees and begin walking upright to find food more efficiently, or to reach other trees for resources or shelter.

Levin's team used the White team's data to draw very different conclusion about the environment inhabited by Ardi, an ape-like creature that stood about 4 feet tall and had a brain less than a quarter of the size of a modern day human.

Health Issue: A SHOT IN THE ARM

Close at hand, a jab to

thwart breast cancer

Drug Hits Key Protein To Shrink

Tumours By 50%, Say Experts

London: In what's being claimed as a major breakthrough, scientists have developed a jab which they claim could cut breast cancer risk by 70%. An international team has developed the new drug which has been already successfully tested on rodents, and will be tried on humans next year.

According to the scientists, the jab works by boosting the immune system, which attacks a protein called the alpha-lactalbumin that occurs in most breat cancers. By destroying every trace of it, the tumours don't develop and existing ones are shrunk by up to half.

"We believe this will some day be used to prevent breast cancer in adult women in the same way that vaccines have prevented many childhood diseases. If it works in humans the way it works in mice, this will be monumental,"Vincent Tuohy, who created the vaccine, told the British newpapers.

Though it's is due to be tested in two trials next year but will not be on the market for at least a decade. Experts have welcomed the findings. Vincent Tuohy, of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, said: "We believe breast cancer is a completely preventable disease," Caitlin Palframan, from Breakthough Breast Cancer, said: "We look forward to seeing the results of large-scale clinical trials to find out if this vaccine would be safe and effective in humans."

In terms of developing a preventive vaccine, cancer presents problems not posed by viruses - while viruses are recognised as foreign invaders by the immune system, cancer is not, Cancer is an over -development of the body's own cells. Trying to vaccinate against this cell over-growth would effectively be vaccinating against the recipient's own body, destroying healthy tissue.

News: Sticky rice feeds Great Wall's in China

Sticky rice Great Wall's longevity

London: Scientists claim to have discovered the secret behind the strength and longevity of the Great Wall of China-sticky rice.

A team at Zhejiang University in China has found that the delicious "sweet rice" that is a mainstay of modern Asian cuisine was also a key ingredient in the mortar used to build the Great Wall 1,500 years ago.

Their study also found that construction workers in ancient China mixed sticky rice soup with slaked lime and limestone to create a paste that was ideal for filling in gaps between bricks and stone blocks.

The super-strong material was used to build the Great Wall, as well as quake-proof tombs, pagodas and city walls, some of which still exist today. say the scientists.

"Analytical study shows the ancient masonry mortar is a kind of special organic-inorganic composite material. The inorganic component is calcium carbonate, and the organic component is amylopectin, which comes from the sticky rice soup added to the mortar." said research leader Bingjian Zhang.

"Moreover, we found that amylopectin in the mortar acted as an inhibitor, the growth of the calcium carbonate crystal was produced, which should be the cause of the good performance of this kind of organic organic mortar," Bingjian was quoted by the British media as saying.

To determine whether sticky rice can aid in building repair, the scientists prepared lime mortars with varying, amounts of sticky rice and tested their performance compared to traditional lime mortar.

Bingjian said: "The test results of the modelling mortars shows that sticky rice-lime mortar has more stable physical properties, has greater mechanical strength, and is more compatible, which make it a suitable restoration mortar for ancient masonry," The findings have been published in the American Chemical Society journal.

Kristen Stewart - MAKING A CHOICE

No date for

Kristen!

Maybe this is the reason for the perpetual glum look she seems to have.

Actress Kristen Stewart claims that she never dated anyone before actor Robert Pattinson even if she initially found them attractive.

The 20-year-old who is in a relationship with her Twilight co-star, reveals she takes her own time to know an individual before she can think about dating him.

She says, "People want me to say that I really like it when guys are funny and unusual. But I've never really gone out with someone I've found attractive initially,"

Pritam - IN AFIX

Poor Pritam

Hotshot music Composer Pritam is in a soup. His producer, the beadstrong Ekta Kapoor, wants him to make a title track for Once Upon A Time in Mumbai on the lines of the foot-tapping tapori song Aye Lokhandwala.

The director of the film Milan Luthria wants him to compose a Sufi title track, something like what renowned Pakistani composer, the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan would do.

As it is, poor Pritam is overworked as every filmmaker in Bollywood wants him. And then, he also has to adjust to these various demands.

Anushka - HOT AND HAPPENING

MASKED!

After setting the temperatures soaring with heruber sexy image in the song mobila... from the movie Rendu, Anushka has done it again! And this time, it's the En Idhayam...and She Stole My Heart... numbers from Singam, directed by Hari and starring Suriya opposite her, that are sending out the heat waves.

En Idhayam.... Which happens to be a dream song shot in a picturesque Muscat, has Anushka wearing glamorous clothes and dancing with ferrvour and energy.

And similarly, the She Stle My Heart.... number also features her wearing a mini dress, revealing quite a bit! But the censor board has gone ahead and masked the close-up shots of her 'assets' with rainbow colours!

A source close to the unit says, "The censor board felt that though the oomph has been shown decently. It might upset the audience. So, they suggested we mask two scenes in the songs. Had we not masked them, the film would have got an A certificate. Now, the film is doing well in theatres with a UA certificate,"

Hmmm, so much for oomph!

Asin - TOP OF THE CHARTS

Eligible spinster

All those around the 20-something Asin have been making noses about her being the most eligible spinster here in the south. Perhaps that's why she found a friend in Indian cricket captain MS Dhoni as well.

And now, some poll (the veracity of these numerous polls can never be established because God alone knows what the sample segment is) says that the gorgeous actress is the most in-demand giri in the south.

Among male stars, Prithviraj topped the poll. In the survey, 54 per cent of the males voted for Asin and 49 per cent of the females for Prithviraj.

The poll also featured the names of 20 other big stars like Shriya Saran, Genelia and Trisha.

Salman Khan - HIDE & SEEK

Separate ways

Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif are not exactly anxious to be seen together in public. Take this week's big fat wedding in Jaipur, for instance.

Jaipur's powerful politician and part-time actress Binakak, who played Salman's bossy mother in Katrina Kaif's Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya, had become genuinely found of both stars during the shooting. So, for her daughter Amrita's wedding, Bina invited Salman and Katrina. But both the stars attended the event separately. While she flew into Jaipur on Thursday afternoon for the mehendi,Slaman attended the reception a day later.

Divya Spandana and Yogi - REALITY CHECK

Loose Maada gets his

Lovely Queen...

It's no secret that Kannada star Yogi is a huge fan of namma Divya Spadana.. This Loose Maada, as he's popularly known in Sandalwood, had enen confessed to us that the walls of his room are plastered with the Lovely Queen's posters. And now, Yogi is happy that he's got a chance to share screen space with his fave girl.

Divya, says Yogi, was earlier approached to star in both Punda (the remake of Polladhavan) and Siddalingu with him. "It didn't work out due to date issues. But now, we've got a fabulous script that we both like," he explains.

And here's the highlight- his real-life tale will spill over to celluloid. "Divya plays a film star in this flick, while I play a crazy fan. many real-life elements have been infused into the script. In fact, my introduction sequence will have me holding a poster of her," says an excited Yogi. Talk about films inspired by reality!

Emma Roberts - SCREEN SHEEN

Emma in

Scream 4

American actress singer Emma Roberts may replace Ashley Greene in satirical horror Scream 4.

The Valentine's Day star is expected to replace Ashley Greene who was to play the lead role, Jill Kessler, as negotiations with her have now fallen, reports a website.

Even though it is not clear who she would be replacing, Emma is quite excited about being part of it.

"I'm so excited to be part of this ground breaking franchise. It's the perfect opportunity for me to do something completely different from what I've ever done before," said Roberts.

The film has been written by Kevin Williamson and will be directed by Wes Craven.

Shruti Haasan - 'NOTE'WORTHY

Joining the

'band' wagon again!

Shruti Haasan has more reasons to be

excited this season...

A good year and a half after The Extramentals disbanded, the stunning Shruti Haasan is back again; this time with a new band and a new line-up of musicians. The singer rocked the city recently with a live wire performance, at the launch of a music entertainment channel, with her band and seemed absolutely thrilled about the rune her life is currently singing to.

"After The Extramentals disbanded because one of the founding members left, I didn't really get around forming another band for some reason or the other," says the pretty rockstar, "Sure, I continued to perform, but it was always a collaborative effort; So, what prompted her to finally get the cogs of her 'band' wagon into motion? "I have been working hard on a lot of material over the last couple of months, my own songs and composition. And I realised that I would need a proper band if the material was to come to fruition the way I wanted it to. And hey, what's a good singer without a good band?"

The band itself will feature musicians from the city, like Alok (keyboards), Naveen (bass), Vasanth (drums) and Bruce (Guitar), all Chennai based musicians, because as Shruti confesses, "Somehow, i find that as far as making music goes, my loyalties lie with Chennai musicians. This is an extremely exciting venture for me - both as singer and songwriter. We will play alternative rock music, with a lot of jazz and pop influences thrown in, it'll be easy listening, happy music." The band, which goes by the name Shruti at present, is all set to perform on a regular basis from now on (in fact, show have already been lined up in Hyderabad and Calcutta) using predominantly their own compositions as Shruti firmly believes in promoting original material.

Meanwhile, the stunner might have achieved a lot in so little time but she will relishes the smaller moments and achievements in life. What's her latest achievement? "Its' silly to talk about it, but I learned to ride a scooter recently." she smiles, "I was apprehensive at first but once I got on the bike, it was pretty easy." But with her edgy biker-babe persona, does she see herself riding meaner machines sometime in the future? "While I am not really a speed freak, I absolutely love motorbikes,"admits the actress, whose movie with Suriya is scheduled to begin in June, "I have ridden a bike once before and,, who knows, may be one day I might just mount a chopper!"

Re: Switch-off your mobile in flight ( YOU MAY CIRCULATE)

Dear All,

I have noticed the same many times on the flights….However I have-not confirmed the origin of this mail for its truth …. please share to your colleagues, it may bring some of the life's back for quite sometime from the incidents

Article published in Khaleej Times, Dubai on 26th May

Switch off mean switch off no silent………………

Near to Operation Theater

In Masjid

In petrol station

And where ever the signboard as

Switch off your mobile phone there…

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