IPL spot-fixing scandal: Vindoo Dara Singh says he betted on behalf of Chennai Super Kings owner Gurunath Meiyappan, claim sources

Reacting to the scandal, Sports Minister Jitendra Singh today said, "These are moral issues, people need to think for themselves."

Chennai/Mumbai: Actor Vindoo Dara Singh has told The Mumbai Police yesterday visited the Mr Meiyappan's home in Chennai as part of their investigations into the spot-fixing scandal. But Mr Meiyappan was not home and the police team affixed summons to his door. One of Mr Meiyappan's managers accepted the summons on his behalf.

Mr Meiyappan has been asked appear before investigators of the Mumbai Crime Branch between 11 am and 5 pm today. Mr Meiyappan, however, has sought more time and will appear before the police only on Monday, sources said.

Police sources claim Mr Meiyappan will be confronted with Vindoo to verify his claims.

Police sources say that they have also intercepted several "friendly" phone conversations between the actor and Mr Meiyappan. Immediately after one of these calls, the police sources allege, Vindoo called up a bookie. The police had yesterday emphasized that they have no confirmation as yet that the Chennai Super Kings CEO has any links to alleged betting or spot-fixing in the IPL.

Vindoo had also named some Bollywood personalities, according to sources. Vindoo was arrested on Tuesday. He is accused of having links with bookies allegedly involved in spot-fixing.  He has been charged with cheating and forgery and will be in police custody till today.

Preity Zinta creates ruckus at Airport?

dimpled beauty Preity Zinta who is usually very sweet and polite lost her temper and created a ruckus at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport after she was denied permission to board a flight for being too late.

Aishwarya Rai at Cannes 2013 Photos

Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan walked the red carpet for AMFAR-The Ultimate Gold Collection, wearing an exquisite gold saree designed by Tarun Tahiliani. Gold accessories, nude makeup and an updo completed her look. We thought Ash's last appearance at Cannes would be impactful, but this over-the-top look leaves much to be desired. Actress Aishwarya Rai arrived at the screening of Behind the Candelabra in a teal gown with her hair worn up at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes. Take a look at Aishwarya's red carpet choices at Cannes.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan made her second red carpet appearance in a stunning Abu Jani & Sandeep Khosla embroidered gown at the screening of Blood Ties at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes. Aishwarya Rai in a stunning Abu Jani & Sandeep Khosla embroidered gown at Cannes. Aishwarya Rai in a stunning Abu Jani & Sandeep Khosla embroidered gown at Cannes. Aishwarya Rai poses for portraits in a black pant suit at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes. Minimal makeup and red lips completed her look. Aishwarya Rai poses for portraits in a black pant suit at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes. Minimal makeup and red lips completed her look. The actress went traditional in Sabyasachi's black saree for the evening gala that celebrated 100 years of Indian cinema.

Aishwarya teamed hair accessory and danglers with the gold embroidered saree as she made her way to the screening of Bollywood anthology film 'Bombay Talkies'. Aishwarya Rai looked elegant as she made her much awaited entry to the Cannes Film Festival's red carpet in a black sequined Elie Saab gown. The 39-year-old Bollywood diva, who is on her eleventh visit to the festival, completed her look with open hair and minimal jewellery. Aishwarya, who has travelled with her 18-month-old daughter Aardhya at the festival, kept the tot away from the prying cameras by making a lone entry at the premiere of Carey Mulligan-Justin Timberlake starrer film 'Inside Llewyn Davis'. This will be Aishwarya Rai's 12th time on the red carpet at the French Riviera. She has become a fixture on the French Riviera over the years and Bollywood beauty Aishwarya does not disappoint in this fitted white shirt and black mermaid-style skirt. The former Miss World, has been a permanent Cannes attendee for many years, since her movie, Devdas screened at the Festival in 2002. Last year Aishwarya launched the film “Heroine” at Cannes but later stepped down from the project due to pregnancy. Kareena Kapoor has replaced her in the film. Aishwarya who completed a decade of representing cosmetics giant L'Oreal at the prestigious film festival last year, said that she was "happy" to have such beautiful company. Last year, the 39-year-old Bollywood actress looked stunning in an Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla ensemble.

She wore a gold embroidered sari and co-ordinating tailored jacket with Mandarin collar. She found international fame in the Hollywood film Bride and Prejudice, and Julia Roberts dubbed her as the world's most beautiful woman. But an unfortunate recent photograph that captured her with a double chin sparked a flurry of cruel criticism, with some even suggesting that she has a 'duty' to her fans to regain her pre-pregnancy figure. Aishwarya is the guest of honour at an event celebrating 100 years of Indian cinema. Last year, the actress received the second highest French civilian award "Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters" for her contribution to cinema and promoting Indo-French cooperation.

Salman Khan may Marry soon

Bollywood's most eligible bachelor Salman Khan is soon going to enter the married men's club. According to a report published in a tabloid the Dabangg Khan has a new girl in his life, with whom he's been spotted many times at Bandra hotel.

Supreme Court rejects Jagan's bail petition

The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the bail petition of YSR Congress president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, popularly called Jagan, in a case of disproportionate assets.

The apex court also cancelled the bail of Mr. Reddy’s auditor Vijay Sai Reddy and directed him to surrender by May 30, CBI counsel Ashok Bhan told reporters outside the Supreme Court.

The court also rejected the bail plea of industrialist Nimmagadda Prasad, an accused in the case.

The Supreme Court directed the CBI to complete its investigations in four months.

Mr. Jagan, a Lok Sabha member from Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, was arrested by the CBI on May 27 last year.

NSUI leader Suraj Thakur suspended for allegedly dancing naked at a party in Mumbai

MUMBAI: Suraj Singh Thakur, the Mumbai chief of National Students Union of India (NSUI), has been suspended for allegedly dancing naked at a party function in the Mumbai suburb of Kandivili last month.

Reports on Tuesday stated that Thakur was drunk during a function and was caught on camera allegedly dancing naked at the NSUI camp held in Kandivili on April 14.

Thakur, who had been re-elected as NSUI president in December 2012, was suspended on Monday after the matter came to fore.

However, it is still unclear as to what made Thakur and two other NSUI office bearers do it.

Sources claim that there may have been a ragging of sorts with seniors asking the new entrants to button down.

The video of Thakur allegedly dancing naked was uploaded on YouTube and was trending, but it has now been removed from the website.

Beside Thakur, the NSUI national president has also suspended two other office bearers, who were also drunk at that time and caught shaking their leg with him.

Thakur shot to fame after he led vociferous protests against the book by Rajiv Gandhi's alleged killer A G Perarivalan in May 2011.

The NSUI is the students' wing of the Congress and the party has taken the matter very seriously. According to reports, Suraj Singh Thakur and two other NSUI office bearers could be expelled from the organisation after proper verification of the matter.

Trisha Krishnan Reallife Photos, Profile

Trisha Krishnan Reallife Photos, Profile (Biography)
Trisha Krishnan turns 30 today!

Trisha was born in Chennai to Uma and Krishnan on May 4, 1983.
She did her schooling from Sacred Heart Matriculation School and aspired to be a criminal psychologist. (Although, doesn't she look like the cutest criminal here?)

She has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Ethiraj College.

Trisha won Miss Salem and Miss Madras contests in 1999.

Her first screen appearance was in singer Falguni Pathak's music video as Bollywood actress Ayesha Takia's friend.
Trisha’s first big screen debut was in an un-credited role as Simran's friend in Jodi.
Her first role as a full-fledged heroine was in Mounam Pesiyadhe directed by Ameer, opposite Suriya.
Dubbing artiste Savitha Reddy is Trisha’s voice in most of her films.
Her Brahmin girl act in Samy opposite the handsome Vikram won her a lot of fans.
Trisha’s Telugu debut Varsham opposite Prabhas catapulted her into the big league instantly and won her the Filmfare award.
Ghilli opposite Vijay was one of Trisha’s most biggest hits in Kollywood.
Prabhudeva’s Telugu directorial Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana opposite Siddharth was a huge blockbuster and won her the second Filmfare award and the Nandi award.
She starred alongside the much older Chiranjeevi in Stalin.

Sainikudu saw her pairing up with Telugu heartthrob Mahesh Babu.
Trisha won over family audiences and her third Filmfare award with Selvaraghavan’s Aadavari Matalaku Ardhalu Verule in which she was cast opposite Venkatesh.
Her comic timing was much appreciated in Kireedom in which she was paired with Ajith.
Trisha’s film King with Nagarjuna was a blockbuster.
She won both, critical and commercial acclaim for her great performance in Radhamohan’s Abhiyum Naanum.

Gautham Menon’s cult classic Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya in which she was cast opposite Simbu is a milestone in Trisha’s career.
She starred opposite Kamal in Manmadhan Ambu which did moderately well at the box office.
Trisha made her Bollywood debut with Priyadarshan’s Khatta Meetha opposite Akshay Kumar in 2011.
Theenmaar saw Trisha pairing up with Pawan Kalyan for the first time.
Ajith and Trisha hit the jackpot at the box office with Mankatha
She has Boologam oppostite Jayam Ravi and Endrendrum Punnagai with Jiiva lined up for release this year.
Rumor mills are churning overtime about her supposed affair with the handsome Rana Daggubati and how his family is opposed to the relationship.
She lost her father to a heart attack last year.
Trisha is very close to her mother Uma who accompanies her to her shootings and functions.
Trisha has quite a few endorsements in her kitty including Fanta, Scooty and Vivel.
She is an avid supporter of animal rights and has worked extensively with PETA.

Trisha was adjudged Indian of the Year by NDTV under the Southern Star category.

Trisha’s mother Uma was supposedly offered several roles in films which she turned down to concentrate on Trisha’s career.
Trisha can converse fluently in Tamil, Hindi, French and English.
Beautiful and talented, Trisha career graph continues to grow in leaps and bounds and the pretty actress doesn't look like she's stopping anytime soon.
Here's wishing the darling Tollywood and Kollywood queen a very happy birthday!

Shootout At Wadala Movie Review

Shootout At Wadala Movie Review: Watch out John's incredible act

Cast: Anil Kapoor, John Abraham, Kangana Ranaut, Manoj Bajpayee, Sonu Sood and Tusshar Kapoor
Direction: Sanjay Gupta
Genre: Crime

Movie Review: Sanjay Gupta's Shootout At Wadala largely draws inspiration from journalist-author S Hussain Zaidi's Dongri to Dubai-6 decades of the Mumbai mafia. But the maker takes the cinematic liberty of changing the material at hand to make his film and characters more engaging. Or should we say largely entertaining.

15 minutes into the film you know Gupta means business as knives gash, guns explode, blood flows, actors mouth expletives galore and items girl gyrate shamelessly.

SAW has two protagonists—Manya Surve( John Abraham) a bright college student from the 70s, who finds himself inexorably drawn into a vortex of crime. The other leading man is Aafaque Bagraan(Anil Kapoor) a trigger-happy cop who wants to clean up the streets of the maximum city.

As the police and the criminals play the regular usual cat and mouse game; the screenplay introduces the viewer to endless gangsters and their girls. There's Vidya( Kangana Ranaut), Manya's love-interest, Sheikh Munir(Tusshar Kapoor), Gyanchod (Siddhanth Kapoor) and a couple of more hoodlums who are his henchmen. And you have their deadly opponents—the Haksar brothers, Zubair ( Manoj Bajpayee) and Dilawar(Sonu Sood). Manya and Zubair wrest to take over the Mumbai mafia. Quite naturally the opposing gangs bay for one another's blood. And in true Bollywood style, the slaying is interrupted only with the swaying; so you have three item songs lined up. The first item has adult star, Sunny Leone, whose song—Laila teri Le Legi is alone worth the price of a ticket. This Canadian-Indian girl is such an object of desire; she makes other dance girls pale in comparison.

The other selling point of the film is Milap Zaveri's dialogue. Many of the lines are claptraps. But be warned, there's a liberal peppering of filthy lingo that will make you cringe. The performances are largely A-grade. Manoj tops the list. And though he's a Mafioso, his demeanour will get the maidens to melt. Sonu who plays Dilawar, succeeds in spreading menace and speaks eloquently with his eyes.

John is the one with the maximum screen time. From vulnerable to invincible, from a testosterone wonder to a believable actor, Manya is his career's best act. Tusshar is earnest and effective. Kangana may not have the item song benefit but she has recall value as the anguished gangster's moll.

John is the one with the maximum screen time. From vulnerable to invincible, from a testosterone wonder to a believable actor, Manya is his career's best act. Tusshar is earnest and effective. Kangana may not have the item song benefit but she has recall value as the anguished gangster's moll.

Siddhant Kapoor, son of baddie Shakti Kapoor is also a young talent to watch out for.

Anil Kapoor does his encounter specialist act with elan. He's supported ably by Ronit Roy, Mahesh Manjrekar and Jackie Shroff who puts in a guest appearance as the police chief.

SAW ultimately belongs to Gupta, who stays true to the genre and makes a welcome return to the credible lot of Bollywood directors.

Kerala's Haritha V. Kumar secures first rank in civil services examinations

First Keralite in over 20 years to top civil services

By topping the civil services rank list of 2012 Haritha V. Kumar (26) has become the first Keralite in more than 20 years to achieve this distinction.

The last time a candidate from Kerala — Raju Narayanaswamy — bagged the top rank was in 1991.

An engineer by training and an ardent lover of Carnatic music, old Malayalam movie songs and Malayalam literature, Ms. Kumar is currently undergoing training as an Indian Revenue Service Probationer at the National Academy of Customs Excise and Narcotics (NACEN) at Faridabad. Her last shot at the civil services examination was in 2012.

Ms. Kumar, who resides at Thycaud, did her schooling at the St. Theresa’s Convent School in Neyyattinkara near here before joining the Electronics and Communication programme at the Government Engineering College, Barton Hill, here. Choosing Malayalam literature as an optional subject was a foregone conclusion for Ms. Kumar as she prepared to tackle the civil services examinations. She told The Hindu on Friday that empathy, induced by literature’s portrayal of the realities of life, was a much-needed quality in a civil servant. Her other optional subject was Economics.

Even while undergoing training for the IRS, Ms. Kumar had her sights set firmly on the Indian Administrative Service. According to her, the training she received at the NACEN and her daily discussions and debates with fellow officers at NACEN gave her the much-needed confidence and the poise to face the UPSC interview. She is among those who believe that hard, systematic work and unwavering dedication — and not much by way of brilliance — is what it takes to succeed in the civil services examinations.

Daughter of R. Vijayakumar — a businessman— and Chithra Vijayakumar, a homemaker, Ms. Kumar has two younger brothers who are twins. One of them is currently preparing to write the civil services examinations.

Shah Rukh Khan London in June for eighth surgery

Shah Rukh Khan heads to London in June for eighth surgery

After much delay and prolonged pain, it has finally been decided that Shah Rukh Khan will go under the knife for his shoulder pain in London in June.

The surgery that had been postponed for the completion of his shoot for Chennai Express IPL team Kolkata Knight Riders needed him as well, another reason for the delay.

Apparently, the accident-prone Khan has also suffered injuries like three broken ribs, a twisted ankle, a broken right toe, an injury to his left shoulder, a neck injury, a broken back bone and an injured left knee.
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Shah Rukh Khan shoulders the burden
Shah Rukh Khan will be soon going under the knife. The super busy actor had been suffering from shoulder pain since the time he was working on his superhero flick, RA.One (2010). Although he’d undergone treatment for it then, the persistent ache will now require surgery to be cured.

But the actor has decided to get the operation only after he wraps up the shooting for Rohit Shetty’s Chennai Express. Also, since he’s been keeping busy attending the matches played by his T20 team, he wants to schedule the surgery for later, at a more-convenient time.