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Star studded celebration for Sachin

After scoring his 100th century over a week ago in an Asia Cup match against Bangladesh, Sachin Tendulkar returned home to much fanfare and celebrations.
Industrialist Mukesh Ambani threw a lavish party in the honour of the legendary cricketer at his residence on Peddar Road in South Mumbai on March 26.

While industrialist Anand Mahindra and fashion designer/politician Shaina NC graced the do, quite a few Bollywood stars turned up too.

 

Playing for India humbled me: Rahul Dravid

You can take Rahul Dravid out of cricket, but you cannot take cricket out of Rahul Dravid!

The legendary batsman was struggling to hold back tears as he relived his journey in international cricket while also paying tribute to his team-mates. It was clear he is still finding it difficult to digest that cricket won't be a part of his daily life anymore.

"I had made a pact with myself that I wouldn't cry in any of the functions over the last two or three weeks. I think it has been tested to the limit today," he said in Mumbai, at a glittering function organised by the BCCI to felicitate his contribution to Indian cricket.

NEW: Mallika SIZZLES as 'Laila'

After Jalebi Bai, Mallika Sherawat returns with another sizzling itme number for Ajay Devgan's Tezz. Mallika looks sexy in a shimmering top and short tribal skirt grooving to Sunidhi Chauhan's voice and Sajid-Wajid's composition

Now Poonam Pandey changes her tune!

Poonam Pandey first made headlines last year by promising to strip naked if India brought home the ICC World Cup. We did, she didn't -- but that one headline-grabbing declaration cemented her status as a public figure and model (Kingfisher Calendar Girl of the Year 2011, to boot).

Since then, provocative pics and more jaw-dropping statements have ensured she's stayed in the news

 

V K singh asks CBI to probe Lt General Dalbir Singh

Army Chief General V K Singh's tryst with controversies seems nowhere close to coming to a halt. Be it the age row, letter 'leaks' or offer of bribe, the maverick general is literally shaking the entire nation on a regular basis.
Raising yet another controversy on Thursday, General Singh has now sent a letter written by Trinamool Member of Parliament Ambika Banerjee to the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe against Lieutenant General Dalbir Singh Suhag, who is second in line to be the army chief.
According to a popular national daily, the army chief forwarded the MP's letter that has alleged widespread "procurement scams" in the "secretive" Special Frontier Force, when Lt Gen Dalbir Singh was its inspector general.
The MP alleged payoffs for the purchase of night-vision devices, communication systems, weapons as well as parachutes

'My father was offered bribe when he was PM'

Janata Dal Secular leader and Former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy today dropped another bomb over the Army Chief bribery scam by saying that even his father, HD Deve Gowda, was offered bribe by middlemen to approve defence procurements when he was the prime minister.