London: Daniel Craig says his top pick for the next Bond girl would be R&B star Rihanna. The 44-year-old star said he can see 'Umbrella' hitmaker playing the MI6 agent's love interest, reported Daily Mail. Craig, who was promoting the 23rd Bond movie on the web show, was asked by interviewer, "Who makes a better Bond girl: Rihanna or Beyonce?" After a moment's hesitation, Craig, who is playing the legendary...
10:47 AM, Nov 13, 2012
Coimbatore: Ten teenage girls from Karnataka were rescued from agents, when they alighted at Tirupur Railway Station early on Monday and handed over to the police. Based on a tip-off from an NGO, police had kept a vigil at the railway station since last night. When the girls, aged around 14 to 16 years, alighted from Kurla Express from Bangalore, police enquired about their whereabouts and took two persons, accompanying...
03:56 PM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: Applying chemical-laced 'mehndi' (henna) on the hands can cause serious side effects including skin infection, doctors said, cautioning girls and women against using it. Mehndi dermatitis cases are on the rise in the city, said Rohit Batra, dermatologist at Sir Gangaram Hospital here. "We are getting 8 to 10 patients every day with serious side effects after applying mehndi on their hands," he added. "With the arrival of...
10:15 AM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: A 21-year-old BCom student of Delhi University committed suicide in New Delhi by jumping from a building after a heated argument with his girlfriend on Saturday morning, police said. Abhishek, who hailed from Guwahati in Assam, jumped from third floor of his rented accommodation in north Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar, around 9.30 am. Abhishek was a third year BCom student at the Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC). He...
09:02 AM, Nov 11, 2012
Kolkata: A primary section student of the Welland Gouldsmith School in Central Kolkata was allegedly molested by the security guard on Monday. The guard, Ricky Mullick, has been arrested. Meanwhile, the parents of the Welland Gouldsmith School students demonstrated and demanded that male non-teaching staff in the school be replaced by female staff. More details are awaited. ...
01:16 PM, Nov 09, 2012
Kanpur: Haleem Jubilee college in Kanpur has made wearing of burqas and scarves by girl students mandatory besides banning mobile phones. College management said that as cases of molestation had increased so they took these measures to ensure the safety of the girls. According to the management girls wearing scarves and burqas will be more secure. Elaborating on the decision to ban mobile phones, the management said that the use...
04:06 PM, Nov 06, 2012
Hassan: A shocking case of corporal punishment has been reported from Hassan, Karnataka where a 10-year-old girl of a government school was beaten up by her class teacher for not doing her homework. In the past four months, the once cheerful little fourth standard student has changed completely. She doesn't talk anymore, except to recall her name, barely recognises her own family and has not been eating well. Pushpa Devraj's...
07:22 AM, Nov 06, 2012
Chandigarh: In another shocker from Haryana, a 16-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped in Karnal district leading to which 13 persons were arrested by Government Railway Police. On November 3, GRP personnel spotted the girl with a boy in suspicious circumstances between Traveri and Nilokheri railway line of the district. Leading to which, assistant station master of Bajida Jatan railway station called up the GRP police station of Karnal, police said....
07:25 PM, Nov 05, 2012
New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a 16-year-old girl has been gangraped in Haryana’s Karnal district on Sunday. The incident happened at a railway station near Karnal. The railway police has filed a case against 12 people. The minor girl was taken from her house by one of the youth promising marriage and gangraped. One person has been arrested and produced before the court. ...
07:05 PM, Nov 04, 2012
Raipur: Two minor girls, allegedly raped by suspected Naxals, were rescued by security forces from the jungles of Bijapur district on Sunday. The girls aged around 11-12 years were found by a joint squad of CRPF and state police from the Madded area of the district when they were out on patrol. "The girls revealed that Naxals Kudiam Gujja and his accomplices forcibly brought them here and subsequently they were...
05:23 PM, Nov 04, 2012
Lahore: A large number of people, including activists of religious parties, ransacked and set on fire a girls' school in Lahore and clashed with police following reports that a question paper for a test had contained blasphemous references to the Prophet, police said on Thursday. Activists of groups like the Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Islami Jamiat Talba, the students' wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami, and parents of some students were among those who...
12:38 PM, Nov 01, 2012
Sunanda Pushkar, the wife of Minister of State for Human Resources Development (HRD) Shashi Tharoor, has hit back at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for calling her Rs 50 crore girlfriend of the Congress leader. Speaking to CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose, Pushkar called the remarks of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader a below-the-belt attack, and asserted that she did not expect this from a Chief Minister. Below is...
08:33 AM, Nov 01, 2012
Ghaziabad: Charred body of a teenage girl was found at her aunt's house in Loni area here, with the family members alleging that she was raped and killed. The body of the 16-year-old girl was found on Tuesday morning with her clothes lying around, police said. The girl was living with her aunt as her parents had gone to attend a marriage function in Meerut. A case of murder has...
10:55 PM, Oct 30, 2012
New Delhi: British barmaid Emma-Louise Hodges has legally changed her name to 'Miss Pussy Galore Honey Rider Solitaire Plenty O'Toole May Day Xenia Onatopp Holly Goodhead Tiffany Case Kissy Suzuki Mary Goodnight Jinx Johnson Octopussy Domino Moneypenny' to include the names of 14 different Bond girls, according to media reports. Formerly Hodges, 28, changed her name by a deed poll because she thought "it would be great to be a...
11:19 AM, Oct 30, 2012
New Delhi: In Jharkhand, there's a new wave of positivity, especially among girls of the tribal areas. And it's all thanks to the Central Reserve Police Force's (CRPF) new initiative to provide them with a better future. Stuck in a virtual civil war with Naxals on one side and the government forces on the other, the girls had given up all hopes of moving ahead in life. However, they now...
10:08 AM, Oct 30, 2012
Visakhapatnam: An orphanage director was on Sunday arrested for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl inmate, police said. Swami Poornananda (52) was apprehended under section section 376 (punishment for rape) of the IPC after the victim lodged a complaint against him, they said. The accused is head of the city-based Swami Gnananda Ashram which houses an orphanage and old-age home. He was picked up from the Ashram premises along with a...
11:59 PM, Oct 28, 2012
Phulbani: A 13-year-old girl was murdered after being allegedly gangraped by some youths in Odisha's Kandhamal district, police said on Saturday. The girl, A Class VII student of Dadamaha, had gone to witness a 'yatra' (play) at nearby Simanbadi village on Thursday night when the youths sexually assaulted her, sub-divisional police officer (SDPO), Baliguda, Arjun Barik said. As the girl apparently attempted to raise an alarm, she was strangulated to...
02:27 PM, Oct 27, 2012
London: English actor Idris Elba has been considered for the role of James Bond, says actress Naomie Harris. Harris, who plays the Bond girl in the forthcoming movie 'Skyfall', confirmed that Elba met with movie chiefs to discuss becoming the first black 007 when Daniel Craig stepped down. "I didn't realise that there was this talk and then I did a film with Idris and he said that he met...
01:52 PM, Oct 26, 2012
Guntur: A two-day old baby girl was found abandoned in an open drain on Thursday in Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh. She was found by passers-by and was immediately taken to a government hospital, where she is currently undergoing treatment. Doctors said that she is stable but there have been no claimants yet. Meanwhile, an infant was found abandoned in front of a rest house in Shirdi on Thursday. The...
07:59 AM, Oct 26, 2012
Washington: The Philly police continued with its search to find the kidnapped 10-month-old Indian girl, as it joined hands with the Telugu community to announce an award of $30,000 to information leading to the safe return of the infant. Saani Venna was abducted by unknown kidnappers in a Philadelphia township on Monday morning, during which her grandmother Satyavathi Venna, 61, was killed by the assailants. A large number of people...
09:15 AM, Oct 25, 2012
