She has worked with some of Bollywood’s biggest directors like Rakeysh Mehra, Sudhir Mishra and Imtiaz Ali and yet, many will find it difficult to recollect Aditi Rao Hydari. However, one hopes things will start looking up for the actress post her upcoming film London Paris New York.

UP chief minister Mayawati on Sunday put up a brave front and said that by covering statues of the elephant and herself, the BSP had got a major advantage because dalits were now filled with anger at the decision and her cadres were “doubly determined” to vote the BSP back to power.

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, in a rare gesture, has offered to bail out about 250 jail inmates in Uttar Pradesh who are languishing behind the bars because they cannot afford to pay the fine that the court has fixed for them.
Salman has offered to bail out the hapless prisoners through an NGO that recently approached the state officials with the offer.

The Panna Tiger Reserve authorities on Friday succeeded in putting a radio collar and bringing under surveillance one of the two semi-adult 21-month-old male tigers born to T1 —one of the two tigresses brought to Panna from Bandhavgarh and Kanha in March 2009 under the ambitious plan to repopulate the Panna habitat following extinction of tigers from this area.

Twelve people, including two women, were killed in a stampede at Hussain Tekri, falling under the Jawra Industrial Area police station of Ratlam district in western Madhya Pradesh, early on Saturday morning.

In what appears to be a mega scam in Bihar’s education department, enrolments of over three lakh out of some 10 lakh students shown to have been admitted in the state’s primary and middle schools have been found to be fake.

After back-to-back assaults on college principals, the assistant headmaster of a Nadia school was attacked by a Trinamul Congress activist. Dipak Guha Roy, the assistant headmaster of Kendriya Adarsh Vidalaya at Madanpur in Chakdah police station area was allegedly caught by the collar and dragged out of his chair by a Trinamul Congress activist Dilip Guha after he refused to promote some students who had failed.

Punjabis are known for their hospitality and flamboyance, but thanks to a proactive Election Commission in the state, both these qualities are missing from the election campaigning in Punjab this time. “Sober campaigning” would not be a euphemism, considering the fact that Elections Commission is counting even the number of tea cups served by a particular candidate in public meetings now.

The guns have fallen silent and the shadow of fear is gradually receding.
Dreaded dacoits have been eliminated and the fear of the bullet has evaporated, particularly in the Bundelkhand region.

In a bid to woo its land-locked southern neighbour, China on Saturday offered $135 million in aid to Nepal to beef up its infrastructure and security during a brief surprise visit by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.