Murdered Hyderabadi ex-airhostess Ritu faced violence and rape

 

Hyderabad, April 21: A 29-year-old former air hostess was allegedly murdered by her husband at their flat in Ramanthapur on Sunday night. The victim, Ritu Uppal, was the wife of one Sachin Uppal, owner of an electrical appliances store at Koti. The couple had married 18 months ago and has a five-month-old son. Ritu’s family explained the horror faced by the victim. Her husband apparently suspected Ritu’s character and would not allow her to leave home. His parents also used to harass her, said sources. In an interview given , Ritu’s sister Tulika said that Sachin frequently committed marital rape even when she was nine months pregnant. He used to hit her almost every day asking for more dowry,” said Ritu’s sister, Tulika Sareen. She further added that “Just a few weeks before her delivery Sachin hit her in front of my parents. He pushed her so hard that my mother who was near her also fell on the ground along with her. Just one day after the delivery in a private hospital at Ramanthapur he took the baby and tried to run away,”. Ritu’s mother Ujala alleged that Sachin had called them only after she had died. She and her husband, Mr Subhash, had come to Hyderabad from Jamshedpur two weeks ago to meet their daughters.

IPL 8: David Warner, Trent Boult Shine as Hyderabad Edge Past Punjab

Sunrisers Hyderabad scraped to 150/6 and then came back to defend the total against Kings XI Punjab at Mohali. David Warner played a crucial knock while Trent Boult was instrumental in stalling Punjab's chase.

Trent Boult bowled a fantastic spell

Mohali: Pace spearhead Trent Boult led the way with three wickets after David Warner's brisk half-century laid the foundation as Sunrisers Hyderabad recorded a 20-run win over Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League here today. (Highlights)
Asked to bat, opener Warner top-scored with a 41-ball 58 to lift Sunrisers to a modest 150 for six. The bowlers then produced a disciplined effort to restrict KXIP to 130 for nine in 20 overs, paving the way for the visiting side's third win of the season.
Boult returned with impressive figures of 3/19 in his four-over spell while Bhuvneshwar Kumar chipped in with two wickets. Wriddhiman Saha top-scored for KXIP with a 33-ball 42. (Scorecard)
Earlier, A Ashish Reddy smashed 22 off eight balls towards the end with the help of two last-over sixes, helping Sunrisers reach the 150-mark.
In reply, Kings XI Punjab, playing without the veteran Virender Sehwag, were jolted by the early loss of Manan Vohra and Shaun Marsh, both batsmen playing on against Boult and Kumar respectively to leave the visitors reeling at 13 for two in the fourth over.
Murali Vijay, after spending some time in the middle for his 12 runs, made his way back to the pavilion following a terrible mix-up with David Miller (15) while going for what seemed an unnecessary second run.
Around the half-way mark, bottom-placed Punjab were struggling at 61 for four, requiring 90 runs from 60 balls to climb up the ladder.
The hosts were dealt another body blow when leg-spinner Karn Sharma bagged the wicket of Miller who skied one to Boult at long off. With the required run rate shooting up, Miller got a leading edge while trying to hit Sharma down the ground.
Skipper George Bailey got out as his mishit found Sharma at mid off after the batsman made 22 off 16 balls with the help of three boundaries. At the other end, Saha was riding his luck as he got two lives. While Ravi Bopara could not latch on to a difficult one in the 15th over, Boult failed to judge one that went very high in the next over.
Saha and Axar Patel managed a few big hits to bring the equation down to 35 from the last three overs. However, Boult bowled Patel at the start of 18th over before getting the big wicket of Saha to dash KXIP's hopes of pulling off a win in their first home game of the season.

David Warner played a fire-brand knock!

Sent into bat, the Sunrisers Hyderabad were off to a poor start with Shikhar Dhawan falling to pace spearhead Mitchell Johnson with just 10 runs on the board after Sandeep Sharma bowled a maiden opening over at the Punjab Cricket Association stadium.
Bailey opted to bowl first as the pitch had a good amount of grass on it, and his bowlers responded well. KXIP, who dropped Sehwag after a run of poor scores, ensured that the Sunrisers batsmen didn't get easy runs. Glenn Maxwell, too, missed out yet again on finding a place in the playing XI.
Young left-arm spinner Patel was the best bowler for KXIP, returning figures of 2/25, while Johnson picked up two wickets for 39 runs.
Apart from Warner, Moises Henriques (30) and Naman Ojha (28) were the other contributors for the visiting side, which struggled to cut loose. Warner found the fence 10 times and cleared it once during his stay in the middle.
Though Warner added 46 runs for the second wicket with Hanuma Vihari and Henriques had a 45-run fourth-wicket stand with Ojha, they were not big enough to trouble the hosts who had the crowd behind them.
Part-time bowler Murali Vijay bowled a tidy three-over spell, conceding just 16 runs, and that made things worse for Sunrisers. Anureet Singh, too, was economical as he gave away 27 runs in his full spell, including five runs in the innings' penultimate over.

Court admits Salman Khan's revision petition in arms case

A court in Rajasthan's Jodhpur on Monday called for the record of the subordinate court regarding the case relating to illegal possession and use of arms by Salman Khan on the Bollywood actor's revision plea.
District and Sessions Judge, Jodhpur, Manoj Kumar Vyas, while admitting the revision petition moved by Salman for hearing, ordered summons of the record from the court of chief judicial magistrate and posted the matter on May 1 for detailed hearing.
Salman and a few other Bollywood actors were accused of poaching blackbucks on the midnight of October 1-2, 1998, during the shooting of Hindi movie "Hum Saath Saath Hain".
Accused of carrying and using illegal arms also as he allegedly had arms with expired licence and a case under Arms Act registered against him thereafter, the actor, through his advocate, moved an application before the CJM's court in Jodhpur on April 22 demanding re-examination of five witnesses of the case.
It was argued by Salman's counsel that after three eight-year-old applications of the prosecution were allowed and four witnesses examined a few days back, the scenario of the case has changed. However, this application came to be rejected by CJM on April 23.
Challenging the decision, the actor approached the district and sessions court.

 "The district court has admitted our revision petition for hearing and the next date of hearing has been fixed on May 1," the actor's advocate Hastimal Sarswat told

The CJM court on April 23 had asked Salman to remain present before the court on April 29 for recording of his statement.

Ranbir Kapoor: Yes, I am in love

There is no denying the fact that most of us are interested in knowing about celebrity weddings. There are constant speculations about them in the media. While it is exciting for us, it can sometimes become a bit too much for the celebs. Katrina Kaif recently said that she will let everyone know when her wedding date is fixed. When asked Ranbir, her alleged boyfriend if he agreed with Katrina, he said, "You cannot keep your wedding private and it should not be private. We are all actors. Wedding is always a celebration. But having said that, I must say that my wedding date has been planned six years back since the time I came into this industry. People have always being speculating about my marriage. It's a very special day so let me announce it. As of now, I have no plans."
He further added, "Yes, I am in love. I do feel responsible and have a sense of commitment. But the speculations regarding my wedding spoil the fun. You want to set a date and you want to celebrate. So I would really request that the media to stop speculating the date. I will not hide and get married because that doesn't make sense."
It remains to be seen now whether the media stops speculating about Ranbir's shaadi.

Karan Johar’s View On Salman Khan’s 2002 Hit And Run Case

• Karan Johar’s View On Salman Khan’s 2002 Hit And Run Case

Recently at the trailer launch of Bombay Velvet, Karan Johar spoke to media regarding Salman Khan’s 2002 hit and run case. Karan Johar spoke straight from his heart for actor Salman Khan.

At the trailer launch event Karan Johar was asked about his view on Salman Khan’s hit and run case judgment, which is on May 6. Karan said, “We are all connected with Salman Khan. We stand by him. Love and support to him, but this is legal action and we cannot comment on that.”
Karan Johar indirectly showed that he is in favour of Salman Khan and hopefully to see the case also in his favour. Director Karan Johar has also signed Salman Khan for his upcoming film Shuddhi.

Salman is busy with his shooting for Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo due to which Karan Johar has put the shooting of Shuddhi on hold. Salman has also rejected few proposals till his judgment on hit and run case is out.

Manisha Koirala Asks Fans To Be Vigilant Before Donating To Nepal Earthquake Victims

• Manisha Koirala Asks Fans To Be Vigilant Before Donating To Nepal Earthquake Vic …

Ever since the Nepal earthquake caused major loss to life and property, people have been going out of their way to lend their support to victims of the tragedy and though actress Manisha Koirala approves of this, she nevertheless wants people to be vigilant and not get duped by people looking to take advantage of the situation.

Taking to her Facebook page, Manisha, who has her roots in Nepal, wrote, ''I have been warned that a lot of organizations would be misusing this situation so I request everyone who wants to help please doubly check the accountability and then only offer help. A lot of my friends who want to travel to ktm, please be mindful that too many people are already there n there is a shortage of food n water...we must be prepared for long span of rehabilitation n relief work(I'm afraid after the initial shock n hence desire to help gets diluted by misuse of help & with time we become numb n start ignoring). So I request all my well-meaning friends that please please be mindful of helping in such a way that it is maximum utilized by the victims...the situation is very very grave...my brother has been taking rounds on the field n it is heartbreaking!!!''
The Dil Se actress further added, ''Also to all my country people n those who love Nepal..pl be vigilante about any organisations/person involved with misuse of funds or material or black marketeers of any sorts..they should be punished n not spared!! So pl keep an eye!!''

The Himalayan nation was jolted by an earthquake of 7.9-magnitude on Saturday, bringing the region to a halt. The toll in the devastating quake has crossed 4,300.

Anurag Kashyap recreates Bombay in Sri Lanka

Bombay Velvet movie poster

Anurag Kashyap’s period drama Bombay Velvet may have recreated the Mumbai or Bombay of the 1960’s, but the film wasn’t shot in the city. In fact, it wasn’t even shot in India, but in Sri Lanka. 

 

The team spent a lot of time and effort in trying to get the film’s look right. Says a source, “The set was created in Sri Lanka over 9.5 acres of land. The team spent 11 months constructing the sets from scratch. They paid a lot of attention to detail, right from the building facades to their interiors. 

 

The source adds, “They even laid out roads and tried to replicate street signs. The team did go to great

Raveena Tandon inaugurates ‘India Dance Week’ at Kurla in Mumbai

Raveena Tandon inaugurates 'India Dance Week', a celebration of dance by choreographer Sandip Soparrkar to bring varied Indian and international dance forms together on one platform at Phoenix Market City, Kurla.

Gold worth Rs 50.55 lakh seized from aircraft in Mangaluru

Mangaluru: Sixteen gold bars worth Rs 50.55 lakh were seized from under a seat of an aircraft at Mangaluru International Airport.


The passenger, identified as Mohammed Luqman Ahmed, is a resident of Hyderabad, Andra Pradesh.

The gold bars were found hidden beneath a seat of the Jet Airways Flight No. 9W531, which landed here from Dubai on April 27, at 09.30 hrs.

The passenger has been arrested and produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mangaluru, for remand.

Further investigation is under progress.

Nepal is not the big one: Next Himalayan earthquake maybe closer to home and far more serious

Even as the death toll from the 7.9 magnitude earthquake climbs to over 3,200 and stunned survivors struggle to come to terms with the magnitude of the disaster, experts say the worst is yet to come.
The quake, which reduced large parts of Kathmandu to rubble, is not the 'great Himalayan quake' that the region has been bracing for.
Down To Earth magazine quoted Roger Bilham, geologist with the University of Colorado Boulder who studies the seismicity of the Himalayan area as saying, "At a magnitude of 7.9 on the Richter scale, the April 25 earthquake has caused devastation but it is not the anticipated “great Himalayan earthquake”. This does not qualify as a great earthquake which needs to be of magnitude 8".

And Prof Sankar Kumar Nath of IIT Kharagpur, who has studied seismic activity in the Himalayan region had an even more gloomy outlook.
“This earthquake would only be classified as medium in terms of energy released. That area, the 2500-km stretch from the Hindukush region to the end of Arunachal Pradesh, is capable of generating much bigger earthquakes, even nine on Richter scale,” he said. “If you look at it differently, we are actually lucky that only a 7.9-magnitude earthquake has come. I would be very happy to have a few 7.9-magnitude earthquakes than a 9-magnitude earthquake which would be absolute disaster. The trouble is that in terms of energy release, which is what causes the damage, it would take 40 to 50 earthquakes of magnitude 7.9 to avoid an earthquake of magnitude 9,” he told the Indian Express.
The last major earthquake (magnitude 8.4) occurred in 1934, killed an estimated 17,000 across both Nepal and India. Since then, researchers have been tirelessly studying the 'fault' lines of the last earthquake to predict the next one, but failed to do so, points out this article in IB Times.
Seismologist James Jackson, head of the earth sciences department at the University of Cambridge in England, was in Kathmandu just a week ago. Following the 7.9-magnitude earthquake, he told Associated Press that scientists knew "they were racing against the clock,".
Jackson, who was part of a 50-strong scientists and researchers team from across the world, said that the devastation would be huge not because of the size of the seismic activity, but because of population pressure and degradation of the environment.
And this has been one of the biggest issues in the region.
The exploding population in the region greatly increases the risk of casualties. The Times of India quotes from a study called the Himalayan Seismic Hazard, published in Science magazine in 2001:
"The population of India has doubled since the last great Himalayan earthquake in 1950 (in Assam). The urban population in the Ganges plain has increased by a factor of 10 since the 1905 earthquake, when collapsing buildings killed 19,500 people. Today, about 50 million people are at risk from great Himalayan earthquakes, many of them in towns and villages in the Ganges plain. The capital cities of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Pakistan and several other cities with more than a million inhabitants are vulnerable to damage from some of these future earthquakes"
The devastating impact to life and property caused by natural disasters in the Himalayan region was painfully evident during the devastating cloud burst in Uttarakhand which also claimed over a thousand lives.
As pointed out by Jay Mazoomdar in an article for Firstpost at the time, "way too many properties and lives came in the way of the Mandakini and Alakananda on 16 and 17 June because we placed ourselves where we were never supposed to. That part, the part that made a natural calamity an enormous human tragedy, is entirely and unquestionably manmade." He added that the arguments of development hardly came into play, given the ecologically sensitive nature of the region.
Following the Uttarakhand tragedy, many promises were made to review development work and work towards creating an ecologically viable model that would no longer endanger the area.

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However, the Congress government in the state has since abandoned work on the much-delayed zonal master plan for the Bhagirathi Eco Sensitive Zone -- which was to be created by a 2012 notification that declared 4179.59 sq km in the watershed of the Bhagirathi river between Gomukh and Uttarkashi as a green zone to safeguard it from unplanned growth..  notes that "days after Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar refused to modify the ESZ notification, the ministry reversed its stand on January 13 at a PMO meeting chaired by Nriprendra Misra".
Given the magnitude of the Uttarkashi disaster, it is not difficult to imagine how much more destructive an earthquake in the same area would be. Given the government's cavalier attitude toward earthquake safety and development in the Himalayas, we may be facing our very own humanitarian disaster -- and it won't even have to be the 'big one' for it to really hurt.

Anushka Sharma Alia Bhatt Sidharth Malhotra At Karan Johar’s House Party

Anushka Sharma Alia Bhatt Sidharth Malhotra At Karan Johar’s House Party

Party animal Karan Johar throws another lavish party at his house on Sunday for his close friends from B-Town industry. Many Bollywood celebrities attended the party organized by director Karan Johar.

The late night Sunday party was attended by number of Bollywood stars, actresses and even directors. Alia Bhatt, Sidharth Malhotra, Abhishek Bachchan, Kunal Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Aditya Roy Kapur, Anushka Sharma were amongst others who attended the lavish party.
Interestingly, Sidharth and Alia who have been avoiding each other were spotted attending party separately. The duowith Fawad Khan even gave look test for their upcoming film together for Shakun Batra’s Kapoor And Sons, produced by Karan Johar.
Producer Ritesh Sidwani who is the producer of Dil Dhadakne Do was spotted at the party with his colleague Farhan Akhtar. Sister Zoya Akhtar was also seen arriving at the party. Shah Rukh Khan’s wife Gauri Khan who is very close to Karan Johar was seen walking in for the house party.
Ek Villain director Mohit Suri was also spotted at the party. The director is set to come with his next film Hamari Adhuri Kahani starring Vidya Balan and Emraan Hashmi.

Spotted: Aamir Khan’s Son Azad Khan Breaks Into A Dance At Airport

Spotted: Aamir Khan’s Son Azad Khan Breaks Into A Dance At Airport

Bollywood Mr. Perfectionist Aamir Khan has returned back to Mumbai with his wife Kiran Rao and their son Azad Khan from their holiday at Disney Land, USA. Kiran dressed in casual attire, was spotted heading out of the airport with her son Azad, while Aamir Khan walked behind them. This vacation proved to be a spell breaker for Azad as the little toddler has finally stepped out of his tiny shell and is all cheerful and not camera shy any more.

Whenever shutterbugs have spotted Azad, the Jr. Perfectionist often stayed quiet and hid behind his parents or just avoided the camera completely. But here for the first time we see Azad facing the camera with a cute smile on his face. Not only that, but he even shook a leg in front of the cameras at the airport! How adorable is that?! Jr. Khan looked really adorable in his yellow printed tshirt, as he saw the shutterbugs flashing their cameras at him, Azad looked at his mom Kiran for approval and as she nodded, Azad broke into a dance at the airport. The three year old’s this energetic cute act surely surprised the cameramen. Soon, the Khan family happily walked out of the airport towards their car.