With Aishwarya Rai carrying home a pay packet of Rs 40 million for her proposed stint as Rajnikanth’s leading lady in Shankar’s Robot, she has now become the highest-paid actress in Indian cinema. “Yes, it’s close to Rs.40 million. And she’s very amused when she reads that she is the highest-paid actress in Bollywood. With three hits in a row, Guru, Dhoom 2 and Jodhaa... 

GURGAON: Only months after a boy was shot by his classmate in a Gurgaon school, leading to a furore over the cavalier manner in which the Gurgaon administration issues gun licences, there seems to be fresh evidence of the authorities flouting rules. An RTI application filed by an animal rights activist Naresh Kadyan revealed that actor Soha Ali Khan was issued a gun licence when she was only 18 years... 

India’s leading car maker Maruti Suzuki said that it will launch the much-awaited mid-sized sedan, Swift ‘DZire‘ by the end of this month. The car is based on the highly successfull platform of the Swift and will eventually take the place of the phased out Esteem. Price of the car was not divulged by the company however industry sources say that it should be priced in the Rs 5-6... 

Microsoft has released the long-awaited first Windows Vista Service Pack, a wrap-up of incremental updates that apparently cripples certain vendors’ software. SP1 tackles reliability and performance, adds support for new hardware and wraps in earlier updates for compatibility with third party software. Microsoft claims more than 2,000 applications are now “certified for” or “work... 

More than 100 people have turned themselves in to police following anti-China riots in Tibet’s main city, Lhasa, Chinese state media has said. People surrendered to secure leniency in response to a deadline set by the authorities, Xinhua news agency said. China had said it would harshly punish those who failed to surrender. Police in Lhasa have been searching houses and making arrests, activists... 

Indian Wells (USA) : Sania Mirza is worried over her recurrent wrist injury as it could either result in a surgery or require her to change her grip and action, an idea she is not keen on at this stage of her career. Sania, who played in pain before losing out to Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia in the Pacific Life Open pre-quarters here on Tuesday, said she would try to avoid surgery but was also not... 

BERLIN, March 19 — In a new audiotape released Wednesday, Osama bin Laden warned Europeans that they will face a “severe reckoning” for repeatedly publishing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in newspapers and magazines. The five-minute speech was the second time in four months that bin Laden has delivered threats to European countries. He made only one oblique reference to President... 

Intel released a few incremental details about its future graphics chip on Monday, but left a lot of unanswered questions about the company’s push into uncharted waters. Larrabee, a “many-core” graphics processor scheduled for 2009 or 2010, will come with a brand-new set of vector-processing instructions as part of its design, said Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and co-general... 

Pakistan’s caretaker minister and Human Rights activist Ansar Burney has said that he will not help Sarabjit Singh, as he has ”no sympathy for terrorists”. Sarabjit, an Indian national, faces a death warrant slated for April 1 in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail. ”Sarabjit Singh was a terrorist, I have no sympathy with him. There is a big difference between Kashmir Singh and... 

NEW DELHI: India has strongly rejected observations of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) that Kashmir issue should be resolved as per UN resolutions, saying that the 57-member grouping had “no locus standi” to comment on India’s internal affairs. “We note with regret that the OIC, in the documents issued following its summit held at Dakar in Senegal on March 13-14,...