Monday, November 25, 2013

Another Super Cyclone 'Lehar’ Will Hit Andhra On Nov 28

By Ramesh Reddy | Hyderabad

After being hit by cyclones ’Phailin’ and ‘Helen’, Andhra Pradesh is likely to be at the receiving end of another cyclone, ‘Lehar’, by November 28.

’Lehar’ lay centred at 1130 hours today, about 230 km east-southeast of Port Blair over the Andaman Sea and is expected to cross Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Sunday night.

It would then emerge in South Eastern Bay of Bengal and intensify further gradually into a very severe cyclonic storm.

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Newsmaker: Indian Humble 'Idly' Makes A Way In 'Paris'

By Balakrishnan | Mumbai

It's not caviar and champagne but the humble idli, vada and dosa that is going places. Muthuswamy, who once supplied milk in Matunga, has Mumbai's upper crust eating out of his hand, quite literally. INN Live talks to the man behind the batter.

When big-time diamond merchant and film producer Bharat Shah wanted to throw a party in Antwerp to celebrate the wedding of his son a few years ago, guess who he turned to for catering the food? Not the Hilton or Radisson but Muthukrishnan Reddy aka Muthuswamy of the Matunga Labour Camp, celebrated for his light-as-air idlis and tangy sambhar. 

'My Daughter Wants To Do Films, No Problem': Saif Khan

By Niloufer Khan | Mumbai

Actor Saif Ali Khan says he has no objection if his daughter Sara joins the film industry, provided she completes her education. Saif married actress Amrita Singh in 1991 and they have two children - daughter Sara and a son. After thirteen years of marriage the couple divorced in 2004.

Sara was noticed when she posed on the cover of a magazine alongside mother Amrita and also when she made her ramp debut for designers Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla.

Focus: Rubbled Roads Of MP, Gathering Political Whispers

By Neelabh Mishra (Guest writer)

INN Live traveller takes the rubbled roads of MP, gathering political whispers. When we left Gwalior around 10 am, the concierge at the hotel said, “In your Innova, you should be reaching Indore in 10 hours.” About 450 km. We gave ourselves three extra hours: on the way, we’d be stopping a few times to chat up people. 

After Shivpuri, the constituency of former state minister Yashodhararaje Scindia, the road became difficult; but after Guna, the parliamentary constituency of her nephew Jyotiraditya Scindia, it became impossible. As the evening darkened, the highway—a stretch of rubble, mud mounds, craters and loose metalling—led us deep into the heart of a dark nowhere.

Dead Lizard And Now Dead Rat In Mid-Day Meal In Bihar

By Rakesh Yadav | Patna

The Bihar administration seems to have learnt no lesson from the past. First insecticide, then dead lizard, frog and now a dead rat found in the mid-day meal at a government school in Bihar. 

According to media reports, dead rat was found in the mid-day meal served in a plate to a student of a primary school at Saidpur.      

A dead rat was among the things served up as part of the children's mid-day meal at a government school in the Bihar capital, police said on Friday.

Reports state, school authorities prevented children from eating the meal once the rodent was discovered dead in it. 

Sibal And Tarun Tejpal – Is There A Financial Connection?

By Kajol Singh | INN Live

The Tehelka sex scandal case involving its iconic editor Tarun Tejpal has brought into limelight the ownership structure of the magazine. With media reports publishing the shareholding pattern of the company in detail, the focus has fallen on a 0.04 percent stake owned by senior Congress leader and Union Law Minister Kapil Sibal. 

A report citing data from the ministry of corporate affairs said Tehelka‘s publisher was Anant Media Pvt Ltd. As much as 65.75 percent stake of Anant Media is owned by Royal Building and Infrastructure Company, which is a subsidiary of KDS Corporation. Trinamool Congress MP KD Singh owns KDS Corporation.

Bigg Boss-7 'Exposed': Kushal And Gauhar 'Caught In Red'

By Ritika Chauhan | Lonavla

This is limit in today's controversial reality show 'BiggBoss-7', where everybody becoming intimate and showing vulgar in live feeds. Last week, Armaan and Tanisha became intimate and caught red handed in cameras and showed in 24x7 live feeds, now Kushal and Guhar became vulgar in action, last night. 

The seventh instalment of Bigg Boss 7, by far, has kept its promise by becoming one of the most unpredictable and entertaining shows on Television nowadays. And although most inmates have contributed in making it so, one man has stood out.  From jumping fences and physical violence, to professing his love he has majored in keeping the audiences on their toes – yes! We are talking about Kushal Tandon.  

India's Youngest Divorcee, Who Married At 4 Divorced At 8

By Sufia Rafat | Lucknow

In a cruel joke played upon her by fate, a mere eight-year-old girl got divorced after being amrried for just over four years. Married away when she was only four, the girl today is the youngest divorcee the world has ever seen. This was happened in a village of Uttar Pradesh.