bpb Cutting: Of Dictators & Directors
Wednesday, 02 March 2011 23:40

bpb’s weekly pick-tionary of happenings from Mumbai and beyond.

Air Proof: U.N dismisses the Libyan government from the Human Rights Council; Rebel leaders in Libya want United Nations to carry out airstrikes against Gaffadi; and over 1,045 Indians stuck in Libya were flown back home in special Air India flights.

Bank On: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announces the Union Budget for 2011 .

The Election Commission announces assembly poll dates for five states.

Fashionable Yours: International fashion label Dior fires their head designer John Galliano after a video clip featuring racists comments surfaced; Closer to home, Deepika Padukone looks ultra-hot in a Burberry dress on the latest cover of Vogue magazine.

Google confirms over 1.5 lakh user accounts were deleted because of a bug. Time for pest control?

Look Book: From Penelope Cruz to Scarlett Johansson, browse through the best and worst dressed celebrities at the Oscars. Also see Britney Spears’ moment of weakness and other public celebrity meltdowns. Mad men!

Located in Gujarat, one of the largest dinosaur fossil sites in the world contains a 65-million-year-old dinosaur egg. Jurassic spark!

Matter of Fact: A special trial court in Ahmedabad serves the death penalty to eleven and life imprisonment to twenty people found guilty in the Godhra carnage in 2002. Finally, some law and order.

Salman Khan’s latest love interest is yet again a 24-year-old struggling model and actress, Hazel Keech from Britain. History repeats itself?

The newly appointed Commissioner of Mumbai Police Arup atnaik imposes a six-point agenda a day after joining his new position. Tough love and good luck.

You, Me and Scorsese: Shah Rukh Khan takes his international project Xtrme City to a new level, gets Hollywood director Martin Scorsese to co-produce and Leonardo Di Caprio to co-star with him.


 

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