Deepika bowls over MSD, the Man in Blue
Mahender Singh Dhoni, or MSD, as we call him, has been bowled over. The honors have not been done by a strike bowler, but by a pretty damsel. Yes, its true that Mahender Singh ...

Kareena Kapoor fascination with Non-Veg food
As it is popularly known now, Kareena Kapoor, Karisma Kapoor's sister, is going out with none other than Chotte Nawab of Bollywood, Saif Ali Khan. Her close friends have been telli...

Indian Police hunt for monkey god
Kim Dang Moon, of South Korea recently made a complaint regarding reading glasses that were stolen from his hotel room. Indian Police in the town of Varanasi are now hunting the pe...

Pratibha Patil | India's First Woman President
Pratibha Patil will be India's first woman president after winning a comprehensive election victory, Indian officials say. Mrs Patil, the former governor of Rajasthan, a Norther...

Deepak Chopra visits Yahoo
World-renowned medical doctor, speaker, and spiritual leader Dr. Deepak Chopra paid a visit to the Yahoo Headquarters this past week - as part of Yahoo's Influentials speaker serie...

Richard Gere faces Indian arrest warrant
A court in Jaipur, in Rajasthan state, has issued an arrest warrant for Hollywood actor Richard Gere after he kissed Bollywood star and Celebrity Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty i...

NRI Montessori Headmistress convicted
NRI and one time headmistress of the elite Montessori School of New York, Lina Sinha, 40, was convicted Thursday on two counts of oral sodomy with a minor, and one count of felon...

Valentine's Day in India
Despite complaints from religious groups that it is an affront to Indian tradition and culture, and further westernizing the Indian populous, Valentine's Day has now become a widel...

Rival Indian telecoms welcome Vodafone
Less than 24 hours after the announcement that Vodafone will buy a controlling stake in Hutchison Essar, rival mobile phone providers have welcomed the deal. Reliance Communication...

Bollywood's Shilpa Shetty wins Big Brother
Shipla Shetty, the 31 year old Indian actress at the center of the racism row that dominated Celebrity Big Brother has been named the winner. Shetty broke into tears upon hearin...

Bollywood's Aishwarya Rai to wed Abhishek Bachchan
Putting an end to all kinds of media speculation, it has been announced that the former Miss World and leading Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai and fellow Bollywood actor Abhishek B...

Life in Prison for Indian model killer
The son of India's governing Congress party has been sentanced to life in prison for the murder of Jessica Lal in 1999. Manu Sharma, the son of former federal minister Venod Sha...

Condoms 'too big' for Indian men
A survey of more than 1,200 Indian men has concluded that condoms made according to international sizes are too big for a majority of Indian men. The two-year study, carried out...

Wal-Mart enters Indian Market
After talks ended between Bharti Enterprises and Britain's Tesco retail chain last week, now US supermarket giant Wal-Mart has announced it is about to enter into the Indian retail...

Bollywood brings "Cash" to Cape Town
"Cash", the appropriately named first Indian movie to be set and filmed in Cape Town, has prompted high hopes that Bollywood bucks will soon flow big time into the South African ci...

Othello - Shakespeare done Bollywood Style
The Bard arrived in Bollywood yesterday with the release of the first big-budget cinema version of a Shakespeare play in India: Omkara, an adaptation of Othello. Instead of the Moo...

Indian Government orders ISPs to block websites
On Friday, India's Department of Telecomunications (DoT) passed an order to Indian ISPs to block several websites. While the list of websites is confidential, sites known to be ...

Bollywood song for England
A 14 year old Northolt, England girl with Muscular Distrophy, and Cerebal Palsy, has written a song with a Bollywood twist to show support for her 2 favorite things - World Cup foo...

Housing Market tough for Meat Lovers
Instead of the typical questions; "Do you smoke ... do you have pets ... do you have children ... or do you play loud music?", many Mumbai house hunters find themselves being asked...

Disney to make Bollywood 'High School Musical'
Disney has announced it is planning to make a Bollywood feature-film version of 'High School Musical', a TV musical based loosely on Shakespere's 'Romeo and Juliet', using actors f...

Fanaa Boycott : Gujarat Multiplexes
Gujarat ruling party BJP's Yuva Morcha has threatened theatre and mutiplex owners in Gujarat that any theatres screening Aamir Khan's latest film, 'Fanaa', slated for release on Ma...

Preity Zinta: Humiliated at Cannes
DWW last week told you about Preity Zinta at the Cannes Film Festival, well there is apparently more to this story. Sources report that Preity, escorted by Karan Johar , looked ...

Bollywood Represented at Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes International Film Festival, 2006, began on May 17. It is the place for film stars and producers worldwide to promote their business, and Bollywood, India's version of H...

Preity Zinta will promote her movie at Cannes
Gorgeous Bollywood actress Preity Zinta is excited to be promoting her soon-to-be released Hindi movie "Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna" (Never Say Goodbye) at the Cannes Film Festival in Fr...

India to launch NetPC with mobile phone processor
BANGALORE: TeNet, a consortium of IIT Madras and other entrepreneurs will launch a Net PC, a basic computer using processor that is used in Mobile phones. Dr Ashok Jhunjhunwala,...

Sanjay Kapur wants to become Samaira's next friend
Bollywood actress Karisma Kapoor's husband Sanjay Kapur moved an application before the Delhi High Court on Wednesday, seeking to implead their five- month-old daughter Samaira as ...

Jailed Ebay executive sparks debate
With more Bollywood actresses now beginning to reveal much more skin on the silver screen, and with the infiltration of major western high tech industries into India, and thus havi...

Woman lands Bollywood film role after fainting
Talk about luck! I find it really funny that her father says that he has "decided to let her try" being a film star ... Shoot, she will probably make 10 times as much as a Bollywoo...

DVR students, medicos clash at Ghandi
Hyderabad, Oct. 4: Gandhi Hospital became a battleground on Monday, with students from Sangareddy?s DVR College of Engineering trashing the hospital and attacking medical students ...

Bollywood Turns to Sex, Nudity and Lesbianism
The latest news to come out of Bollywood is that producers are looking for new faces that are ready do expose and do it all, to break into Bollywood. The first actre...

Bollywood Star to Sue Canadian Newspaper
Bollywood film star Sanjay Dutt is considering legal action against the Canadian newspaper, The Calgary Herald, which branded him a ?Bollywood terror suspect.? Speaking from Los...

Former Femina Miss India Nafisa Joseph dead.
Today's front page comes to us with great sadness. Miss India 1997, as well as one of India's most popular MTV VeeJays, Nafisa Joseph, was found dead in her Mumbai flat late thursd...

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