They may be singing each other’s praises now in rather saccharine tones, but it seems Madhavan wasn’t too happy with having Bipasha Basu for a co-star when filming on Jodi Breakers first started. “Madhavan was already on board for Jodi Breakers when director Ashwini Chaudhary informed him that he was considering Bips for the female lead. Maddy wasn’t overtly enthusiastic about the choice and expressed his reservations to Ashwini,” a little birdie tells us.

Salman Khan is on the hunt for a powerful onscreen nemesis for Dabangg 2. The only problem: there’s just a month left for the shoot to start.

Whether Ek Deewana Tha works or not at the box office, we hope the sizzling chemistry between lead pair Amy Jackson and Prateik will.

First she delivered a superhit with her desi girl turn in Dostana. Then Agneepath became the film to beat in January 2012. Whichever way you look at it, Priyanka Chopra has brought good tidings indeed to Dharma productions. Which makes it fairly obvious (and good business sense) for her to be their numero uno choice when it comes to future projects.

India on Friday successfully test-fired its indigenously developed interceptor Advanced Air Defence-05 (AAD).
According to defence source, the AAD-05 successfully hit a ballistic missile at a height of 15 km off the coast of Orissa, near Wheelers Island.

While “don-turned politician” Mukhtar Ansari is contesting in the second phase of the UP Assembly election on the banner of his newly formed Qaumi Ekta Dal from Mau and Ghosi Assembly seats, Hari Shan

It is a piquant situation in this family — one that few would wish in politics.
The father is contesting as an Independent and his main rival is from the Bahujan Samaj Party.
The elder son is a BSP MP while the younger one is contesting another seat as a BSP candidate. The sons, therefore, cannot help the father and are forced to throw in their lot with his rival.

State DGP Anil M. Navaney on Friday took the unprecedented decision to “personally” probe the killing of District Auxiliary Force (DAF) jawan Kartam Surjya, described as “Chhattisgarh’s hero” in security circles here, for leading many daring operations against Naxals in south Bastar, in the Naxal ambush at Morgunda in Sukma district on Thursday, amidst speculation that a “rebel mole” in the police might have pushed him into the death trap.

Calling the CBI and the CAG two pathologists who do mostly post-mortems, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday said that he has proposed to establish an independent network of institutions to undertake concurrent evaluation of all projects of his ministries. He said the idea is to have not only financial performance reports but also physical performance feedback on the real time basis.

In a bid to improve the UPA-II’s image, the top ministers of the Union government are likely to travel across the states to interact with the local media and hold GoM briefings there if need be.