Mumbai: The Social Service Branch (SSB) of Mumbai police has busted a high-profile prostitution racket in Andheri and rescued an aspiring actress and two models from the spot. The officials have also arrested a woman and her son who were allegedly operating the racket. After a tip-off, the SSB and a special team from Oshiwara police station sent a bogus customer to Pataliputra housing society, Andheri (West), early on Thursday...
01:50 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: Kalki Koechlin comes from a non-film background, but the actress has managed to carve a niche for herself with her unconventional choice of scripts. She however admits it is hard to keep up the good work in filmdom. "I feel lucky enough to have had a good start by working in alternate niche films like 'Dev D' that have a different style. I have got an opportunity to...
02:27 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is all set to attend the Cannes film festival this year, it has been confirmed. This will be the 38-year-old's 11th time on the red carpet at the French Riviera and her five-month-old daughter Aradhya also might accompany her. Aishwarya's representative has confirmed her presence at the festival as the face of cosmetic giant L'Oreal, of which the former beauty queen is a...
02:19 PM, May 12, 2012
CHENNAI: Actor Ranjitha on Friday approached a magistrate court here for filing a complaint against Kanchi mutt senior pontiff Jayendra Saraswati for allegedly making a defamatory statement against her.As per sec. 200 of the Criminal Procedure Code, whoever files a criminal defamation complaint must be present before the magistrate court and file the complaint. However, when the matter was called up before the I Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, for taking...
10:35 AM, May 12, 2012
The 'Dirty Picture' might have been deemed too dirty for television viewing but it has won Vidya balan the Best Actress National Film Award. ...
06:33 PM, May 03, 2012
Mumbai: Yesteryear actress Achala Sachdev, who featured in the popular song 'Ae Meri Zohra Jabeen' from the film 'Waqt', has died following a prolonged illness. She was 88. For the last seven months, the actress was bed-ridden at the Poona Hospital and Research Centre (PHRC), Pune. "She passed away due to respiratory failure at 5.30 PM yesterday. She was bed-ridden for about six months after she suffered a cerebrovascular (brain...
05:48 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Mumbai: Model Simran Sood, who was held in connection with the murder case of aspiring producer Karan Kakkar, was on Friday arrested for her suspected role in the murder case of Delhi-based businessman Arunkumar Tikku as well, police said. Sood was produced in the court as her custody in the Kakkar case ended on Friday and the magistrate remanded her to judicial custody. However, she was soon arrested in the...
01:17 PM, Apr 27, 2012
Mumbai: Cops now have reason to believe that late international model Viveka Babajee, who took her own life in 2010, may have been driven to suicide over Simran Soods growing closeness to her then boyfriend, financial stockbroker and socialite Gautam Vora. Police sources suspect that Simran could well be the reason behind the unexpected suicide by the well-known ramp model. Babajee had been found hanging from the ceiling in her...
12:48 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Mumbai: In the latest twist in the murder of aspiring film producer Karan Kumar Kakkad, a CCTV footage has emerged showing two of the main accused at a Mumbai shopping mall. The CCTV footage shows the two accused, Vijay Palande and Ganesh Shinde, at a shopping mall in Mumbai on March 9 where they allegedly used Kakkad's credit cards to make purchases. Police say Palande confessed that they murdered Kakkad...
06:10 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Mumbai: Days after his arrest for allegedly masterminding TV actor Anuj Tikku's father's murder, Vijay Palande, who even claimed complete innocence in the case, made a shocking confession to another murder. Palande revealed on Monday that he killed and then dumped aspiring film producer Karan Kakkars body, following which cops have recovered disembodied parts from the forests at Kumbharli Ghat in Chiplun near Mumbai. While his severed head and an...
11:45 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Mumbai: She had played a bit part in the 2011 horror film '404' that spooked audiences. But, the uncut tale of small-time actress Meenakshi Thapas murder is considerably more unnerving. According to cops, the two advocates-cum-struggling actors, who were arrested by unit IX of Mumbai crime branch on Saturday night, were carrying the severed head of the 26-year-old for two days before throwing it out of a moving bus. According...
02:58 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Mumbai: The young woman in the picture is Simran Sood, a small-time model-cum-actress and accomplice of Vijay Palande alias Karan Sood. Cops say she was often used as a honeytrap by Vijay, who is currently behind bars. So are his aides Dhananjay Shinde and Manoj Gajkosh, in connection with the murder of senior citizen Arun Tiku. And yet, had police managed to puzzle out the kidnapping case of Karan Kumar...
12:46 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Mumbai: A 25-year-old model-cum actress was arrested for allegedly kidnapping a Delhi-based wannabe film producer with the help of her three gangster associates, who are currently under arrest in connection with a senior citizen's murder, police said on Friday. Simran Sood was apprehended on Thursday on the charge of abducting Karankumar Kakkad, 28, who wanted to try his luck in the film industry, said an official from Amboli police station....
06:01 PM, Apr 13, 2012
Kochi: Tamil actress and DMK politician, Khusboo Sundar, asked women to empower themselves before asking for women's empowerment in Parliament or Assembly. "Why speak of women's empowerment? Kerala is 100 per cent literate. But how many women are career oriented? Quite surprising not many," the 41-year-old said while addressing management students here. "Women should come out of the shell they have created and need to fight for their rights within...
10:47 AM, Apr 11, 2012
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