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May 13 2006 - As many as 60 people were killed and 200 injured as eight bombs exploded in the city of Jaipur, the Capital of the state Rajasthan.

The medium-intensity bombs may have been placed on bicycles about 500 meters (1,640 feet) from each other, police officials said. The bombings are India’s worst since 65 people died when a train to Pakistan was attacked in February 2007.

“There were totally about eight blasts, and most of them were cycle bombs,” Janga Sriniwas Rao, inspector general of police, intelligence, said in a phone interview from Jaipur, about 300 kilometers (190 miles) from the capital, New Delhi. “All went off in a matter of minutes.”

The blasts, which took place in the old walled-city area of Jaipur, went off at about 7:30 p.m. local time, police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

President Pratibha Patil condemned “the serial blasts in Jaipur today,” her office said in a statement issued in New Delhi. “She has appealed for peace and calm.”

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh deplored the attack on innocent victims, his office said, assuring assistance to Rajasthan and the victims’ families.

Pink City

Jaipur, also known as the Pink City for the color of its monuments dating back to the 18th century, is known as a tourist destination. This is the off-peak season, with summer temperatures likely to reach 40 degree Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) or more.

As many as 60 people were killed, Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje was cited as saying by the Aajtak television channel. About 200 people were injured, NDTV 24×7 reported, citing government officials.

“It is a terrorist plot, it is obvious,” said A.S. Gill, director general of police. The blasts were carried out by terrorists with foreign links, Junior Home Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said in a televised statement. He declined to elaborate.

India has previously accused neighboring Pakistan of backing separatists in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, which has been divided between the two countries since 1947 and is claimed in full by both.

Strained Relations

India has asked the government in Islamabad to prevent extremists from crossing the border to carry out attacks. Pakistan denies the allegation, saying it only lends moral support to a freedom struggle.

The two sides have improved relations since coming close to a fourth war in 2002. Train bombings in Mumbai in July 2006 that killed 184 people caused a temporary halt to the peace process. As many as 257 people were killed in the Mumbai 1993 serial bombings, which India says was carried out by associates of organized crime figure Dawood Ibrahim.

India says its neighbor is harboring Ibrahim, an accusation that Pakistan denies.

The federal government has stepped up security across the nation, with a “high alert” being declared in several cities, including New Delhi and Mumbai, Jaiswal said.

Near-simultaneous blasts in three cities in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, killed at least 13 people and injured 61 others in a coordinated attack on the nation’s justice system in November. No one claimed responsibility for those attacks and no terrorist organization was blamed by officials. Previous attacks in India have been blamed on Muslim Kashmiri separatists.

Cricket Team

An explosion in a movie theater in October last year killed six people and injured more than 30, two days after a blast at a Sufi shrine in Ajmer, in the western state of Rajasthan, killed two. Police said the attack on the multiplex in Ludhiana, an industrial town in the northern state of Punjab, 305 kilometers north of New Delhi, was a terrorist attack.

In August, two bombs exploded in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, killing 40 people and injuring another 50.

Jaipur is also home to the Rajasthan Royals Twenty20 cricket team, one of the highest-placed squads in the ongoing India Premier League.

The team, which is led by Australian Shane Warne, played a match in the city yesterday and is scheduled to play again there on May 17 at the city’s Sawai Mansingh stadium. India Premier League chairman Lalit Modi told NDTV 24×7 that he expected the match to take place on schedule.

On May 6 2008 Google announced the launch of a new feature which is Translation from English To Hindi.

Users Can use this service at http://www.google.com/translate_t and translate a entire page from English to Hindi. There is more users can also type using their normal keyboard. Lets Take a example - If you type in “tum” it will automatically get converted into hindi manuscript which is “तुम” All this without using any special keyboard.

Users can also add an iGoogle Gadget and get access to Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam and create their own scraps or blogs in these languages.

Currently Google Translate allows for translation of English into 14 local dialects including Arabic and Hindi. The company said on its website that it is working to include more languages.

“We’re working to support other languages and will introduce them as soon as the automatic translation meets our standards. It’s difficult to project how long this will take, as the problem is complex and each language presents its own unique challenges,” Said Google.

Look at her! The pretty girl barely out of her teens is running from pillar to post. On Saturday 3 May she was in 3 cities within 12 hours.

“I was shooting in Goa and had to catch a flight to Bangalore for the IPL match on Saturday,” she explains breathlessly.

“But I missed my flight. Fortunately Dr Vijay Mallya had me flown in his jet or I wouldn’t have been able to make it…That’s one of the advantages of being the brand ambassador for Dr Mallya’s team (Royal Challengers). You know they’ll make sure you’d reach where you are required in spite of maddening schedules.”

Katrina loves cricket. “Everyone in London is crazy about the game. So I kind of grew up with the game. Here in India too it’s a passion.

So when Dr Mallya asked me to be be their brand ambassador I agreed. I’ve known him for years and can’t say no to him.We shot the music video with Sanjay Gupta and it was great fun.”

She loves watching the IPL games and cheering for her team.

“The only thing I hate is to have fans approaching me, not because I don’t like to connect with fans. In fact I love it. But while watching a match I don’t want to be disturbed. People tend to get in the way when the matches are on.”

The lovely lass from London is only now learning to connect with the public.

“Whether it’s the IPL matches or my songs and dances for movies, I think I’ve really started having fun only now after Race. I’ve never enjoyed my dancing so much.

Yeah I think I’m finally unwinding both on screen and on stage. I recently started enjoying dancing on stage. I realized that at the Zee awards. Earlier I had neither the songs nor the confidence. Now I guess I’ve a bit of both.”

Jennifer Aniston is “falling in love” with singer-songwriter John Mayer, according to a report.

The 39-year-old actress was spotted on a romantic dinner date with Mayer, 30, last month in Miami, where she is currently filming her new movie Marley & Me. They have also been seen cuddling up together on a sun lounger at Aniston’s hotel on South Beach.

A source close to Aniston told the Daily Mail: “She’s really into John, and the nine year age difference doesn’t bother her for a second. Jen’s already telling friends she’s falling in love with this guy.”

Though Mayer has since returned to New York, the pal added: “Jen’s really hoping he can spend more time in Miami with her. She just wants to see a lot more of him. This was definitely not a one-off thing as far as she’s concerned.”

In an industry where passing the buck is a favourite past time, Zayed Khan’s endearing candour comes as a pleasant surprise.

“Last year I was down and bed-ridden for months on-end because of a slipped disc Speed did get delayed because of me.

Maybe I subconsciously chose Anubhav Sinha’s Cash and Vikram Bhatt’s Speed because they required me to exert myself physically.

After being confined in bed, and getting all the time to retrospect, I wanted to return with stuff that would prove I was as physically fit as I used to be before the bad back.

I guess this penchant to prove a point runs in my family. Look at Duggu (brother-in-law Hrithik Roshan). He has been quite a portrait of defiant self-improvement.”

So is Zayed’s brother-in-law a source of inspiration? “Not in any direct way. Not that I take any tips from him or anything. But yes, we’re a closely knit family.

Duggu and I go back a long way. In fact we knew each other before he got to know my sister Susanne.”

Was there any sense of brotherly possessiveness when Susanne announced her decision to marry Hrithik? “Not at all. In fact I’ve been protected and fussed-over by my sisters all my life.

They still continue to fuss over me. Now besides my mom and sister there’s another woman, my wife to mollycoddle me.

Can’t say I don’t enjoy all the feminine attention. But I do continue to be the pampered baby of the family, so much so that I can’t imagine myself being a father.

I tell my wife she doesn’t need a baby since she has me to look after. Jokes apart we’re thinking of a expanding our family next year.”

Articulate, well-mannered and not the least vain, Zayed has all the qualities in a star-son that could’ve taken him the wrong way.

“Yeah, I guess I could’ve become that horrific entity known as the pampered and spoilt brat. But I held on. I always look at Abhishek’s example to see how tough things can be for a kid from a film family.”

Acting students of Whistling Woods International were in for a surprise when they had Salman Khan, the super star come in as a guest speaker. Salman shared his 22 yrs experience of his existence in Bollywood with the students and how he has retained himself for so many years.

He regaled the students with his wit and shared the secrets of being a star actor than just being a good actor. He emphasized on physical fitness, look, style and personality along with quality acting which they are learning now at WWI.

He gave alot of tips to these actors of tomorrow and emphasized to them not to imitate any other actor as then you will always be number 2.

If you copy then you can never be a star but will always remain a copy of the star. He said that a good actor impresses you with a good role in a good film whereas a star attracts you always, even in a mediocre film.

He also shared his experience working with various directors including Sooraj Barjatya to Sanjay Bhassali, David Dhawan and Subhash Ghai now. He said, “All have different styles of working and I adopt each director’s style to give my best.

Every actor has to know and understand the director first before he starts working with him. That’s how he can justify a director’s vision. Never try to think opposite of what the director is thinking, it will harm the film”.

while speaking on personality grooming he said that, “An actor has to be a good human being first , not a pretentious good human being. He must be humble to people even though he exhibits attitude of a star”.

He further added, “ A actor must spend alot of time and care for his body and face coz this is the only instrument with any actor to play the role and to exhibit his talent of acting on big screen”.

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Internet services in India and Middle East have been restored completely after the Flag Telecom, a subsidiary of Reliance communications, repaired its damaged Europe-Asia cable and Falcon cable.

Flag Telecom on Sunday said its Europe-Asia cable and the Falcon cable which were damaged on the Egyptian coast have been repaired completely.

Internet services in India and the Middle East were disrupted after the two undersea cables were damaged.

The damage to the Europe-Asia cable was reported on January 30, while the Falcon cable was severed on February 1.

The repair work was completed on Saturday, way ahead of schedule, Flag Telecom said in a statement.

“Flag repair crew of optical engineers, telecom and marine experts have been operating in rough weather conditions to restore normal operations,” it added.

Flag also announced that the Mediterranean cable network would be fully resilient with the addition of Flag Mediterranean Cable currently under implementation.

You may have noticed the slow net speeds in Middle East Countries or in india this is due to the undersea cable cuts in egypt