Haahloo! my dears! Yes, my jaw has dropped. I thought I saw this inflated balloon, till I realised that the huge vision in front of me was that of former actress Bindiya Goswami at her father-in-law, OP Dutta ’s funeral. Yes, sweets I can understand that fashion is the last thing on your mind at a funeral function.

It is a piquant situation in this family — one that few would wish in politics.
The father is contesting as an Independent and his main rival is from the Bahujan Samaj Party.
The elder son is a BSP MP while the younger one is contesting another seat as a BSP candidate. The sons, therefore, cannot help the father and are forced to throw in their lot with his rival.

State DGP Anil M. Navaney on Friday took the unprecedented decision to “personally” probe the killing of District Auxiliary Force (DAF) jawan Kartam Surjya, described as “Chhattisgarh’s hero” in security circles here, for leading many daring operations against Naxals in south Bastar, in the Naxal ambush at Morgunda in Sukma district on Thursday, amidst speculation that a “rebel mole” in the police might have pushed him into the death trap.

Calling the CBI and the CAG two pathologists who do mostly post-mortems, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday said that he has proposed to establish an independent network of institutions to undertake concurrent evaluation of all projects of his ministries. He said the idea is to have not only financial performance reports but also physical performance feedback on the real time basis.

In a bid to improve the UPA-II’s image, the top ministers of the Union government are likely to travel across the states to interact with the local media and hold GoM briefings there if need be.

Four BSF personnel, including a commandant and assistant commandant, were killed on Friday afternoon and two others seriously injured in a Maoist ambush at Janiguda, under Chitrakonda police limit in Orissa’s Malkangiri district, nearly 650 km from here.

A Japanese-developed robot that mimics the movements of its human controller is bringing the Hollywood blockbuster Avatar one step closer to reality.

Lady Gaga used to suffer from bulimia.

A man convicted of stalking Madonna and who has “very violent tendencies” has escaped from a psychiatric hospital, the Los Angeles police department said on Thursday.

Hilary Duff's dog is “doing great” after undergoing brain surgery.