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It seems SRK is so impressed with rival Salman Khan’s Dabangg that he wants to re-create the magic of the movie by signing its director Abhinav Kashyap. If rumours are to be believed SRK had a secret meeting with the filmmaker and the news has not gone down well with Salman. Salman Khan who had earlier decided to bury... 

Apparently, when the ‘Wake Up Sid’ famed director Ayan Mukherji expressed his desire to cast the RK junior with ex-flame Deepika in his forthcoming directorial venture, the actor without a second thought stepped back. The Prem of ‘Ajab Prem Ki Gazab Kahani’ had wrapped up his love story with girlfriend, Deepika Padukone... 

By the time you read this, Lara Dutta will be Mrs Mahesh Bhupathi. The actress had a registered marriage with the tennis star in Mumbai today. It was attended only by his and her family at the groom’s Bandra residence. The actress wore a white outfit from designer Ritu Kumar’s Falaknama collection. Later today,... 

… Most Americans disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling the federal budget deficit, but head-to-head against the Republicans in Congress, the president appears to be in better political shape than former president Bill Clinton was at the start of his year-long budget fight with the Republicans in 1995. In... 

ZURICH—Switzerland said it will make it easier for foreign governments to hunt for tax cheats with Swiss bank accounts, amid continuing criticism that it still does too little to assist international tax authorities even after two years of pressure to ease bank secrecy. The Swiss Finance Ministry said Tuesday that Switzerland... 

NEW DELHI: CBI director A P Singh has contradicted telecom minister Kapil Sibal’s claim that 2G spectrum allocation had caused “zero loss” to the national exchequer as he appeared before Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC). Singh was quizzed by members of the committee on various aspects of the... 

One can guess that Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak probably doesn’t “Like” Facebook anymore, the website that now topples governments. (I apologize but I couldn’t resist.) Back in the US the Facebook enemies or, more precisely, “frenemies list” is also growing says a piece in the the Wall Street Journal. The article discusses... 

With the rice production in the country expected to rise, an Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM), which met on Wednesday, decided to permit exports of up to 1,50,000 tonnes of three varieties of non-basmati rice at a minimum export price of $850 a tonne. These non-basmati rice varieties include Sona Masuri, Ponni Samba and Rose... 

The Centre has informed the Supreme Court that black money stashed in tax havens abroad would be taxable income under the Direct Taxes Code Bill. It however, maintained its earlier stand on not revealing names of Indians who have stashed their money in foreign accounts. In its fresh affidavit, the government spelled out a host... 

The Reliance Group, controlled by Anil Ambani, accused “unscrupulous corporate rivals” of spreading false rumours that led to a sharp fall in the group’s listed firms’ stock prices on Wednesday and saw investors in them lose around Rs.12,754 crore. The group has complained to capital market regulator Securities and Exchange...