Simon Cowell has proclaimed Whitney Houston to be “one of the greatest superstars of all time.” The music mogul and X Factor judge is one of a number of high-profile stars to pay tribute to the 48-year-old singer, who died in a hotel room on February 11, saying he was “devastated” by her passing.

Minnie Driver wants to win an Oscar. The Hunky Dory actress is keen to be recognised for her work and thinks getting the prestigious accolade from the Academy would be the ultimate honour.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan seems to be rather content with her post-pregnancy flab, but Lara Dutta is in a tearing hurry to knock it all off. The actress, who gave birth to a baby girl last month, has set about regaining her hourglass figure with a vengeance. In fact, she has even enlisted the help of her good friend and celeb fitness trainer Deanne Pandey to this end.

Don’t be surprised if you see the cops descend down on movie theatres! Over the next few months, three Bollywood films centred around the police force are supposed to hit cinemas. And what’s more, all three — Sanjay Dutt’s Department, Sonu Sood’s Maximum and the sequel to Ab Tak Chappan — promise a “realistic” look at the functioning of the men in khaki.

Post Agneepath, Hrithik Roshan is not about to repeat the action genre anytime soon. It’s comedy that is atop his priority list now.

Katrina Kaif owes a lot to Prakash Jha. It was Jha’s Rajneeti that first portrayed her as a serious actress, someone who’s more than just a pretty face and a glam doll image. But for all the courage that Jha showed in trusting Kat with such a key role, he was rather put off by her. The creative differences the two had while filming Rajneeti meant he left Kat out of his next venture Aarakshan.

In what may be called an attempt of enhancing trust between the anti-talk faction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and New Delhi, the peace interlocutor for the Northeast militant groups P.C. Haldar had an informal meeting with NDFB chief Ranjan Daimary inside central jail here on Friday.

A shutdown called by separatists on the anniversary of pro-independence Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) co-founder Muhammad Maqbool Butt, who was hanged in Delhi’s Tihar jail on this day in 1984 on a murder conviction, brought life to a standstill in the Valley.

The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam has claimed yet another life.
Dr Shailesh Yadav, 45, a deputy chief medical officer posted in Varanasi was killed in a road mishap, on Friday night on the outskirts of Varanasi.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Jodhpur on Saturday issued orders to attach the property of absconding Indira Bishnoi, an accused in the murder of nurse Bhanwari Devi. Indira Bishnoi is the sister of Congress MLA Malkhan Singh Bishnoi. The court accepted the CBI’s plea to order attachment of her property as she refused to come for questioning. Indira had been declared absconder on January 11.