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Imphal, June 4 (ANI): Unidentified miscreants opened fire and lobbed a hand grenade of Chinese make at an oil pump in Hiyangthang area of Imphal West recently.
Twenty-five-year-old Sadokpam Dhruva, a staff member at the petrol pump station, sustained bullet injuries on his leg.
Dhruva said: “Those miscreants asked my friends to stand a little further from the oil tank. They shot at me and, the first bullet missed and it passed through my pant. The second round hit my thigh.” (ANI)
London, May 19 (ANI): Australian singer Peter Andre is said to be smitten with socialite Kim Kardashian.
Andre, 37, jetted out to the French Riviera to meet up with Kardashian, 29, where they both spent the evening partying at the World Music Awards in swanky Monte Carlo.
The singer’s friends revealed that they were hoping it would be Andre’s lucky night.
“He believes Kim could be the one for him,” the Daily Star quoted one of the pal as saying.
Andre joined celebs including Paris Hilton, 29, Jennifer Lopez, 40, and Rachel Hunter, 40, at the awards bash.
But he only had eyes for Kardashian and made a beeline for her as soon as he arrived, and after spending some time chatting the two hit it off.
“Peter and Kim would be perfect together. We all think it and have told him a few times. She is absolutely beautiful and a really lovely girl,” a source close to the singer said.
“Plus, she knows all about the fame game, reality shows and everything else that Peter is involved with.
“We were all hoping it would be his lucky night. He deserves a good woman after the last year.
“They could be a match made in Heaven,” the source added. (ANI)
New York, May 15 (ANI): Recent privacy changes have prompted some Facebook users to logout for good.
“It doesn”t feel like Facebook is on the side of its users,” said Peter Rojas, a well-known blogger who created Web sites like Gizmodo and gdgt.com. “They”re playing fast and loose with privacy settings.”
Rojas isn”t the only one. Matt Cutts, head of the Web spam team at Google, and Cory Doctorow, co-editor of the popular blog BoingBoing, have also bid adieu to the social networking site.
In a Twitter post, Doctorow blamed a slew of recent privacy changes – and Facebook CEO Marc Zuckerberg – for his decision to leave the site, reports The New York Daily News.
“Never made use of Facebook, but privacy awfulness from Zuckerberg has prompted me to delete acct,” he wrote.
What’s more, “delete Facebook account” was among the top 20 trending searches on Google Friday.
New default privacy settings on Facebook put more of users’ information out there for the whole world to see.
Also, data on Facebook profile is now being shared with “partner sites” like Yelp, Microsoft, Pandora and more. These companies can use profile information to target advertising, as well as to understand what demographics are using or talking about their products.
Zuckerberg recently said in a statement, “The privacy and security of our users” information is of paramount importance to us.” (ANI)
New York, May 14 (ANI): Heidi Montag’s hubby is reportedly keeping her a “prisoner” in her own home.
Reports suggest that Spencer keeps the windows of their house covered with dark cloth, the doors blocked.
It is said that Spencer invited one of his friends, a Marine, to serve as a guard.
In fact, Heidi was allowed to leave the house only three times in April.
“Once to do a paid appearance in Las Vegas and twice to accompany Spencer on research trips for a script he”s writing. He”s forcing Heidi to help with it, making her come up with ideas for the female characters,” the New York Daily News quoted a source as saying.
Meanwhile, a source has told OK! magazine that Heidi “has become Spencer”s little blonde puppet.”
“Spencer is obsessed with power, and Heidi is obsessed with herself. This gives Spencer something he wants — power over Heidi — and it gives Heidi something she wants: feeling like someone is obsessed with her. It”s really sick in many senses, but it works,” said the source. (ANI)
Washington, May 12 (ANI): Lindsay Lohan has denied that she had a fight with Avril Lavigne in Hollywood.
Usmagazine.com quoted New York Post claiming that Lavigne screamed at Lohan saying “Get the hell out of my face, you are fake, you are a loser” at the Chateau Marmont Hotel. “I don”t like false people. Stay away from me and my friends.”
According to the paper, Lohan fumed back, “Don”t threaten me!” before trying unsuccessfully to get security to kick Lavigne out.
But now, Lohan, 23, tells UsMagazine.com, “That is not true.”
“I don”t know why I am such a target, but I think there”s a big misconception of who I am as a person,” she told L.A”s 102.7 KISS-FM. “I”ve just been working a lot, and it”s not a crime to go out and have fun with your friends… I do realize it”s silly of me to give people what they want – to see me out at night.”
Lohan has been involved in other scuffles too. She reportedly threw a drink at ex-girlfriend Sam Ronson at L.A club Trousdale, and was fired last month from ‘The Other Side’ by the director who said they couldn’t secure financing with her in the lead role. (ANI)
Beijing, May 11 (IANS) Twenty Vietnamese women, who married Chinese men in Jiangxi province last month, have disappeared in a single day, police said.
All the 20 brides disappeared from Lichuan county in the province on the same day, Global Times reported Tuesday.
A villager, named Wang, who married a Vietnamese woman named Ruan Xiaofang, said he was introduced to her March 4. They got married soon after Wang agreed to give Ruan’s family 33,000 yuan ($4,830) as a betrothal gift.
Ruan, meanwhile, introduced 19 other Vietnamese women to Wang’s bachelor friends. All the women got married to the men after receiving betrothal gifts. But on a trip in April, Ruan left to buy something and never returned, Wang said.
After returning home that night, Wang found out that all the other Vietnamese brides had also disappeared.
Police in Jiangxi province, who were searching for the missing women, said they were illegal immigrants who married local farmers to cheat them out of betrothal gifts.
London, May 8(ANI): The average Brit spends 39,480 pounds in a lifetime buying drinks for friends and workmates, a survey has revealed.
That means UK as a nation spends 30 billion pounds a year on beer rounds.
The men, however, take the cake. The survey by www.OnePoll.com revealed nearly a quarter of men go out twice a week, and buy rounds in groups of five. That equates to around 200 pounds a month.
“Buying rounds is a way of life in Britain and these results show us to be a very generous nation. The cost adds up and over their lifetime it amounts to a sizeable piece of their disposable income,” The Sun quoted a spokesman for the website, as saying.
The figures were calculated on a span of 47 years from age 18 to 65. (ANI)
London, May 8(ANI): The average Brit spends 39,480 pounds in a lifetime buying drinks for friends and workmates, a survey has revealed.
That means UK as a nation spends 30 billion pounds a year on beer rounds.
The men, however, take the cake. The survey by www.OnePoll.com revealed nearly a quarter of men go out twice a week, and buy rounds in groups of five. That equates to around 200 pounds a month.
“Buying rounds is a way of life in Britain and these results show us to be a very generous nation. The cost adds up and over their lifetime it amounts to a sizeable piece of their disposable income,” The Sun quoted a spokesman for the website, as saying.
The figures were calculated on a span of 47 years from age 18 to 65. (ANI)
London, May 8 (ANI): Scientists have come up with small, cute and furry interactive “social robots” called Petimos to help protect children when they make friends on social networks.
Petimos, which work in conjunction with an online social network called Petimo-World in which they are represented by avatars, are due to be launched later this year.
The revolutionary robos are aimed at 7 to 10-year-olds.
Children will only be able to accept new online “friends” if their Petimos are brought into physical contact first, to guard against cyberbullies and paedophiles masquerading as children, reports New Scientist.
“Internet and text-based communication is only a small part of human communication that we have evolved with,” says the device”s inventor, Adrian David Cheok at the National University of Singapore. “I want to use new media to help develop more natural human forms of communication. Petimo is one step in this direction.” (ANI)
London, May 8 (ANI): Stars of hit American TV series ‘Sex and The City’ have admitted that there used to be rivalry between the actors and continuous arguing on the sets – but insisted they are still friends.
Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall and Cynthia Nixon revealed about their rivalry with each other.
Parker and Cattrall were at the centre of a rumoured rift. They had previously rubbished rumours, saying that they are friends who maintain a professional working relationship, reports The Daily Express.
But now they have opened up and revealed about their onset struggles.
“When you”re on set, you”re working 90-hour weeks, you”re never home, you”re exhausted. There are times when all of us have been sensitive and sometimes feelings get hurt. But I don”t have any regrets about how I”ve treated people,” 45-year-old Parker said.
“It hasn”t always been smooth sailing. But the idea that we”re somehow adversarial is ludicrous,” Nixon said.
“Nineteen-hour workdays are stressful, whether you”re driving a truck, working in a coal mine or on a set and trying to be your brightest at 4 o”clock in the morning. But there”s a camaraderie that happened through all of that. The chemistry among the four of us is very strong,” Cattrall said. (ANI)
London, May 7 (ANI): Footballer Steven Gerrard’s wife Alex has warned fellow WAGs to ‘stop bitching about her marriage.’
English model Curran dismissed rumours that her relationship with Gerrard was on the rocks, when she arrived at a showbiz event with her hubby, reports The Daily Star.
Her friends have said that she is annoyed with her fellow WAGs who fuelled the split rumours.
“Quite a lot of other WAGs are bitching behind Alex’s back. She is just ignoring them but she’s not happy with it. Alex hates being called a WAG and hates what they stand for,” a close friend said.
“She is a model and journalist and doesn’t get the mentality that WAGs should stay at home or just go to lunch,” the friend added.
“They have nothing better to do than gossip and be bitchy. But when they meet it’s all air kisses and admiration for each other’s latest outfits. It’s all so false. Alex doesn’t like that lifestyle and doesn’t want any part of it,” the friend further said. (ANI)
Melbourne, May 4 (ANI): Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford says he prefers dating a girl who isn’t an actress.
The 24-year-old heartthrob, who previously dated country music star Carrie Underwood, told Showbizspy that he’d rather be in a relationship with someone who is in a different industry than in the showbiz.
“My friends think that dating within the industry is better because you’re on the same level. You understand more. At the same time it can get a bit sticky because schedules can get tight,” The Daily Telegraph quoted him as saying.
“There are pros and cons to everything, but I think it can be a little more refreshing to date someone who isn’t in the profession.
“When I’m into a girl, I’d like to think I’m a good boyfriend. I’m not really into the cheesy stuff. I like the personal little things. I get creative, it’s got to be tailored to the girl though,” he added. (ANI)
London, May 3 (ANI): Jack Tweed has apparently admitted to his friends that his relationship with Big Brother babe Chanelle Hayes is ‘just a bit of fun.’
His friends also revealed that Jack has no intentions of fathering 22-year-old Hayes’ unborn baby, reports The Daily Star.
The couple has been spotted several times but Jack recently successfully defended himself against the recent rape trial charged on him.
It is just a “friendship that he thinks could lead to sex,” a source said.
“Will he be a father to that kid? Get real. Jack certainly doesn”t consider Chanelle his girlfriend. It”s just a bit of fun for him,” the source added. (ANI)
Melbourne, Apr 30 (ANI): Brad Pitt reportedly thinks former wife Jennifer Aniston is “pathetic”.
According to sources, a peeved Pitt allegedly told his pals that the Friends stars is “pathetic” for appearing on the cover of his favourite magazine, reports News.com.au.
“Brad thinks she is pathetic,” a source told US Weekly after Aniston appeared on the March 2010 cover of Architectural Digest.
As per US Weekly, Pitt complained to friends that Aniston was never into architecture and she used to make fun of him for his interest in it.
Pitt appeared on the cover of Architectural Digest in January 2009.
“Brad feels this is all so desperate,” the insider told US Weekly.
“It was a ploy to get his attention.” (ANI)
Los Angeles, April 26 (ANI): Lindsay Lohan has reportedly been barred from Los Angeles club Trousdale after tossing a glass at ex Samantha Ronson”s head.
According to sources, Ronson was sitting with her pals when the ‘Mean Girls’ star suddenly threw her drink – including the glass – at her.
“Samantha was DJ-ing and went to sit with her friends when Lindsay stormed over and threw a glass at her head. Glass flew everywhere, and Samantha looked really shaken up. The club owner asked Lindsay to leave and was overheard saying she”ll never come back,” the New York Post quoted a source as saying.
Ronson was not hurt in the incident and continued to party with her friends.
Following the episode, she wrote on her Twitter page: “Just got a glass thrown at my head . . . Hmmm — wonder who did it.” (ANI)
London, April 21 (ANI): Rapper Snoop Dogg has revealed that he would like to rap with footie ace David Beckham.
Snoop Dogg, 38, real name Cordozar Calvin Broadus, became friends with Becks, 34, after doing an Adidas ad, and he now believes that the football star can definitely rap.
“Beckham and I go way back,” the Mirror quoted Snoop as saying.
“He’s like a brother. I’m gonna show him to rap, for shizzle. He’s my boy. I love soccer just as he loves hip-hop,” he added. (ANI)
New York, April 19 (ANI): It looks like rocker Tommy Lee seems is on good terms with his ex-wife Pamela Anderson.
Lee was at the grand opening of Mario Barth King Ink tattoo parlor at the Mirage in Las Vegas, were he reportedly told friends that he regularly watches ‘Dancing With The Stars.’
“He was telling his friends that he was at Pam”s house last week with their kids voting like crazy and how proud he is of her,” The New York Post quoted an insider as saying.
He kept a low profile at the opening and also confessed his voting support to Anderson too. (ANI)
New York, April 19 (ANI): It looks like rocker Tommy Lee seems is on good terms with his ex-wife Pamela Anderson.
Lee was at the grand opening of Mario Barth King Ink tattoo parlor at the Mirage in Las Vegas, were he reportedly told friends that he regularly watches ‘Dancing With The Stars.’
“He was telling his friends that he was at Pam”s house last week with their kids voting like crazy and how proud he is of her,” The New York Post quoted an insider as saying.
He kept a low profile at the opening and also confessed his voting support to Anderson too. (ANI)
New York, Apr 16 (ANI): Former US President Bill Clinton’s daughter Chelsea has broken her foot and has no idea how it happened.
The former first daughter has a plastic cast on her right leg.
And she’s been telling friends she went to her doctor after feeling increasing pain and learned she’d broken her heel, reports The New York Post.
It is believed that Chelsea would be off her crutches well before her wedding in July.
Meanwhile, her injury has not dampened her spirits-she was spotted around town with fiance Marc Mezvinsky and she’s even continued classes at the Soul Cycle spin studio. (ANI)
A Victorian County Court judge has jailed a bouncer for at least 12 months for an attack on two teenagers inside a fast-food restaurant last July.
Nathan Karazisis, 24, had been out all night when he and his friends, Mark Bogtstra, 22 and Kon Kontoklotsis, 33, went to Hungry Jack’s in Prahran at about 6:30am.
In the restaurant, the three men bashed James Mitchell. His friend 19-year-old Luke Adams was choked unconcious by Karazisis.
In sentencing Karazisis and Bogtstra, Judge Ross Howie said there was no justification whatsoever for their actions.
The two men pleaded guilty to charges including afray and intentionally causing injury.
Karazisis was sentened to two years and four months with an unparolled period of one year.
Bogtstra must serve a 9 month intensive corrections order.
Kontoklotsis will be sentenced at a later date.
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