Preity Zinta Shouted on Shiney Ahuja For Hugging Her Too Hard

Preity Zinta reportedly yelled at costar Shiney Ahuja on the sets of Jahnu Barua's Har Pal because he hugged her too hard. But the friction was already there. Preity reportedly didn't like his attitude, his unpunctuality and the fact that Shiney likes a lot of retakes. Jahnu Barua, director of Har Pal, fumes, "It's an absolutely false story cooked up by the media. It's unethical to portray the movie and the artists in bad light."

Big B's Bungalow Attacked Again with Beer Bottles This Time

A beer bottle was allegedly thrown in the direction of a bungalow owned by superstar Amitabh Bachchan in suburban Juhu late on Friday evening.

"We have received a call that a bottle was thrown at the 'Janak' bungalow and police officers have been sent to the spot to verify the facts," DCP Vinay Choubey told PTI.

'Janak' houses a gymnasium and some offices of the Bachchans, he said, adding none of the family members stays in the house. The incident came in the wake of reports about a similar episode at the Bachchans' residence 'Pratikhsa' during the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena-led campaign against north Indian migrants early this month.

Anil Kapoor Caught By Police in Burqa.

Anil Kapoor's utmost professionalism recently landed him in a soup or er... should we say — a burqa!

Excited about his new role in Subhash Ghai's Black And White , in which he plays a Hindu professor residing in Chandni Chowk, the actor decided to do some research on his own.

To prepare for the intense character, Anil decided to recee the location that's situated opposite the Red Fort in Delhi all by himself, just to get the feel of the bustling neighbourhood and it's people. And to avoid the public glare, Anil resorted to a time-tested formula — often used by Bollywood actresses to move in public without being mobbed — and sought the sanctuary in a burqa.
So disguised in a burqa to conceal his identity, Anil hit the narrow gullis of the ever-buzzing Chandni Chowk. He kept walking the streets, observing people till he came across a resident who found something odd and suspicious about 'this lady in black' and raised an alarm. The star gathered his pace to keep the people off his trail, but couldn't shake them off in the over-crowded bylanes.

Soon a few policemen too came to the spot. But before things could get unsavoury, Kapoor raised the veil and revealed his identity to the locals, who were baffled to see the mustachioed star behind the burqa.

Anil wasted no time in telling them that he was only doing his research by being there to play a role of a professor from their area. Ecstatic to know that a film will be shot in their locality, the locals were more than happy and of course offered to show Anil around.

Lara Dutta Saw Ghost In Her Room

Believe it or not (we're not at all sure what to make of this) but Lara Dutta, who was shooting for Ravi Chopra's Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai in Ooty, recently felt a 'presence' in her room in the dead of the night.

The actress who was staying in a palace of the king of Mysore, says she also saw ceiling fans whirling and bathroom doors swinging by themselves. Lara was so petrified that she ran out of the room. Says Lara, "It was really scary to sense that someone was watching me constantly. There were weird things happening all around me in the room. Believe me, the palace was a perfect setting for a horror film. I just stayed there for one day and then I requested my producer to move my staff and me elsewhere."

So did she actually see a ghost? Lara replies in all earnestness, "No, I did not see a ghost but if we had Akshay Kumar or Ajay Devgan with us, I would have understood because they are ace pranksters but there was only Govinda and he doesn't play such pranks. It was quite a spine-chilling experience."

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Kajol committed Cardinal Sin Repeating Wardrobe

While it's a good idea to recycle and reuse paper, the same can't be said about your wardrobe if you're a celeb or a socialite. When actress Kajol was spotted in her sheer black saree and her fishnet poncho more than once, the fashion columns jeered.

Otherwise short public memory somehow remembers the colour, cut and design of the clothes that celebs wear to different gatherings. But, is it a cardinal sin to repeat clothes if you're a socialite? I can't buy clothes for every party I attend," says theatre personality and socialite Dolly Thakore, who wears her trademark red bindi and silver jewellery to all parties she attends. "I've around 300 sarees, so I don't repeat them often," she says.

Wardrobe sizes are decided by the number of parties celebs attend. Supermodel Nina Manuel, who also party hops for a living, says she's not repeated any of her clothes in the last two and a half years of being a party show anchor. "I attend three-to-four parties a week and there are so many clothes to pick from. Outside my show, I've repeated outfits and I'm not bothered about what people think. I don't repeat outfits within weeks. And if I'm wearing something spectacular, I don't repeat it for months as people will remember it. I mix and match clothes and accessorise them so that they look different each time," she reveals.

And then there are some who have a limited, multipurpose and functional wardrobe in spite of having the means to own a lot more. SRK, for instance, once said he always trusts his black tux for parties as no one can tell if it's a repeat. Grey's Anatomy star Kate Walsh was seen wearing a black gown to a friend's reception that she wore for the 2006 Emmy awards. Black is a safe colour to repeat, and it's all about intelligent dressing, says designer Manoviraj Khosla. Manoviraj, who owns 50 pairs of jeans, 30 jackets and tons of party shirts to avoid repetition, says, "It's a fashion faux pas if someone repeats clothes within a couple of years. We Indians hoard clothes. One should wear styles that are hot for that season. But it's fine to repeat classics."

Raveena Tandon Booked for Slapping Watchman

In a significant move, the police have registered a non-cognizable offence against Bollywood actor Raveena Tandon allegedly for ill-treatment of watchman of a housing society in suburban Khar.

According to the police, the actor went into frenzy and allegedly assaulted the guard when he disallowed her from parking her vehicle inside the complex.

A complaint has been lodged with the police station by the office bearers of the Skylark Apartments on behalf of the watchman Ramji Yadav.

In the complaint, they have alleged that when the watchman refused to bow down before Raveena's fancies, she threatened to file a molestation case against Yadav.

The report said that the incident occurred on February 22 when Raveena had gone to drop her daughter at a coaching class in the building.

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Union Budget By Mr. P Chidambaram at Lok Sabha (Main Highlights)

Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Friday unveiled the much-awaited General Budget for the fiscal 2008-08 in the Parliament.

Chidambaram presented his seventh full budget - two when the United Front government was in power and the remaining five under the United Progressive Alliance government.

The Finance Minister presented the Budget against a backdrop of slowing expansion and creeping inflation which has hit the poor hardest.

Here are the major highlights:

- Debt waiver scheme and relief to small and marginal farmers
- Agri loans disbursed by rural banks, RRBs and Cooperative banks before March 2007 and overdue on Dec 2007 waived
- Overdue agri loans amount to Rs 50,000 cr under the waiver and 10,000 cr under the OTS
- Implementation of waiver to be completed by June 2008
- Farmers eligible for fresh agri loans post the waiver or one time settlement
- National Agri Insurance scheme get Rs 640 cr
- Tea Research association gets Rs 20 cr
- 500 soil testing labs to be set up in the 11th plan, govt to give 1 time budgetary assistance of Rs 75 cr to agri ministry for setting up mobile soil testing facilities
- National Horticulure Mission to get Rs 1,100 cr
- Govt sets up irrigation and water resource finance corp with an initial corpus of Rs 100 cr
- Schedule Commercial Banks farm credit 75%
- Micro irrigation scheme gets Rs 500 cr to cover 4,00,000 additional hectares
- Rs 12050 cr for strengthening rural health services
- 24 pct allocation hike for women, child development
- Inflation will be kept under check
- Jawaharlal Navoday Vidyalaya to be set in 20 new districts for SC/STs
- Healthcare allocation to be raised by 15%
- Bhopal and Tripura to get one IIScR each and 2 colleges of art
- 3 IITs to be set up in Bihar, AP, Rajasthan
- 288 public sector bank branches to be opened in areas with concentration of minorities
- Irrigation outlay increased
- National Minority Development and Finance Corp to get Rs 75 cr
- Special attention, more funds for North East
- 54 gender budgeting cells set up
- Agriculture share in total investment up from 10.2% in 2003-04 to 16% during the 11th Plan
- Agri credit target to be Rs 2,80,000 cr for 2008-09
- LIC to cover all woman SHGs linked to the bank
- Mobilisation of additional resources of Rs 10,000 cr as planned capital expenditure under Plan-B
- Allocation for ministry of minorities doubled to Rs 1,000 cr
- Schemes for woman to get Rs 1,460 cr this fiscal
- Child related schemes to get Rs 33,434 cr
- 54 departments to be set up gender budgeting divisions
- Rajiv Gandhi drinking water mission to get Rs 7,300 cr
- Rs 3,966 cr for SC/STs schemes
- Allocation of Rs 75 cr for 2008-09 for the Rajiv Gandhi felicitation programme
- Sanitation to get Rs1,200 cr
- Rs 200 cr for providing portable water system in each school in areas of water scarce regions
- IT industry gets Rs 100 cr for connecting knowledge institutions
- NREGS to be extended to 596 rural distt with an outlay of Rs 16,000cr
- The remuneration Angan Bari workers has been increased from Rs 1000 to Rs 1500 per month
- Women entitled to equal share and equal say
- Science scholarships for young learners
- 16 Central universities to be set up
- 6000 model high schools to be started
- Science scholarships for young learners
- Inflation will be kept under check
- More allocation for polio and AIDS
- Health covers of Rs 30000 for workers in unorganised sectors
- Education sector gets a boost
- Agri credit doubled in first two years
- Bharat Nirman allocation to go up to Rs 31,280 cr from Rs 24,603 cr
- Gross Budgetary support to be Rs 24,3386 cr about Rs 38,286 cr more than 2007-08
- Agriculture credit to touch 2,40,000 cr in 2008
- Focus on achievement of self-sufficiency in food grain
- Soyabean output to be 9.45 mn tonnes
- Maize production to be 16.78 mn tonnes
- Rice production to be 94.08 mn tonnes
- Total agri production to be 219.32 mn tonnes at all time high
- Agriculture disappointing at average annual growth of 2.6%
- Keeping inflation under check to be on focus
- Focus on management of supply side of food, market, capital inflows next year
- India has registered a growth of over 8%$ for 12 successive quarters till Dec 2007

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