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Srinagar, June 28 : Did Congress president Sonia Gandhi praise union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's 2005-2008 tenure as Jammu and Kashmir chief minister for a reason? Her comments have drawn much attention in the state.

There is speculation that the Congress chief wishes to install Azad as the chief minister, in case the party wins the assembly elections, scheduled for the end of 2014.

London, June 28 : Actress Emma Watson wants to be known for her acting skills rather than being labelled as a "fashionista".

The 23-year-old, currently the face of luxury brand Lancome, has previously been part of fashion brand Burberry's ad campaigns, worked on a clothing collaboration with British fair-trade label, People Tree, and created a collection for Italian fashion designer Alberta Ferretti.

But when she started hitting the headlines for her sophisticated style and modelling jobs rather than her performances, Emma decided to step back from her fashion projects.

Film: "Ghanchakkar"; Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Vidya Balan, Rajesh Verma and Namit Das; Director: Rajkumar Gupta; Rating: ***1/2

He is a lazy lad. And she is one helluva crazy Punjaban whose kookie cooking drives her sullen husband up the nearest wall. Disgust on the dining-table camouflaged in tons of table-salt, Sanju (Emraan Hashmi, pitch-perfect in his spousal indolence) would probably have gone on tolerating his wife's appalling culinary skills matched only by her hideous fashion sense, if only he didn't decide to pull off one last heist that would make him and his inept cook of a wife rich for the rest of their life.

Ostrava (Czech Republic), June 28 : World and Olympic 400 metres champion Kirani James lived up to expectation to win the event at the Golden Spike Meet in Ostrava on Thursday.

James thrilled a capacity crowd by racing to a new meet record of 44.49 seconds on the track where he was first noticed as a 400m prodigy when he competed as a 14 year-old to win silver at the World Youth Championships six years ago.

The Grenadian athlete successfully chased down another outstanding quarter-miler's achievement - the meet record of 44.70 set by Cuban Alberto Juantorena in 1976.

London, June 28 : Supermodel Kate Moss doesn't like to go overboard with make-up during f

Mumbai, June 28 : Successful Bollywood producer and TV czarina Ekta Kapoor says that "Lootera" is one of the most special films she has made so far and predicts that it will rock the box-office.

"'Lootera' is among the most special films we've produced. We're extremely proud of it. It has great universal appeal and word-of-mouth potential. That's why we are confident to show it well in advance to people," Ekta said in a statement.

Directed by Vikramaditya Motwane, the film is a period romance and features Ranveer Singh with Sonakshi Sinha. It releases July 5.