Director: Shivam Nair

Cast: Naseruddin Shah, Om Puri, Paresh Rawal, Boman Irani, Neha Dhupia, Tara Sharma

One would have expected superb performances in thriller "Maharathi", since it consisted of experienced actors like Naseeruddin Shah, Paresh Rawal, Om Puri and Boman Irani. However, in honest terms, the film is a complete disaster and has failed miserably to impress the audience, the credit of which goes to a loose storyline that has no element to keep the interest of the audience alive. For any film, Plot is the central part and the plot of Maharathi is a total thumbs down.

RBI is likely to announce further interest revision in its coming policy revision meet on Saturday. The apex bank is likely to cut key interest rates to ease the liquidity situation and propel economy. Banks are preparing to revise home and auto loans in a response to the RBI's move. They said that more infusion of liquidity would help to cut the lending rates to boost demand and hence propel economic growth. 

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee met the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh at Raj Bhawan in Kolkata on Saturday evening during his visit to West Bengal. 

”We discussed issues like the (ruling) Communist Party of India-Marxist supported police atrocities on the tribal community at Lalgarh and demanded centre’s intervention in these issues,” Banerjee told after coming out of the meeting. 

She headed a seven-member delegation to the Raj Bhawan. The meeting lasted for around half-an-hour.

“Besides these issues we also told the prime minister about the state sponsored terrorism in Nandigram. Yesterday (Friday) one of our woman activists was assaulted by CPI-M cadres in Nandigram”, she added.

On Friday, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram, confessed that there were 'lapses' in the security mechanism. However, a promise was made by him that the Central and State agencies would make an earnest effort to eliminate terrorism.

At a press conference, he told the reporters, "I am deeply sorry for what has happened [the terror attacks in Mumbai]. Undoubtedly, there have been some lapses. These are being looked into. I will do my utmost best and strain every nerve to overcome lapses and improve the effectiveness of the security system in the country."

The West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has out rightly rejected the demand for a separate Gorkhaland state by the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM). 

”I do not want divisions within West Bengal and will try my best not allow anyone to divide the state,” he said.

Addressing the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) peasants wing, All India Kishan Sabha’s (AIKS) district conference in Darjeeling, the epicentre of the Gorkhaland state issue, Bhattacharjee termed poverty the root of terrorism and called for an united fight against it.

It has been discovered through an Australian study that looked into the sexual history of 185 students at the University of Sydney, that the students who are least likely to have had sexual intercourse are the science "nerd" males.

On the other hand, the female art students ranked as the most sexually active.

"Males in the study were less likely to have had sex as a group, compared to the group of females in the sample," said the study of 16 to 25-year-olds, published in the journal, Sexual Health.

It added, "Science students were also less likely to have had sex compared to their counterparts in other faculties."