Robert Vadra hints at joining politics

New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law, Robert Vadra, on Monday hinted at joining politics. 

Robert Vadra, a businessman by profession and husband of Priyanka Gandhi, said that at present it’s Rahul Gandhi’s turn to be in politics, but will actively enter the political field if people want me to. 

Bhupathi blessed with a baby girl!

Zeenews Sports Bureau

New Delhi: It was a good day on and off the court for Mahesh Bhupathi on Friday.

Bhupathi, along with partner Sania Mirza, has defeated South Africa`s Natalie Grandin and Jean-Julien Rojer of Netherlands Antilles in the opening round of the Australian Open mixed doubles.

Off it, Bhupati and Bollywood actor Lara Dutta have been blessed with a baby girl. "ITS A GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @DuttaLara. I Love u...," Bhupathi wrote on twitter

Team India shamed at WACA

Vineet Ramakrishnan

The name of the game is turn around – after the loss at Hobart, Michael Clarke and Co. had a lot to prove and a 4-0 score-line against India will definitely do a world of good for Clarke. India, after the England debacle, were also in a similar position. But were they expected to prove anything? Well, not all. The turnaround had happened before this Australian tour itself!!! During their home series against West Indies, India supposedly were at their dominant best, the same way they were once the No.1 ranked Test team (apparently). But the England episode was just an aberration as many were pointing out and will BCCI and Dhoni consider this ‘Blunder Down Under’ to be an aberration second time in a row? 

Stoner criticises `late` MotoGP weight rule change

Madrid: Casey Stoner has hit out at a change to MotoGP regulations that forced his Repsol Honda team to add 4 kilogrammes (8.8 pounds) in weight to their new 1,000cc bikes for the 2012 season, saying its "late" introduction has caused problems in cornering.

The world champion, who was half a second clear of his rivals in testing of the new machines at Sepang this week, said the team`s bikes had been "developed with a specific weight in mind" and that the situation was "rather frustrating".

Home hopes end but Ghana still alive

Libreville: Home hopes crumbled for Gabon in the lottery of a penalty shootout at the African Nations Cup on Sunday but Ghana’s hopeful search to end a long drought at the finals continued.

Mali beat co-hosts Gabon 5-4 on post-match kicks after extra time in Libreville to douse the passion of an expectant populace in first of the day’s quarter-final encounters. The match ended 1-1 as Mali equalised just six minutes from the end.

Ghana, seeking their first Nations Cup title in 30 years, won the later game in the provincial town of Franceville, beating Tunisia 2-1 after extra time courtesy of a goalkeeping howler.

Madhuri's wax statue to be unveiled March 7

Mumbai, Feb 5 (IANS) The much-awaited wax statue of Bollywood diva Madhuri Dixit will be unveiled at London's Madame Tussauds March 7.
"Madame Tussauds unveiling on March 7, 2012. See you then," tweeted Madhuri, who has moved here from Denver to play a new innings in Bollywood.
Known for her natural acting talent and graceful dancing, the 44-year-old is the latest Indian film star to join the A-list line up at the Madame Tussauds wax museum, which also houses statues of Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, Hrithik Roshan, Salman Khan and Amitabh Bachchan.

Riteish and Genelia's church wedding

After a lavish Maharashtrian-style wedding, Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D'Souza exchanged their wedding vows again in a traditional church wedding on Saturday. In picture: Genelia looked gorgeous in a flowing white gown

Aishwarya Rai steps out in style

Aishwarya Rai made her first publi appearance after the birth of her baby at Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D'Souza's wedding reception.
Aishwarya glowed in a custom made, emerald green Manish Malhotra anarkali, and sent the photographers into a clicking frenzy.
The 38-year-old accompanied in-laws Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan to the party.
Abhishek Bachchan, who is currently shooting for Rohit Shetty's Bol Bachchan, could not make it.

Atlanta to develop Rs 9,500-cr theme park in Surat

Mumbai: The Gujarat government has roped in infrastructure and real estate firm Atlanta to jointly develop a Rs 9,500 crore theme park in Surat.
 
The city-based company, through its special-purpose vehicle, Atlanta Tourism Ventures, has signed a memorandum of understanding to set up an eco-friendly entertainment city at Suvali in Surat.

Supertech to invest Rs 2,000 cr to develop luxury project

New Delhi: Real estate firm Supertech on Wednesday said it will invest Rs 2,000 crore in the next four years to develop a luxury project, comprising residential and commercial properties, at Noida.
     
The project -- Supernova -- will house about 1,300 flats, which will be priced between Rs 60 lakh and Rs 3 crore, apart from offering offices, shopping malls and multiplexes.

Easy Cauliflower Manchurian

Category : Vegetables, Kadai dishes
Servings : 4
Time Taken : 30-45 mins
RIngredients: 
1/2 kg - cauliflower
200g - tomato
200g - onion
50g - ginger garlic paste
2 tbsp - garam masala
1/2 tsp - turmeric powder
2 tbsp - red chilli powder
1 tbsp - coriander powder
150g - corn flour
2 small sticks - cinnamon
4 - cloves
200g - oil for frying
8 or 10 - mint leaves
Coriander
1 tbsp - ghee
Salt to taste
ating :manchurian:

1. Cut cauliflower into pieces; soak in hot water for about 10 minutes and drain.
2. Mix corn Flour, 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste, garam masala, turmeric powder and salt into a mixture of semi-liquid consistency.
3. Heat oil in a deep pan, dip the pieces of cauliflower in the corn flour mixture.
4. Deep fry till it turns golden colour.
5. Place on a tissue paper to absorb excess oil.

For gravy:

1. Add boiling water to tomatoes, soak for a few minutes, peel the skin and grind to a thick paste.
2. Heat the pan pour 2 table spoon of oil.
3. Saute cinnamon, cloves, onion; let the onion become translucent now add 1 table spoon of ginger garlic paste.
4. Fry for a few minutes.
5. Now add tomato paste, saute well till it cooks, and then add chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and 1 tea spoon of garam masala and required salt.
6. Add 1 table spoon of ghee fry to get a good aroma.
7. Dissolve 1 table spoon of corn flour with 1 and a half cups of water.
8. Add to the pan and cook for some more minutes.
9. Switch off the heat.
10. Transfer it to a serving bowl, dip all prepared manchurians.
11. Garnish with coriander leaves and mint.
12. Serve hot with chapattis. 

Ferrari theme park adds roar to Abu Dhabi tourism

Dubai: From slow camel rides in the desert to owning the fastest rollercoaster in the world -- Abu Dhabi is elbowing its way onto the global stage as a tourist destination and could end up outshining glitzy neighbour Dubai. 

This week the emirate is opening a Ferrari theme park, complete with rollercoaster, right next to its new racing circuit where the second Formula One Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is due to take place a fortnight later, another major crowd-puller.

Riteish Deshmukh-Genelia D'Souza marry in church after Marathi-style wedding

After a lavish Marathi-style wedding yesterday, MUMBAI: After a lavish Marathi-style wedding yesterday, actors Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D'Souza got married at a church in suburban Bandra today. 

The Bollywood couple had sealed their 8-year-long relationship with a Maharashtrian-style wedding at Grand Hyatt hotel yesterday. 

Riteish, son of former Mahrashtra chief ministerVilasrao Deshmukh, is from a Maharashtrian family, while Genelia was born into a Mangalorean Catholic family, which is why, the wedding was also solemnised in a Christian way at a church today.actors Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D'Souza got married at a church in suburban Bandra today.

AP Cong denies IAS officers being made scapegoats

Hyderabad: Maintaining that all are equal before law, the Congress leaders in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday said that it was wrong to say that the IAS officers were being made "scapegoats" in the ongoing CBI probe into various corruption cases in the state. 

"There is nothing wrong in the IAS officers expressing their anguish. But, the guilty will be punished, whether it is a minister or a servant. All are equal before law," State Congress president Botsa Satyanarayana told reporters. 

Middle East's first gurudwara opens in Dubai

Dubai: The UAE's first official gurudwara, Guru Nanak Darbar, has opened in Jebel Ali area here, ending years of demand from the Sikh community for a place of worship. 

The gurudwara is believed to be the first of its kind in the entire region. 

Spread over an area of 25,000 square feet near the Jebel Ali Hospital, the gurudwara has a dedicated floor for community feasts (langar) and a huge hall for devotional songs (kirtan). Arrangements can be made for langar for about 5,000 people at a time, those associated with the project said. 

'UK couldn’t win Falklands if Argentina invades'

London: Britain will find it ‘impossible’ to win back the Falkland Islands if Argentina invades them again, one of the country’s senior military figures has warned. 

The former head of the Army, General Sir Michael Jackson, said that defence cuts have made it ‘impossible’ to win the islands back after a successful invasion, in the way the British task force did in 1982.

German reporter 'beaten' in Iran prison

Berlin: A German reporter says he was beaten by guards during his nearly five months of imprisonment in Iran and that he heard constant, "horrible cries" of other inmates being tortured. 

In the first public comment since being freed a year ago, Marcus Hellwig told the Sunday mass-circulation tabloid Bild am Sonntag he was regularly beaten and constantly interrogated during the first 10 "brutal" days in captivity until a German diplomat intervened

Death toll from European cold spell hits 58

Kiev: Thirty people, most of them homeless, have died of hypothermia in recent days in Ukraine, part of a surge of deaths across eastern Europe as the region grapples with an unusually severe cold spell. 

In all, at least 58 people have died from the cold in Europe over the last week

US jets would have given IAF unbeatable platform

Washington: Having lost out on the multi-billion Indian Air Force contract, the Pentagon said American fighter jets - F16 and F18 - would have provided India unbeatable platforms with proven technologies at a competitive price. 

"We are extremely confident that the F/A-18IN and F-16IN would have provided the Indian Air Force unbeatable platforms with proven technologies at a competitive price," the Pentagon spokesman Cmdr Leslie Hull-Ryde said. 

Israeli commando unit to target Iran N-programme

Jerusalem: An elite unit of Israeli commandos called the ‘Depth Corps’ has reportedly been created to stop Iran’s nuclear weapons programme. 

According to the Mirror, Mossad hit squads had already carried out assassinations of key Iranian scientists, and now the Depth Corps has been sent deep inside Iran to prepare an all-out strike against its nuclear programme

Russia to build six submarines annually from 2013

Moscow: Russia will produce six submarines and one aircraft carrier annually starting 2013, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Thursday. 

"By 2013, production capacity [at Russian shipyards] will allow us to build six submarines and an aircraft carrier every year," Rogozin told reporters, adding that the number includes both nuclear and diesel-powered submarines

16 million women married to gay men in China

Beijing: An estimated 16 million women in China may be married to homosexual men, "silently suffering" the consequences to sustain their wedlock, a leading Chinese expert claimed on Friday. 

Prof Zhang Bei-chuan from Qingdao University, who researches on AIDS and HIV, said that about 90 per cent of homosexual men marry because of pressure to follow traditional values prevalent in the country.

'Iran will respond to any oil, military threats

Tehran: Iran has its "own threats" to respond to any military attack or sanctions against its oil exports, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday. 

"In response to threats of oil embargo and war, we have our own threats which will be implemented at the right time, if necessary," he said in a televised speech as he led traditional Friday prayers in Tehran. 

Russia to resume global nuclear submarine patrol

Moscow: After a gap of 26 years, Russia will resume patrolling the world's oceans with its strategic nuclear submarines, the country's Navy said. 

The commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Visodtski said that the global patrolling of oceans will start around July 01.

UK snow chaos: Some India bound flights cancelled

London: Some flights to Mumbai scheduled to depart from London's Heathrow airport on Sunday night were among half of scheduled 1,300 flights cancelled as authorities grappled with the fallout of snow and icy conditions across transport links in Britain.

Realty for darling of mom & dad, your dear daughter

Deepali was 21-years old when she got married to a young businessman based in Gurgaon, in 1995. Her father organised a lavish wedding and showered her with innumerable gifts. With a view to ensure her safety and security in the future, he presented her a small flat in Gurgaon.

After almost 16 years of marriage, Dipankar, Deepali’s husband, suggested selling the flat in her name, as he needed money for his business. He persuaded Deepali to agree to his plan, promising to buy her a bigger flat after six months. Deepali, though apprehensive, could not say ‘No’ to her husband. Readers will agree with the author that this is the normal Indian pattern even when your daughter is smart, modern, talented and educated

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Property of Hindu undivided family and the income tax law

It is possible within the framework of the Income-tax Law to buy out property whether residential or commercial in the name of the Hindu Undivided Family and also to claim a tax benefit attached to the said property.

Just like a tax deduction is available to an individual tax payer in respect of self-occupied property,  similarly in the same manner a  tax deduction is also available to a Hindu Undivided Family owning a residential property

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BHEL

Brokerage: CLSA

Rating: Downgraded to sell from outperform

Target: Slashed to Rs 250 to 310.

Rationale: They believe visibility beyond FY13 is deteriorating. Despite a pick-up in orders expected over NTPC

Brokerage: Nomura

Rating: BUY

Target: Rs 206

Rationale: Though realisations appear to have dropped nearly 5% sequentially, they are awaiting clarity on the tax refund to customers. This is a key factor in interpretation of the result.the next two quarters, the order backlog ratio may slip all the way back to 2003 levels

Yuvraj Singh diagnosed with cancerous lung tumour

Cricketer Yuvraj Singh has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy in the United States, local media reported on Sunday.

While Singh's mother was not available for comments, his father Yograj Singh did not answer to calls from Reuters.

Gmail How-To: 7 More Basic Tips And Tricks Every User Should Know

Ever since we published our first batch of Gmail tips, the Captain Gadget inbox has been flooded by curious and frustrated Gmail users with questions of their own. Captain Gadget's gonna do his thing and answer seven more Gmail how-to's right here, from the basics of BCC'ing to the nitty-gritty of finding and deleting big emails in Gmail.

Google Hires A Senior Director At Apple For A Top Secret Project

Google has pulled off a coup by hiring an Apple senior director of product integrity for a secret project, VentureBeat has learned.

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