In December some hot Bollywood babes featured on magazine covers and grabbed many eyeballs. While we know these Bollywood divas glorifies every look they are entitled to, we bring to you the best of ten hot magazine Bollywood cover girls in the month of December 2014.

1. Raveena Tandon – Savvy magazine

As the cover girl Raveena Tandon surprised the viewers with her bold red avatar on the magazine front. Well the quote read, “ Salman And I did not get along from day 1” and this surely makes it obvious for the readers to know more. The diva rocked her look with red outfit and bold red lipstick.

9.Alia Bhatt – Femina Magazine

Alia Bhatt features for this special edition of Femina magazine which celebrates 55^th Anniversary. She is the perfect choice considering the tag line ‘ Be Unstoppable’. Well the entire look of the magazine is in shades of black and white. Alia Bhatt manages to look good in her unique hair do and the stripe black high neck outfit. The main highlight is her boots. She surely glorifies the whole look.

8. Richa Chadda – FHM

The two-piece attire is already a charmer on the magazine cover and with that we have Richa Chaddha who is setting temperatures high. She has that sexy look in her eyes. The turquoise and gold bikini is teamed up with buttoned down white shirt revealing the best of the actress on the magazine cover of FHM.

7.Parineeti Chopra- Prevention

With the white tank top and blue skirt Parineeti Chopra does what she does it best and that is to smile naturally. Well this beauty shows off her beautiful smile and her lean look on the magazine cover of Prevention. She surely defines ‘ Slim and Sunny effortlessly’.

6. Sonakshi Sinha – Maxim

Sonakshi Sinha features on the Maxim Magazine with a close up of the actress and her off shoulder white net top giving her the perfect look. The caption read ‘ Bringing Curvy Back’ and with the cover surely brings the message out to the viewers perfectly. She surely wins heart with her eyes that do the talking.

 5.Shraddha Kapoor – Women’s Health

On the cover of Women’s Health magazine Shraddha Kapoor unveils the best part of her, which is beautiful, bold and carefree. Her picture says a lot. The actress has surely wooed the viewers with her looks on the magazine cover, the charming smile and her bodycon beige shimmery outfit.

4.Katrina Kaif – Vogue Magazine

Katrina Kaif surely makes a perfect style statement and with Vogue Magazine cover girl she once again proved her hotness quotient. She is seen in a golden metallic ensemble and the best part is her hair which adds the oomph factor to the whole look.

3. Vidya Balan – Cineblitz

The actress who is enriched with her Indian ethnic looks, flaunts it on the Cineblitz magazine cover. With the pink saree and black blouse with embroidery, she portrays hotness with a grace and charm. Definitely this beautiful actress knows how to grab eyeballs with her looks.

2. Anushka Sharma – GQ Magazine

Anushka Sharma, who is more known as the girl next door is surely going to surprise the audience with her sexy look on the GQ magazine cover. With the golden shimmery cut out dress highlighting her assets she is one of the hottest magazine cover girl.

1. Priyanka Chopra – Grazia Magazine

The best part about Priyanka Chopra is her confidence. This Hollywood singer and the Bollywood diva surely does things in style be it anything – acting, singing or simply showing her killer looks. She depicts the best of her in black sheer attire on the Grazia Magazine cover. The best is her eyes. She is definitely going to set the temperatures soaring.

Man Haron Monis, the Sydney hostage-taker killed in a 16-hour siege, was a self-styled sheikh with his own Wikipedia entry who was on bail when he emerged as a lone wolf gunman.

Born in Iran, the 50-year-old was named in reports hours before being gunned down as the “cleric” who triggered a security lockdown in the heart of Australia’s biggest city by unfurling an Islamic flag and holding several people captive in a chocolate cafe.

Arriving in Australia as a refugee in 1996, Monis was no stranger to controversy.

Convicted over sending offensive letters to the families of dead soldiers, he was on bail on charges of being an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife and for sexual and indecent assault, multiple Australian outlets reported.

His personal website, before it was taken down Tuesday, featured a banner photo with graphic images of dead Arab children, with the caption: “This is an evidence for the terrorism of America and its allies including Australia. The result of their airstrikes.”

The gunman converted from Shiism to Sunni Islam, according to a post on his website. The Sunni-based Islamic State and other jihadist groups consider Shiites heretics, or rejectionists — “rafidi” — of true Islam.

“I used to be a rafidi, but not anymore. Now I am a Muslim, Alhamdu Lillah,” he said.

On his website, self-styled Sheikh Haron, also known as Man Haron Monis, says his children have been “taken away by the Australian government” and that he is not allowed to contact them.

Monis was on bail for dozens of charges, including 22 of aggravated sexual assault and 14 of aggravated indecent assault, according to the Australian Associated Press.

Stemming from his time as a “spiritual healer”, an additional 40 charges were levelled against him in October and he was also on bail for being an accessary to murder.

The Sydney Morning Herald said it was understood that days before Monday’s siege, Monis had lost a bid to have the charges over the letters overturned.

Showing a flair for the dramatic, a photograph said to be from his Facebook page published by the Business Insider showed him in chains with a poster claiming “I have been tortured in prison for my political letters.

Monis has said the crimes he has been accused of in the past were attempts to smear him.

“These cases are in fact political cases against this Muslim activist, not real criminal cases.”

He compared himself to Wikileaks’ Julian Assange on his website, saying both were activists facing government-backed smear campaigns.

He also counted astrology, numerology, meditation and black magic among his expertise, according to reports.

Before the raid, Monis had reportedly demanded an Islamic State flag and a phone call with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

But police and Monis’s former lawyer Manny Conditsis said the public could be assured that the siege was not the work of an organised terrorist group.

“This is a one-off random individual,” he told the ABC. “It’s not a concerted terrorism event or act. It’s a damaged-goods individual who’s done something outrageous.”

The Australian newspaper called him a “self-styled sheikh” who had sent offensive letters to the families of dead Australian soldiers and was on bail on charges of being an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife.

It said Monis — shown in local media in a photo smiling and sporting a beard and a white turban — lived in Sydney’s southwest and was “understood to be a fringe Islamist”.

The Centre today alerted the states in the wake of Peshawar school massacre to the heightened possibility of terror attacks ahead of US President Barack Obama’s visit to India next month.

In a country-wide advisory, the Home Ministry has asked the law enforcement agencies to take all measures towards “target hardening” of vulnerable places and installations.

This includes public places with high footfalls, public transport including railways and schools in particular.

“In the light of the attack on a school in Pakistan, there appears to be an immediate requirement to scale up security around schools and other educational institutions which are considered more vulnerable due to a variety of factors,” the Home Ministry advisory said.

The advisory referred to the terror attacks in Peshawar and Sydney in last two days, the recent developments with regard to ISIS both in India and the Middle East and said it has heightened the possibility of terrorist attack in the light of the ensuing visit of the President of USA to India for the Republic Day functions.

“In the light of the attack on a school in Pakistan, there appears to be an immediate requirement to scale up security around schools and other educational institutions which are considered more vulnerable due to a variety of factors,” it said.

The Home Ministry said till the end of January next the security forces and intelligence agencies need to remain on a very high alert mode to prevent untoward incidents witnessed recently elsewhere in neighbourhood as well as other parts of the world,” he said.

Also in another related advisory, the Home Ministry said there have been reports that LeT is looking for targeting two unspecified hotel in New Delhi and an unspecified highway between New Delhi and Agra.

As per complaints were received by Real news of India, by local residents a sting operation with the help of Social Service branch and with the initiative of Real News of India was executed at 1pm on 16^th December. In the operation three pimps and three prostitutes were arrested. These pimps operate all over Mumbai with their clients from upper middle class and the rich. This racket has been going on for the past 12 years and location is Hill Road, in very close proximity to Bandra West Police station.

Real News of India received a lot of complaints from local residents about the illegal activities going around Hill Road. The police did not take any action towards this matter. It is now to be seen as to how Bandra West Police station takes up this issue.

Three girls have been arrested along with 3 pimps. They are at present under the custody of Bandra West Police Station. These girls hail from Kolkata and Delhi. There are many more prostitutes operating under this racket. The deal is done on a moving car. The rate is fixed by the pimp and then the girl is now transferred to the next car of the client. The ongoing rate per girl ranges from R4,000-Rs 25,000. Most of the girls come to Mumbai through the network of these pimps.

SS branch is active in these kinds of raids which are mostly prostitution, betting and CD piracy. They then hand over the case to the respective Police Station. However SS branch are very much in shortage of staff. Most of these illegal activities are happening in very close proximity of any given police station. It is a matter of concern and curiosity as to how the police do not know about these activities.

Five students from Sikkim and studying AT the Degree College of Physical Education (DCPE) Maharashtra (Amravati) run by famous Hanuman Vyayam Prasarak Mandal (HVPM) were severely injured in a clash over a minor dispute, police said.

The injured have been identified as Pempa, Lako, Prayaz Chhetri, Subhalal, Shishir Chhetri (all from Sikkim) and Mayur Kumar (from Delhi). They have been admitted to hospital.

Police said Pempa is in a critical condition.

According to police, a heated exchange of words between two students from Sikkim and Delhi in the afternoon, in which the Delhi student gave Ama ko galee to the student from Sikkim turned into a full-blown fight at the entrance of the college.

Police said Pempa, a basketball player, was attacked with stones by a group of 15-20 students from Delhi.

“Pempa ran for his life towards Gandhi Chowk and took shelter in a cracker shop belonging to one Thakur. His attackers chased him there and asked Thakur to hand him over to them. As Thakur refused, the group pelted his shop with stones,” said DCP Moreshwar Gharge.

The students also allegedly attacked some passersby and damaged private vehicles parked in the area.

Police have arrested one Bhajanlal Kishanchand Sharma in this connection, while other students are at large.

Gharge said that police are yet to register a case in this regard.

Nothing has been done to assist the students from Sikkim, while the arrested culprit is being given full facility.

NEW DELHI: Replacing old systems, adopting new technology, updating signaling system and educating staff are some of the steps Indian Railways have taken to increase safety and prevent accidents, the Lok Sabha was told today.

Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha said Railways is taking all possible steps to prevent accidents and enhance safety.

He said timely replacement of over-aged assets, adoption of suitable technologies, regular monitoring and educating staff about the issue of safety are some of the various measures adopted.

In response to a supplementary question, he said the gross expenditure on specific safety related activities has increased over the years.

In 2013-14, Rs 39,090 crore were spent on safety related activities. The budgetary estimates for 2014-15 for safety are Rs 43,443 crore, he said.
As on April 1, there were 2,25,863 vacancies in the 16 railway zones relating to posts under various categories, including safety.

Ranbir Kapoor might have missed the thunder with no releases in 2014, but with the onset of New Year and even prior to that, the Kapoor boy is surely making headlines. Some for his alleged love affair with Katrina Kaif and some for his upcoming films. The first look of his upcoming thriller Roy was revealed recently.

Black and white and very vintage, the Roy first look was revealed, sans the leading lady Jacqueline Fernandez. The first look captures a grungy, bearded Arjun Rampal sitting with a pensive Ranbir Kapoor. Despite the Kapoor Junior’s presence, Arjun’s rugged avatar seems to overshadow Ranbir’s in the picture. There’s a certain old world charm attached to the picture, giving it a very ’50s touch and B&W just adds on to the mood.

Though Jacqueline is missing from the first look, we hope to see her in the posters along with the two B-town hunks. But as for now, Arjun has certainly stolen all the thunder from Ranbir. But given Ranbir’s powerful acting prowess, there’s more to look out for in Roy, we believe

Downing Street says UK intelligence asked for redactions to be made in Senate report on the grounds of national security

References to Britain’s intelligence agencies were deleted at their request from the damning US report on the CIA’s use of torture after 9/11, it has emerged.

A spokesman for David Cameron acknowledged the UK had been granted deletions in advance of the publication, contrasting with earlier assertions by No 10. Downing Street said any redactions were only requested on “national security” grounds and contained nothing to suggest UK agencies had participated in torture or rendition.

However, the admission will fuel suspicions that the report – while heavily critical of the CIA – was effectively sanitised to conceal the way in which close allies of the US became involved in the global kidnap and torture programme that was mounted after the al-Qaida attacks.

On Wednesday, the day the report was published, asked whether redactions had been sought, Cameron’s official spokesman told reporters there had been “none whatsoever, to my knowledge”.

However, on Thursday, the prime minister’s deputy official spokesman said: “My understanding is that no redactions were sought to remove any suggestion that there was UK involvement in any alleged torture or rendition. But I think there was a conversation with the agencies and their US counterparts on the executive summary. Any redactions sought there would have been on national security grounds in the way we might have done with any other report.”

The two main cases relevant to the involvement of Britain’s spying agencies related to Binyam Mohamed, a UK citizen tortured and secretly flown to Guantánamo Bay, and the abduction of Abdel Hakim Belhaj and Sami-al-Saadi, two prominent Libyan dissidents, and their families, who were flown to Tripoli in 2004 where they were tortured by Muammar Gaddafi’s secret police.

There is no reference at all in the Senate’s 500-page summary report to UK intelligence agencies or the British territory of Diego Garcia used by the US as a military base. But the executive summary contained heavy redactions throughout, prompting speculation that references to US allies has been erased.

In the wake of the Senate report, the UK government is coming under increasing pressure to order a more transparent inquiry into the actions of MI5 and MI6 amid claims of British complicity in the US torture programme.

Asked about the need for a full public inquiry, Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, conceded yesterday that he was open to the idea if an outstanding investigation by the parliamentary intelligence and security committee, which meets weekly in secret, leaves remaining questions unanswered. No 10 also suggested Cameron had not ruled this out if the ISC does not settle the torture issue.

The government had initially commissioned an inquiry by retired judge Sir Peter Gibson to look at the UK’s treatment of detainees after 9/11. However, he only managed a preliminary report raising 27 serious questions about the behaviour of the UK security services, before it was replaced by an investigation handled by the ISC in December last year.

The ISC’s report on the UK’s involvement in rendition after 9/11 will not, however, be completed before next year’s election, so it is unclear how many members of the nine-strong panel of MPs and peers will still be in parliament to complete the work.

The current chair, former foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind, said that the ISC’s previous examination of the UK’s involvement in rendition in 2007, which absolved the agencies, had “quite rightly been severely criticised, because the committee at the time wasn’t given by MI6 all the material in their files”.

Rifkind said he was confident that that would not happen again. Yet the current ISC investigation will not examine the two key cases of the Libyan dissidents being kidnapped and delivered to the Gaddafi regime because they are the subject of a police inquiry.

MPs from all three main parties said the UK agencies’ requests for deletions from the US underlined the need for a more transparent public inquiry than the one being conducted by the ISC, which hands its reports to Downing Street for pre-approval.

David Davis, the Tory MP and former shadow home secretary, said: “Downing Street’s U-turn on its previous denial that redactions had taken place tell us what we already know – that there was complicity, and that it wasn’t reflected in the Senate report. “We know from the behaviour of the previous government with respect to the Binyam Mohamed case, that the term national security includes national embarrassment.”

Sarah Teather, the Lib Dem former children’s minister, also added: “It’s not good enough to kick it into the future and hope a future government will pick it up. We’ve had all sorts of semi-inquiries. Watching what’s happened in the last couple of days, as comments flip around, that’s the experience of campaigners who’ve been trying to get justice on behalf of people who have accused the British intelligence services of acting in this way.”

Diane Abbott, the Labour MP, said that “as a first step we need to know what was removed from the reports” and secondly more must be revealed about what UK government ministers knew at the time.

The US is at least trying to be honest about what went on,” she said. “To their shame, the UK authorities are still trying to hide their complicity in torture. We need to know how much ministers knew. And if they didn’t know why not?”

Earlier Abbott, who ran for the Labour leadership against both Miliband brothers, said ex-foreign secretary David Miliband needed to be “completely transparent” about his involvement in the era.

But Ed Miliband came to his brother’s strong defence as he was asked yesterday whether the former cabinet minister had “questions to answer”.

“He’s talked about these things in the past,” the Labour leader said. “I know how seriously he took these things in government. I know he answered questions about this in the House of Commons while he was in government. He is never someone who would ever countenance the British state getting involved in this sort of activity.”

Pressed on whether Tony Blair had questions to answer, Ed Miliband said: “Anyone who has read this report will be deeply troubled. I’m not going to speak for that report.

“The government has previously announced an inquiry into these issues, and then held off on the inquiry because there are court cases going on. It’s right to let those court cases take their course here.”