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Aniston says falling in love is like buying house

September 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, September 10 (ANI): Actress Jennifer Aniston thinks falling in love is like buying a house.

“Sometimes, you buy and sometimes you’re renting and then you rent and you fall in love with it and you buy,” the Sun quoted her as saying.

The actress is reportedly linked to her ‘The Bounty’ so-star Gerard Butler.

Aniston had recently said: “I think it’s important to have closure in any relationship that ends-from a romantic relationship to a friendship.

“You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.” (ANI)

Google developing online version of Monopoly

September 7, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sep 7 (ANI): Google will be working with giant toy company Hasbro to produce a spectacular online version of Monopoly, say reports.

The game uses Google Maps as a board, allowing players to choose from millions of streets worldwide in their bid to become virtual property tycoons.

The rules are almost the same as the traditional board game, where only one person can buy an address, and then build on the plot to earn extra rent and increase their fortune.

However, the online version also lets players build skyscrapers, football stadiums, and other buildings as well as the usual houses and hotels.

And the ‘Chance’ cards give players the chance to ruin rivals by building prisons, rubbish dumps and sewage works on their streets.

Players start with three million Monopoly dollars, with Downing Street costing 231,000 dollars, and Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, where the White House stands, costing two million dollars.

Rent is paid automatically each day, from 50,000 dollars for a house to 100 million dollars for a skyscraper.

The free game, which has no real cash prize, is being run to promote the new 3D Monopoly City game.

“It’s a chance to escape the harsh reality of recession and enjoy building up an empire,” the Sun quoted Hasbro as saying. (ANI)

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Shiv Sena wants houses in Mumbai for only for locals

July 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Mumbai, July 14 (ANI): In turf battle ahead of state polls in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena has promised houses in Mumbai to state’s bona-fide residents.

Having lost ground to its faction, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, over hardline political posturing, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray led a bunch of party activists and supporters to the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) head office demanding that non-Maharashtrians should be barred in that allotment of shelters.

“In another two to three months, Shiv Sena is confident of coming to power and then our government will provide 500 square feet area houses to Marathi ‘manoos’ (bona-fide residents of Maharashtra) to ensure that they need not go out of Mumbai to reside.

Marathi manoos is entitled to shelter and none else. This is our stand,” said Thackeray.

“In Mumbai, the houses are built by the MMRDA for the poor. These houses are also grabbed by builders. Immigrants from Bihar and Bangladesh are begging for accommodation whereas what we are demanding is proper accommodation from government which is our right,” he added.

The MMRDA last month announced that it would provide 43,000 homes at a rent starting as low as Rupees 800 per month.

The project is aimed at reducing the number of slums in Mumbai.

Shiv Sena members feel that the housing scheme doesn’t give preference to Maharashtrians and would encourage outsiders to settle in Mumbai.

Maharashtra will hold elections to state assembly by October and the migrants’ issue could swing votes. (ANI)

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Grieving Janet Jackson gets acting career boost

June 30, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Jun 30 (ANI): American singer Janet Jackson has received an acting career boost even as she mourns the death of her brother, King of Pop Michael Jackson.

The singer/actress is reportedly set to star in a sequel to the 2007 romantic comedy ‘Why Did I Get Married?’ a hit film in America, reports the Daily Express.

Janet, 43, will reprise her role as successful author and psychologist Patricia in the new flick entitled ‘Why Did I Get Married Too?’, due for release next year.

Her previous acting credits include the second Nutty Professor film and appearances in US TV shows Fame and Diff’rent Strokes. (ANI)

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Oz teens arrested for beating Indian student

May 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Melbourne, May 28 (ANI): Police has arrested two people this morning for assaulting an Indian student on a Melbourne train after he refused to give them cigarettes.

The two youths who were picked from Hoppers Crossing were aged 16 and 18, and are being interrogated. CCTV footage of the bashing helped police identify the alleged attackers.

Sourabh Sharma, 21, was attacked by a group of seven men. He was attacked when he was travelling alone along Melbourne’s Werribee train line on May 9, The Herald Sun reports.

The seven men approached Sharma as he sat listening to the radio. The youths took Sharma’s backpack, which contained Australian 650 dollars for his tuition and rent, along with his mobile phone.

Sharma was taken to hospital with a fractured cheekbone and a broken tooth. The attack was dubbed as ‘Indian Hunting’ but authorities believe it was not racially motivated. (ANI)

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Booming Malay sex sector requires no stimulus package

May 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kuala Lumpur, May 25 (ANI): While most industrialists can be seen craving for more and more stimulus packages amid the ongoing recession, solicited sex in Malaysia is one sector that seems far from going into a tailspin.

Sources in the local prostitution scene say that solicited sex is going through a boom.

They have revealed that they raked in more than RM3.2 billion last year, which is just the earnings of sex workers, not including those of pimps and other spin-offs.

Statistics from the international non-governmental organisation, Coalition Against the Trafficking of Women, suggest that there are about 150,000 prostitutes working in Malaysia, with over 10,000 in the Klang Valley.

According to information from the women rescued by local women’s aid NGO Tenaganita, a prostitute usually works a seven-day week, charging RM150 an hour.

“Serving an average of eight clients a day, she ends up making RM1,200 daily and possibly RM36,000 a month,” the New Strait Times quoted Aegile Fernandez, anti-human trafficking coordinator of the NGO who has had experience making women escape the sex industry for more than 20 years, as saying.

“But that is just full-time sex workers who enter the trade willingly. If the girls are forced into the trade via human trafficking, she gets nothing except a traumatic experience,” Aegile added.

The syndicate running the brothels is said to usually have up to 100 girls under them, meaning that they could rake in about RM120,000 a day and a whopping RM3.6 million a month.

Information from pimps operating in the country suggests that Malaysia has hundreds of such syndicates, each operating several brothels in their designated areas. Many brothels in Malaysia double as “health centres” offering massage services.

JJ, a pimp for more than 10 years, says that clients are willing to pay from RM60 to RM100 for an hour of massage, followed by an additional RM150 for sex.

“Prostitutes who double as massage ladies also get a fee from their handlers for massage services, usually about RM20 per customer,” JJ says.

So, in addition to as much as RM36,000 monthly from sex alone, a prostitute can add on another RM9,000 for offering “half services”, bringing her monthly untaxed income to a whopping RM45,000.

“Don’t forget their RM200 a day wages for massaging an average of 10 customers. That’s a legitimate RM5,200 a month or RM62,400 a year. They can choose to pay tax on that, but most don’t,” says JJ.

He has also revealed that each sex worker pays RM3,000 a month to pimps “as tax or rent for using our centres to do business and for protection from aggressive customers.”

According to him, prostitution is a recession-proof business.

“Things didn’t slow down for us during the 1997 Asian financial crisis or any of the recessions before that. Sex, like food, is a necessity,” he said. (ANI)

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Manmohan Singh pays rent till 2011

May 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Guwahati, May 21 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has paid advance rent till the year 2011 for his house in Guwahati at Sarumotoria.

Singh, who is also an MP from Assam, owns a rented house of former Assam Chief Minister Late Hiteshwar Saikia.

Hemo Prava Saikia, who is living in the house now, said she was proud that she has a tenant who is now the Prime Minister of the country for the second term.

“Manmohan Singh never forgets to pay his due, and this time he has sent a cheque paying the rent till the year 2011,” she added. (ANI)

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A call centre for farmers in Punjab

May 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Abohar (Punjab), May 20 (ANI): In a first of its kind initiative in the country, a call centre named Zamidara Farmsolutions has started functioning in Punjab.

Located in the border district of Fazilka in Ferozepur district, the call centre offers latest updates to the farmers on agricultural techniques and developments.

Besides discussing their problems with the call centre executives, the farmers can also get expensive farming instruments on rent, which they otherwise cannot afford.

Vikram Ahuja, owner, who himself is a farmer said that he was aware of the problems faced by the farmers and tried to ease their problems by making the expensive machine available to them on ‘Pay for use’ basis.

“We have tried to make the expensive machinery available to the farmers on ‘Pay for use’ basis rather than ‘pay for ownership’. In this the farmer has to pay for what he uses and nor for what he owns,” said Ahuja.

Elaborating on the use of the call center, Khushal Chand a farmer from Begawali village who recently hired a machine for water leveling said it made more sense in hiring these machines rather than buying them.

“Main reasons for taking this machine on hire was that it is very expensive. It costs 6,285 dollars and it becomes very impractical for small farmers like us to shell out this kind of money for single use and after that this machine becomes a liability,” said Chand.

Nearly two-thirds of India’s billion-plus population depends on agriculture for a living and efforts such as these will really benefit the small farmers. By Avtar Singh Gill(ANI)

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Band member denies having sex with director of famed US marching band

May 6, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New York, May 6 (ANI): The young woman, whose alleged affair with the band leader of the famed Brooklyn Steppers caused him to be booted, has denied having sex with him.

The head of the famed Brooklyn Steppers marching band — a group whose high-profile gigs peaked this year with a spot in President Barack Obama’s inauguration, has been bounced for allegedly having sex with a 17-year-old band member.

Although 31-year-old Tyrone Brown admitted to school investigators that his relationship with the girl was inappropriate, he denied rumours that things had turned sexual during a band trip to Bermuda last year.

“I never had sexual relations with him. I am not a victim. I am angry that this got him fired,” said the band member, now 18.

The Steppers were the only New York marching band invited to Obama’s January 2009 Inauguration Day parade and had the honour of leading the festivities, the Daily News reported.

“I feel sorry for Ty. He really tried to help me. My father wasn’t around, and people on the outside don’t understand. I am in shock. It hurts,” the band member said.

An official report detailed many times that the two were seen being unusually friendly, including swapping 3,000 text messages in a single month and taking adjoining hotel rooms on the Bermuda trip.

Other students said they were inseparable.

Brown, who led the Brooklyn Steppers to national fame over the last decade, is known as a mentor to troubled kids, whom he would help with everything from paying the rent to getting a hairdo before a performance. (ANI)

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Now, ‘Really Goode Job’ for wine lovers

May 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

San Francisco, Apr 30 (ANI): Inspired by the publicity campaign of Queensland Tourism, an American winemaker is offering a dream job with a salary 10,000-dollar-a-month for six months to drink wine, learn and talk about wine, eat good food and live rent free.

According to the Murphy-Goode winemaker Dave Ready Jr., the ideal candidate should have an engaging personality, should be a wine-lover and an expert at tweeting, blogging, and keeping photo and video diaries.

The ‘Really Goode Job’ with Murphy-Goode Winery in Sonoma County, as ‘Wine Country correspondent’, is expected to attract 10,000 applications.

Hundreds of wine-loving, social-media-savvy types thronged to downtown San Francisco to apply for the job.

“I’m busy trying to turn grapes into wine, so what I don’t know, really, is Web 2.0,” the San Francisco Chronicle quoted Ready as saying.

“We’re looking for a communicator to promote wine, promote what we do and promote Sonoma County,” he added.

Ready said the idea for the dream job in Healdsburg came from a publicity campaign launched in Queensland, Australia.

The tourism bureau there invited applicants to apply for “The Best Job in the World,” as “island caretaker on the Great Barrier Reef.”

The application process for the ‘Really Goode Job’ closes June 5, when the 50 top candidates will be selected.

The applicant should be at least 21 years old. They are required to complete an employment application, and upload a one-minute video (longer videos will not be viewed) on www.areallygoodejob.com that demonstrates special qualifications for the job.

The list will be narrowed to the top 10, who will be interviewed between June 27 and July 1. The candidate selected for the Really Goode Job will be announced July 9 and the work is to commence Aug. 1. (ANI)

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Hugh Jackman fears his kids will grow up spoilt

April 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Apr 21 (ANI): Aussie actor Hugh Jackman has revealed that he fears his children will grow up spoilt after the lavish lifestyle they have been living.

Jackman, 40, says he enjoys his fortune, as he did not have much as a struggling actor, and that it was only at the age of 30 after he landed a role in the superhero franchise that he was able to enjoy his life better.

But the X-Men star is worried that his adopted kids, Oscar, eight, and Ava, four, with wife Deborra-Lee Furness, will turn into brats with the easy lifestyle he has provided them.
“The hard thing is going to be my kids. I’m terrified of them getting on a plane and saying, ‘Daddy, what’s behind the curtain?’” Contactmusic quoted him as saying.

“They’ve been brought up with more privilege than I ever had. I lived on a hundred pounds a week until I was 26, with rent and everything. Everyone I knew did, it was fine,” he added. (ANI)

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99acres introduces property search on mobile

April 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Apr 14 (ANI/Business Wire India): In an endeavour to ease property search and to make the site device agnostic, 99acres.com, has introduced property search on mobile.

Launched in partnership with Mobisoc Technology, 99acres.com offers a WAP application for property search that allows users to search properties via mobile. Builders and brokers can check their account and track responses on properties uploaded on 99acres.com.

“We understand that time is of critical value today and responding real time is imperative. Our users, builders and brokers are on the move all the time, which makes it difficult for them to be connected to their PC or laptop. We want to be sure that users can connect to 99acres anywhere anytime and endeavour to make property search effortless and time efficient,” said Vineet Singh, Business Head, 99acres.com.

The advantages of the application are manifold. When users are on the move for house hunting and exhaust the options that were shortlisted, they can connect to 99acres.com through their handsets and search for more properties in that area, thus, saving on time.

Listings contain not only the address and specs of the property, it also lists the phone number of the broker/builder thus enabling users to contact and close transactions quickly. Property builders and brokers can access their 99acres.com account on mobile, check responses and can contact prospective buyers/tenants without losing time to get connected to a PC.

Commenting on the launch, Vinish Kathuria, President – Strategy and Business Development, Mobisoc said, “We are excited to partner with 99acres.com to bring Rich Internet Experience to its customers. With 310 million plus Mobile users in India and growing every month, applications like 99acres.com make it convenient for an average user to do some of the things better, especially when he/she is on the move”.

The application is simple and easy to use. To get the application on mobile handsets, users need to sms ’99′ to the short-code 56300. Alternately, users can feed their mobile number on the link – http://mobile.99acres.com. Within seconds they would receive a sms with a link.

Through GPRS connectivity of any cellular services provider mobile users can connect with the link, download the application and get going.

Once installed, users can access the application from ‘Applications’ or ‘my own’ folder on their mobile. The application opens the Main menu screen, which allows users to select an option between search/check/post properties. Users can search for properties on rent and sale by city, budget and property type and select any listing to view property details.

Further, a user may call a contact via the application. Builders and brokers who have an account on 99acres.com, can check their account and track responses on properties posted by them.

Soon, the application will also allow builders and brokers to upload properties through the application. (ANI)

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Estonian inflation figure falls to 2004 levels

April 7, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Tallinn – Official figures released by the Estonian national statistics office Tuesday showed the Baltic state’s March consumer price index (CPI) rising by 2 per cent year-on-year, compared to 3.4 per cent in February.

The last time the year-on-year CPI figure dipped below 2 per cent was in April 2004.

Estonia’s year-on-year inflation figures peaked at 11.4 per cent as recently as June 2008.

The news will provide a boost to the Estonian government’s aim to adopt the euro as the national currency as early as July 2010.

Estonia missed the chance to replace the national currency, the kroon, in 2007 as a result of runaway inflation.

Big increases in prices for items such as alcoholic drinks and tobacco were offset by falling costs of motor fuel and rent in March.

“The economic conditions mean many companies have cut prices, making it five months in a row that prices have fallen,” said Andres Saarniit of the Estonian central bank.

“Over the coming months the trend to lower prices will continue, although not at such a rapid pace. The longer-term inflation outlook is very much dependent on changes in energy prices in world markets,” Saarniit said.

Danske Bank’s senior Baltic analyst Violeta Klyviene said the speed of the inflationary fall could provide cause for concern.

“Estonian inflation has, for several months, decelerated more rapidly than we have anticipated. This might indicate that the decline in GDP could be even deeper that the
10 per cent contraction we forecast currently,” she said.

“Without a significant cut in expenditure or rise in taxes the public deficit could breach the 3 per cent of GDP target,” she warned.

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Camels for campaigning

April 5, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, April 3 It is called the ship of the desert but the camel makes for an equally good campaign vehicle, as many politicians in Jharkhand are discovering.

Seven camels that had travelled all the way from their desert home in Rajasthan were displayed at the Morabadi ground in Ranchi for party candidates to pick and choose from. And they were in great demand.

‘We have brought camels to rent them out to political parties for election campaign purposes. The camels are very useful,’ said Kishore Narayan Singh, the owner of two camels.

What attracts the candidates to the camels is simple. They can be draped with banners and move easily from one place to without any fuel costs.

For a day, a camel owner charges anywhere between Rs.500 to Rs.1,500 to lend his animal for campaigning.

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Govt. further hikes PSU officers pay

March 30, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Mar 30 (ANI): The Indian Government on Monday given Central Public Sector Enterprises officers a further increase in salary and allowances, over and above the hikes announced last year.

Over four lakh officers will benefit from the decision.

The Cabinet took the decision.

An increase in house rent allowance and retirement benefits will also be included in the improved pay packages.

PSU officers, particularly in the oil sector, forced the government to revisit their revised pay scales when they went on strike in January this year.

According to officials, the revision in the pay structure would vary from company to company. (ANI)

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Keira Knightley kicks ‘designer shoes’ butt!

March 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Mar 16 (ANI): Keira Knightley has kicked her addiction for designer shoes.

The British beauty previously revealed buying expensive footwear is one of her biggest extravagances.

However, Knightley said that she has now stopped buying and started renting.

“I think when I was very young and I suddenly started earning a bit of money and I could actually afford to buy shoes, I got very excited and bought a lot. I mean a lot,” the Sun quoted her, as saying.

“I haven’t bought any in quite a while. Now I just rent them for the day.

“They give them to me for the day and I give them back in the evening, which is good,” she added. (ANI)

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Heather Mills leaves ‘gutted’ fish cafe seller poorer by 115K pounds

March 16, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, March 16 (ANI): Heather Mills left a former fish cafe owner disappointed after she dipped her original offer of 255,000 pounds to 140,000 pounds, blaming the “current economic climate” that had slashed property prices.

The former better half of Sir Paul McCartney had offered to buy the Big Fish Cafe in Hove, East Sussex from Nick Short, but later revised her offer.

“Heather said she’d like to buy the place if it came on the market. Last July I decided to sell so I got in touch. I went to see her at her home and we made a verbal agreement for 255,000 pounds,” the Mirror quoted Nick as saying.

“That was later agreed in writing. The arrangement changed in November. I got a letter from her lawyer saying the price had dropped to 140,000 pounds.

“It blamed the credit crunch and the ‘current economic climate’. Her lawyer said there were other issues such as the cost of the ground rent going up and the need to renovate the windows. I was shocked, absolutely gutted.

“I’d put off other buyers who were offering the full price thinking I had a deal with Heather. There was nowhere else I could go,” he added.

The ex model recently took over the proprietorship, and decided to drop fish and all other animal products from the menu.

Staff at the cafe have also been given the pink slip, and told not to return after the renovation is over.

Heather’s spokesman said: “Heather is very excited to have taken over the cafe. She has been a local resident for nearly ten years and is looking forward to giving the cafe a much-needed renovation. Heather has wanted to buy the cafe for many years to create a fun place serving greattasting healthy plant-based foods for kids, their families and the locals.” (ANI)

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Dungeon dad’s wife opens up about life post his arrest

March 16, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Mar 16 (ANI): As dungeon dad Josef Fritzl is set to go under trial today, his wife Rosemarie has for the first time given insights into her life after her husband’s arrest.

The 73-year-old Austrian engineer held his daughter Elisabeth captive in a dungeon beneath his home, raped her for 24 long years, and fathered seven children with her.

Soon after Fritzl’s secret life beneath the cellar was disclosed, his shattered wife changed her name and moved to a new town to try to escape the shame and infamy brought on the family through her husband’s misdeeds.

“I don’t know where I’m heading now. My life has already been ruined enough. I don’t have any money. My pride is all I have left, that and my family. All I want is to keep my family,” the Sun quoted Rosemarie as saying.

The 69-year-old lady rarely leaves her flat, screens callers through an intercom and has her groceries delivered.

She added: “People have said so many things about me, but I can’t speak. I just want to be left alone.”

Rosemarie only found out about her husband’s alleged crimes after his arrest last April.

And she now struggles to live on a tiny pension in a rented first-floor flat in Linz.

Her sister Christine, 65, one of the few people she trusts, said: “She is an emotional and physical wreck. She rarely leaves her flat, unless it’s to go for a walk alone. If she hadn’t the children to think of I don’t think she’d go on.

She’ll never get over it, but I hope she finds a little peace.

She added: “Financially she’s struggling. Half her pension goes on her rent alone. She pays for everything herself. She changed her name last year and even had to pay for that. She doesn’t have anything to do with Josef anymore.” (ANI)

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BSF personnel celebrate Holi on Indo-Pak border

March 11, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Srinagar/ Barmer, Mar. 11 (ANI): Taking a break from their tough duties, Border Security Force (BSF) stationed on the Indo-Pak border celebrated festival colours ‘Holi’ on Tuesday.

At Gakhiral border observation post (BOP) in Jammu and Kashmir, the color riot brought the much-needed breather for the paramilitary personnel.

Thus the BOP echoed with laughter, songs and cheering as the personnel rent the air with ‘Holi Re Holi’ greetings.

“Definitely it will reduce the stress, reason being they are diverting their mind towards festival and they are celebrating the festivals with full emotions,” said P S Dhiman Commandant 26 Battalion, Border Security Force.

The BSF personnel posted in Barmer region of Rajasthan also danced to the tunes of Holi songs for an escape from the dreary and tense daily regimen.

“We are celebrating Holi after finishing our duty hours. All our officers are with us here. Celebrating Holi like this makes us feel lighter from our yesterday’s work. Our colleagues are still on duty and they will celebrate after coming. All of us are happy and we take out time to celebrate all festivals. We want to tell our family that we are happy here,” said Constable Suresh of Border Security Force, Barmer Range.

India’s most vibrant festival of colors indicates the end of winter and onset of spring. It is also associated with the uninhibited expression of love and affection through colours and sweets. (ANI)

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Ads offering free rooms in exchange for sex surface amid rental crisis Down Under

February 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Melbourne, Feb 15 (ANI): Taking advantage of Sydney’s rental crisis, some men are placing online advertisements offering women free rooms in exchange for sex.

Targeting desperate women looking for somewhere to live, the zero-rent ads are becoming increasingly common on popular ‘share house’ rental websites.

There have been numerous complaints about the ads, which some website users have dubbed ‘offensive’, but they do not breach policy guidelines for sites such as flatmates.com.au

A statement on flatmates.com.au says that if the site were to impose a ban, the ads would merely go underground, making the process unsafe for women.

One advertisement offering free rent for a female to “share a room” was placed by a 32-year-old Auburn man calling himself Atiq.

Atiq told The Sunday Telegraph he was looking for a relationship with a woman in a “clean” one-bedroom unit. Yes, I am alone and the rent would be free. I am looking for a girl to share my room and, yes, in the same bed,” News.com.au quoted him, as saying. (ANI)

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