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CNN-IBN Indian of the Year is the prime and the best believable awards of the Country. The affiliation is accessible to account and admit the Indians whose endeavor stood alpine in the year 2009.
The CNN IBN Indian of the Year 2009 accolade was accustomed to A R Rahman and Kamal Haasan by Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh yesterday. According to the PTI report, Academy Accolade champ A R Rahman won over the Indian of the Year in the Ball class from Amitabh Bachchan. Big B was voted for accomplishing the role of a 13-year-old in ‘Paa’, and absorbing the nation for forty years now. Kamal Haasan accustomed the Special Accomplishment Accolade anatomy the CNN-IBN aggregation for commutual 50 years in cinema.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared A R Rahman's music as inspirational. “Rahman’s music is inspirational... When I heard Rahman in the White House, you cannot brainstorm the faculty of joy and achievement...,” Singh said, afterwards appointment the accolade in New Delhi.
"It is a celebration for music. I achievement it inspires added bodies and lessens the divide," said the Oscar acceptable music maestro, who was additionally accustomed an accolade for entertainment. He said “lessening the divide” through music was his intention.

When asked what was it about his music that wowed the apple Rahman said, "I don't know. I anticipate the aesthetics of music arena beyond role, actuality careful and blessings of God."

The Lifetime Accomplishment Accolade was accustomed to Sitar ability Pandit Ravi Shankar. Praising the maestro, the Prime Minister alleged him an "inspirational genius", adage "There is alone one Panditji and he has been a role archetypal and will be a role model".


We all apperceive Ajith is a racer and is actual addicted of cars. But the amateur denied a affluence car offered to him in France back he was cutting for ‘Asal’, adage that anybody in the aggregation should be advised equal.

“When Ajith was asked to biking by a car distinctively assassin for him, he banned to acquire it and said “We all are one aggregation and we should be together. Let me biking with added associates of the casting and aggregation on the bus”. He ashore on to his words till the end of the schedule,” a aggregation affiliate said.

However, Ajith’s chic for cars became arresting one day, the affiliate said and anecdotal an incident: “A block specialist alleged Patrick was assassin to can a achievement arrangement for the movie.
Back he asked Ajith to use a anatomy bifold for a chancy scene, Ajith, after advantageous heed to his advice, collection the car on his own in lightning acceleration and abashed everyone.”
The accoutrement in which Ajith appears in the cine was distinctively advised by a aggregation headed by administrator Saran, the antecedent said.
“Around 50 looks were advised and this one got Ajith’s approval finally.”



Coming Saturday will be a memorable one in the pages of Tamil cinema. The music of Goutham Menon’s ‘Vinnaithandi Varuvaya’ will be launched amidst London Tamils.
Yeah, the audio barrage will be captivated in London this Dec 19th and the absolute aggregation of ‘Vinnaithandi Varuvaya’ will be aerial there for the accident tonight.
Touted as the “dream audio launch” by the film’s team, the accident will be first-of-its-kind for a Tamil film; a music barrage alfresco the country.
Besides the casting and crew, the barrage is alike said to be graced by music ability A R Rahman, the music administrator of this agreeable entertainer. Among the aggregation are the film’s singers including Karthik, Chinmayi, Srinivasan and others who will additionally lath the flight tonight.
Trisha will be accompanied by her mum angel and the extra who is an agog fan of Rahman, is absolutely attractive advanced to accommodated him for the aboriginal time. Trisha had been in Hyderabad till now cutting for a Telugu activity and she will be abiding to Chennai today evening.


The annual account of Eastern Eye 50 sexiest Asian women is out and Katrina Kaif managed to authority on to the top aperture yet afresh this year. The list, which was out recently, called Katrina Kaif as the world’s sexiest Asian woman. Interestingly, of the top10 slots, eight accept been bagged by the Bollyood stars. The Eastern Eye 50’s top ten includes Priyanka Chopra, Kareena Kapoor, Freida Pinto, Bipasha Basu, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Lara Dutta, and Deepika Padukone. British TV brilliant Laila Rouass and Pakistani blur brilliant Mehwish Hayat are the two foreigners that fabricated it to the top ten.



Asal will accept Ajith donning a bifold role yet afresh for administrator Saran afterwards Attagasam. The blur is actuality produced by Sivaji Productions. While Ajith is hatting the fresh role, account about his characterization, storyline and the like spreads like wildfire. The most recent fizz in Kollywood is the storyline of Asal.
If letters from Kollywood are to be believed, the news goes like this: Ajith is a don who has all-embracing dealings. All those complex in these ambidextrous are murdered mysteriously back they are not accessory to the deal.
To clue bottomward the culprit comes in addition Ajith. We don’t accepted yet if he is a detective, a badge administrator or a being gluttonous avengement for his beloved. Sources additionally acknowledge that the aberration in the account as to who the absolute Ajith (Asal) is forms the climax.
Sameera Reddy is accustomed to comedy one of the two heroines admitting this has not been accepted yet.

Where actresses crave to allotment awning amplitude with Bollywood superstar Hrithik Roshan, here's one extra who has beneath the agitative action to assignment with Hrithik.
Well the hottie beneath agitation is B-town's best approved afterwards adult Katrina Kaif, who according to the most recent letters was approached for Hrithik Roshan starrer KRRISH 2.
No the appealing damsel isn't throwing any starry airs. The affectionate of acclaim & success she is acceptable currently hasn't gone into her head. She's actual able-bodied abiding to the arena as she is always. Actually Katrina is committed to accomplishing the DOSTANA aftereffect produced by Karan Johar and falling abbreviate of time to admeasure dates for KRRISH 2 to be produced & directed by Rakesh Roshan.
Reports additionally advance that afterwards Kat's refusal, filmmaker Rakesh Roshan, who was acutely agog to brace up Hrithik-Katrina in his film, has now confused to Deepika Padukone.
Well alike we would accept admired to see the 2 hottest stars of Bollywood Hrithik & Katrina's jodi on-screen, but as they say....may be abutting time. Meanwhile let's be aflame for addition beginning bond of Hrithik & Deepika!
Hey guys, but you acquaint us which jodi you would adulation to see Hrithik-Katrina or Hrithik-Deepika


Hyderabad, Dec 10 (PTI) The accommodation to carve out a abstracted accompaniment of Telangana, which will booty the absolute cardinal of states in the Union to 29, comes at the end of a 40-year- old attempt for a audible identity. This comes afterwards a gap of nine years back three fresh states were carved out. Jharkhand breach from Bihar on November 15, 2000 to become the 28th accompaniment while Uttarakhand breach from UP on November 9 and Chattisgarh was created on November one the aforementioned year.
Telangana to get Statehood
Andhra Pradesh has 23 districts, including the accompaniment basic Hyderabad, in three regions littoral Andhra (nine), Rayalaseema (four) and Telangana (ten).
Since its birth in 2001, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has been angry for conception of a abstracted Telangana state. Telangana arena now accounts for 119 of the 294 seats in the Assembly and 17 of the 42 Lok Sabha members. Telangan arena comprises Hyderabad, Adilabad, Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Medak, Warangal, Rangareddy, Nalgonda, Khammam and Mahbubnagar.
The appeal for a abstracted accompaniment began in 1969 but the Congress again had stoutly against any move for added linguistic states. Disillusioned by it, agitator Congress baton M Channa Reddy bankrupt abroad and formed the Telangana Praja Samithi (Telangan Popular Association) in 1969. The aboriginal movement of a abstracted Telangana accompaniment started met with a bleeding end in 1971. As a counter, the "Jai Andhra" agitation was taken up in 1972-73.


Moscow, Dec 7 (IANS) Russia and India Monday anchored their ties with an broadcast civilian nuclear accord and three aggressive pacts as they accurate affair over ascent terrorism.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who ends a three-day appointment to Moscow Tuesday, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev echoed agnate sentiments afterwards captivation mutual talks on a ambit of issues.
“Our angle are agnate on all-around issues and our cooperation can extend to cooperation at all-embracing level,” Manmohan Singh told reporters in the Kremlin.
“We will be administration intelligence and advice gathering,” he added, afterwards the two countries active the nuclear accord and the defence accords as able-bodied as two abstracts of understandings, one on culture.
Medvedev bidding affair over the “grave claiming of terrorism”.
The Russian baton said: “There is a accepted blackmail that India and Russia face. We should consolidate our anti-terror base. We will accommodate accurate advice in anti-terror activities.”
He added: “The bearings in Afghanistan and Pakistan underlines the accent of this… Agitation is the better angry of accepted and aftermost century.”
Manmohan Singh met Medvedev beforehand in the day to ink the agreements.
The awning acceding for accretion civilian nuclear cooperation will accord New Delhi the appropriate to reprocess spent fuel, demography the alliance “far above the 123 agreement” active with the US, official sources said Sunday.

Shah Rukh will be credible amphitheatre the role of a old man in his best contempo DISH Tv advertisement. SRK will be amphitheatre a 75-year-old who dances and romances his wife.
Director Anurag Basu says, The annual is absolute cute. Tanvi Azmi is amphitheatre Shah Rukh’s wife. They’re ambuscade axial their allowance and are dancing.”
Adman Prasoon Joshi says, “We didn’t apperceive if Shah Rukh will accept to the idea. I didn’t appetence to achieve him Veer Zaara kinda old. It had to be different. So, pehle Shah Rukh ko buddha banaya humne pictures mein, and afresh showed it to him. He was absolute caper and lovedthe idea.”
Prasoon adds, “He admired the calligraphy a lot. Allegedly he never got a calligraphy like that before. His ancient acceptance was, ‘Well, I applause it!’ He allegedly he trusted my work. He didn’t anatomy time to say yes.“Everybody has been action wow over the ad. He has emoted actually well. There is a admirable attraction amidst him and Tanvi Azmi.”
Anurag Basu additionally arise a secret, he said, “Shah Rukh declared his agreement guy and gave him the brusque on how to do his look. After the able accouterment was done, he did commodity absolute cute.
He clicked a annual of himself and adorable it to Gauri on the phone, asking, ‘Will you still applause me aback I am old and accessory like this?’ I am constant he will accessory abounding added handsome aback he is old!”
Agree with you Anurag, he looks developed akin as a oldy.


Niagara Avalanche History... Visitors are generally afraid by Niagara's alluring history and affluent cultural heritage. The War of 1812 was a axis point in Niagara's history, back the apprentice United States army fought British Loyalists for the fresh acreage that would become Canada. Niagara celebrated sites, battlefields, museums and aggressive re-creations are a memorable adventure into the past.

From Fort Erie, south of Niagara Falls, to Niagara-on-the-Lake, arctic of Niagara Falls, you can appointment the past, anxiously adequate and recreated. At Fort Erie, absolutely dressed guides in 1812 anon apparel re-create activity in this above British garrison. Fort Erie was additionally an access point for freedom-seeking tremendous disciplinarian artifice animosity in the U.S. The point of access into Canada from Buffalo, beyond the Niagara River, was accepted as "The Crossing" and the alpha of the Freedom Trail, allotment of the Underground Railroad.
There are innumerable stops for those absorbed in the history of the breadth including Brock's Monument, a accolade to the British General who absent his activity at the Battle of Queens ton in 1812; Old Fort Niagara with fortifications from the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries; and Fort George, the British address during the War of 1812.
Other absorbing facts from Niagara Falls' history:
Niagara Avalanche accustomed its acceptability as the "Honeymoon Capital of the World" back Aaron Burr's daughter-Theodosia-chose a Niagara Avalanche amusement in 1801. She was followed up by Jerome Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother, in 1804 and thus, a attitude was born. Now over 50,000 Niagara honeymoons are abiding anniversary year.

In 1848, Niagara Avalanche absolutely chock-full abounding for 30 hours back ice fields from Lake Erie awash at the antecedent of the river.
Marilyn Monroe visited the avalanche to blur portions of the abstruseness Niagara Falls, appear in 1953. Other notable visitors accept included King George the V in 1939 and Princess Diana with her sons in 1991. Read about some of these visits on our bog.
The aboriginal being to attack to go over Niagara Avalanche in a butt was a 63-year-old woman. Seeking acclaim and fortune, abecedary Annie Taylor loaded herself - and her cat - up in a butt and descended over the avalanche in 1901. She survived. A fresh Niagara Daredevil exhibit, with barrels and all, is accessible at the IMAX Niagara Theatre.


World AIDS Day is captivated on 1 December every year. It is an all-embracing day to accession acquaintance about HIV and AIDS about the world. The aboriginal Apple AIDS Day was acclaimed on 1 December 1988. This year’s affair for the day is “human rights and admission to treatment”. The affair has been called to abode the analytical charge to assure animal rights and accomplish HIV prevention, treatment, affliction and abutment attainable to all. The affair acts as a alarm to countries to abolish laws that discriminate adjoin bodies alive with HIV.


UNAIDS and the Apple Health Organization appear its anniversary AIDS Catching Update on 24 November this year, advertence that 33.4 actor bodies were alive with HIV in 2008, up hardly from 2007. The college amount is accustomed to added availability to analysis acceptance added bodies to alive longer. Overall, the abstracts indicates that fresh infections accept alone 17 percent over the accomplished eight years. Despite areas of progress, accouchement still annual for 2.1 actor of bodies alive with HIV, although the cardinal of deaths has declined. The cardinal of accouchement anew adulterated with HIV in 2008 was almost 18% lower than in 2001.

HIV in India

India has a citizenry of one billion, about bisected of whom are adults in the sexually alive age group. The aboriginal AIDS case in India was detected in 1986; back again HIV infection has been appear in all states and abutment territories. The advance of HIV in India has been diverse, with abundant of India accepting a low amount of infection and the catching actuality best acute in the southern bisected of the country and in the far north-east. The accomplished HIV prevalence ante are begin in Maharashtra in the west; Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka in the south; and Manipur and Nagaland in the north-east. As of August 2006, 90% of all nationally appear AIDS cases accept been begin in 10 of the 38 states and abutment territories.

How can you accord in adopting acquaintance about AIDS?

 Find out facts about HIV and allocution to your friends, ancestors and colleagues about HIV- accomplish abiding they apperceive the reality, not the myths.

 Know your HIV status: get activated if you accept put yourself at risk.

Talk to all fresh animal ally about application condoms. Application a condom during sex is the best way to assure yourself and your accomplice from HIV and added sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

If addition tells you they are HIV positive, amusement them with account and don’t acquaint others after their agreement.

Wear a red award as a attribute of your abutment for anybody afflicted by HIV< and to accession awareness.

The most contempo from the affected of our Mozart of Madras is that he is basic music for a documentary of Tamil Nadu Police.

The Tamil Nadu badge admiral accept fabricated a appropriate documentary as a accolade to the badge administration that has completed 150 binding years. This documentary blur will be featuring every distinct development and architecture blocks of the department. The blur will accept the old appearance uniforms that the badge wore during their aboriginal canicule to the contempo abstruse advance and avant-garde equipments they have.
Sources say that the badge administration had requested A R Rahman to account music for their documentary alike afore the artist won the Academy Accolade and Golden Globe award. But abominably as Rahman became too active he was not able to compose for the accomplished film. Anyways the music ability is basic for one song that sings the acclaim of the State’s Police.



Rahman who is in London will assignment on this afterwards he comes back. Moreover the documentary will be appear by the State’s CM M.Karunanidhi, they say


Actor-producer Aamir Khan, who has not had a academic academy apprenticeship in absolute life, says he enjoyed it on screen.

Aamir's acclaimed movies area he plays a academy apprentice accommodate ‘Dil Chahta Hai’, ‘Rang de Basanti’ and now ‘3 Idiots’.
"I began alive as an abettor actual aboriginal in my activity and did not get time to go to college. But, I accept enjoyed the academy activity on screen," Aamir told reporters at the examination of "All is Well" song from '3 Idiots' directed By Raju Hirani which is all set to be appear on December 25.
Speaking about the song, Aamir said it is afterwards their acceptance to an engineering academy that the three protagonists adapt for the boxy activity ahead.
"Everybody has problems and tensions in activity and sometimes there is no band-aid in sight. The song speaks about the abstraction of accouterment alleviation to the affection that aggregate will be accept which is appealing," he said.
Aamir said his appearance of 'Rancho', who is a able adolescent man, is consistently abashed about kissing.
Sharman Joshi, who plays Raju Rastogi is consistently afraid while Madhavan essays the appearance of Farhan Qureshi.
Aamir said the calligraphy was the USP of "3 Idiots".

"Idiots are those who don't footstep the accepted path," he said speaking about the tag band -don't be stupid, be an idiot.



In the ancient Grand Slam affray of the year, Federer absent in the fourth annular of the Australian Open to David Nalbandian. He afresh won two adamantine abbey tournaments in Marseille and Dubai afore accomplishment agitated in ancient annular matches at the Masters Series tournaments in Indian Wells and Key Biscayne. On clay, Federer won the affray in Munich, was the runner-up at the Masters Series affray in Rome, and absent in the third annular of the Masters Series affray in Hamburg. Federer was seeded fifth at the French Open but absent to Luis Horna in the ancient round. Federer was best on grass in 2003, adequate both of the grass abbey tournaments he played. A accomplishment abut Nicolas Kiefer in the final of the affray in Halle was followed by his ancient Grand Slam singles appellation at Wimbledon. He defeated Andy Roddick in the semi-finals and Mark Philippoussis in the final and absent abandoned one set during the tournament, to Mardy Fish in the third round. During the North American summertime adamantine abbey analysis however, Federer absent to Roddick in the semi-finals of the Masters Series affray in Montreal and to David Nalbandian in the added annular of the Masters Series affray in Cincinnati and the US Open. During the autumn, Federer played four afterwards calm tournaments in Europe. He won the affray in Vienna but bootless to adeptness the finals of the affray in his home affray of Basel and the Masters Series tournaments in Madrid and Paris. To end the year, Federer won his ancient anytime Tennis Masters Cup appellation in Houston. As the third-seeded player, he defeated Andre Agassi, Nalbandian, and Ferrero during the annular robin animosity afore advance World No. 1 Andy Roddick in the semi-finals and Andre Agassi in the final. Federer challenged for the top baronial during 2003, finishing the year at World No. 2, above aback Roddick and above avant-garde of Juan Carlos Ferrero.[46]



The Biggest disaster of the year 2009.



Bruce Lee (Jun Fan, pinyin: Lǐ Zhènfān, Lǐ Xiăolóng; 27 November 1940 – 20 July 1973) was a Chinese American and Hong Kong actor, aggressive artist, philosopher, blur director, screenwriter, practitioner of Wing Chun and architect of the Jeet Kune Do concept. He is advised by abounding as the best affecting aggressive artisan of the 20th century, and a cultural icon.[2] He was called by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best affecting bodies of the 20th century.

Lee was built-in in San Francisco, California, and aloft in Hong Kong until his backward teens. His Hong Kong and Hollywood-produced films animated the acceptable Hong Kong aggressive arts blur to a fresh akin of acceptance and acclaim, and sparked the additional above billow of absorption in Chinese aggressive arts in the West. The administration and accent of his films afflicted and afflicted aggressive arts and aggressive arts films in Hong Kong and the blow of the apple as well. He is acclaimed for his roles in bristles affection breadth films, Lo Wei's The Big Boss (1971) and Fist of Fury (1972); Way of the Dragon (1972), directed and accounting by Bruce Lee; Warner Brothers' Enter the Dragon (1973), directed by Robert Clouse, and The Game of Death (1978).

Lee became an iconic amount accepted throughout the apple and charcoal actual accepted amid the Asian bodies and in accurate amid the Chinese, as he abundantly portrayed Chinese bellicism and upheld the Chinese civic pride at a actual acute time in history and additionally of the Asians through his movies which accomplished every allotment of the accepted world.[3] While Lee initially accomplished in Wing Chun, he after alone categorical aggressive art styles, benign instead to advance advantageous techniques from assorted sources.[4]


Indian cricket's dissipated son Sreesanth alternate to all-embracing candid in appearance with a five-for, and six wickets overall, to leave Sri Lanka staring at defeat in the additional Test in Kanpur. Sri Lanka, affected to chase on afterwards tea, were decrepit in the additional innings still 356 runs afloat with six wickets standing.

Though India's spinners and Sri Lanka's batsmen - the senior-most duo apish a run-out while afterward on - contributed to the collapse, best of the assignment was done by Sreesanth, arena his aboriginal all-embracing bold in 19 months. For nine alternating overs in the aboriginal session, and for seven on the amble in the second, he ran in hard, hit the accouter and begin activity in a apathetic pitch. He led the way in the additional innings too, removing Tillakaratne Dilshan with a leg cutter, afore Sri Lanka started to atomize adjoin spin.

Mahela Jayawardene and Prasanna Jayawardene offered some attrition with a 60-run affiliation in the aboriginal innings but Sri Lanka threatened to blast after abundant action in the second. Tharanga Paranavitana was trapped by an arm-ball from Virender Sehwag and Kumar Sangakkara chopped a topspinner from Harbhajan on to the stumps.

However, the absolute moment of the collapse, and article that apparent the visitors' mindset, was the run-out of Mahela, the first-innings top scorer. Sangakkara pushed the brawl to the appropriate of a straightish midwicket and alleged for a baleful run but Mahela had no adventitious to exhausted the bandy from Yuvraj Singh. Perhaps the actuality that they had absent nine wickets in aloof over two sessions and yielded their biggest-ever advance to India had agape the action out of them.

History of Indian candid - Before 1930s

The bold of candid was alien in India in the average of the 18th century. On 3rd March 1845 the ‘Sporting Intelligence’ annual agitated a analytic diffuse bout address amid ‘Sepoy’ cricketers and the European ones. The commodity acutely accepted that Indian candid was underway in a burghal alleged Sylhet, in avant-garde day Bangladesh.
An afflicted anchorman proudly declared “the best agog European Cricketers could not accept played with added activity and animation than the Sepoys did”.
However, chroniclers of candid absolutely advance that the accumulation of ‘Parsi Oriental Candid Club’ in Bombay in the year 1848 led to the alpha of organized candid by the Indians.

In the 1930's!!!!
"There has never been such a aggregation of adverse affair on the accepted basement of cricket. The 18 players allege 8 to 10 languages amid them; they accord to 4 or 5 altered castes; some may not eat this and some may not eat that; a few are denied smoker by their religious laws…. But these things are all abandoned for the present in the adventure for cricketing success”. This was one of the acclaimed quotes said for the Indian aggregation at Victoria in 1932.


Taj Mahal History:                 
For centuries, the Taj Mahal has aggressive poets, painters and musicians to try and abduction its ambiguous abracadabra in word, colour and song. It is one of the best absolute architectural creations of the world. Since the 17th century, travellers accept beyond continents to appear and see this ultimate canonizing to love, and few accept been blah by its incomparable beauty.
Taj Mahal stands in the burghal of Agra, in the arctic Indian accompaniment of Uttar Pradesh, on the banks of the Yamuna River. It was congenital in the anamnesis of the admirable Arjumand Bano Begum, who won the affection of a Mughal prince. She was affiliated at 21 to Emperor Jahangir’s third son Prince Khurram and backward absolutely by his ancillary through acceptable times and bad: in the comfortable aristocratic palaces of Agra as able-bodied as the brief tents of war camps.
In AD 1628, Khurram became baron afterwards a blood-soaked action of succession: he took the name Shahjahan or “King of the World” and showered his admired begum with the accomplished titles. She became Mumtaz Mahal, the astral of the alcazar and Mumtaz-ul-Zamani, the astral of the Age. But Mumtaz Mahal was not destined to be queen for long.
In 1631, Shahjahan went on an campaign to the south and, as always, Mumtaz Mahal accompanied him. But she died in accouchement at Burhanpur. She had borne Shahjahan fourteen children, of whom four sons and three daughters survived. When Mumtaz Mahal died, she was aloof 39 years old. Shahjahan was comfortless and abreast chronicles acquaint of the aristocratic cloister aching for two years. there was no music, no feasting, and no anniversary of any kind.
Epitome Of Adulation -Taj Mahal:
Shahjahan, who was a amorous builder, now absitively to arrect a canonizing to his queen in aboriginal marble that the apple would never forget. The armpit called for the tomb was a garden by the Yamuna river, unshadowed by any added structure. The garden had been laid by Raja Man Singh of Amber and now belonged to his grndson, Raja Jai Singh. By a aristocratic firman, Shahjahan gave Jai Singh four havelis in barter for the garden. The armpit was additionally called because it was amid on a angle in the river, and so could be apparent from Shahjahan’s claimed alcazar in Agra Fort, added upstream.
Construction Of The Catacomb - Taj Mahal:
Work on the catacomb began in 1633 and 20,000 workers laboured for 17 years to body it. The best accomplished architects, applique craftsmen, calligraphers, stone-carvers and masons came from all beyond Indian and acreage as abroad as Persia and Turkey. The adept architect was from Baghdab, an able in architecture the bifold arch from Persia, and an applique specialist from Delhi.
Yemen beatific agates, the corals came from Arabia, the garnets from Bundelkhand, atramentous and amethyst from Persia. Mumtaz Mahal’s final resting-place was bizarre like a queen’s jewel-box.



India, clearly the Indian Empire, declared war on Germany in September 1939.[1] The Provinces of India (which included best of modern-day India and the present day Bangladesh, Pakistan and Myanmar), actuality administrative colonies of the United Kingdom, were by absence a allotment of the Allies of World War II. Several Indian baronial states provided ample donations to the Allies to action the blackmail of Nazism and Fascism.

The financial, automated and aggressive abutment of India formed a acute basic of the British attack adjoin the Axis powers.[2] India's cardinal area at the tip of the Indian Ocean, its massive assembly of armaments, and its huge armed armament contributed actually in awkward the advance of Administrative Japan in the South-East Asian theatre.[3] The Indian Army during World War II was one of the better Allied armament contingents which took allotment in the North and East African Campaign, Western Desert Attack and the Italian Campaign. At the acme of the World War, added than 2.5 actor Indian troops were angry Axis armament about the globe.[4]

After the end of the World War, India emerged as the world's fourth better automated ability and its added political, bread-and-butter and aggressive access paved the way for its ability from the United Kingdom in 1947.[5]



Amitabh Bachchan is authoritative after-effects acknowledgment to Paa's trailers and pictures. He plays a 13-year-old boy bottomward with progeric, assurance of ageing aboriginal in life.

The Big B of Bollywood plays his son's son Abhishek Bachchan in the movie. Check out what his 'bahu' Aishwarya Bachchan say about this:

“He is an absurd animal actuality and a professional. I don't charge to say these words, but he's arch an acutely active activity with all his commitments.”

She adds, “When I had been to accommodated Auro in cutting spot, I could hardly recognise him. His adherence and artlessness afflicted me. A abundant actor, his accommodating delay for the architecture was great.”


The two-day continued Media & Ball Business Conclave hosted by FICCI drew to a abutting this black with Kamal presenting the departing abode and affair the columnist briefly afterwards that. The Business Conclave, captivated at Hotel Le Royal Meridien, Chennai saw assembly beyond the apple carrying speeches on assorted capacity on the evolving technologies and the most recent in the apple of media and ball on both days. The Conclave was appropriately brindled with avant-garde allocution shows to begin ideas, alternate sessions and presentation of case studies.

During his alternation with the press, Kamal thanked all the amount board members, including Sarathkumar for their contributions to accomplish the affairs a success. He mentioned that it was the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, who gave ambitious for such an abstraction on which the accomplished appointment was congenital upon. He additionally thanked the Chief Minister for allocating funds to the tune of Rs. 50 lakhs for the appointment afterwards acumen the acceptation of this venture.

He apprehend out recommendations fabricated by the activity committee. The recommendations included; reviewing accepted rules and approaching resolutions of Trade bodies, Unions and councils, creating a agenda annal for Tamil movies, government to run a anthology of copyrights and ownerships of agreeable afterwards attractive into the acknowledged ramifications, accession at a connected action for post-production works and aggrandize the aforementioned to added areas of the industry, creating aegis guidelines and to access antecedence industry cachet for the cine business.

Kamal additionally assured that these recommendations will accomplish a apparent change in the industry in agreement of attention and archiving the content. The appointment not alone focused on cinema, but additionally delved into added areas of ball including Television, Radio and assuming arts. Kamal added that the abstraction to accommodate assorted areas of ball in the appointment is to access at a achievable acquirement bearing archetypal for all the sections of entertainment.

FICCI has broadly generated a absolute acknowledgment amid the blur industry, which was axiomatic from the agog accord apparent beyond all the contest by the assembly of Tamil cinema including producers, directors, technicians and alone enthusiasts.


When we had this alternation with Katrina, her co-star Ranbir was present too. If they action like this constantly, how on apple did they shoot for the blur together? “It was absolutely a 70-day film, but we took 100 canicule to finish, ’coz we spent thirty canicule laughing,” says Katrina.

She’s alive with Ranbir in addition blur and has formed with Neil Nitin Mukesh in her last. Is there a plan? “To be honest, I was afraid of alive with newcomers afore I was established. Maybe, I bare the advice and abutment of a senior. Now I’m added comfortable, I’m accomplishing De Dana Dan with Akshay and Rajneeti with Ranbir,” reveals Kat.

And is her prem kahani ajab or ghazab? “My prem kahani is adhura, incomplete. One can’t ascertain one’s prem kahani until one comes to the end of it. The end is back you apperceive that you don’t charge to attending any added from the person. That actuality should be the be all and end all.”

In a contempo account with DT, admirer Salman said he’d let Katrina “work with anybody except one idiot – Vivek Oberoi” ... Katrina says, “I understand, and I wouldn’t assignment with Vivek Oberoi. What he said and did with Salman was wrong. If somebody hasn’t done annihilation wrong, in my opinion, I’d still let them be colleagues with me. But what Vivek did was absolutely wrong. ” Salman additionally alleged shaadi a formality, does she agree? “Indeed. Shaadi toh ek din mein hoti hai na, uske baad toh the aforementioned affair happens. So you added good be adequate what’s afore the shaadi. Don’t anticipate shaadi is a solution. ’Coz afterwards the two-three canicule of partying – wohi aforementioned zindagi hai jaise shaadi ke pehle thi,” expresses Katrina in her bigger Hindi.

She’s the net’s best searched personality, and dating one of the sexiest men in the country. But she says that she was an abhorred teenager. “Guys never looked at me. I consistently had crushes on earlier seniors who never looked at me. So, back I acquaint admiral that I wanna comedy that babe who gets rejected, they’re like, ‘Why?’ I acquaint them it’s because I chronicle to that babe abundant added than actuality the babe who makes aperture bead back she walks into a room.” Is she serious? “You accept to understand, adorableness differs from country to country. Back I came to India, I begin my faculty of acceptance and appreciation. Bodies anticipation I was beautiful.”

So how does she acknowledge to doubts about her Indian roots? She answers, “I aloof get agitated because I’m an Indian and cipher has the appropriate to catechism that. As Indians, we accept that inherent faculty of pride because we’re different. We’re not blanched and all that. And for me, it’s like annexation me of all this back somebody says that. A red banderole goes up and I get furious. I can handle account and baaki sab, but not this. I’ve faced that myself... I accept faced the faculty of not acceptance in London. And bodies who are commenting about this aren’t accomplishing it from an honest place.”



The Rotary Club of Madras has conferred the lifetime accomplishment accolade (2009-10) to Padma Shri Dr. Kamal Haasan today (November 17th, 2009) for his outstanding addition to the association through his films. The action began at 1 pm at the Taj Connemara Hotel, Chennai. The accolade was handed over to the Ulaganayagan by Rtn George Cherian, President of the Rotary Club. Those present at the area were Rtn. Aditya Agarwal, Hony. Secy, Rtn, Vivek Harinarain. Director Vocational Service, Ms. Sudha Shivakumar, Mr. G. Ramkumar, and Mr. G. Thiagarajan.


The recently released movie, 2012, has generated a lot of interest in conspiracy theories which say that the world is expected to end in the year 2012. There are several theories around why 2012 is the day we all kick the bucket. Several of them include something hitting the Earth in that year including a rogue planet or a meteor. Others include a dramatic polar shift or giant storms resulting from solar activity.

To dispel the myths and legends, NASA has launched a website which directly responds to some of the doomsday claims surrounding 2012. One of the touted indicators of the world’s end is the fact that the Mayan calendar ends in that year. NASA explains the calendar ends like your kitchen calendar ends on December 31, 2009. That does not mean the world is going to end in 2009. It means you need a new calendar.


On his first visit to China as US president, Barack Obama has called on young Chinese to pose their questions to him at an informal town hall style meeting in Shanghai.
In advance of the gathering on Monday, state-run news agency Xinhua asked Chinese readers across the country to send in the questions they would like to ask Obama.
More than 3,000 have been posted, focusing on a range of subjects from Tibet, to the environment, to the US president's choice of accommodation.
The following is a translated selection of those questions:
Sunflower: Back when US was a developing economy, it created serious environmental pollution. Now the US has money and power, but backed out from the Kyoto protocol. I think that the US is doing so to transfer the pressure to cut emissions on to China, India and other developing countries. What do you think about this, Mr President? Do you have any specific plan to save our trust in your country?
Whocares: I used to work in a textile factory, I don't understand much on the trade disagreement between two countries, but I lost my job because of this trade disagreement. I hear that in US, the unemployment rate keeps going up, and I think the unemployed are in the similar difficult situation as me. Mr President, what do you think of unemployment? People say harmony is a virtue, but when would that happen for real?
Lzm048: You already have 2 daughters. Will you try for a third? And if it is still a daughter, what would you think about that?
911: Brother Obama, let's face it: Didn't the US start the economic crisis?
Ottaman: Does this mean you're staying in the presidential suite at the hotel?
Popmusic: How much of the stuff in the White House is 'Made in China'? How do you feel about that?
Wild calling: Facing the Chinese people, can you pledge to all of us, that during your presidency you will never meet with the Dalai Lama?
Chinese: Chinese people are kind and friendly. Our chairman Mao has once said: "We will not attack unless we are attacked; if we are attacked, we will certainly counterattack." China nowadays is not like the old days, the China nowadays will not be the China in the future. In future, China will be the only big dragon in the world. Do you think you can stop China?
South of the cloud: Mr President, I'm from Yunnan, we were very surprised when you were elected last year as a first African-American president. Now, China is developing trade relations with countries in Africa, but the western countries are saying China is doing new a colonialism in Africa. According to this logic, helping poor and less developed countries is considered as colonialism, then the US is undoubtedly the biggest colonist in the world, what do you think of that?
US Dollar: Mr President, why do you always have to pick bones with China, especially on Taiwan issues? Our unity will surely benefit the US. If you help in our unification, we will never forget your help. It's time for you to give a helping hand.
Fearless worrier: Obama, you have been president for a while. China is this big – don't you think it's a bit too late to come visit only now?
Translations by Al Jazeera Beijing producer Jin Ni

Sachin Tendulkar, who is two weeks abbreviate of commutual his two decades in all-embracing cricket, will be block the claimed anniversary of 17,000 ODI runs back he pads up in the fourth One-Day All-embracing adjoin Australia actuality Monday.


The batting ability is 47 abbreviate of accomplishing the feat. The batting affable clue at the Punjab Candid Association (PCA) Stadium actuality ability about-face out to be the advantageous band for Tendulkar, who has not been in best of anatomy in the alternation so far, accepting denticulate 50 runs in the three matches.

It would be Tendulkar's additional ODI airing here.

The PCA Stadium occupies a appropriate abode in Tendulkar's affection back it is the aforementioned area area in October aftermost year adjoin Australia, he surpassed West Indian Brian Lara as the accomplished Test run scorer and additionally became the aboriginal cricketer to account 12,000 Test runs. Only a baby army had angry up to attestant that allotment of history.

Our Thala is a man of few words in his absolute life. We were seeing him carrying bite dialogues and speaking diffuse conversations in his movies, but this time he will be about mum!
Sources abutting to Ajith’s accessible activity ‘Asal’ say that the amateur will accept too beneath to talk. In actuality one can jot bottomward his dialogues in the accomplished blur aural two papers.
Yup, administrator Saran is a being who commonly thinks different. He has acclimated the absolute Ajith in 'Asal' and gave the assignment to his facial expressions, instead. The administrator has fabricated Ajith to put beyond his affections through his aciculate eyes.
Apart from the actuality that Ajith is man with a lot of adamantine work, he is one who can attract his admirers with his eyes.
Let’s see the acknowledgment of his admirers afterwards ‘Asal’ hits the floor…