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“He (Mittal) would like to go for a full buyout,” a source familiar with the development said.

This will require Mittal buying, apart from the promoters’ stake, the $80 million (Rs 350 crore) foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs) that SpiceJet issued to Istithmar, the Dubai government’s investment arm, and investment bank Goldman Sachs.

The Tatas hold around 7% stake in the airline.

Kareena was highly impressed when Saif had acted like David Beckham and inked her name on his arm. The fact that his tattoo is not real and he had temporarily written her name is definitely going to hurt her. With this cheap move, Saif showed how loyal he is to Kareena. For quite sometime, Saif and Kareena’s relationship is going through rough weather and is expected to worsen with this tattoo story.

Both of them had a big fall out when Saif spoiled her holi plans. The duo also had an argument over their marriage during the shooting of Tashan in Greece. Saif wished to tie the knot early but Kareena is not in the mood to get married at this peak point and mark full stop to her booming career. Moreover, Kareena is also having a hard time convincing her parents who are against their marriage.

“They are all wrong and baseless. I don’t understand why these people show such great interest in t he details of my private life. First of all, I’m not in love with any one. I found it amusing to read about my love affair with Vishal that was published in all the leading print media publications. Please confirm these things before you publish such items”, Nayantara says with a sigh of agony…. Full story

Speculation surrounding YouTube’s future is nothing new. The company has been bleeding money as it struggles to find a sustainable revenue model to cover its massive bandwidth costs, and an entrenched suitor like Yahoo or Google could give it a way out. However, copyright infringement issues could stall any buyout, as much of YouTube’s content has been uploaded without permission.

Facebook, which has been at the center of takeover rumors for months, also held separate discussions with Microsoft and Viacom over the past year.

• Small amounts of baby formula and breast milk if a baby or small child is travelling
• Liquid prescription medicine with a name that matches the passenger’s ticket
• Up to 5 oz. (148ml) of liquid or gel low blood sugar treatment
• Up to 4 oz. of essential non-prescription liquid medications including saline solution, eye care products and KY Jelly
• Gel-filled bras and similar prosthetics
• Gel-filled wheelchair cushions
• Life support and life sustaining liquids such as bone marrow, blood products, and transplant organs carried for medical reasons

Our source says, “Sameera and Ishant happened to meet during some of the IPL matches. They have hit off very well and are more than just good friends and are getting serious about each other.”

It was during the IPL matches, where Sameera was always seen cheering the Kolkata Knight Riders, that their relationship blossomed. “And not just that, Sameera will be performing at the IPL grand finale. The two have been exchanging messages and are in touch over the phone,” reveals the source.

Sameera Reddy has recently split with her earlier boyfriend, Shamshul Lalani, a Mumbai-based builder.
When asked about her relationship with Ishant, she quickly brushed aside the news. “I am not seeing Ishant Sharma,” she laughed. Well, many have reacted in a similar way

While the next generation iPhone has been long rumored, most expectations have pointed to an announcement at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference which is not scheduled for more than a month from now.

The actress, who attended the ‘Suprabhata seva’ darshan at around 2.30 am and came out of the temple at 3.45 am, was taken aback when a person came out of nowhere and tried to shake her hand. When she rejected his ‘advances’, the overenthusiastic fan moved closer to her. An exasperated Shreya slapped him hard, while her attendant Koti, who was escorting her, scared him away.

The person in question, Hari, a cleaner at Shankara mutt in Tirumala, however managed to flee the scene. The actress however did not file any complaint against Hari. It is learnt that Hari has fled from the mutt also.

The actress arrived here on Sunday with local MLA M Venkataramana arranging a darshan for her and giving the attendant Koti to escort her. An official of TTD told ‘TOI’ that incidents of this kind are highly reprehensible. “These types of attacks have become common whenever celebrities visit the temple and it is high time the TTD took steps to control these incidents”, he said on condition of anonymity.

Sources said since it was very early in the morning there were very few pilgrims during the Suprabhata darshan. “Regaining her composure, the actress waved at the pilgrims and moved on”, a TTD source said.

Blaming the fiasco to the inept handling by the TTD officials,Krishnamacharyulu, a pilgrim from East Godavari district, said: “Whenevercelebrities arrive, it is the TTD officials and police who create unnecessary hungama. If the officials can’t control themselves during the visits of celebrities, how can we expect crazy fans to maintain calm”, he asked.

Expressing concern over the Shreya episode, another TTD official said incidents of this nature does not bode well for the image of a major pilgrim centre like Tirumala. It may be recalled that Bollywood actresses Aishwarya Rai and Yukta Mukhey were surrounded by a mob of fans when they visited Tirumala last year.

It seems likely. With the ruling government giving the nod to the IT department to assess the property of party workers and supporters the first casualty was union minister and film maker Dasari Narayana Rao. Dasari’s distribution company Siri Media, in Secunderabad, was raided on 19th March by IT officials. And the next target is likely to be actor Chiranjeevi, who insiders believe is evading taxes by diverting his earnings to his duty free Non profit organization, the Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust.

On the other hand, it is expected that Megastar‘s best friend Mohan Babu is going to announce his political future on 19th March, on his birthday. Mohanbabu is going to celbrated his birthday at his educational institute in Tirupati in a grand manner.

• The two reportedly became close while shooting for their upcoming film Tashan, setting rumour mills abuzz with their link-up.

• Kareena was drawn to the senior actor on the sets of Tashan when her man of the moment Shahid Kapur was away shooting in Canada. Shahid was unaware of all that was going on behind his back, even though all was not well with that relationship.

• At a party at Imperial Hotel in Delhi, a photographer clicked Saif and Kareena cosying up. The hawk-eyed Kareena swooped down on the hapless lensman and snatched his camera. Saif and Usman (Amrita Arora’s boyfriend) joined in, took the photographer aside and deleted the tell-all pictures.

• They made their relationship public for the first time at Manish Malhotra’s grand finale show at the Lakme Fashion Week Spring-Summer ’07. “Yes, we are not exactly shouting from the rooftops but yes, clearly we are together. And we are happy together,” he had said then.

• The couple left for Greece to shoot for Tashan, a day before the crew left, planning to spend some quality time together.

• Recently, Kareena made a discreet trip to Bangkok to meet Saif, who was shooting there for Kunal Kohli’s upcoming film. Following this, the couple left for Greece to shoot for Tashan.

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Don’t know if they discussed their respective ex lovers – Saif Ali
Khan and Kareena Kapoor (now a couple) – but Shahid and Roza seemed
locked in an engaging conversation, so much so that they didn’t even
care to have a cup of coffee.

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“The big payoff on this will be getting the terrific materials that are basically in the space centers up and available on the Internet. They are still images, different forms of film and video tapes over the years. The idea is to get it all online. It’s sometimes a little difficult to find things you might want to use for a school report or a news program,” Internet Archive founder said according to the same source.

Her latest claim to fame is some scratchy remarks on Mallika Sherawat.

In an interview to The Times of India Rakhi said that she will never do intimate scenes in any of her films for that’s a prerogative of kind of ones like Mallika Sherawat.

“I’m no Mallika Sherawat to make a career out of lip service,” Rakhi was quoted as saying by the news daily.

“As we get closer to the release of Firefox 3, extension and theme compatibility with the new browser is an important issue. We all want to ensure that when Firefox 3 is launched, users do not find that all of their extensions have been disabled because of incompatibility or insecure updates. Extension authors should be mindful of the following changes that will affect them when updating for Firefox 3. Firefox 3 will use a three-part versioning system, as opposed to the four parts used in Firefox 2. In order to specify compatibility with security and stability releases, authors should use 3.0.* instead of 3.0.0.*. [And ] Extensions now require a secure update channel to function – either by using an updateURL with SSL or by using a new updateKey”, revealed Mozilla.

According to reports, a source close to the star told Australian magazine NW that the 25-year-old had confided news of her pregnancy to close friends.

Produced by Nissha S Katyayann, Main Aur Meri Himmat will be a romantic comedy to be directed by Sangamitra Chaudhary. Hansikaa’s mom Mona spoke on the actress’ behalf, “Hannsikaa is doing the film and she is pretty excited.”

On Thursday, Dr Phil spend some time talking about how messed up Britney is and how he really believes he can help. Hand her a gun pal, that’s all the help she needs. On second thought, you might need to draw her a diagram so she knows how to use it, too.

Chiranjeevi will formally announce his entry into politics in January next year and launch a political party, sources close to him said on Monday. Close confidants of the actor put out the word at an informal interaction with a select group of journalists here on Monday basically to test the waters and elicit feedback. The meeting was said to have been convened at the behest of Chiranjeevi himself.

The actor played out a poorly written script to announce his entry, and his behind-the-scenes directors clearly let him down. Some of the persons whom Chiranjeevi chose to spread the word have impeachable integrity, and their standing will be badly affected if the actor changes his mind. Chiranjeevi made all the right noises. He does not want to be seen as casteist — the expectation is that the party would be heavily tilted in favour of the Kapu community to which he belongs — and wants to broaden his base among all sections, according to his confidants.

Chiranjeevi is obtaining feedback on the Telangana issue. He wants to speak in support of Statehood when he goes ahead with his political plans, they said. “When people strongly want Telangana state, how can we oppose it,” the confidants quoted Chiranjeevi as saying. Chiranjeevi is weighing his options as there is no considerable anti-incumbency against the Congress. There is also no support for the Telugu Desam.

When N.T. Rama Rao launched the Telugu Desam in 1982, all the Opposition parties supported it as they badly wanted a formidable alternative to the Congress. The scenario is different now. “He may not get a landslide victory but nevertheless Chiranjeevi expects that he can emerge as a powerful force,” his aides said. The CPI and the CPI had earlier announced that they would welcome Chiranjeevi if he came out with a political plan.

Why this Unusual Behavior?

We think that, apparently, the reason for this strange unfolding of events is that, by completing adjudication of an unprecedented number of I-485 cases, the USCIS is pushing the DOS to issue a revised Visa Bulletin early next week. The goal of USCIS appears to be to make the immigrant visa numbers “unavailable” as early as possible by exhausting the entire visa numbers for fiscal year 2007 (until Sep 30, 2007). There is a lot of speculation as to the reason for this, including that the USCIS does not want too many I-485 cases to be filed while they are trying to clear their backlogs and that they want people to pay the substantially higher USCIS filing fees that will take effect from July 27, 2007 onwards. What ever the reason, we believe their actions are not acceptable and are in violation of the law.

USCIS Action Would Violate its Precedent and its Own Regulations

If the DOS issues a revised Visa Bulletin, and the USCIS uses that revised Bulletin as the excuse to reject all employment-based (EB) cases, then it violates their own precedent for over half a century and it is a violation of the USCIS’s own regulation to accept cases during the month that the DOS Visa Bulletin shows visa number availability. Nothing like this has ever happened before June 2007. It is an alarming development, which must be addressed.

If No Change

If nothing changes next week and the DOS and USCIS decide to continue business as usual, then one all can continue to file during the month of July 2007. This has been the traditional position historically with the USCIS in accepting I-485s during the month when the Visa Bulletin shows availability for the month. This means that, historically in this situation, a person was allowed to file an I-485 for all eligible family members and obtain the EAD and AP based on the I-485 filing, as long as the case reached the USCIS on or before July 31, 2007.

If USCIS Rejects I-485s Filed in July 2007

If the DOS issues the revised Visa Bulletin and the USCIS uses that as the reason to reject I-485s, then the only remedy will be a lawsuit against the USCIS. The American Immigration Law Foundation (AILF) has already been authorized to file a lawsuit and is looking for class action plaintiffs. In order to sue, a person needs to show that s/he was harmed by the actions of the government. This likely will require the person to file the I-485 so that it reaches the USCIS during July 2007, then the person must show that the USCIS rejected that package improperly. The person may also need to show the harm suffered, financial and otherwise; for example by the person and family members not being able to work with the EAD.

What Can One Do in the Meanwhile?

There are two things one can and should do at this stage. #Go about collecting documents to prepare the case for filing, as usual. #Read the provided information from AILF and educate oneself on the lawsuit, what it means, and what is required to become a plaintiff, should this become a reality.

The actor refused a film by Tips with Bipasha saying that she was too old to be paired with him! Harman made it clear that he only wanted to work with young actresses.

Says a source, “Although Harman Baweja’s debut film has yet to release, he has been getting a lot of offers. He has given the nod to a Tips project but they are having trouble finding a project with which Harman doesn’t find fault.”

Bold theme

The source continues, “They first offered him a film with Kareena Kapoor to be directed by Mohit Suri, but he refused the films as he found it, “too bold”. So the movie was shelved. Then the company came back with a another project to be directed by Kuku Gulati with Bipasha Basu, but Harman turned down this one as well.”

The film was to go on the floors on November 24; but with the actor’s refusal, the film has now been shelved.

Harman’s PR denies that Harman refused the film because of Bipasha. “That’s not true. Harman is more than thrilled to be working with Bipasha, we just had some script issues and the heads of Tips and Harman will be meeting soon to discuss it.

Yuvraj Singh’s four-year innings with Kim Sharma has come to an end. This, when just a few days ago, there were rumours about them being ready to walk down the aisle. But it seems the cricketer-actress’ liaison is not meant to be. And the reason behind the split is supposed to be Yuvraj’s mother, Shabnam, who didn’t approve of her son’s choice and Kim’s habit of exposing too much in films.

However, a source close to the family says this isn’t true: “Shabnam Singh had nothing to do with this. It was Yuvraj’s decision alone. People like to believe that Yuvraj is a mamma’s boy and lets his mother take all decisions for him. But that’s not true. He’s close to his mother but that doesn’t mean he’s tied to her pallu.”

To newspaper reports that Kim has been heartbroken after the break-up, our source says, “If she was, why has she been spotted with Vivek Oberoi lately? She wouldn’t be crying on his shoulder about Yuvi. The truth is that Kim had become obsessive and terribly abusive — that was the reason for Yuvraj calling it off. She would keep calling him up all the time and disturb him. It was killing his confidence.

This is specially true of the time he was in Pakistan, but Yuvi avoided any kind of retaliation.” His mother Shabnam, says the source, had heard about Kim’s behaviour and bad language and for the past two years or so has been seeing the effect this was having on her son. “From Shabnam’s side, there’s no question of approval or disapproval. Whatever has happened is Yuvraj and Kim’s decision alone.”

When contacted, Shabnam Singh said, “The media is having a field day at Yuvi’s and my expense. Both my son and Kim are grown-up individuals who can take their own decisions. Tell me, do grown-up children in this day and age brook any interference from their parents in such matters? My son is very respectful towards me, but where marriage is concerned, will make his own decision. And I will let him.”

When contacted by Bangalore Times for her version, Kim refused to comment.

50 metres away from the hotel’s main gate, the car stopped; the driver got off and started signalling furiously towards someone behind. Seconds later, a silver Toyota Innova pulled over and before you could say ‘Jack Robinson’, Vidya jumped out of her car and promptly stepped into the silver Innova. Not to be outdone, my eager beaver reporter friend decided to follow them in an auto rickshaw (oh yes, sometimes the three wheeler can work wonders in Mumbai traffic).

According to the release Exradia are “...surprised Apple has chosen to ignore this potential health issue”, though the company admits there’s no evidence that mobile phones cause problems that’s no reason not to make a buck preventing those very problems.

It added, “...there is currently no scientific evidence that clearly demonstrates mobile devices are safe”, says David Schick, chief executive, ignoring the fact that it’s impossible to prove a negative.

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