Aishwarya Rai Bachchan seems to be rather content with her post-pregnancy flab, but Lara Dutta is in a tearing hurry to knock it all off. The actress, who gave birth to a baby girl last month, has set about regaining her hourglass figure with a vengeance. In fact, she has even enlisted the help of her good friend and celeb fitness trainer Deanne Pandey to this end.

Don’t be surprised if you see the cops descend down on movie theatres! Over the next few months, three Bollywood films centred around the police force are supposed to hit cinemas. And what’s more, all three — Sanjay Dutt’s Department, Sonu Sood’s Maximum and the sequel to Ab Tak Chappan — promise a “realistic” look at the functioning of the men in khaki.

Post Agneepath, Hrithik Roshan is not about to repeat the action genre anytime soon. It’s comedy that is atop his priority list now.

Katrina Kaif owes a lot to Prakash Jha. It was Jha’s Rajneeti that first portrayed her as a serious actress, someone who’s more than just a pretty face and a glam doll image. But for all the courage that Jha showed in trusting Kat with such a key role, he was rather put off by her. The creative differences the two had while filming Rajneeti meant he left Kat out of his next venture Aarakshan.

What becomes of a garden gnome hurled in fury at a car during a stormy breakup?
Or a teddy bear that was once a Valentine’s Day present? A wedding dress from a marriage gone awry? An axe that smashed through household furniture?

Israel accused arch enemies Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of being behind twin bomb attacks in India and Georgia.

The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam has claimed yet another life.
Dr Shailesh Yadav, 45, a deputy chief medical officer posted in Varanasi was killed in a road mishap, on Friday night on the outskirts of Varanasi.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Jodhpur on Saturday issued orders to attach the property of absconding Indira Bishnoi, an accused in the murder of nurse Bhanwari Devi. Indira Bishnoi is the sister of Congress MLA Malkhan Singh Bishnoi. The court accepted the CBI’s plea to order attachment of her property as she refused to come for questioning. Indira had been declared absconder on January 11.

Whose mobile handset that was it which was used by former ministers C.C. Patil and Laxman Savadi to surf the porn clippings? The porngate involving three former BJP ministers has taken a new twist with J. Krishna Palemar and Laxman Savadi contradicting each other over the ownership of the mobile phone.

Several people were injured in day-long clashes with the police in Rafiabad area of Jammu and Kashm-ir’s Baramulla district on Saturday following the killing of a local youth in Army firing. The Army said it regretted the incident and apologised to the bereaved family.