King Khan moved by Anil Kapoor acting

MUMBAI: King of Bollywood Shahrukh Khan said Friday he was moved by the brilliant performance of Indian legendary actor Anil Kapoor in his world famous film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’.It is strange to believe that recently Anil Kapoor criticized Shahrukh over his roles in recent movies despite that, Shahrukh persists to applaud his (Anil)’s role in Slumdog millionaire.Shahrukh words came as, “Indeed, Anil Kapoor is still the proud of Bollywood and his supremacy in acting is again evident from his brilliant performance in Slumdog Millionaire”

I’d love to work with Kareena again: Shahid Kapoor

MUMBAI: Bollywood star Shahid Kapoor said that he has no objection for working with his old friend Kareena Kapoor in any film.In an interview at an Indian TV channel, Shahid Kapoor said that he can work with anybody and if director desires he can work even with a cow or buffalow.It may be recalled that both Shahid and Kareena have so far worked together in three movies out of which only one film “Jab We Met” hit the box office while “Fida” and “Chhup Chhup Ke” failed to do any business.

Passengers escape Australian plane's water landing

SYDNEY: Six people have walked safely to shore after a light plane crash off Darwin's coastline at East Point on Friday.The Piper Chieftain had just left Darwin Airport travelling to the remote Northern Territory community of Maningrida when the pilot started to experience engine trouble.Local residents say they saw the plane ditch onto a sandbar. The pilot managed to safely land in the low tide shallow water. He's been lauded by emergency services for doing an extraordinary job of getting the plane down without injuries. The five passengers, who work for Darwin-based information technology services company Connected Solutions Group (CSG) and the pilot, walked the 200 metres to shore.

US cuts 600,000 jobs in January

WASHINGTON: The recession-scarred US economy lost 600,000 jobs in January, pushing the unemployment rate to a 16-year high, data showed Friday, raising pressure on lawmakers debating a huge stimulus plan.The jobless rate jumped to 7.6 percent from 7.2 percent in December. The number of jobs lost was the worst since 1974 and the fifth highest since records were kept, according to the monthly Labor Department report."The expectations were for a disastrous January for the labor market, and the preliminary numbers exceeded these expectations," said Sophia Koropeckyj at a website.Ian Shepherdson, chief US economist at High Frequency Economics, called the data "another horrific report, showing job losses across the economy.""If ever there were an economy in need of stimulus, this is it," he said. Christina Romer, chair of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, said the report showed the largest 13-month job loss since the payroll employment series began in 1939."These numbers, and the very real suffering of American workers they represent, reinforce the need for bold fiscal action," she said in a statement."If we fail to act, we are likely to lose millions more jobs and the unemployment rate could reach double digits."Payroll employment, one of the best indicators of economic momentum, has declined by 3.6 million since the start of the recession in December 2007, with around one-half of the decline in the past three months.The unemployment rate was the highest since September 1992.

UK MPs for resolving Kashmir issue

LONDON: A number of British Parliamentarians taking part in the House of Commons debate on Pakistan and Afghanistan highlighted the importance of easing tension between Pakistan and India by resolving the Kashmir dispute. British MPs from all major political parties including Sir Gerald Kaufman, Mohammad Sarwar, Denis Mac Shane, Adam Holloway and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Quentin Davies called for reducing the current tension between two nuclear-armed neighbours with a view to resolving the Kashmir dispute and stabilizing Afghanistan. Among others Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague attended the debate. Veteran parliamentarian and former Labour Foreign Secretary Sir Gerald said: “We must do all we can to make it a top priority to solve the world’s oldest unresolved dispute of Jammu and Kashmir”, adding that Britain needs to do “much more” to put it high on the international agenda.

Ex Indian premier Vajpayee’s condition stable

NEW DELHI: Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee continued to be on ventilation on Saturday with his respiratory track infection remaining a cause of concern, doctors attending on him at AIIMS said."Vajpayee's condition is stable. His heart is stable but his lungs require support and that is why we are putting him on ventilation," said Dr Sampath Kumar, head of Cardiac Thoracic Vascular Sciences of AIIMS."His respiratory track infection is the cause of his problem. But his liver, kidney, blood pressure are normal. It will take some time before he recovers fully," he said.

Three Afghan officials killed

JALALABAD: A provincial council member was shot dead by unknown gunmen in eastern Afghanistan Saturday, after Taliban insurgents killed two policemen in a separate incident, officials said.Khan Mohammad, a senior member of the council in Nangarhar, was killed while driving to work in the remote Dara-i-Noor district, a provincial government spokesman said. "At this time we don't know who might have killed him," said Ahmad Zia Abdulzoi. The two police officers were killed late Friday as they were going with other policemen to reinforce a police post that had come under attack from insurgents, a spokesman for Laghman province said. One of the dead was Abdul Aziz, the police chief for the province's Qarghayi district, roughly 70 kilometres (45 miles) east of the capital, Kabul. "Abdul Aziz, along with another policeman, were martyred after they were attacked by Taliban," provincial spokesman Sayed Ahmad told.Laghman is one of the provinces around the capital that has seen Taliban-linked violence pick up in recent years as the militants have been able to reassert themselves seven years after the Taliban regime was toppled.