Katy Perry has revealed that her former husband Russell Brand wanted to have kids so that he could control her.
The `Roar` hitmaker told a leading magazine that though the comedian wanted children, she wasn`t ready to make such sacrifices, reportedly.
The 29-year-old singer said that when she decides to have a family, she just wants to be a mom for a little bit, but when Brand wanted to have children she wasn`t ready.
It was recently reported that Perry and her fiance John Mayer reportedly split.
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker says she is surprised by the cruel and foul language some of the women use nowadays in order to make their point.
The 48-year-old actress feels that she shared a friendly relationship with her female co-stars of her `Sex and the City` show, reported a magazine.
“It`s kind of surprising to say, but in a way (Sex and the City) was a more innocent time. I think so much reality television ?and the women that dominate culture today ? Are pretty unfriendly towards one another,” Parker said.
“They use language that`s really objectionable and cruel and not supportive. I like to remember that Carrie and the other women in `Sex and the City` were really nice to each other,” she added.
Like many actresses, Parker too refrains from googling herself.
“I don`t Google myself. Good God, no! I have absolutely no constitution for that. I`m curious about everything, except what people have to say about me,” she said.
“It`s the random cruelty I really don`t understand. It`s not good for us. I don`t know, you know, how we go back in time to a better place,” she added.
If we leave Vidyadhar Gokhale, Narayan Athawale, Dr. Manohar Joshi, RPI’s Ramdas Athawale (with Congress backing), Pramila Dandavate of Janata Dal, Ahilya Rangnekar of Communist Party then Congress party has strong hold in South Central Mumbai constituency. Once again, the Congress sitting MP Eknath Gaikwad is trying hard to file his nomination for the Lok Sabha Election but senior members are in favour of issuing ticket to former vice Chancellor of Mumbai University and Rajya Sabha member Dr. Bhalchandra Mungekar. In this constituency, competition will intensify as Shiv Sena has issued ticket to Rahul Shewale, Standing Committee Chairman in Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai as its candidate whereas the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena is planning to send Aditya Shirodkar to Lok Sabha. If Congress issues a ticket to Mungekar then Gaikwad won’t be able to complete a hat-trick. A clear picture will emerge only after the Congress party releases the list of its candidates.
During the 1999 general election when Manohar Joshi was elected as representative of this constituency people started saying that it will become a forte of the Shiv Sena. When the 2004 General election was announced Joshi became the Lok Sabha Speaker. Nobody was willing to fight against Dr. Joshi. At the last moment, Congress decided to file the nomination of Eknath Gaikwad the then Congress MLA from Dharavi. To everyone’s surprise, people of South Central constituency sent him to parliament as their representative. In 2009 general election, the Congress decided nominated Gaikwad from same constituency once again and he emerged victorious. This time he defeated Shiv Sena’s candidate Suresh Gambhir. Once again, Gaikwad is ready to contest election, but some senior leaders are opposing him and want tickets to be alloted to Mungekar, a learner and highly educated candidate. Thus Congress can score a hat-trick in the constituency. The decision might be taken at the last moment to avoid any infighting within the party.
Shiv Sena candidate Rahul Shewale, an engineer by profession and is one of the close lieutenants of Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray. Former Chief Minister and Lok Sabha Speaker, Manohar Joshi was trying hard to get the nod from the high command for contesting from this constituency but Thackeray has turned a blind eye towards him. When Joshi thought that party will not hear him then in one of the public rally, he openly revolted against his party’s senior leaders. After he revolted against the seniors, party has decided to sideline him. Even he thought that the party will field him for the Rajya Sabha once again after the conclusion of his tenure, but Shiv Sena has zeroed in on other leader.
Six assembly seats fall under the South Central Mumbai Parliamentary Constituency. Out of these six constituencies four the Congress party has bagged four seats while MNS and NCP have one seat. Jagannath Shetty (Sion – Koliwada), Chandrakant Handore (Chembur), Varsha Gaikwad (Dharavi) and Kalidas Kodambakar are Congress MLAs whereas Nawab Malik NCP MLA from (Anushakti Nagar) and MNS ‘s Nitin Sardesai is an MLA from Mahim. Thus the Congress position is a bit stronger in this constituency.
Dalits form a major chunk of voters in this area. Both Gaikwad and Mungekar belong to this community.
So, Congress leaders feel that Mungekar will be strong contender this time. In the last general election, MNS candidate Shweta Parulekar has gained more than one lakh votes which enabled the Congress to retain the seat. This time also, it is assumed that if MNS gain more than one lakh votes then it will be a smooth ride for Congress. AAP is yet to declare its candidate from this constituency. If the AAP candidate grabs 50,000 votes then it would prove to be a setback for the Congress.
In an election year the Democratic Front government is in a hurry to dole out several poll sops to lure voters. The state government has approved a proposal to legalise slums which have been constructed in Mumbai till the year 2000. This decision is expected to benefit 4.5 lakh households and about 15 lakh slum dwellers.
The government is going ahead with the decision even though this matter is pending with the Supreme Court. According to a senior minister the government is planning to amend the Maharashtra Slum Areas (Improvement, Clearance and Redevelopment) Act with immediate effect. The proposal to regularise the slums which have come up between 1995 to 2000 was included in the government’s 2009 poll manifesto.
Diwakar Raote, Shiv Sena MLA said it’s a politically motivated decision. He said, “Since the Lok Sabha election is just round the corner hence the party had taken a decision to regularise the slums which have come up between 1995 to 2000. It is a ploy of the government to garner slum votes.”
Shaina NC, BJP leader said that the state government is indulging in vote bank politics. She said, “It was merely a political lollypop for the voters. With an eye to on the upcoming election the state government is trying to lure slum voters by announcing this policy.”
There was immense pressure on Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan to clear this proposal. Party leaders insist that this decision will pave way for a slum-free Mumbai. Minority affairs minister Arif Naseem Khan, who is also the guardian minister of Mumbai suburbs, said that he has been pursuing the issue for many years, as it will help in making the island city slum-free.
When AV contacted Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, MLA Pravin Darekar, he refused to comment about this issue and said, “I don’t want to speak about this matter. MNS Chief Raj Thackeray will be the right person to comment about this issue.”
Social activist and AAP leader Medha Patkar dubbed the decision of Maharashtra government to regularise slums built till 2000 as an “election gimmick” mocking the poor people in the city.
“The Congress-NCP coalition had fought three elections on the poll promise of homes to slum dwellers but had failed to act on it for more than a decade,” Patkar added.
In a landmark judgement in 2006, the Bombay High court had set the cut-off date as January 1, 1995 and had slammed the government saying, “The answer to encroachment on public lands is not legalising further encroachment…no nation, no state or the rule of law can survive if illegalities are continuously legalised in the guise of social obligation. The state which has a constitutional duty to protect all the citizens cannot wear the mantle of Robinhood, by depriving the tax payer of his right by protecting and rewarding law breakers.”
In order to avoid any legal hassles the government is likely to extend the pre-election dole through a Bill. The cabinet decision, sources confirmed, will be announced in the on-going Assembly session.
The cut off dates have been repeatedly advanced since 1975. First the Congress pushed it to 1980 and then 1985, then the Shiv Sena-BJP regime advanced it by 10 years.
After this decision, there is a possibility that prices of slums will increase manifold in the metropolis.
Two officers who were missing since the fire on board submarine INS Sindhuratna on Wednesday have died, the navy confirmed. Their bodies were found after the submarine was brought back to the Mumbai coast this morning.
Navy Chief Admiral DK Joshi resigned taking moral responsibility for accidents on his watch.
The navy said Lieutenant Commander Kapish Muwal and Lieutenant Manoranjan Kumar died in the INS Sindhuratna fire. They had been declared missing yesterday after the accident in which seven sailors were injured. Their bodies were found in a submarine compartment.
Reports suggest the fire that broke out in the 25-year-old submarine could be due to malfunctioning batteries. The submarine was being sea tested after a refit; its batteries were reportedly not replaced because contracts were not finalised in time.
Seven sailors fell unconscious from suffocation while trying to control the fire and smoke and had to be airlifted to a Navy hospital in Mumbai. The submarine surfaced after the smoke was detected.
The Russian-origin Kilo Class submarine, one of India’s 14 conventional submarines, was carrying no weapons or ammunition. It had sailed out on Tuesday night and since it was still being tested, had not been placed under operational command yet.
Admiral DK Joshi resigned as Navy Chief hours after the accident. “It was my decision. I only consulted my wife,” he told a gathering of naval officers in Delhi today.
Defence Minister AK Antony, who has been criticised for accepting his resignation said, “I am very sad about the incident. Joshi came to me. He was very disturbed about the whole development. He said he would like to take responsibility and insisted that I accept his resignation. So I consulted everybody and the Prime Minister and ultimately took a decision to accept it.”
Former defence officers and experts say the minister should also resign.”Admiral Joshi has held himself to the highest standards of public morality. Mr Antony had the option to tell him not to go,” said strategic expert Admiral Raja Menon.
The government faces a dilemma over a successor for Admiral Joshi, who is the first military chief to resign. Vice Admiral Robin K Dhowan, who has been appointed as acting Naval Chief, is not the seniormost Naval officer after Admiral Joshi’s resignation. Vice Admiral Shekhar Sinha, currently the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Naval Command, based in Mumbai, is senior to Vice Admiral Dhowan.
The Sindhuratna fire was the 10th accident involving an Indian Navy asset and the third submarine accident in the last seven months. In August last year, Navy submarine INS Sindhurakshak sank in the Mumbai harbour after an explosion on board, killing 18 sailors. (Navy hopeful of reusing INS Sindhurakshak)
Earlier this month, an amphibious warfare vessel INS Airavat ran aground after which its commanding officer was stripped of his command duties.
Cautioning Maharashtra government about negative implications of giving reservations to the Maratha community, the Maharashtra BJP said on Thursday that there ought to be “proportional quantification” of reservations.
Leader of the Opposition in Legislative Council, Vinod Tawde (BJP) appealed to the Maharashtra government not to take any decision to allocate reservation to the Maratha community in “haste”.
“The Maharashtra government should not take the decision in haste. It appears that the Congress-led government wants to allocate reservation to the Maratha community before the model code of conduct for Lok Sabha polls comes into effect,” Tawde said.
“If anything goes wrong while taking the decision, it will prove to be dangerous in future to the Maratha community,” he said.
The development comes after a committee formed by the Maharashtra government under senior Congress Minister Narayan Rane submitted its report on Wednesday, which recommended allocating a 20 per cent reservation to the Maratha community, without affecting the quota for other backward castes (OBCs).
“The Maratha community should get reservations in government and semi-government jobs as well in other educational institutions like universities, colleges and schools. A decision should be taken in this regard,” the Rane committee report said.
Tawde also criticised the state government’s recent announcement of three important decisions in the state legislature, a day after its interim budget was presented by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar.
“By making these announcements, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan of the Congress took away credit from Nationalist Congress Party’s (NCP) Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar,” Tawde said.
Union minister Praful Patel and Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal, who is NCP’s OBC face, are among 18 candidates announced by the party on Thursday for Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra.
Anand Paranjape, who is the sitting member of Shiv Sena from Kalyan-Dombivali, is now the NCP nominee from the seat while the party has fielded former Deputy Chief Minister Vijaysinh Mohite Patil from Madha.
The Madha seat was represented by party supremo Sharad Pawar in the outgoing Lok Sabha. Pawar has now become a member of Rajya Sabha.
Bhujbal has been nominated from Nashik replacing his nephew Samir Bhujbal. Pawar had indicated that some Maharashtra ministers will be asked to contest the Lok Sabha polls.
Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule has been renominated from his pocketborough of Baramati, Praful Patel from Bhandara- Gondia, Sanjeev Naik from Thane, Sanjay Dina Patil from Mumbai Northeast, Padamsing Patil from Usmanabad and Udayanraje Bhosale from Satara.
Manish Jain, son of party’s Rajya Sabha member Ishwarchand Jain, has been made a nominee from Raver while Dhananjay Mahadik will fight the polls from Kolhapur, Navneet Rana from Amravati, Bharti Pravin Pawar from Dindori, Rajiv Rajale from Ahmednagar, Krishnarao Ingle from Buldhana, Devdatta Nikam from Shirur and Vijay Bhamle from Parabhani.
The announcement was made by party spokesman D P Tripathi who told reporters that a decision on four Maharashtra seats–Hingoli, Beed, Mawal and Hathkanangale– is still pending and exchange of any of these seats with Congress is still possible.
Talk is that Congress would like to get Hingoli seat for Youth Congress chief Rajiv Satav. The party also announced six candidates from other regions including R S Uma Bharathy from Andaman and Nicobar, Gicho Kabak from Western Arunachal Pradesh, P P Mohd Faizal from Lakshadweep, Fazle Masood from Devaria (Gujarat) and Ghazi Saaduddin Zaheer Ahmed from Nagina.
A madrasa teacher was arrested for allegedly molesting two minor girls, police said on Thursday.
The accused Samiulla Karudddin Shah (25) had offered to teach the girls Arabic at the seminary which falls under Rabodi Police Station limits, they said.
He allegedly molested them at the madrasa, police said quoting the complaint filed by the father of one of the girls.
The girls (both aged 8) hailed from Rehmatnagar area, police said, adding Shah was apprehended last night and booked under section 354 (outraging modesty of woman) of IPC and under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act 2012.
Meanwhile, in another incident, a BEST employee Laxman Chavan (50) from Kharigaon in Kalwa was arrested last night for allegedly molesting a six-year-old girl from the same locality, police said.
Chavan was booked under section 354 of IPC and the provisions of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act 2012, they added.
The Bombay High Court on Thursday said that in a molestation case the intention of the accused can be determined only by the trial court after hearing the victim.
The HC made the observation while declining to quash a molestation case registered against Machindra Chate, Director of Chate Coaching Classes, and asked him to approach the Sessions Court with a discharge application.
A Division Bench of Justices N H Patil and V L Achliya was hearing a petition of Chate seeking to quash the case registered against him with the police on January 30, 2013.
According to Chate, on the day the FIR was filed there was a meeting between teachers of the coaching class and parents of students studying there.
“There was some problem in the meeting following which a few parents and three girl students forcibly entered Chate’s office and started physically and verbally abusing him. In the scuffle, Chate also abused the parents and asked them to leave his office,” the petition said.
The same day, Chate went to Bhoiwada police and lodged a case against the parents. However, he was later informed that one of the girl students had lodged a counter case, accusing him of molestation.
The HC opined that at this stage, it cannot decide whether the accused person had intention of molesting the girl or it was just a misunderstanding.
“That is for the trial court to decide after the victim deposes. It all depends on what the girl says. In this case the girl has said the accused person indulged in a shameful act. At this stage, to ask the girl to explain in detail what was the shameful act, is not permissible. The High Court cannot go into evidence now,” the Bench said.
The Bench suggested Chate’s lawyer Krishna Holambe Patil to move the Sessions Court with a discharge plea since chargesheet has been filed in the case. Patil agreed and withdrew the petition.
Six persons, mostly workers, were killed on Thursday and 20 others injured one seriously, when crackers exploded in a fireworks factory in Raigad district of Maharashtra, police said.
The explosion took place around 4.30 pm at the Bhaimala village factory, 10 kms from Alibaug town, they said.
Bodies of six persons, mostly workers, were pulled out from the rubble of the crackers unit, which caught fire due to the explosion.
Six fire tenders were rushed to the factory after the blast following which flames were brought under control.
The deceased have not been identified yet and all the injured were admitted to the civil hospital here.
One woman among the injured is said to be critical and has been shifted to Mumbai, police said.
The factory manager is being quizzed and further details are awaited.
Katy Perry has revealed that her former husband Russell Brand wanted to have kids so that he could control her.
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker says she is surprised by the cruel and foul language some of the women use nowadays in order to make their point.
In an election year the Democratic Front government is in a hurry to dole out several poll sops to lure voters. The state government has approved a proposal to legalise slums which have been constructed in Mumbai till the year 2000. This decision is expected to benefit 4.5 lakh households and about 15 lakh slum dwellers.
Two officers who were missing since the fire on board submarine INS Sindhuratna on Wednesday have died, the navy confirmed. Their bodies were found after the submarine was brought back to the Mumbai coast this morning.
Cautioning Maharashtra government about negative implications of giving reservations to the Maratha community, the Maharashtra BJP said on Thursday that there ought to be “proportional quantification” of reservations. 
Union minister Praful Patel and Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal, who is NCP’s OBC face, are among 18 candidates announced by the party on Thursday for Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra. 
