London, Nov 7 (IANS) Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman says she was getting itchy to resume work as soon as possible after giving birth to her daughter last year, so she could prove that there was life after motherhood.
The actress gave birth to Sunday Rose in July 2008 and accepted her role in “Nine” soon after, reports contactmusic.com.
London, Nov 7 (IANS) Hollywood star Mel Gibson’s girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva has revealed she is confident the actor will never cheat on her.
Grigorieva who gave birth to the couple’s first child, daughter Lucia, last week knows her beau is a sex symbol to many women but says he is faithful to her, reports imdb.com.
New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) More than half of the eligible seven million voters cast their ballot Saturday in by-elections to one Lok Sabha and 31 assembly constituencies across seven states, with the outcome set to have a bearing on almost all major political parties.
Officials reported serpentine queues in most balloting centres in the Firozabad parliamentary constituency of Uttar Pradesh as well as the state’s 11 assembly seats. The same was the case in West Bengal (10 assembly seats), Kerala (3), Rajasthan, Assam and Himachal Pradesh (2 each) and Chhattisgarh (1).
Chandigarh, Nov 7 (IANS) Faced with power shortage in the state, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Saturday urged the central government to allot at least 250 MW of additional power to Punjab during the Rabi (winter) season, officials said.
Badal Saturday wrote a letter to Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and apprised him about the power scarcity in the state.
New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) More than 27,000 additional institutions of higher learning would be required to meet the targeted Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) of 30 percent for 2020, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal said here Saturday.
“This figure includes 14,000 colleges of general higher education, 12,775 additional technical and professional institutions and 269 additional universities,” Sibal said in a presentation during the meeting of the consultative committee for the HRD ministry here Saturday.
Mumbai, Nov 7 (IANS) Nationalist Congress Party’s (NCP) Fauzia Khan, a Muslim, and Congress party’s Varsha Gaekwad, a Dalit, have found place in the new Maharashtra council of ministers sworn in Saturday.
Both Fauzia, a Member of Legislative Council (the upper house) from Parbhani, and Gaekwad, who became a giant killer after defeating former Lok Sabha speaker and Shiv Sena strong man Manohar Joshi in Dharavi, have been inducted as ministers of state.
Kolkata, Nov 7 (IANS) Former Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) legislator Subhas Soren was shot at by unidentified men in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district Saturday evening, police said, amid speculation that the assailants may be Maoists.
The incident occurred at Gopiballavpur in West Midnapore district, wracked by Maoist violence. Soren, who represented Nayagram constituency, was taken to a hospital with serious injuries, police said.
Srinagar, Nov 7(ANI): With an aim to spread the message of unity and national integration amongst fellow countrymen, two police officers embarked on a bicycle rally from Srinagar to Kanyakumari on Saturday.
Ranchi, Nov 7(ANI): Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, who is facing arrest as soon as he is discharged from Apollo Hospital in Ranchi over an alleged multi-crore hawala transactions, will remain in hospital for another day due to a stomach upset.
Midnapore, Nov.7 (ANI): Trinamool Congress party and Communist Party of India (Marxist) supporters clashed with each other here on Saturday, as West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee arrived in Midnapore district on a two-day visit.
Police detained many TMC workers for waving black flags to the convoy of CM Bhattacharjee.