Salman Khan is a man of his word. At the altar of the season 8 of the reality show ‘Bigg Boss’, Salman Khan, being the host of the show, promised to the TV watching ‘janta’ that if given a chance, he would definitely want to promote Shah Rukh Khan’s soon-to-be released movie ‘Happy New Year’ on the show.
Now, Salman’s equation with Shah Rukh Khan hasn’t been all that hunky dory and that’s why this statement of his grabs the attention of many. However, as expected, Salman Khan didn’t get a chance to honour his word, because reportedly, SRK didn’t approach the producers of the show for the movie promotions.
But make no mistake! Salman is Salman. He went ahead and kept his word.
n the latest weekend episodes of ‘Bigg Boss’, Salman Khan talked about the ‘silly’ quizzes people take on social networking sites to know more about themselves. One of the quizzes is ‘Which Khan are you?’ and quite expectedly one of the options is Salman Khan. So, Salman Khan took the personality test himself to check the authenticity of the quiz.
What do ya know? Salman Khan is not Salman Khan anymore. He was, instead, declared to be Shah Rukh Khan by the quiz. We are not sure about how genuine the answer was, but Salman took it in the lighter vein and imitated SRK’s trademark ‘K K K Kiran’ tone and said, “Kaha thha humne… Happy New Year ko promote karenge!”
Now that’s called ‘killing two birds with one stone,’ and the ‘Dabanng’ Khan is quite a pro at it, we must say.
Kudos to the brotherhood!
India tennis ace, Sania Mirza finds herself at No 6 as the new WTA doubles chart was released on Monday.
Mirza is now at No 6 in the world in the women’s doubles chart after gaining two places.
The 27-year-old, who turned a professional tennis player in 2003 and overcame a career-threatening wrist injury in between, has achieved her career-best rank of No 5 in the world in July this year.
Ankita was the top-ranked Indian in singles at number 310 and was followed by Prarthana Thombare (364).
Saketh, Ramkumar climb ATP singles ranking ladder
Saketh Myneni (right) and Sanam Singh after winning the men’s doubles silver medal at the Asian Games. Photograph: PTI
Riding on his maiden Challenger title win, Saketh Myneni leapfrogged 168 places to be ranked 283 in the ATP singles chart while Ramkumar Ramanathan achieved a career-best spot of 226 following his semifinal appearance at the just-concluded Indore Open.
Saketh, who was ranked 451 coming into the Indore Open, defeated top seed Aleksandr Nedovysov to win the trophy and earn 80 ranking points on Sunday. The tall and big-serving Saketh was best-ranked 256 in March this year.
The 19-year-old Ramkumar also enjoyed an impressive run in Indore as he beat India’s No 2 Yuki Bhambri and Chiand Chinese Tapiei Davis Cupper Ti Chen en route to semifinals.
Devvarman is India’s top singles player
Somdev Devvarman continued to be India’s top singles player at 139, a gain of four places. He was followed by Yuki (179), who also climbed four spots up.
Left-handed Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan was the fifth-highest ranked Indian at number 328.
Meanwhile, Rohan Bopanna topped the doubles chart for the Indians at number 28, two places above legendary Leander Paes.
BJP Parliamentary Board today meet to discuss government formation in Maharashtra, Haryana. This Parliamentary board secretary Jagat Prakash Nadda announced after the meeting that Home Minister Rajnath Singh will visit Mumbai as the BJP observer for Maharashtra to decide the name of new Chief Minister. Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu will be the observer for Haryana.
Party National Vice President Dinesh Sharma will accompany Mr Naidu while party General Secretary Jagat Prakash Nadda will accompany Mr Singh. This was announced by Parliamentary board secretary Jagat Prakash Nadda after the meeting of Parliamentary Board in New Delhi this evening.
The Meeting convened to decide on the formation of government in Maharashtra and Haryana was chaired by BJP President Amit Shah and attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Rural Development and Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari among others.
Modi wave still continues to influence voters: Amit Shah
BJP today asserted that Narendra Modi wave still continues to influence voters. Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, party president Amit Shah said, the results of Haryana and Maharashtra Assembly polls have given a seal of approval on the work of Modi government during the four months at the Centre. He said BJP is going to form government in both the states and Chief Minister in Maharashtra will be from the Party.
Terming the victory in the two states as historic, Mr Shah said that it is set to win 49 seats in Haryana and 121 seats in Maharashtra. He said, the party has never contested elections on so many seats in the states. Shah also said, that party’s vote share has gone up from nine per cent to over 33 per cent in Haryana and from 14 percent to about 28 percent in Maharashtra. BJP President said, the Congress has been relegated to third position and it is not even in a position to get the post of Leader of Opposition in the assemblies.
On breaking up alliance with Shiv Sena, Mr Shah said that BJP respects its allies and it never broke the alliance with Shiv Sena. He said, Shiv Sena is still part of NDA government at the Centre.
Actress Bipasha Basu, who is currently filming supernatural thriller ‘Alone’, continued shooting despite suffering from a swollen ankle.
The 35-year-old actress will be seen alongside TV actor Karan Singh Grover in the Bhushan Patel-directed film. “Ankle swollen! On ‘Alone’ set! Climax shoot going on and me in pain. Don’t like,” Bipasha posted on Instagram alongside a photo of her bandaged ankle.
The 2014 Maharashtra State Assembly Election Results has surely excited political experts with a tough tussle among the top parties to form the government. The Narendra Modi wave was expected to get BJP a record number of seats in this election, and as per trends it rightly did. But despite over a 100 seats (as per trends), BJP finds itself in a soup needing the help of another major party in the state – Shiv Sena, Congress or NCP to form the government. However, among the likely winners in this year’s elections, there have also been some shock defeats.
Here is Narayan Rane: The Indian National Congress (INC) leader Narayan Rane became the first big name in this year Maharashtra Assembly election to face a shocking defeat. Contesting from Kudal, he lost to Shiv Sena’s Vaibhav Naik by over 9,000 votes. One of Prithviraj Chavan’s biggest critics, Rane had previously served as the Maharashtra chief minister when he was with Shiv Sena in the 1990s.a look at the top 5 wins/losses in the 2014 Maharashtra elections so far.
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Prithviraj Chavan: Former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan registered a massive win from Karad (south) defeating seven-time legislator and Congress rebel Vilaskaka Undalkar Patil. The anti-incumbency wave has hit Congress big time this election. Parting ways with NCP and taking digs at long-time allies hasn’t helped their image. However, the win will come as a huge relief.
Ajit Pawar: If Prithviraj Chavan won at Karad, his arch-rival from NCP Ajit pawar too followed up with a win soon from Baramati. Pawar had won from the same constituency thrice earlier and things went of easily on the election result day for the strongman of NCP. Rashtriya Samaj Paksha candidate Mahadeo Jankar offered some challenge, but Pawar comfortably registered his fourth consecutive assembly win from Baramati.
Abu Azmi: Maharashtra president of Samajwadi party Abu Azmi won yet another assembly election from Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar. This was his seventh win in the Maharashtra Assembly election. Azmi came under serious criticism following ill-statements against women and orthodox ideologies towards crime like rapes. Yet, the win proves that Azmi continues to enjoy the support of the people of his constituency.
Devendra Fadnavis: The BJP Maharashtra President Devendra Fadnavis, contesting from Nagpur North-West constituency won with the projection of a Clean Maharashtra campaign. NCP’s old timer Dilip Pankule too was also in the fray, but could do little to make Fadnavis swaet over his chances of winning the seat to the assembly.
| Party | Lead | Win | Total |
| BJP | 0 | 122 | 122 |
| Shivsena | 0 | 63 | 63 |
| Congress | 0 | 42 | 42 |
| NCP | 0 | 41 | 41 |
| MNS | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Others | 0 | 19 | 19 |
Actress Sunny Leone, who’s co-hosting and mentoring the contestants on TV show ‘Splitsvilla’, found herself at the receiving end of a contestant’s outburst. Shravan Reddy lost his cool and hurled a heavy Rajasthani jewellery box at a fellow contestant, but ended up hurting Sunny instead.
The shocked actress hurled abuses at the unruly guy and was in no mood to relent even after Shravan apologises. Says a source, “Sunny had briefed the contestants in the beginning not to get aggressive. The production team had to intervene and sort it out.”
Janata Dal (United) on Saturday made a scathing attack on the Centre for not disclosing information about black money and said the election campaign on the issue by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was based on false promises. “Before elections, BJP on top of its voice made promises that it will bring back black money in the country…what to talk about return of the black money now they are not even disclosing names of account holders,” senior JD(U) leader and former Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said in a facebook post.
Kumar’s snide remark followed the Union Government telling the Supreme Court on Friday that not all information about black money received from foreign nations could be made public. Taking a jibe, Kumar said “If black money issue was a ‘Yogasan’ (yoga exercise) of Swami Ramdev? Was it an empty speech of Narendra Modi or thousands of crore worth ‘staple’ of BJP.” “Whether it was an empty promise to get votes or ‘sirsasan’ (upsidedown yoga exercise) of Modi government which has gone back on its promises?” he said. “Sari batein…jhoot ke dam par sasahan (all talks…coming to power on the basis of falsehood),” Kumar said.
Three people were arrested Friday in connection with an attack here on two youths from Nagaland, police said.
Aloto Chishi alias Sukoy and Awana alias James, working in a call centre here, were injured when they were attacked Wednesday night in Sikanderpur area here near the Mehrauli border.
“Police arrested Gaurav Yadav alias Pony, 23, and his two tenants Ram Bihari and Vijay Kumar for attempt to murder,” Nazneen Bhasin, deputy commissioner of police (east), told reporters.
Bhasin, who is also chief nodal officer for crime against people from northeast region, said the victims live as tenants in the home of Yadav’s cousin.
“Nagaland youths Wednesday night had scuffle over some issue with Yadav but they reached a settlement. Gaurav invited Sukoy and James to have drinks in the room of his tenant.
“The youths were attacked when they refused to have more drinks and were held hostage for whole night,” she said.
Ram Bihari hails from Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh while Vijay Kumar is from Nadia district in West Bengal, the officer said. Both are in their 20s.
The arrested people were Friday presented in a court, which sent them to judicial custody.
The Naga youths – in the age group of 22 to 25 years – were admitted to a state-run hospital here. James was later shifted to a hospital in Delhi as his condition was stated to be critical.
Bangalore, Oct 18:
It’s a festive mood at the residence of J Jayalalitha in Poes Garden.
Unmindful of the heavy downpour, thousands of AIADMK cadres have been waiting patiently since morning to see their leader Jayalalithaa, who is on her way from Bangalore after being released from the jail there.
The crowd seems to be increasing in number steadily since afternoon even as Jayalalithaa is expected to arrive at her residence at around 7 p.m., party workers gathered outside her residence said.
D Ramesh, a party functionary from Royapuram, said “I don’t want to leave this place without seeing her.”
A large number of women too have gathered at Poes Garden since morning on the hope that their leader will say a few words – usually from the balcony on major occasions.
Sources said that Jayalalithaa is expected to arrive in Chennai by a charter flight shortly and likely to head directly to her Poes Garden residence. It is, however, not clear whether she will visit the party headquarters, where supporters have been celebrating since morning.
It is also learnt that a human chain is likely to be formed by her right from the Chennai airport till her residence.
PTI reports:
AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa was today released from jail here after 21 days, a day after Supreme Court granted her bail in an 18-year-old disproportionate assets case.
Jayalalithaa stepped out of Parappana Agrahara Central Prison shortly after Special Court Judge John Michael D’ Cunha issued the release order.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Pannerselvam, several ministers, MPs and legislators received her near the prison after which she headed to HAL airport to fly back to Chennai by a special flight.
Jayalalithaa had yesterday got a major relief when the Supreme Court granted her conditional bail and suspended the sentence of four years simple imprisonment given by the trial court in Bangalore in the 18-year-old illegal assets case.
Earlier, the release order by the Special Court came after a bond for Rs. two crore and surety on assets for more than Rs. one crore was furnished for Jayalalitha. Copy of the Supreme Court order was also produced by her lawyers.
Jayalalithaa’s close aide Sasikala and her relatives Sudhakaran and Elavarasi, who also fufilled similar conditions, also walked out of jail.
AIADMK supporters carrying Jayalalithaa’s photos and holding flowers broke into celebrations as her motorcade passed through the heavily guarded route from the prison.
Hundreds of policemen, including city armed reserve, were posted in and around the prison, with authorities clamping prohibitory orders anticipating huge flow of AIADMK supporters.
With the AIADMK chief enjoying ‘Z’ Plus category, police had stepped up security supervised by senior officials and barricaded the areas in and around the prison complex and blocked access one km away on the road leading to the prison.
Pannerselvam and his entourage had reached Bangalore in the morning.
At the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border point on Hosur also, police and city armed reserve kept a close vigil and regulated the movement of vehicles from the neighbouring state into the city. The jail is located about 20 km from the Hosur point.
Groups of AIADMK supporters had gathered at Hosur entry point chanting slogans hailing their leader.
Jayalalithaa and three others had moved the Supreme Court after failing to get relief from the Karnataka High Court.
Hong Kong chief secretary Carrie Lam said talks with student protesters will take place on Tuesday afternoon (Oct 21), and that discussions will be focused on constitutional reform
HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s embattled government said it will open talks with student protesters on Tuesday (Oct 21), after three nights of clashes between police and demonstrators who have staged huge pro-democracy rallies for nearly three weeks.
The city’s leader Leung Chun-ying made a dramatic U-turn on Thursday as he announced a resumption of talks with the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS), one of the groups leading the protests, after abruptly pulling out of discussions a week earlier.
“Right now we are planning that it will take place on the afternoon of Tuesday, October 21,” Leung’s deputy Carrie Lam told reporters on Saturday (Oct 18). Lam said the talks would be focused on constitutional reform.
There was no immediate response from protesters, who have held sit-ins at three major intersections causing significant disruption to a city usually known for its stability.
Demonstrators are calling for Beijing to grant the former British colony full democracy and for Leung to resign. Beijing insists that candidates for the 2017 vote must be vetted by a loyalist committee – and Leung warned that China’s Communist authorities have no intention of backing down.
Violent clashes took place late Friday night where police used batons and pepper spray against protesters shielding themselves with umbrellas on a normally busy road in the Mongkok region of the city.
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