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Mumbai: Mr India 2008-2009 winner Pravesh Rana will enter Bigg Boss 3 as a wild card entry. This economics graduate from Delhi University, was a quality supervisor with IBM before he chucked his job to pursue the entertainment world.

Before moving to Mumbai, last year Pravesh was a leading master of ceremony in Delhi. Having done many corporate shows for leading brands & had lately taken to top modeling assignments including Lakme Fashion Week, etc.

“Pravesh has always been star material and his grit & determination has finally paid up. The hunk factor was missing in this season,s Bigg Boss which Pravesh will fulfill now, ” says Rahul Mittra, close friend & CEO Brandsmith.

In the mean time, confident Pravesh Rana, who would prove out to be the hottest contestant of Bigg Boss 3 said “I am taking this as a game and play sensibly.”

Source :Latestnewsonline.net

New Delhi: The Delhi court had given a go ahead to the show `Pati, Patni Aur Woh’ of NDTV Imagine but I&B issued a notice to the channel for “indecent exploitation of babies in the pursuit of entertainment”.

The programme is based on BBC’s international format Baby Borrowers which was a success in the US, UK and Europe, has celebrity couples taking care of babies.

The ministry notice said the channel was using children as “commodities”. It added that the programme appeared to “denigrate children” and could have a negative impact on young viewers.

The ministry’s move came after the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) reacted to complaints from concerned viewers and NGOs and urged I&B ministry to take action.

The commission has asked the channel to stop broadcasting the programme as it is violating child rights and labour laws.

NDTV Imagine claims that the children’s parents were present throughout the shoot and supervised the proceedings from TV cameras in adjacent rooms.

They were also free to intervene if they perceived the slightest risk to their child. BBC also had experienced nurses and doctors on call 24×7 for any emergency.

David letterman, who hosts Late-night talk, presented a “heartfelt” apology before a live studio audience Monday to his wife and female staffers over last week’s “sextortion” revelations.

He had revealed on the show on Thursday night that he had sex with members of his staff and that he testified about those liaisons before a New York grand jury for a case involving an alleged attempted extortion.

A CBS producer accused of threatening to go public with allegedly embarrassing information about Letterman’s private life, unless the 62-year-old funnyman paid $2 million.

According to excerpts released Monday by production company World Wide Pants, Letterman said, that his staff were wonderful and supportive.

An audience member Larry Lefkowitz of Brooklyn Heights, New York, told CNN after the taping that He really handled the apology well and that he was sorry that he hurt other people, but was also able to keep it funny by using humor.

Zurich: As we had reported earlier, film director Roman Polanski was detained at Zurich airport last weekend in a sexual assault case.

He chose to fight the extradition case with California from Switzerland and will have to remain behind bars in Switzerland for months until the extradition battle winds up its way across the legal system.

Release of Polanski as filed by his lawyers will be vain as such releases are rare for nonresidents in Switzerland.

“We are talking about three, four months easily,” said Peter Cosandey, a former prosecutor with extensive experience in extradition cases. “If he’s not released on bail as requested by his lawyers, then he has to remain in prison.”

The location where Polanski is being held is not disclosed for security Reasons. Polanski has both Polish and French citizenship. French diplomats have also been in contact with the director.

Polanski has been given the permission to contact his Swiss lawyer, Lorenz Erni any time he wants. The famous director is now living a life of a jailed suspect confined to a single cell.

A letter from the Polish and French foreign ministers to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton asking her to intervene in the matter and leverage some leniency.

Polanski is accused of that he plied a 13-year-old girl with alcohol and drugs and then had sex with her. The director pleaded guilty to having unlawful sex with the girl, but left the country before sentencing.

Australian musician-actor Ben Lee and Hollywood actress Ione Skye, who married in a traditional Hindu ceremony in India on December 29 last, have given the middle name “Priya” to their daughter born on September 24.

Priya, a Sanskrit word, means beloved/darling/sweetheart. It is couple’s first child together. Lee is feeling “over the moon”.

Ben Lee reportedly washed the feet of his mother and mother-in-law during his traditional Hindu wedding ceremony in Malaikodi village near Chennai in south India. Lee’s guru (spiritual guide) Narayani Amma presided.

Hinduism is oldest and third largest religion of the world with about one billion adherents and moksha (liberation) is its ultimate goal.

Mumbai: When it comes to hosting, India seems to prefer Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman) over Angelina Jolie (Changeling)—both Oscar winners.

Roberts is currently shooting in rural Haryana (India) for “Eat, Pray, Love” (Ryan Murphy), while Jolie was in Pune-Mumbai (India) in 2006 for filming “A Mighty Heart” (Michael Winterbottom).

Even when comparing with Bollywood actresses like megastar Filmfare Award winner Aishwarya Rai (Devdas), Roberts appears to be comparatively scoring higher points, reports suggest.

Roberts seems to have won all she interacted with in India—villagers, media persons following her, and the Indian crew members.

Qualities reportedly appreciated in Roberts include simplicity, humility, relaxed appearance, accessibility, professionalism, down-to-earth style, drinking chai (Indian tea) and street-walking with natives, eating with all the crew (while Jolie reportedly ate only with American or non-Indian crew), sticks to schedule, throws no tantrums or airs, does her homework thoroughly before shooting day, moved around barefoot, preferred walking over riding car to small distances, etc.

As we had reported earlier that film director Roman Polanski was arrested at Zurich on Saturday on account of raping a 13-year old girl. He had pleaded guilty and fled USA and never returned back all these years.

Lawyers of the Polanski said indicated that the director will fight extradition to California from Switzerland itself. His lawayer, Herve Temime, said Polanski was “in a fighting mood.” But legal experts say there is little to fight.

“This is rape and sodomization of a 13-year-old child — someone who admitted it and skipped out,” said Carol Chase, a Pepperdine University Law School professor.

European governments pressured the Swiss to release Polanski, 76, who has French and Polish citizenship.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner called the apprehension a “bit sinister. A man of such talent, recognized in the entire world …all this just isn’t nice.”

French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand told, “In the same way that there is a generous America that we like, there is also a scary America that has just shown its face.”

New Delhi: Julia Roberts’s movie shooting was disrupted due to donkeys near Mirzapur. According to the reports, donkeys and a dog interrupted Oscar winner Julia Roberts’ shooting.

Although many villagers climbed trees and filled rooftops in the dusty village to have a look at Roberts and the shooting, but most of them had no idea who Julia Roberts was and what “Eat, Pray, Love” was about.

According to the reports, immediately after director Ryan Murphy (Nip/Tuck) uttered “rolling camera”, two donkeys reportedly began braying.

Some staff people ran to push the donkeys away while people present laughed. “Donkey disturbance” caused some retakes.

When everything came back to normal, a dog began whining. Some elders, buffaloes, and cows from this village were also used in the shootouts, reports suggest.

Wearing ruddraksh (seeds of the tree Eleocarpus ganitrus) mala (rosary), Roberts was seen sipping a drink at a typical rural tea-stall, while the camels walked by.

Film-maker and French citizen Roman Polanski has got favor from French culture minister Frederic Mitterand after his arrest in Switzerland.

Frederic Mitterand has said he is “dumbfounded” by the arrest. Mr Mitterand added that President Nicolas Sarkozy was following the case “with great attention”.

US prosecutors want Mr Polanski to return to be sentenced for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

A lawyer acting for Mr Polanski said he will challenge his arrest and any attempts to extradite him to the US.

He pleaded guilty at the time as part of a plea bargain but then fled abroad.

In recent years, Mr Polanski, 76, asked a US appeals court in California to overturn a judges’ refusal to throw out his case. He claimed misconduct by the judge, now deceased, who had arranged a plea bargain and then reneged on it.

Mumbai: It’s Lata Mangeshkar’s 80th birthday. Wherever there is discussion about music and singers, the first name which traverses across any Indian’s mind is the legendary Lata Mangeshkar.

Her voice has a magical quality about it and it sweeps the listeners off their feet. Its sweet and melodious but equally powerful and versatile. A voice which India loves, admires and worships!

The famous playback singer’s life was not an easy one. She has seen her shares of ups and downs throughout her career and life as well.

Born on September 28, 1929 in a Maharashtrian family at Indore, Madhya Pradesh, Lata Mangehskar was the first child of Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar and Shudhamati, followed by four siblings
Even at her age, Lataji’s voice sounds like a 16-year old and have the same innocence and freshness.

Amitabh Bachchan rightly said, “When the voice achieves perfect harmony with a note (sur), it is as if the soul has soared up to become one with the Supreme Being. That is how I feel when I listen to Lataji.”

She took singing lessons from her father from the tender age of 5. Her father, was the owner of a theatre company and a reputed classical singer. Lataji also studied classical music with Aman Ali Khan Sahib and later Amanat Khan. Her first AIR broadcast was in 1941.

At young as 13, she faced the trauma of her father passing away of a heart disease Lata shifted to Mumbai in 1945 began paving her footsteps with the film world.