Young hero NT Rama Rao, who was injured while returning from election campaign some time ago, completely recovered from illness and is all set to resume shooting. He is most likely to participate in the latest schedule of his film under the direction of VV Vinayak from July 1.

The film unit is making efforts to complete the film at galloping speed. Nayanatara and Sheela are pairing up with NTR in this movie being presented by Kodali Nani and produced by Vallabhaneni Vamsi on the banner of Vaishnavi Arts. Devisri Prasad is scoring music, while Chota K Naidu is wielding the camera.

Hospitality firm major Leela Palace announced that it has inked a pact related with sales and marketing with US-based Preferred Hotel Group.

The company entered into this agreement with the aim to increase its brand awareness, reservations and yield via the American firm’s 29 global sales offices.

With the proposed contract, the company is expecting more business customers from the US corporate world.

The alliance will also give Leela access to Preferred Hotel's travel managers in the US, Singapore and Australia.

London, September 8 : A team of scientists in Sweden have warned that gorging too much on fat-rich junk food may cause drastic changes to a gene that helps muscle cells burn fat.

Juleen Zierath, of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, says that her team''s findings may help improve the scientific understanding of how type II diabetes develops in adulthood.

"Somehow, the environment plays on the genes we have," says the lead researcher, adding that her study provides new clues to how this happens.

Event:"The Ugly Truth" Los Angeles Premiere - Arrivals
Venue & Location:ArcLight Cinerama Dome / Hollywood, CA. USA
Event Date:7/16/2009
Photographer:Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos

Zurich- The global television rights sale for the 2010 football World Cup has been completed ahead of schedule with a deal in Nigeria, the governing body FIFA said on Wednesday.

FIFA said in a statement that a contract with the Broadcasting Organization of Nigeria (BON) will ensure free-to-air TV coverage and radio broadcasts of all 64 World Cup games in South Africa.

World Cup organizing committee chief Danny Jordaan welcomed the announcement as "another major milestone" which was completed "well ahead of schedule.

Wellington, Oct 7 : Schools in New Zealand may soon encourage cellphones in the classroom, courtesy the launch of a hi-tech teaching tool, in which students text answers to teachers.

The new device, called Activexpression, enables teachers to ask questions on the board through a computer, and students can then text their answer through their Activexpression cellphone.

The software immediately produces a graph or chart on the board displaying the students'' answers, allowing teachers to gauge the class''s understanding at a glance.

A Southland Girls'' High School class has already started using the technology.

Event: Star Plus Launches New Show "Master Chef India"
Attendees: Akshay Kumar
Venue:  Film City Studio Goregaon
Date: 08th Sep, 2010

Lucknow, Oct 8 : Family members of 21-year-old Japanese Kota Shinozaki, who went missing from Agra three years ago, Thursday met Uttar Pradesh Governor  and police chief Karamveer Singh here Thursday to seek help in tracing him.

Shinozaki is missing since Sep 5, 2006 when he reached Agra and checked in at the Chanakya hotel there.

"We met the governor and the director general of police and requested them to re-investigate the case in which the Agra police has already filed a charge sheet," his mother Eiko Shinozaki, told media persons in Lucknow.

Event:   The Paley Center for Media Presents "The Sing Off" Season Premiere - Arrivals
Venue & Location:   The Paley Center / Beverly Hills, CA, USA
Event Date:   12/02/2010
Photographer:   richard shotwell / PR Photos

New Delhi, Nov 20 : Both houses of Parliament adjourned till Monday on the sugarcane pricing issue following opposition protests.

After eminent journalist H K Dua took oath as Rajya Sabha member, the opposition rushed into the Well of the House and forced an adjournment.

Later, when the house was reconvened, the opposition again raised the sugarcane pricing issue and demanded suspension of Question Hour to discuss the issue.

New York, May 12 : American actress Farrah Fawcett, who calls herself to be a very private person, says that she would prefer that her battle with cancer was not made public.

Fawcett, 62, who yearns for privacy, spoke to Los Angeles Times reporter Charles Ornstein about her terminal condition, and the ordeal of constantly being scrutinised.

"It's much easier to go through something and deal with it without being under a microscope," the New York Daily News quoted her as saying.

"I'm a private person.

Event:"Las Vegas" TV Show Cast Receives a Key to the City at the Palms Hotel

and Casino in Las Vegas
Venue & Location:Palms Hotel and Casino / Las Vegas, NV, USA
Event Date:1/10/2008
Photographer:© PRN / PR Photos

Canberra (Australia), Apr. 29 (ANI): Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced that his government will send 450 extra troops to beef up security in troubled Afghanistan.

However, there will be no combat troops among the latest contingent. The extra troops will assist in military training, governance and reconstruction, Rudd said, adding "Australia concurs with the United States that the current civilian and military strategy is not working."

Kabul, Oct 9 (ANI): Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao is expected to meet Afghanistan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta and President Hamid Karzai today to assess the situation arising out of Thursday''s bomb blast outside the Indian embassy here, which claimed 17 lives and injured over 60.

The Foreign Secretary has visited the Indian embassy and seen the damage done to its premises by the suicide car bomber.

New Delhi, Dec 4 : Commander of the US Pacific Command Admiral Robert F. Willard Friday praised India's humanitarian role in Afghanistan said it is for New Delhi to take a decision on its military deployment in the war-torn country.

"We have not sought any ground level cooperation (deployment) from India. We are happy with India's re-building role in Afghanistan," Willard told reporters here.

"It (deployment of Indian troops in Afghanistan) is for Indian military and establishment to decide," he added.

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The unexpected timing and the aggressive language of the anti-India rhetoric in Beijing from both the foreign ministry and the government-run Chinese newspapers have stunned Indian China watchers.

This week, the top four ‘most popular’ headlines on the website of the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China are all about India and Indians.

Top of the popularity charts: India’s new missile is able to attack China’s Harbin,’ and ‘Indian hegemony continues to harm relations with neighbours’.

Tel Aviv  - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert congratulated Tzipi Livni on her projected victory in Wednesday's primary for Israel's ruling Kadima party.

Olmert telephoned Livni, wished her success and promised his full cooperation with the 50-year-old foreign minister who is to succeed him as party leader, and as prime minister if she succeeds in forming a new coalition.