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Luckily, this didn’t seem like a tough task given Ajay’s penchant for fitness and the fact that he already had a great physique. Fans of the actor can look forward to seeing him in a completely raw and desi action hero avatar in Singham . Ajay’s trainer Prashant Saawant had a major role to play in ensuring this. He trained with the actor for three months; helping him losing weight and making him more lean and muscular Trainer Prashant got Ajay to do a rigorous combination of weights and circuit super sets that incorporated all techniques including pushups and pull-ups. He also oversaw Ajay’s diet and made sure he maintained a high-protein low-carb diet to get that desired look Ajay Devgn has always sported a lean body in all his previous actions films. But for playing a cop in Singham he decided he needed to craft a more muscular body to suit some of the action sequences in...  more   In the film, Ajay plays a tough cop from a village on the Maharashtra-Goa bor...

Karachi, May 31: Flamboyant Pakistan all rounder Shahid Afridi has announced to quit international cricket in protest of his removal from the captaincy of the national one-day team and said he will not consider to return till the present board under the chairmanship of Ijaz Butt is in place. "The people have given me lot of respect and love and I don't want to waste that working with this board who don't know how to respect players," an angry Afridi said. In a scathing attack on the Pakistan cricket Board, Afridi, 31, described the current set of administrators as "disgraceful people". Afridi, who announced to quit international cricket to protest the board's decision of removing him as the captain of the one-day team, told Geo News channel that nothing is greater to him than his self-respect. The experienced all rounder said till the present board under the chairmanship of Butt is in place, he will not play international cricket. "I want to make...

Faridabad:   The crashed air ambulance was carrying 20-year-old student Rahul Raj, who was in a critical condition and was being shifted to Delhi's Apollo Hospital. A mission to save a life ended up in a huge tragedy and Rahul's family is now waiting for the post mortem to end. Rahul had recently gone into coma after suffering from jaundice for the past many weeks. When his condtion deteriorated further on Wednesday, doctors advised his family to get him airlifted to the Apollo Hospital. His family members flew in early and were waiting for him to arrive in Delhi when they got this news. "We were eating dinner when we got this news and ran to the hospital," said Rahul's uncle Mukesh Raj Along with Rahul, there was a six-member team from Apollo Hospital on board the aircraft, and all of them were killed in the crash. The other three who lost their lives were three women sleeping on this balcony where the crash took place. "My wife, daughter-in-law and daughte...

A Pakistani-American businessman who scouted out targets for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks has told a US court that he received training and guidance from Pakistani intelligence officials in the lead-up to the attacks in India's financial capital, which claimed the lives of more than 160 people. Testifying in the trial of a Chicago businessman accused of helping to plan the attacks, David Headley said that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) and the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) coordinated with each other. After pleading guilty last year to charges of being a co-conspirator in the attacks, which were carried out by LeT militants, he has taken the stand as a star witness in the case against Tahawwur Rana, a Pakistan-born Canadian citizen. His trial is being closely watched for what testimony might reveal about suspected links between LeT and the ISI, which has come under increased scrutiny since Osama bin Laden was killed by US special fo...

After playing a fairly gharelu Punjabi kudi in the madcap comedy Khichdi The Movie, Keerti Kulhari was compelled to get bold for her role in Bejoy Nambiar's Shaitan. In the Anurag Kashyap production, she plays Tanya, a girl next-door who's part of a wild group and is compelled to lose her inhibitions. Read on to find out how the lines between her reel and real life have blurred. Tell us about Tanya... She is the most sober in the gang of shaitans. How does she end up kissing another girl, Amy (played by Kalki)? Tanya doesn't want to kiss Amy. They're playing truth and dare. Amy is a cool girl who likes to try different things. It's her turn and she 'dares' to kiss me. How do you rate Kalki as a kisser? It was hardly a kiss. Is it the only time you have been kissed by a girl? (Laughs) Yes. And it will be the last time ever. Has any girl made a pass at you? Yes. In Standard 10, there was a girl in my badminton team. I think she had the hots for me. Though she...

Chennai, May 18: Tamil superstar Rajinikanth, who was admitted to the Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre on May 13 for recurrent respiratory infection and gastro-intestinal problems, was tonight shifted to the Intensive Care Unit.This has been done to improve his breathing pattern, a hospital press release said adding that the actor was showing positive response to treatment. A multi-disciplinary team of doctors is busy closely watching his vital parameters to assess benefits from multi-pronged treatment strategies, it said. Doctors said he was responding well to treatment.  Rajinikant, who suffered from viral fever and exhaustion recently, was admitted to SRMU at suburban Porur days after he was discharged from another hospital where he had been treated for allergic bronchitis and viral fever. He had suffered from exhaustion on April 29, the first day of the shoot of his new period film 'Rana' co-starring Deepika Padukone, which is being directed by K S Ravikumar. He was admitted...

Rumours are rife that south superstar Rajinikanth is suffering from liver sclerosis or cancer. His brother, however, says that the actor is diagnosed with lung and liver disorder due to his past chain smoking and drinking habit. Due to his ailment, Rajini's upcoming film with Deepika Padukone has been put on hold for now. Rajini's daughter and producer of Rana, Soundraya, told Mid Day, "Our top priority is my father's health. We are not even thinking of the film at this moment. We can reschedule plans once he recovers completely." RajiniDirector KS Ravikumar is depressed with the news about Rana being shelved at the moment, reportedly. Rumours were doing rounds that the actor is suffering from withdrawal symptoms after he had given up alcohol. However, his brother Gaikwad told that Rajini is suffering from lung and liver disorder. "As you know Rajini was a chain smoker and had a drinking habit. The doctors have identified some problems in his lungs ...

Washington:   Al Qaeda has chosen a former Egyptian Special Forces officer as interim leader of the violent extremist group in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death earlier this month,  CNN  has reported. Saif al-Adel, a top Al Qaeda strategist and senior military leader, has been tapped as "caretaker" chief of the group,  CNN  reported, citing former Libyan militant Noman Benotman, who has renounced Al Qaeda's ideology. Pakistan's  The News  newspaper corroborated the claim, citing unnamed sources in an article datelined Rawalpindi, a city home to the military headquarters of the Pakistani Armed Forces near the capital Islamabad. The decision to chose Adel, also known as Muhamad Ibrahim Makkawi, came as militants grew increasingly restive over the lack of a formal successor to bin Laden, who was killed in a dramatic US commando raid deep in Pakistan on May 2, Benotman told  CNN . Bin Laden's long-time deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, another ...

NRG businessman Shubhash Shihora became the first to buy a flying car in India. The businessman bought a flying car named  transition  from a company named  Terrafugia  which is a US based company and deals with manufacturing of aircrafts. Now, the interesting thing to know is that this has got a somewhat funny story behind it. The\ story goes like, way back in the year 2008, Shihora along with his family were to fly from Delhi to Ahmadabad. Even though they had seats reserved in the very same flight, they were restrained from boarding the airplane due to some technical discrepancies. It’s noteworthy that Mr. Shihora is a major shareholder of a giant Rs. 2 Lac crore US based consultancy firm.  Being a businessman, he might have suffered a heavy financial loss for not being able to reach in time. They also say that the businessman later sued the airline company for Rs. 21 Crore. Then he decided to get a permanent aid against such problems. And this is what ...

Washington , May 17 (IANS) US President Barack wants young Americans to prepare for tough competition in a new world from kids in  India  and  China  with better education, saying: 'I'm standing here as president because of the education that I received.' 'We live in a new world' he told new graduates of a high school in  Memphis, Tennessee , warning that when they leave college in four years, they'll be competing for jobs not just against Americans but with the youths in  Beijing  and  Mumbai . 'You're competing against young people in Beijing and Mumbai. That's some tough competition,' he said. 'Those kids are hungry. They're working hard. And you'll need to be prepared for it.' Education is not only essential to getting a good job, Obama said, it also provides other essential skills, including critical thinking, discipline, and simply being a better person. Recalling his own childhood, Obama said: 'My father left my family...

Release date: May 6, 2011 Director: Vikram Bhatt Cast: Mahakshay, Tia Bajpai, Arif Zakaria, Achint Kaur, Mohan Kapoor Haunted Poster I was the sort of child who was afraid of the dark, who used to imagine that a ghost would emerge from the commode, that there were spirits under my bed and figures hiding in the patterns of the mosaic tiles on the floor. Kids, I tell you! But I have no explanation for the fact that as a rational grown-up, although I do not believe in ghosts, somewhere at a sub-conscious level that I hate to acknowledge, I get unsettled by ghost stories. So it’s confession time: I kept a light on in my room the night after I watched Vikram Bhatt’s  Haunted . It’s silly of me, of course, but it made me realise that despite all my reservations about this film, it had struck home. Haunted  is a horror film about a young real estate agent finalising the sale of a house when strange things start happening in the night. He discovers that a female occupant of that...

Johannesburg, May 10 (PTI): "The guys (in the IPL) treat us like meat", says a South African dancer who was summarily sent home after exposing the antics of some of the players on a blog. Gabriella Pasqualotto, 22, told the Afrikaans daily Beeld that she was put on the first flight home after being a cheerleader for the Mumbai Indians since last month, following complaints to league officials about her blogging. Picking up her comments on Twitter, the website www.alternativecricket.com asked Pasqualotto to write a regular blog. After just two entries, a fellow cheerleader tipped off an unnamed player, who in turn informed the organisers. In the blog, which has since been removed, Pasqualotto wrote: "Old Graeme Smith will make eyes at anything - while his girlfriend is walking behind him." Another entry read: "The Aussies are naughty. These cricketers are the most loose (men) I have ever encountered." "I've still got to stay here a long ...

New Delhi: India should be assertive and proactive to claim the strategically vital parts of Kashmir 'illegally' occupied by Pakistan where China has increased its footprints leading to fears that Beijing may take over the territory by 2020, according to a report. The report by New Delhi think tank Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis says China's growing footprint in the region had added another strategic dimension to the discourse on the territory that includes Northern Areas, also called Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. 'These realities are certain to impinge on India's long-term security interests and therefore it is incumbent upon Indian policy makers to adopt a pro-active approach towards PoK (Pakistan-occupied Kashmir) which is an integral part of India,' it says. The report alleges that the Karakoram Highway (KKH) connecting Pakistan with China through Pakistani Kashmir has been used for the clandestine transfer of nuclear materi...

Innocence, like virginity, can be lost only once. Cricket – the players, the administration, the fans, the game itself – lost its innocence on April 7, 2000, when New Delhi police officials accused then South African captain Hansie Cronje of colluding with bookmaker Sanjay Chawla to fix the one day games with India played in March of that year. Any hymenal vestiges were swept aside in the months that followed, thanks to the revelations from a Central Bureau of Investigation probe in India; the report of the Justice Qayyum commission in Pakistan; the serial naming of players from around the world and their almost ritual ‘clearing’ by the respective boards, and finally by the spot-fixing expose of last year that resulted in bans of varying durations imposed on three Pakistani players. All of which is why the latest media story on match-fixing – Dirt in Cricket, a Heena Zuni Pandit-authored cover story for the latest issue of  Sports Illustrated India  – come...