The celebrations for his birthday began almost a month in advance with his big win at the National Awards. But megastar Amithab Bachan would like to spend his 68th birthday Monday quietly in his den even as he mulls new moves like copyrighting his voice to prevent misuse.
“I am going to be at home… I’ll be spending it with family,” Amitabh, who has done close to 200 films and won four National Awards . Three of which , are in the Best Actor category, and thirteen Filmfare Awards. He holds the record for most number of Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor nominations at the Filmfare Awards
The star’s son Abhishek and daughter-in-law Aishwarya are in South Korea but will be back in time for his birthday.
Rumours were rife that he would host a special party on his birthday to which he said, “That whole news about some kind of celebration is wrongly reported.”
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Tata Motors on Monday launched the Tata Aria, the first Indian four-wheel drive crossover that straddles a sport utility and multi-utility vehicle. It offers class leading features for comfort and safety and the selectable 4×4 is equipped with a Torque-on-Demand system.
It is being launched in three trim levels, all with 4×4 — the fully loaded Aria Pride at the top end, the Aria Prestige and the Aria Pleasure, each in eight colour options. The vehicle will initially be available in 25 cities through 69 dealerships.
The vehicle has been priced aggressively compared to the available sports utility vehicles (SUVs) in the Indian market which are all imported. The Tata Aria Pleasure will retail at Rs.13.18 lakh (ex-Mumbai) and Rs.12.86 lakh (ex-Chennai), the Prestige with Fabric upholstery will retail at Rs.14.44 lakh (ex-Mumbai) and Rs.14.08 lakh (ex-Chennai), the Prestige with Leather upholstery will retail at Rs.14.82 lakh (ex-Mumbai) and Rs.14.45 lakh (ex-Chennai) and the top-end Pride would retail at Rs.15.85 lakh (ex-Mumbai) and Rs.15.45 lakh (ex-Chennai).
The Tata Aria is the first in its segment with an in-dash GPS-based navigation system and also offers advanced safety features such as the electronic stability programme (ESP), which ensure car stability and six airbags. It also boasts the height adjustable driver’s seat and the tilt adjustable steering, darkness sensing lights and Rain sensing wipers. It has a 2.2 litre direct injection common rail (DICOR) engine.
Addressing the media here, Carl-Peter Forster, Group CEO and Managing Director, Tata Motors, said, “the product has been developed with some inputs from Tata Jaguar-Land Rover with regard to the interiors. But it is a car created for India at the Engineering Centre in Pune and manufactured in Pune.”
He added that the vehicle would draw the least from the multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) segment. “We will, at a later stage, also introduce variants offering something more but the segment is now somewhat blurred and the vehicle offers the soft (SUV) character.”
P. M. Telang, Managing Director (India Operations), Tata Motors, said the Tata Aria was designed to Euro IV standards. “In less than a year, we will have the left-hand drive and Euro V version and commence exports. We will initially enter Italy, Spain and Poland where we are already present.”
According to Mr. Forster, the U.S. market is the most difficult to export to as “one has to be able to do U.S.-wide sales. The U.S. market is one of the last markets we could enter. There are so many which are easier, cheaper and quicker to enter.”
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Oct 10
11
Milestone man Sachin Tendulkar
India's Sachin Tendulkar, right, hits a six to complete his century as Australia's Tim Paine reacts during the third day of their second cricket test match in Bangalore
Milestone man Sachin Tendukar, who on Sunday (11th October 2010) became the first batsman to score 14,000 Test runs, wrote another record by his name by making a 150-plus score for the record 20th time, surpassing Brian Lara’s 19.
With two full days left, India will now try to gain a substantial first innings lead and try to put pressure on Australians on the M Chinnaswamy track which is expected to provide some help to the slow bowlers.
Sachin Tendulkar and Vijay surpassed the 222-run mark, set by Allan Border and Kim Hughes in Chennai in 1979, as Australia went wicket-less in the first two sessions of the day.
Sachin Tendulkar, who is now approaching his sixth double ton, has so far struck 20 fours and two sixes in his 319-ball knock.
Tendulkar completed his 49th Test century in the morning session by smacking spinner Nathan Haurtiz for two consecutive sixes while Vijay got his maiden hundred with a single off paceman Peter George in the middle session.
All those waiting for the most powerful mobile phone the Nokia C3 can rush to the nearest Nokia Priority Stores (NPS) and grab the handset for just Rs. 7249 only Nokia C3 in India. The first device to bring a full QWERTY keyboard to the world’s most popular mobile phone that makes messaging easier and faster and keeps you connected with your online social networking friends anytime anyplace.
The Nokia C3 is highly customisable as it allows changing of icons, backgrounds and themes. Social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook are supported and users can view the status right on the home screen.
Getting in touch with your friends is simpler with the Nokia C3; all that a user need need to do is select the picture and send a message or simply call them. There are dedicated widgets that can be made to show up on the home screen such as music player, calendar, email and chat.
Nokia C3 is available in hot pink, golden white and slate grey colours. The QVGA screen is of the size 2.4” that supports 262k colours and a resolution of 320×240 pixels (TFT). The C3 comes with a powerful battery with a really good power management feature that can make the phone last for 800 hours in standby mode and 7 hours in talktime on a single charge.
The cell phone comes with 55MB of internal memory and MicroSD card supported up to 8GB. The Nokia C3 runs on the powerful Series 40 platform with FOTA (firmware update over the air).
Other exciting features are the 2MP camera with 4x zoom, video recording, common video format supported, USB 2.0, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR, 3.5mm audio jack, Nokia Ovi Player, Stereo FM radio (87.5-108 MHz/76-90 MHz), RDS, Unplug charger reminder and Nokia OSS web browser.
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Oct 10
11
Endhiran gets into Oscar race
Superstar Rajnikanth acted ‘ Endhiran’ is all set to break all the records in Kollywood, the film is going strong in Tamilnadu and is a bit weak in other languages.
However, the overseas talk is positive and the makers as well as the distributors are happy with the progress of the movie at the Box office.
It is heard that, after the screening in Mumbai for celebrities, Rajnikanth was applauded for his work and director Shanker was appreciated for his talent, by stars like Aamir Khan and Amitabh bachchan.
Bollywood actor Aamir Khan also gave an idea to Shanker and the makers to take “Endhiran’ for Oscar nominations. It is heard that, Aamir was very much impressed by the movie and disclosed to Rajnikanth that, ROBOT (ENDHIRAN) has all the factors to make it upto to Oscars and was happy that Indian movies, have reached to the level to attain international recognition.