Hollywood can wait: Priyanka

She ability be one of the best aggressive actresses in Bollywood today, but Priyanka Chopra knows what her priorities are.

While best of our Bollywood actresses would never absence a adventitious to brilliant in a Hollywood film, Priyanka afresh banned to brilliant in Dawn of War. And it wasn’t because she didn’t like the script. The alone acumen Priyanka angry bottomward the action was because she chose to brilliant in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Saat Khoon Maaf instead. A antecedent said, “The dates of Dawn of War and Saat Khoon Maaf were actuality formed out at the aforementioned time and Priyanka was asked to admeasure her dates in aboriginal April.

Left with no best but to accept one of the two projects, Priyanka didn’t anticipate alert afore accordant to brilliant in Bhardwaj’s film. Priyanka was accustomed a archetype of the calligraphy of Dawn of War while she was cutting in the US for Siddharth Anand’s Anjaana Anjaani.”

After Priyanka banned the offer, administrator Tarsem Singh active Freida Pinto to brilliant adverse British amateur Henry Cavill. Priyanka is currently cutting in Gulmarg and Srinagar for Saat Khoon Maaf and remained bare for comment.

How to get cheeky !

Your cheeks are apparently the best angle out affection of your face alike if you don't realise it. And back you're caked with bloom it becomes alike added highlighted.

Too abundant or too little?

Too abundant bloom can accomplish you attending like a clown, and too little will end up accomplishing annihilation to accentuate your feature.Your cheeks absolutely advice ascertain the added appearance of your face, and that's why bloom and face highlighters accept to be activated appropriately in adjustment to advice your added appearance angle out as able-bodied as accord you a affable look.

It's important to consistently accept a brave moisturiser that gives you a bit of a flash for a night attending as able-bodied as a adumbration of amber bloom and bronzer that adulation your bark accent best.

For the day look, accumulate a adequate bloom forth with accustomed moisturiser ready. It's amazing how colour can change your attending from arid to glam.

Chubby cheeks - Preity Zinta

When application blusher, use it appear the bend of your face, aerial up on your cheeks. Use a highlighter beneath the bloom that you activated to your cheekbones. If you're application a bronzer again use it in the alveolate of your cheeks because bronzer is meant to reflect the ablaze on your skin.This way you can actualize the apparition of college audacity basic and added definition, consistent in your face attractive slimmer.

High cheek-bones - Kangana Ranaut

If you appetite to accentuate your aerial cheekbones again administer blusher on the college area and again use bronzer on the alveolate section. If you're attractive to accent bottomward your aerial audacity basic again you charge to use bloom on the alveolate area of your cheeks and use a matte bronzer on the college section.

This helps to accord you a beneath angry attending as able-bodied as a accustomed glow.

Thin cheeks - Courtney Cox

If you aren't too ample or bold for that amount (you don't accept a lot of beef on the face), you're safe from those aunties avidity your cheeks.Unless you're accept with putting on weight, you can additionally aloof administer bloom to the apples of your cheeks. Don't use any bronzer on any of the college regions. Aloof ample in your apples moderately.

For a accustomed aflush afterglow no amount what your cheeks are, a analogous bark accent foundation, a dab of bunched ability and a ablaze bloom bloom will assignment wonders.Invest in acceptable brushes and colours that clothing your bark tone. Too abundant abhorrent accomplish up will aloof de-glam your look. So, go advanced and get cheeky!

Which bold attending will you go for? Leave us a animadversion and let u know.

What new at WIFW?

The fifteenth copy of Wills India Appearance Week (WIFW), from 24 - 28 March 2010, is the better anytime with 75 designers showcasing their accumulating at NSIC exhibition circuitous in Fresh Delhi.

The appearance belvedere gets bigger with an access in buyers, accommodating designers and 19 fresh designers.

Fashion for a cause

Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI), the organising lath of WIFW, has collaborated with the NGO Khushii, Kinship for humanitarian, amusing and holistic action in India, to abutment Khushii's development initiative, the 'World Action Forum'.

The appearance caricature will advertise design-inspired art on auto-rickshaws and will ambit from handpicking, depictions of activity in accustomed India amidst others.From amid twelve aerial contour abreast artists who will acrylic on these vehicles, you cannot absence artist Nitin Bal Chauhan's work. It's consistently acceptable to apperceive that a artist has lent his adroitness for a amusing cause.

The bound copy auto-rickshaws will be formally apparent at the aperture commemoration of the WIFW that will be followed by an bargain and the gain will be directed appear assorted adorning initiatives by Khushii.

Designers who got sponsored

That's Ankita and Anjana Bhargav for you! Spice mobiles has appear on lath as the 'Gold Partner' for WIFW. They will additionally barrage 'cutting edge' handsets at the appearance event. Don't absence this technology-meets-fashion appearance on Day 2 (March 25) at 9:30 pm.

What we are absolutely analytical about is the Fiama Di Wills Appearance on Day 4 (March 27 at 9:30). The WIFW appearance agenda says aloof that and there is no acknowledgment of any artist so we are apprehensive what is in abundance for us.Although we are acquisitive adjoin achievement that it is a Manish Arora appearance (how we absence the ball on the ramp), but let's aloof delay and watch!

What to expect?

Jewellery artist Farah Khan is the Twitter face for this division replacing Gul Panag who tweeted abroad about WIFW during the aftermost edition.One of the country's best admired designers Rajesh Pratap Singh will advertise his accumulating alleged 'Bespoke Tales' at the finale.

The artist was aggressive by the change of authoritative of clothes and will present fresh abstracts with textiles, shapes and colours. Wow, now that's article to watch out!

Blackberry Strom2 launched in India

Canada-based Research In Motion (RIM) has appear the barrage of its BlackBerry Storm2 smartphone in India.The buzz will be the almsman to the BlackBerry maker's aboriginal touchscreen buzz Storm.

Earlier in India, BlackBerry active its Curve agency with the barrage of bargain BlackBerry Curve 8520. The buzz replaced BlackBerry’s acceptable trackball aeronautics and became the aboriginal BlackBerry accessory to action committed music keys.

Here's attractive into Storm2, BlackBerry's most recent antagonism to Apple iPhone and its ilk.

"Save Girl Child" campign kicked off by Priyanka Chopra

Bollywood amateur Priyanka Chopra kicked off the "Save Babe Child' attack in New Delhi.Chopra, who accustomed the National Award for her role in the cine 'Fashion' on Friday, appeared actual agog over the action of 'The Sun Foundation'.

""The attack which is kick-started by 'The Sun Foundation' is actual important in today's scenario. We are acquainted but the conditioning, which we had till now, teaches us that the girls are not actual important and the macho adolescent is consistently wanted," said Priyanka Chopra.

"This cerebration should be eradicated. To apperceive that if you accord your babe adolescent an befalling again she can advance her potential, that she can be as acknowledged as a boy," she added.

The Sun Foundation is a accommodating academy that is committed appear alteration the mindset of the Indian association with account to the Babe Child.Despite laws banning tests to actuate the sex of an approaching child, the killing of changeable foetuses continues in some regions of India area a alternative for sons runs deep.

In best genitalia of India, sons are beheld as breadwinners, who will attending afterwards their parents and backpack on the ancestors name, but daughters are beheld as banking liabilities for whom they will accept to pay abundant dowries to get affiliated off.

New York food vendors turn to Twitter

New York: Whether it's fomenting anarchy or cogent bodies what you had for breakfast microblogging account Twitter seems to accept it all.Now, New York City's active adaptable aliment vendors are application the burning messaging website to advice their hoards of athirst followers break acquainted to their favourite delicacies.Kim Ima, buyer of the Treats Truck, which serves up caramel creme sandwiches, amoroso accolade with icing, and added diet busting delights, uses Twitter to break in blow with her 3,000 fans.

"For addition like Kim with St. Patrick's Day Parade on Wednesday, she wasn't abiding if she was activity to esplanade here. So with Twitter she was able to accommodate area updates and we knew area to acquisition her," said chump EJ Cory.

There are about 3,000 accountant aliment automat trucks in New York City, according The Street Vendor Project, apery a ample alcove for Twitter.Kenny Lao parks his Rickshaw Dumpling barter abutting to the Treats Barter best Fridays. He has been tweeting back his barter aboriginal hit the streets for business and says Twitter is an ideal apparatus to accumulate in blow with his 5,000 followers.

"People absolutely depend on us to be at assertive locations on every day of the anniversary and they get super-duper aflame for dumpling day and this is the best way for us to acquaint them," he said.

Twitter, founded in 2006, is chargeless for its millions of users and its founders are still aggravating to about-face the loss-making action into a banknote cow.Last year Twitter hit the account for the role it played in allowance demonstrators in Iran adapt anti-government protests. The White House abundantly asked Twitter to adjournment appointed aliment during the protests so demonstrators could break connected.

10 little-known facts about .com

Internet's best accepted area name dotcom (.com) has angry 25! The area of Internet's best acknowledged companies Google, eBay, Amazon has through the years shaped World Wide Web what it is today.

Short for 'commercial', the .com addendum was initially advised to be acclimated for ecommerce websites. However, over the years, the area has been in use for any and every blazon of site, from business to blogs to claimed websites.

As the .com celebrates its 25th birthday, actuality are 10 absorbing facts about the domain.

Smoking may affect womens cognition

Men and women with a history of booze corruption may not see abiding abrogating furnishings on their anamnesis and cerebration but changeable smokers do, a fresh abstraction suggests.

In a abstraction of 287 men and women ages 31 to 60, advisers begin that those with accomplished alcohol-use disorders performed analogously on accepted tests of cerebral action as those with no accomplished bubbler problems.The allegation were not as absolute back it came to tobacco, however. In general, women who had anytime been absorbed to smoker had lower array on assertive cerebral tests than their non-smoking counterparts.

The aforementioned arrangement was not accurate of men, advisers address in the March affair of the Journal of Studies on Booze and Drugs. The affidavit for the disparate allegation on booze and smoker are not absolutely clear.Nor do they necessarily beggarly that austere booze problems would not affect abiding anamnesis and added cerebral abilities. Most abstraction participants who had anytime had bubbler problems met the belief for booze corruption rather than the added austere analysis of dependence.

The allegation are based on assessments of 115 men and 169 women with an boilerplate age of 43. Overall, women who appear accepting anytime smoked 20 or added cigarettes a day denticulate lower than non-smokers on tests of controlling action -- that is, "higher-order" academician functions that accommodate the adeptness to reason, plan and organize.As for why smoker was accompanying to cerebral array alone amid women, it's accessible that there is a role for estrogen, says Kristin Caspers, a researcher at the University of Iowa.

Animal analysis suggests that nicotine lowers claret estrogen levels and may arrest the absolute furnishings of the hormone on academician cells. Sixty percent of the women in the accepted abstraction were amid the ages of 40 and 54, back menopause usually occurs.In theory, nicotine may aggravate any brain-cell furnishings of clashing estrogen levels in women as they age, the advisers speculate.

Commonwealth games to get Rs.687.06 Crore more

NEW DELHI: Government on Friday absitively to pump in accession Rs 687.06 crore for the Commonwealth Games to install high-end accessories and accessories all-important for the antic extravaganza.

The Union Cabinet presided by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh austere the angle from the Sports Admiral for "overlays" to be accustomed to Organising Committee of Commonwealth Games which will be captivated in October.Overlays are authentic as acting fittings, accessories and accessories which will be appropriate alone for the continuance of the Games. They are appropriate to accomplish the competition, training and non-competition venues operationally accessible for the Games.

"The accession of these high-end items of overlays will set aerial standards for abstruse arete and accommodation accessory not alone in the apple of sports but additionally for the organisation and administration of mega all-embracing and civic events," I and B Minister Ambika Soni said.

The overlays are accepted to be in abode and operational about a ages above-mentioned to the Games, that is by the end of August and these will be removed from the venues anon afterwards the Games, she said.This bulk will be in accession to the Rs 2,296.43 crore allocation fabricated for the Games in the Union Budget for abutting fiscal. Of this, Rs 2,069.52 crore has been allocated to Sports Admiral for the while Urban Development admiral has been accustomed Rs 176.90 crore and Delhi government Rs 50 crore.

The Games will be captivated in the basic from October 3 to 14 in 17 antic disciplines. There will be 23 antagonism venues, 26 training venues, Games Village, All-embracing Broadcasting Centre and Main Press Centre amid added facilities.

Around one lakh bodies are accepted to appointment the basic during the event.Soni said the antagonism and non-competition venues are in an avant-garde date of architecture by anxious agencies such as Delhi Government, Sports Authority of India and Delhi Development Authority.The Timing, Scoring Result (TSR) arrangement including the On Venue Result (OVR) arrangement and Games Time Sports accessories are actuality alone acquired by the Organising Committee, she said.The aegis and surveillance accompanying accessories at the venues is actuality installed by Electronic Corporation of India Ltd, she added.

Make up makeover :Eye candy

For baby eyes:

If you accept baby eyes (like Taylor Swift) and accept been aggravating all the techniques you can anticipate up of in your head, to no account again you absolutely charge to apprehend this.

Here's what you can do to agreement actual results:

Don't belittle what mascara can do. Use affluence of mascara because it opens up your eyes. But use it properly, if possible, abstracted your lashes so that they don't attending alert together.

Maintain your brows. Always accomplish abiding that your eyebrows are waxed or threaded so that your brows don't end up attractive like bushes - it absolutely makes your eyes arise abate than they absolutely are.

Make use of tones. Use eye-shadows that are in altered tones. Invest in colours that acclaim your bark tone. A amber amber acclimated with an apple amber attending admirable on the Indian bark tone.

Don't balloon Kajal. It's the ultimate eye opener, bethink that a attenuate band will do the trick; too abundant kajal absolutely makes the eyes abutting up.

For big eyes:

If you accept big eyes (like Kareena Kapoor) it doesn't booty abundant accomplishment to accomplish your eyes attending smaller. Check out these tricks:

Use darker shades of eye adumbration instead of lighter ones. Break abroad from ablaze colors like yellow's and green's no amount how beginning you're activity - they'll alone accomplish your eyes attending bigger.

Make the Smokey eyes aftereffect your trademark. Invest in a blemish besom and Do NOT go accessible on the kajal, in fact, use about abundant you appetite on eyelids.

Make the eyeliner your best friend. Band both, your high and lower lids rims and accomplish abiding that you break as abutting to your baste band as possible.Instead of application atramentous mascara use brown. It won't draw as abundant absorption to your eyes as atramentous does.

For oriental eyes:

It takes convenance in adjustment to adept the oriental eyes (like Lucy Liu's) and already baffled you can be abiding that the furnishings will be glamorous. If you accept oriental eyes, you accept the advantage of application alike the boldest of colours.

Apply abutting to baste base. All you accept to do, is whether you're application eyeliner or eye shadow, accomplish abiding that you administer it as abutting as you accessible can to your baste base. It's difficult to agreement with added than two shades at the aforementioned time on your lids.Cream-based eye shadows. Instead of application powder-based eye caliginosity try the chrism based ones instead.

For close-set eyes:

It's best to try altered looks footfall by step. Experimenting is not an affair with close-set eyes (like Julia Roberts) but accomplish abiding you don't amplify it. The eye accomplish up can change the attending of your absolute face and accomplish your eyes attending not to abutting together. Try this:

Brush lashes out. Back application mascara, besom the lashes out. Never anytime coil your lashes.Use ablaze shades of eye shadow. Use the lightest adumbration of eye adumbration you own to draw absorption to the alfresco of your eyes by applying it on the alien corners of the lower lashes.

For wide-part eyes:

In adjustment to accomplish your eyes assume added afterpiece than they absolutely are, the sans eye accomplish up attending will not assignment abnormally if you've had a backward night out (case in consideration: Britney Spears).

Try concealer to awning the aphotic circles because back you accept eyes that are advanced apart, your absolute face ends up attractive gaunt. Line 'em up. Accomplish abiding that your eyes are lined completelyGo mascara! Be acceptable with your mascara and besom your lashes beeline up.

"Twlite is moral vaccum with Deviant message"

Vatican City, Nov 21: After JK Rowling's 'Harry Potter' and Dan Brown's book 'Da Vinci Code', Twilight's aftereffect 'New Moon' has appear beneath the scanner of the Vatican, which has termed the cine a 'deviant moral vacuum'.
"This affair of vampires in Twilight combines a admixture of excesses that, as anytime is aimed at adolescent bodies and gives a abundant abstruse element,” the Vatican's ability board leader, Monsignor Franco Perazzolo said in a statement.
“This blur is annihilation added than a moral exhaustion with a aberrant bulletin and as such should be of concern,” he adds.
The aboriginal movie, 'Twilight' is a news of a vampire falling in adulation with a boyish girl. The sequel, 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' additionally appearance a assemblage of warewolves.In the past, there accept been several instances of the Catholic Abbey aghast to films and books.The Vatican came bottomward abundant aloft the Harry Potter movies based on the books accounting by JK Rowling as it portrayed abracadabra and abstruse practices.
The Vatican additionally accursed the Dan Brown book 'Da Vinci Code' which appropriate that Jesus Christ affiliated Mary Magdalene and had children. The abbey alike banned the filmmakers of the prequel 'Angels and Demons' from filming in its area or any abbey in Rome, dubbing it “an answerability adjoin God”.

Femele astronauts call for more Women to work in space

Houston: Three women, who are amid the seven aggregation associates of amplitude shuttle Discovery slated to lift off on April 5 for the International Amplitude Station, accept alleged for added women to appoint in space-related jobs.

At a preflight account appointment captivated bygone at NASA's Johnson Amplitude Center here, 39-year-old Naoko Yamazaki of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said she wants added adolescent women to be absorbed in science and engineering.

She said that she herself was aggressive by Chiaki Mukai, the aboriginal Japanese changeable astronaut who flew in amplitude alert in 1994 and 1998.Female astronauts Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger and Stephanie Wilson were additionally present at the columnist conference.

It will be the aboriginal time back 1999 and the third time that three women accept boarded a amplitude shuttle. They are accepted to accompany addition woman in a abiding mission on the ISS, bringing the cardinal of women accordingly in amplitude to four for the aboriginal time.

Sony introdused 3D TV in India

Sony on Tuesday alien 3D TV in India, which would prove to be the abutting big trend in the change of multimedia entertainment. Based on fresh LED technology, the fresh ambit of TVs is additionally accordant with Internet and the aggregation has absolute tie-ups with some of the agreeable providers like ‘Youtube' to accommodate videos and clips.

“Indian consumers today accept become all the added technology adeptness and with the barrage of fresh technologies like 3D, Internet TV and LED, we appetite to ensure that they get annihilation but the best,” said Sony India Managing Director Masaru Tamagawa. The aggregation additionally appear the barrage of fresh models beneath the accepted Bravia brand, priced amid Rs. 45,900 and Rs. 3.50-lakh.

“Sony is assured that it will be able to accomplish the targets based on three able pillars of technology, account affection and design. We plan to conductor fresh heights in the LCD TV articulation with affairs to abduction 30 per cent of the absolute bazaar share,” Mr. Tamagawa said. Last year, Sony awash added than four-lakh units of Bravia in India and this year it hopes to bifold its sales. The absolute bazaar for LCDs in the country is about 16-lakh units and is accepted to abound up to 27-lakh units by the end of the accepted banking year.

Sony India has additionally planned a Rs. 1,800-crore advance in the abutting one year on business and promotional activities to actualize acquaintance about its products. “We accept invested over Rs. 700 crore in announcement the Bravia ambit of collapsed console affectation TVs, which accord added than one-third of the absolute about-face of Rs. 3,500 crore in India,” he added. The aggregation additionally affairs to bifold its banker arrangement from 2,500 now.

USF1 team will not be replaced for 2010 : FIA

LONDON: Formula One will accept 12 teams this division afterwards a backward backup for the USF1 access was disqualified out by the administering anatomy on Wednesday.

The International Automobile Federation (FIA) said in a account that USF1 had "indicated that they will not be in a position to participate in the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship.

"Having advised the assorted options, the FIA confirms that it is not accessible for a backup aggregation to be entered for the Championship at this backward stage."

The accommodation would arise to end the hopes of Serbian-backed Stefan GP, who were cat-and-mouse in the wings in the achievement of actuality accustomed to booty the American team's abode at abutting week's season-opener in Bahrain. The FIA said it would advertise capacity of a fresh alternative action "to analyze candidates to ample any vacancies absolute at the alpha of the 2011 season."

Indian sportswomen mounting higher

Still, the two women, neighbours in the faculty that they both alive in Hyderabad, but on two ends of the calibration as far as personalities go, are affiliated in endeavour and audacity. They don't accord a damn, whoever it maybe on the added ancillary of the net. That then, is the around-the-clock face of the Indian woman athlete: adventurous and beautiful. Their acceptation will alone be accepted in the tomorrow: back an Indian babe wins a Apple Cup, a Wimbledon appellation or an Olympic gold.

Tania Sachdev

A approved in Delhi's amusing circles, abounding would be afraid to apperceive that Tania Sachdev is absolutely a queen back it comes to 64 squares. Wily and witty, Tania has fabricated chess air-conditioned and for a bold like chess, that's a huge leg-up. Admitting there is no absence of women chess champions, the accuracy and acceptable looks admixture never aching anyone.

Sharmila Nicollet

In Indian women's golf, there was a 'whatnext ?' affection as they acclimatized for adequate jobs and added studies. But with the addition of a able women's tour, a accomplished fresh apple opened up. Youngsters are demography the pro jump, and demography the bold seriously. Indo-French Sharmila Nicollet, who has the bold and the glamour, is one of the fresh brigade. "Look acceptable and comedy good... attending acute and comedy smart. That's what I accept in, " chirps the nattily dressed 18-year-old , who acme the Indian women's Order of Merit

Sania Mirza

Apart from the alarming forehand, Sania Mirza's wit and in-your-face attitude fabricated her an actual band icon. Even admitting abounding would've abandoned the scoreline of her Centre Cloister bound with Svetlana Kuznetsova, her T-shirts are able-bodied imprinted in everyone's mind. "Well behaved girls hardly accomplish history, " one read. Sania's selfconfidence , which some may apperceive as brashness, marks her out from the pack. She has formed adamantine for what she has accomplished and will not accomplish excuses for actuality herself. A affection that abounding should alluringly absorb rather than her style.

Saina Nehwal

You won't atom on her the association pages. Saina Nehwal is absolutely agreeable with her smashes rather than smashing parties. Adamantine assignment and all done with a smile is what this babe from Hyderabad believes in. Her dream is to attempt with the best and the apple No. 6 is aloof a few abiding accomplish abroad from demography on the world.

Joshna Chinappa, Dipika Pallikal

Chirpy and confident. Squash's activating duo, Joshna and Dipika, accommodate the bold a much-needed addition of bold and glamour. They apply the racquet with absolutely some ascendancy and aren't afraid to let their beard down. They've got the looks and they apperceive it. They don't shy abroad from assuming and pirouetting in advanced of the camera either. Has it absent them from their goals? Not at all. Looking acceptable translates into activity acceptable on court. These girls could annihilate with their backhands and looks!

Woods turns down $75 million sponsorship deal

DUBLIN: US golfer Tiger Woods has angry bottomward a $75 actor advocacy action from bookmakers Paddy Power, the Irish close appear on Friday. Paddy Power had fabricated an antecedent action to pay the sum over a five-year aeon but, afterwards talks with Woods' administration aggregation IMG, that was rejected. But Paddy Power aim to abide talks afore authoritative a revised offer. In a account Paddy Power said:

"Paddy Power charcoal agog to assignment with Tiger Woods, and will re-engage with IMG.

"An added action will be made, the capacity of which will abide confidential."

Woods has absent a cardinal of high-profile sponsors afterward the publicity surrounding allegations that he had extra-marital affairs. He has yet to acknowledgment to arena and afresh fabricated a accessible acknowledgment over his actions.

WORLD'S EXPENSIVE MP3 PLAYER

You anticipation media avant-garde Apple makes the best big-ticket media players in the world. You got it wrong. London-based Meng Duo Ltd launched the world?s best big-ticket media amateur -- Presidential MP3 by Douglas J.

Studded with several diamonds, it comes with a VIP associates and will be duke delivered to the client anywhere in the world. The amateur is accessible in a best of white or chicken gold exoteric casing.

The amateur includes 1GB of memory, a 65k blush awning for video playback and abutment for audio and video book formats. Measuring 2.28 x 1.55 x 0.27 inches, added key appearance accommodate USB 2.0, a OLED blush affectation and 10 hour array life.

Price: 25,000 pounds