Police nab 40 suspects after Delhi colony blast

KARACHI: Police rounded up more than 40 suspects after bomb blast that killed six people in Delhi colony, Geo News reported.

Police team led by SP Saddar Salman Hussain and Frere ASP Shahla Qureshi conducted targeted operation in the area and detained more than 40 suspects.

SP Salman said there were reports of presence of the accused involved in the Friday’s blast. The suspects have been shifted to Frere police station for interrogation.

Delhi Jama Masjid Imam announces support for Congress

New Delhi: One of the India's most important religious Muslim leaders has announced his support for the Congress.

Syed Ahmed Bukhari, the Shahi Imam of the Jama Masjid mosque in Delhi, said today, "We had discussions with Sonia Gandhi. For elections 2014, I announce support for the Congress, with the rider that they will fulfill their promises if they come to power. We have to stand united against communal forces."

The religious leader accused Uttar Pradesh rivals Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) of opportunistic politics.

"The Samajwadi Party failed to protect Muslims," he said, referring to the September Muzaffarnagar riots in which nearly 60 people were killed and thousands driven out of their villages. The BSP, he added, had failed to convince him that it would not join hands with the BJP after the polls.

Imam Bukhari's meeting with Sonia Gandhi has been described by the BJP as an attempt by the Congress president to polarize the vote by religion. The BJP has registered its complaint with the Election Commission because Mrs Gandhi reportedly asked the Shahi Imam and other Muslim leaders accompanying him to ensure the minority vote in India is not split.

"This is an attempt to polarise voters. The Election Commission should take note," the BJP's Ravi Shankar Prasad said, reacting to the imam's declaration.

Yesterday, the BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi attacked Mrs Gandhi for "open communalism"; today, another senior BJP leader, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, reiterated that charge. "Sonia Gandhi calls us communal and makes a deal with Imam Bukhari" said Mr Chauhan, who is the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister.

Sonia Gandhi denied the charge, telling reporters, "We are not in the habit or in the game of polarising the elections."

The Election Commission had said if a complaint is filed, it would examine the issue and "further action would be taken."

Salman Khan's body double injured while filming Kick in Delhi

Salman Khan

 

When you'll watch the high-octane chase between Salman Khan and Randeep Hooda in Sajid Nadiadwala's forthcoming film Kick, if you don't read this, little will you know what happened to the guy who kicked off the scene for Salman.

This guy, who goes by just his first name Ajay in the industry, landed himself in the hospital with serious facial injuries. The incident happened in Delhi last week.

Nadiadwala had rented a row house near a railway track. Ajay (one of Salman's body doubles) was supposed to jump from the first floor of the house onto the railway track. The scene then required Salman (not Ajay) to get onto a moving train with Randeep Hooda (who plays a cop) close on his heels. Ajay went through the sugar glass (a brittle transparent form of sugar used in place of glass) but the timing went wrong and many broken pieces of the glass pierced his face.

Salman and Nadiadwala both rushed to Ajay and the latter immediately arranged for a car to drive him to a hospital. The shooting was called off for the day.

"Salman has four body doubles specialising in different kinds of action for Kick as the movie has several deadly stunts. It would be foolish for Salman to risk his life all the time. What happened was unfortunate," an eyewitness told Mirror.

Till the time of going to the press, Ajay had not returned to the sets. Mirror has learnt that the scene was wrapped up the next day by one of the other three body doubles working on the film.

Rani's 'Mardaani' brings Delhi neighbourhood to standstill

 

A quiet, leafy South Delhi neighbourhood was abuzz Friday morning as news trickled into homes and busy markets that Bollywood star Rani Mukerji was shooting in one of the houses.


"Did you know that Rani is in Chittaranjan Park," squealed Manushi, a 20-year-old househelp, as she excitedly passed on the news on the phone to her friends in the neighbourhood - and beyond.

Rani is in the capital to shoot for "Mardaani". Being directed by Pradeep Sarkar and produced by Aditya Chopra, the film will see the actress in khakis.

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Burly private guards, wearing black safari suits, cordoned off an entire area around a neighbourhood park, not allowing even househelps and courier boys to transgress the road leading to the house.

Many older residents were upset at this "unwarranted intrusion" into neighbourhood peace, but the younger ones revelled in a sense of pride of their neighbourhood being a location for a Bollywood film.



"Do you think they will show our park in the movie," one housemaid was overheard asking another. When an irate neighbourhood gent asked one of the guards on whose authority they were blocking off a colony road, one of them said: "Sir, we have taken all necessary permission and clearances, including from the resident association."



After an outcry in the media and complaints from citizens a couple of weeks ago over private guards blocking off busy arterial roads in East Delhi where Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif were shooting and creating huge traffic jams, the shooting team appeared to be more circumspect this time and the guards were scrupulously polite in dealing with residents even while diverting people and traffic away from the location.



But the long line of vans and cars that make a production unit's cavalcade nevertheless created traffic choke points even as groups of people stood at various vantage points near the house and craned their necks to catch a glimpse of their favourite star.

"She was dressed in jeans-jacket and the onlookers were saying that she looks different off the screen," said Ramakanta Mahanta, an onlooker who got a glimpse of the actress of hits like "Saathiya", "Hum Tum" and "Black".

Alia's New Hottie is a Delhi Boy?

Alia Bhatt has been linked up with her co-stars Siddharth Malhotra and Arjun Kapoor in the past. However, the latest gossip in B'town is that Alia's current boyfriend is not from Mumbai but from Delhi. He allegedly flies in to visit her but the two have been careful not to be spotted by the media. However, he is not from the industry. Watch this space for more.

Delhi Traffic Police stops Hrithik Roshan's film shooting

Hrithik Roshan shot some gravity-defying stunts above the flyover bridge at Mayur Vihar Extension Metro station in Delhi on Sunday morning.

Hrithik and Katrina Kaif have been shooting in the capital, favouring Delhi's flyovers for their film's action sequences. The shooting was stopped in the afternoon by the Delhi Traffic Police, for causing a jam.

The duo traveled across Spain while shooting for Zoya Akhtar's Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. She also did a special song and dance number in his Agneepath. The song Chikni Chameli was shot over three days with Hrithik on the sets for just a day. Bang Bang has brought them together once again and according to the source their friendship seems to have deepened.