Shilpa Shetty Dating Raj Kundra
Date:
12/31/2007:
It has been reported that Bollywood movie star
Shilpa Shetty
is dating Raj Kundra, London-based businessman. Raj is also the person behind
the launch of Shilpa's perfume S2 and a yoga DVD. Only time will tell if this
is ture and if Shilpa is ready for marriage.
Hrithik Roshan To Perform Song In Krazzy 4
Date:
12/28/2007:
Hrithik Roshan
will be seen in a item song in the forthcoming movie
Krazy 4 (2008)
. Currently Hrithik is recovering from a knee surgery. The appearence will mark
his father's, Rakesh Roshan, first production without Hrithik as a hero in the film.
The songs music is provided by Rajesh Roshan and will be shot in March 2008
if Hrithik is feeling upto it.
Kingfisher Swimsuit Calendar 2008 Launched
Date:
12/21/2007:
Kingfisher Airlines, CEO Vijay Mallaya and John Abraham launced the sixth edition
Kingfisher swimsuit calendar 2008
at a ceremony in Taj Hotel Mumbai. This year
the pictures were taken in such location like Ladakh, Andaman and Nicobar, Bay of Bengal,
Udaipur, Goa to mention a few. The photo were taken by India’s ace photographer Atul Kasbekar and
include pictures of India's leading models like Shruti Agrawal, Preeti Desai, Monikangkana Dutta,
Deepti Gujral, Sheetal Menon, Mesissa Mehra and Tamara Moss.
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Gauri Khan On Cover Of Vogue
Date:
12/21/2007:
Gauri Khan
, wife of the Bollywood superstar
Shahrukh Khan
will be seeing on the cover of India's next edition of Vogue magazine which
will hit the news stands on Dec 20, 2007. The photo were taken at her home in
Mumbai, named Mannat. Gauri was recently seen in a small apperance in her husband's movie
Om Shanti Om (2007)
.
Preity Zinta Replaces Priyanka Chopra
Date:
12/16/2007:
Preity Zinta
has been choosen to replace Priyanka Chopra in Karan Johar's next project.
Karan Johar is producing a movie to be directed by his assistant, Tarun Mansukhani which
is also the first productions under Karan's banner, Dharma Productions.
The movie stars
Abhishek Bachchan
,
John Abraham
, and now along with
Preity Zinta
. Yet again, this will also be the most awaited film of 2008.
Priyanka Chopra Launches Spice Local Lingo
Date:
12/14/2007:
Bollywood movie star
Priyanka Chopra
today launced Spice Telecom's new service, Spice Local Lingo, at an event
held in Bangalore. The new service will allowsusers to send SMS in 12 Indian languages.
The service offers the following languages: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada,
Malayalam, Marati, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu. While in Mumbai,
Spice Telecom (Punjab) launched "Spice TV", which will give Spice subscribers in Punjab
an opportunity to watch live Cricket on their mobiles.
Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif To Be Guest On Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Finals
Date:
12/14/2007:
Akshay Kumar
and
Katrina Kaif
will be guest stars on the Sony dance show
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa
during the final to arrive December 20, 2007. The Bollywood stars are going to promote
their upcoming movie, Welcome, releasing on December 21, 2007.
Deepika Padukone Brand Ambassador For Levi
Date:
12/11/2007:
Deepika Padukone
has been signed by Levi Strauss Signature as their national
brand ambassador. Deepika has risen to fame recently due to the great success of
her first movie, Om Shanti Om. Levi also announced a new contest, Dart-to-Win,
in which provide a life time opportunity for fans to meet and greet with Deepika.
The contest will start on Dec 11, 2007 and end 10th January 2008.
Abhishek and Aishwarya Bachchan Dance For A Cause
Date:
11/29/2007:
With World Aids Day on Dec 1, 2007, the Bollywood couple
Abhishek Bachchan
and
Aishwarya Bachchan
recently were seen together spending time with children affected with HIV/AIDS
as part of association called Ashray. Abhishek has been part of the Ashray Association since 2001.
Sanjay Dutt Granted Bail
Date:
11/27/2007:
Sanjay Dutt
has been granted bail by the Supreme Court and should be released
from the Pune jail within the next couple of days. Sanjay was given a six year
jail term after being convicted in connection with the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.
Jamie Lynn Spears says she's pregnant
Date:
12/20/2007 Jamie Lynn Spears
announced to OK! magazine that she is pregnant and the father of the baby is her
longtime boyfriend, Casey Aldridge. The 16-year-old is Britney Spears' younger
sister and currently stars on TV show Zoey 101.
Jennifer Love Hewitt Fights Back
Date:
12/13/2007 Jennifer Love Hewitt
is angry and upset about some paparazzi shots that surfaced on the Internet
of her on vacation with fiance Ross McCall. More then the photos she is upset with
the comment about her weight that accompanied the photos. Jennifer is currently starrring in
TV show Ghost Whisperer.
Alicia Silverstone Naked for PETA
Date:
09/21/2007 Alicia Silverstone
Naked for PETA to promote go vegetrain. This is not the first
time that movie stars have appeared naked in a PETA ad.
Money, Finance, Technology News:
12/21/2007:
There is some news around the web that Google is preparing to launch a site
called Knol. The new site would be a combination of Wikipedia and Squidoo and
would allow users to post stuff to become a knowledgebase of everything.
Google will probably intices users to post articles by giving them a share of
the revenue that Google will generate from that page. With this people may question
what Google is upto, until now Google was justing indexing page on the web, now
it seems to be helping people create content on the web with tools like the Blogger
and now Knol.
12/19/2007:
The big three online advertisers, Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo were fined
for allowing online gambling businesses to advertise online gambling
using the three companies respectively ads mediums. The U.S. Department
of Justice announced that the fines added to the over $40 million with
Microsoft is to pay the largest penalty totaling $21 million. While
Yahoo will pay $7.5 million and Google is to pay $3 million.
12/12/2007:
Ask.com announced the availibility of AskEraser, a privacy control
that erases information about users' search queries within a few hours.
With AskEraser enabled for a given users, all Ask.com cookies including
IP address, user ID and session ID cookies and complete text of search queries
are erased across the Ask.com search areas but cannot delete it from from the
servers of third-party companies. But the side effect of AskEraser
being enabled is that some of the Ask.com personalization options will not
function.
12/07/2007:
Today Google announced that is has optimized the Google Search, Gmail,
Google Calendar and Google Reader for the iPhone which builds upon other
Google products like Maps and YouTube that are already available. When a iPhone user
visits the Google main site, the iPhone is automatically detected and the
apps are made avaialble to the user via iPhone's Safari browser. In other news,
Google introduced the addition of AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) To Gmail.
12/05/2007:
Yahoo's online photo sharing service Flickr, an online photo sharing website,
today announced the introduction of new online digital imagee editing tools
that can be used by members to edit photos. The tools suite will be provided
by Picnik. Flickr was purchased by Yahoo back in 2005 at which time, Yahoo
discontinued it's own Yahoo Photos service for Flickr.
12/27/2007:
Sania Mirza
has been signed by Addidas as their first global brand ambassador. Sania
joins a list of other well known brand ambassadors of Addidas to inlcude
David Beckham (football, soccer), Zin dine Zidane,
Sachin Tendulkar (cricket) and Ricky Ponting (cricket). Sania will next
be playing mixed-team competition in The Hopman Cup and then onto the
Hobart International, starting January 7, 2008 and then the Fed Cup in
February 2008. Sania will be paired with Rohan Bopanna and will face
Meghann Shaughnessy and Mardy Fish (United States), followed by a match
against Alicia Molik and Peter Luczak (Australia) and then Lucie Safarova
and Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic).
12/12/2007:
The 3rd test match between India and Pakistan ended up in a draw.
Pakistan ended the final day with 167/7, when bad light ended the
match early. Anil Kumble threatened the Pakistan with a burst of wickets.
Kumble ended the day with five for 60 off 14 overs. Now India is all set for
a tour to Australia for a four-test series starting on Dec. 26. 1st match
on Dec. 26-30 (Melbourne), 2nd on Jan. 2-6 (Sydney), 3rd on Jan. 16-20 (Perth), and
the 4th on Jan. 24-28 (Adelaide). The series will be followed by oneday
triseries involving Australia, India and Sri Lanka.
12/11/2007:
Sania Mirza
is currently shooting a commercial advertisement at the historic
Mecca Masjid which has caused a row with the minorities welfare department.
The shooting was done without the permission of the department and hence
evoked protest from the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM).
11/29/2007:
Indian Cricket League (ICL) will begin it ingural match tomorrow
Nov 30, 2007. The match will be between Chandigarh Lions vs Delhi Jets
and will follow the 2020 cricket format.
The ICL is a newly formed cricket league in India, and is being backed by
Zee Telefilms, Kapil Dev, and other great cricket players. The ICL is made up
of 6 teams being Mumbai Champs, Chennai Superstars, Chandigarh Lions,
Hyderabad Heroes, Kolkata Tigers, and Delhi Jets. The league includes such
welknown players like Michael Bevan, Inzamam ul Haq, Darryl Cullinan, Craig McMillan,
Madan Lal, Sandip Patil, Brian Lara and many more.
11/27/2007:
The Indian and Pakistani cricket team arrived in Kolkata for their next
test match. The test match will be played from November 30 to December 4
at the Eden Gardens. India has already won the first test match by six wicket
which was played at Ferozshah Kotla ground in New Delhi.