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King of Jungle knocks down and severely injures Keralalite TrainerFiled Under: Desi General, desi

An unfortunately managed photo-shoot at the Bowmanville Zoo, Toronto to erect circulation by presenting how bizarre ancient Indian martial arts can be, turned out to be very fatal for Indian Martial Art Trainer Gitanjali of Kerala .

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The Indian trainer was knocked over by a lion during the photo shoot at the Zoo . She broke  four ribs and a bloodied lung.

“To be honest, the sensation I have is a great deal of gratitude to be alive,� Gitanjali Kolanad said the bedridden trainer.

Since the commencement, the 180 kilogram beast proved mischievous and not completely in command of of its two minders.

Kolanad, 54, practices the ancient, and perceptibly feeble, Indian martial art of Kalaripayat, formed after the actions of such animals as the lion, elephant, wild boar and peacock. The magazine opted she pose with a lion. Next time, she might just tell them where to get off, and choose a peacock instead!

A video of the session shows Leo first knocking over editor Sonia Verma. She picks herself up and smiles. He next paws the legs of photographer Richard Lautens. Off-camera, he also took a swipe at the legs of art director Spencer Wynn.

The 3-year-old lion was two-faced in close proximity when an unmindful Kolanad was reaching into her actions. Still imperfect to leap, the animal jumped up and fell on her, knocking the breath out of her, injuring her left lung and infringing four left ribs.

It was not an assail, the witnesses said. The lion’s mouth was not open and Kolanad was not dented. The Bowmanville Zoo had no comment on the incident.

Focus is key in Kalaripayat, which bases its movements on the graceful control of animals. It’s a constant lesson in focal point. When you lose your focus, you instantaneously get hit.

In the video, one attendant kicks the otherwise obedient beast in the neck while the other pulls on Leo’s chain. The lion takes a second, abortive attack at Kolanad as she lies breathless, before he is escorted out the door.

Incapable to work for the past month and still in pain, Kolanad said she feels on the road to recovery.

This shows that there are no limits to human stupidity like performing before a  dangerous beast at the cost of one’s life!!!

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King Khan’s Cricket TeamFiled Under: Cricket

King Khan today launched his cricket team under the banner Knightriders in Kolkatta. The name of the site is www.kolkataknightriders.com/home.html. The team activities and actions are towards sports strength and courage of children and youth of the country. The joint owners of the team are the great SRK and actress Juhi Chawla and her business mind husband Jay Mehta.

Sourav Ganguli has been named as the Captain along with tough players like Shoiab Akthar and Ricky Ponting.  John Bucanen will be the coach of the team.

The theme song for the team has been composed by multitalented Vishal-Shekhar and the song has been sung by Vishal.  The jingle for the song is something like Korbo,lodbo,jeethore in Bangla.  More songs will be composed by Pritam and to be sung by Usha Uthup the Kolkata much-loved.

The official clothes has been sponsored by Belmonte, designed flamboyant  Manish Malhotra.  The colour of the T-shirt is gold and black, SRK feels gold is lucky for him.  SRK himself has chosen Jersey No.12 and says he will be the waterman for the team in an athletic spirit.

A golden helmet as musket of the team, enclosed in glass was offered to Saurav and certain other members of the organisation.

SRK also unveiled the team’s logo Hoog-lee shown as a cartoon character, the surprise members’ name will be announced later.

SRK disclosed that he does not anything much about cricket on a funny message. He stated that a sum of INR 80,000/- crores will be the expected  annual turnover, out of which 80% money will be dispersed to the players.

Sony Max will be official broadcaster of the matches which will begin from March 18 onwards.

Well whatever King Khan does, he steals the thunder as ever. Good luck King Khan!

No
Name
Age
Nationality
Playing role
Batting Style
Bowling/Fielding
Bidding Price

1
Sourav Ganguly (Captain)
35

Batsman
LHB
Right-arm medium
Icon Player

2
Ishant Sharma
19

Bowler
RHB
Right-arm fast
US$ 950,000

3
Chris Gayle
28

All-rounder
LHB
Right-arm off spin
US$ 950,000

4
Brendon McCullum
26

Batsman/WK
RHB
Wicket-keeper
US$ 700,000

5
David Hussey
30

Batsman
RHB
Right-arm off spin
US$ 675,000

6
Shoaib Akhtar
32

Bowler
RHB
Right-arm fast
US$ 450,000

7
Murali Kartik
31

Bowler
LHB
Left-arm orthodox spin
US$ 425,000

8
Ricky Ponting
33

Batsman
RHB
Right-arm medium
US$ 400,000

9
Ajit Agarkar
30

All-rounder
RHB
Right-arm fast-medium
US$ 350,000

10
Umar Gul
24

Bowler
RHB
Right-arm fast-medium
US$ 150,000

11
Tatenda Taibu
24

Batsman/WK
RHB
Wicket-keeper
US$ 125,000

12
Salman Butt
23

Batsman
LHB
Right-arm off spin

US$ 100,000

13
Mohammad Hafeez
27

All-rounder
RHB
Right-arm off spin
US$ 100,000

Front Office:

• Owners - Shahrukh Khan, Juhi Chawla, & Jai Mehta
• CEO - TBA
• President - TBA

Coaches:

• Head Coach - John Buchanan
• Assistant Head Coach -
• Physiotherapist - Andrew Leipus^[5]
• Physical Trainer - Adrian Le Roux^[6]

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6th pay CommissionFiled Under: India

The 6^th Pay Commission is in the process of discussing pay aspects of the Central Government employees with various other organizations. We have received one such copy from our sources, which the employees can read and relax and sent your comments too. It may be noted that the pay structure is only a draft and no final decision has been taken on this revision:

REPORT OF THE SIXTH CENTRAL PAY COMMISSION

HIGHLIGHTS

Report  submitted  to  the  Government  on  March,  24,  2008.  The  18  month  tenure  of  the
Commission was till 4.4.2008.

Full text of the Report available at http://india.gov.in and http://www.finmin.nic.in

Salient features of the Report

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Foetus slips out of moving train, safeFiled Under: Foetus

AHMEDABAD: Call it good fortune or just the will of God. But the life in a seven-month-old foetus, that fell through the toilet bowl of a running train when the mother went to ease herself, still lives on!
Call it a miracle, perhaps. This tiny bundle weighing just 1.4 kg, which slipped from the womb into the toilet tube and crash-landed on rocks between two steel tracks, is from the top drawer of survival tales.
Born a good two months premature, she is recuperating in the Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Rajasthan Hospitals. Here, she lies without a scratch after the providential escape just before midnight on Tuesday.
“She is a fighter. In just 12 hours after the unthinkable accident, she was coming out of the accident quite well,” said pediatrician Dr Raj Kumar.
“She is a gift from God. How else can all this be explained,” the girl’s mother, Bhuri Kalbi (33), said. Bhuri is a native of Swaroopganj, located between Sirohi and Abu Road, in Rajasthan and was travelling by the Jodhpur-Ahmedabad train.
Bhuri was headed for Ahmedabad with her relatives for a medical check-up. She felt very weak on the toilet seat and passed out. The next thing she remembers is people knocking on the toilet door.
When she managed to get up to open the latched door, she realized an emptiness in her stomach. “I realised my stomach was flat. My child was gone,” said Bhuri whose husband works in a packaging unit in Ahmedabad.
Bhuri’s brother-in-law Arjun said when she opened the door she was semiconscious. He realised with complete shock what had happened. “We immediately pulled the chain at Kalol, two stations away from where the child had slipped off and alerted the train guard,” he said.
On a day when the Railway Budget was presented by Lalu Prasad, who promised ‘green toilets’ in trains, the girl can thank railway personnel for snatching her from sure death. As she lay on the track — fortunately located close to the Amblisayan railway station — some members of the Gram Rakshak Dal alerted station master KK Rai that a new-born child was lying on the track.
While rushing to the spot on foot, Rai said he could hear the cries of the baby from a distance. On coming closer, he could not believe what he saw. “The baby was lying dangerously close to the left track with the umbilical cord hanging by the side,” Rai said. The baby had turned blue due to the chill at midnight.
The railwaymen wrapped the baby in a cloth and called the local doctor. While the child was being examined, a call came, saying the parents were traced.
The mother could not believe her eyes when she was reunited with the baby two hours later at the Kalol Civil Hospital. And she just can’t take her eyes off this baby ever since.

SOURCE TOI

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A big no for kids daytime napFiled Under: baby, kids

Southern Mississippi researchers contend that kids should be restrained from sleeping during day time as it makes them more dull, in fact it affects negatively their mental development as a whole.

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The force behind InfosysFiled Under: Indians, Infosys, Mr. Narayanmurthy

Before  returning to India and setting up his company Infosys, its Chairman Mr. Narayanmurthy worked in Bulgeria.  He had a very horrific time during his preceding days of staying there. Civil war cropped up there and Mr. Murthy had to proceed to his homeland. The money he possessed was also limited. He somehow caught a train to Paris. In the train journey he got acquainted with a girl and started conversing with her in French.

Thinking that they were talking against communism, the  Communist soldiers on the platform seized and put him into jail. When the soldiers were sure that he is in Indian and thus they allowed to him after 48 hours. Two days of hunger and a long walk on the highway to grab hold of some transport to railways, he learnt his lesson of life.

It was at this time that he decided that not communalism but free enterprise with a flexible bend for ill-fated will resolve the predicament and removal of poverty to an extent.

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Ayesha Takia - InterviewFiled Under: Ayesha Takia, Bollywood, desi, interview

Found this wonderful Interview of Ayesha Takia On AOL.in Bollywood Section

We also hope to have our own interview with her soon till then have a read at the interview by the GlamSham  Team

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Last Updated: January 24, 2008 00:41:03

Possessing a beautiful face and a mesmerizing smile, Ayesha Takia is one such actress who is capable of winning over people with her performance as well as sweet talk. Another interesting thing about Ayesha is that the cutie has been able to win applauses from the audience both for her roles in serious films as well as in comedy. Soon Ayesha will be seen in an interesting role in Rohit Shetty’s comedy thriller Sunday. Recently, we caught up with Ayesha and during a brief encounter she talked about her film Sunday, her upcoming projects and plans for the future. Here are the excerpts.

Q: Tell us something about your character in Sunday.
A: In this film, my character’s name is Sehar who works as a dubbing artiste for a cartoon network. She is a very forgetful kind of a girl and cannot remember things of the past and as a result she is often in problems.

Q: This is the first time that you are portraying a dubbing artist. Did you need to take any special preparation for this?
A: Actually Vikash, who had trained Tussar Kapur for the dumb character in Golmaal, has helped me a lot in doing this role to perfection. Simultaneously, I used to watch a lot of cartoon films at home to prepare myself for the role which demanded that the facial expressions of the artist should match his voice. While doing this role I have often noticed that the expressions of some dubbing artists are very loud and on the other hand, some people’s appearances are so funny that I often used to feel ashamed. I loved doing this role as it provided me with an opportunity to learn a lot of things.

Q: While preparing for the role you have watched a lot of cartoon shows. Which among them is your favorite?
A: I personally liked ‘Donald Duck’ and ‘Mickey Mouse’ a lot and this is also because of the voice-overs in these shows. I also liked ‘Tom and Jerry’, but this is a silent cartoon show and hence I did not get much to learn from this show.

Q: Would you call this a return to your childhood days?
A: (Laughingly) No, it is nothing like this. But it is also true that I have never spent so much time watching cartoon networks and now it looks so strange. I remember initially when I used to watch the cartoon networks, my dad used to come and tease me saying that I was watching cartoons at this age and I used to smilingly reply that I am merely preparing for my role. Then he used to remind me that I would do the same thing when I was a kid.

Q: What has been your experience working with co-stars?
A: I have enjoyed a lot working with everyone. There were four men - Ajay, Arshad, Irfaan and Rohit - in the film and I was the lone girl. But I have never felt any difference working with them and even joked with them. Ajay is not only a sporting person, but also very protective. Many people have told me that he is prankster, but I have always found him to be an introvert. Irfaan too is very much like Ajay, but Arshad is a funny person and always made us laugh with his jokes and pranks. And what should I tell about Rohit, he was the director, but still one of us. While working he was serious, but rest of the time, he was like a friend.

Q: In this film there is an incident where you miss a Sunday. How do you spend your Sundays in real life?
A: (Laughingly) Sundays were very attractive to me since my school days as it would be a holiday. I always feel very upset when I miss a holiday in real life. On Sundays I wake up late and do all my work leisurely. And there is a special fun in watching television shows on this day.

Q: After Sunday what else is in the pipeline?
A: I am working in Boney Kapoor’s Wanted which is a remake of Pokhri in Tamil. I am doing the role of a gym instructor who doesn’t have a father and she works to look after her mother and younger brother. I am also working with Nagesh once again, but I don’t know whether the film will be titled 8 BY 10 or Tasveer. This is a big budget psychological thriller and here I am opposite Akshay Kumar. The film is a story about a couple from Canada. In addition, I am doing De Taali for E Nivas and the film is based on the topic of friendship. Aftab is opposite me in this film, which is a wonderful movie like Socha Na Tha.

Q: Since the beginning of your career you have concentrated on career-oriented films rather than masala films. What is your take on this?
A: Actually, I am fortunate that in the initial days of my career I have got good offers. I am also grateful to the audience who has appreciated my performances in Socha Na Tha and Dor, otherwise these days an artiste’s fate is sealed between hit and flop films. This year my first release is Sunday and I have a lot of expectations from this movie as not only the film is good, but also because it involves good actors and a talented director.

Q: According to you, are you a serious actor or a comedy film actor?
A: I consider myself both. For instance, Dor is such a film that even after 20 years I would feel proud to talk to my children about my performance in the film. On the other hand, I have done some light or comedy films. I am of the opinion that as an actor, I should act in both kinds of films because acting in a particular type of film would not only put a stamp on an actor, but also bore him or her.

Q: Which do you feel was a turning point in your career?
A: Frankly speaking, till date I have not come across any point in my life that I can call a turning point. But I am really hoping for a turning point in my life. All I need is a super-duper hit film and a character that no one has performed so far, so that I can satiate the artist in me. However, I am quite happy with my present situation.

Q: What was the reason that made you accept a film like No Smoking after doing a successful movie like Dor?
A: Look, there can be no comparison between Dor and No Smoking. I don’t want to do any film that will have all the ingredients of a Bollywood masala, but the film should provide me with ample opportunity to perform.

Q: Some of your films like Salaam-E-Ishq and Fool And Final flopped despite having big names and great casting. What is the reason behind this?
A: It has often been seen that when we expect a lot from something, it generally deprives us. It is mostly a matter of luck and chance. As you just said, Salaam-E-Ishq flopped despite having a big star cast. It feels very bad because it was basically not a bad film, but definitely a long one. The problem with Fool And Final was that people took this as a serious film, when we had made it clear in the promos that the audience should take the movie lightly. Although these are not thought-provoking films, I enjoyed doing them very much.

Q: In Bollywood, the audience generally appreciates male comedians rather than female comic actors. Do you feel that the audience will do justice with your performance in Sunday?
A: I sincerely pray that the audience appreciate my performance as a comedienne in the movie. My favorite women comedians in Bollywood are Sridevi and Juhi Chawla and I am sure that everyone will accept this. To tell you honestly, I would prefer to do comedy roles to wearing low cut blouses like the present day heroines.

© Copyright 2008 Glamsham Enfotainment Magazine.

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Mast TATA Nano Rs 1Lakh CarFiled Under: Cars, India, Indians, Tata Motors, Tata Nano

(NEW DELHI) — India’s Tata Motors on Thursday unveiled its much anticipated $2,500 car, an ultra-cheap price tag that brings car ownership into the reach of tens of millions of people. But critics worry the car could overwhelm the country’s roads and create an environmental nightmare.

“The four seater has a 624cc gasoline engine mounted under the rear seat. The manufacturer claims that the 33hp engine meets current Euro 4 emissions standards and is cleaner than most of the scooters running around on Indian streets right now.� They also claim that the Nano can achieve 54 mpg (U.S.) and has passed frontal and side impact tests. (No mention of what standard they are using for the testing.)

Deluxe version to have AC

On being asked whether the standard car also have air conditioner, Ratan Tata, Chairman of Tata Sons said that the standard car will have not have AC.

“The deluxe version that we displayed on the podium today will have AC and of course somewhat higher price which will be disclosed at the time we launch the vehicle. So the standard car will be as I said Rs 1 lakh +VAT + transport as the customer price� he added.

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Rendezvous with Sarah Jane, Miss India 2007Filed Under: Femina Miss India-World 2007, Indians, Interviews, Miss World pageant, Sarah-Jane Dias

• She’s gorgeous, intelligent and very much her own person. Sarah-Jane Dias, Pantaloons Femina Miss India-World 2007, talks on her preparations for the Miss World pageant.

Age:24 yrs
Height:5’9’’
Stats:35-27-37

Was the Femina Miss India contest always part of the larger plan in life, or was it just something you decided to enter?
It was unquestionably not on a impulse. I’d always wanted to be a Femina Miss India since I was a little girl. Then I read an ad in the paper this year and knew it was time. I was 24… I didn’t want to look back at 60 and regret not having given it a try.

You dreamt of being famous?
Yes. I enjoy being famous. Initially, it was a attraction, now it’s a job.

How do you feel being among the Femina’s 50 Most Beautiful Women in India?
I can’t believe it. For someone as low profile as me, it was overwhelming.

You are thinking of getting into Bollywood?
For now, I’d really like to stay focused on the contest. But I also want to do a lot of things in the future, Bollywood, etc. And I definitely want to have an album of my own some day.

What is your dream role?

Any role in ‘Shantaram’. I’d have the best of both worlds. I mean, it’s Johnny Depp and Amitabh Bachchan!

Tell us your fitness mantra.

I’ve been in training for about three months now. Deanne Pandey is my trainer and she is really the best. She’s extremely dedicated and constantly updates my workout so that I don’t get bored. I do a bit of kick boxing, yoga,weight training and cardio and I eat healthy.

Your advice to the young girls who would like to experience Femina Miss India.

Young girls out there should not let anyone control their minds. If you give up your autonomy, you’ve lost a massive part of yourself.

The worst analysis you have received so far?

Bodily criticism is the easiest way to affect a girl. I got a lot of that during the pageant. I decided to get healthy, and lost six kilos in three weeks.

The secret to your beauty..
Water. I try to drink at least three to four litres a day. It’s wonderful and flushes out all the toxins.

What do your carry in your make up box?

I always carry some sort of gloss, because my lips tend to get chapped a lot. So I have my gloss from The Body Shop.Also, transparent mascara and of course the Bobbi Brown eye shadow, blusher and bronzer in one.

The obsession you disgust about yourself..
I’m very hard on myself…

Do you have boyfriends?

I’m single… but have no time for a relationship. I’m dating a couple of
guys though.

The biggest support you have..
My family.Although they live in Muscat, I know they are always there for me. I gain my strength from them.

Where do you see yourself after an year?
Travelling around the world, hopefully as Miss World!

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I find her UGLY! she is not going to win MISS WORLD FOR SURE! She is the worst to happen to The Miss Indian contest since..umm ever?

Quote of the day:
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it. - Roald Dahl

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