Actress Madhuri Dixit, who has been roped in to play the lead in Anubhav Sinha's home production Gulab Gang, says, she is not essaying a gangster and will not be mouthing bad words.

"I don't know where all these things (about abuses) came from. There is nothing abusive in the movie. It is not even about gangsters. In the film women are not gangsters.. they are vigilantes. It is about a group of women who help other women and help solve their problem. So that is what fascinated me about that.. as it is all about women power. They are not gangsters," Madhuri told PTI in an interview.

Gulab Gang is a story of a gang of women fighting against social injustice. The film directed by Soumik Sen is likely to have Mahie Gill, Shilpa Shukla.

Produced under Benaras Media Works banner, Gulab Gang would go on floors post monsoon and would release next year on Women's Day. Also, Madhuri has signed on the dotted line for the sequel of Vishal Bhardwaj's Ishqiya, which is titled Dedh Ishqiya.

Abhishek Chaubey had directed Ishqiya, which got great reviews and box office collections. The film was produced by Vishal Bhardwaj.

Even for the sequel the director, producer and lead actors Naseeruddin Shah and Arshad Warsi have been retained. "I don't think Dedh Ishqiya can be called women centric film. There are four characters in the movie and all are important. I am looking forward to work with Naseeruddin and Arshad. I am working with Naseeruddin Shah in a meaningful film after a long time. And it is all about one up man ship, give and take and it is very interesting. We haven't begun shooting yet," Madhuri said.

Post her marriage, Madhuri had relocated to the US for almost a decade. It was last year in October that she shifted her base back to Mumbai, along with her family. And on work front, she signed two films and will judge dance reality show.

Looks like Veena Malik is going the Kim Kardashian way. Following on the footsteps of celebrities, including Celina Jaitley, the actress has voiced her support for the LGBT community.

She says, "I'm all for homosexuality, and I don't feel awkward supporting the LGBT community. I personally feel every person has the right to live their life on their own terms and nobody should interfere in their personal life. I'm glad people have opened up and are game to discuss sexual orientation now. Soon, they will be in a mindset to accept homosexuality as well."

               शुक्रबारदेखि काठमाडौं उपत्यकामा प्रदर्शनमा आउने चलचित्र 'जिन्दगानी दर्पणछायाँ' मोफसलमा भने असार ८ गतेदेखि प्रदर्शन हुनेछ।  चलचित्रका निर्माता रोहित पुरीका अनुसार सबै वर्गका दर्शकलाई मध्यनजर गरेर यो चलचित्र निर्माण गरिएको हो। यो चलचित्रको निर्देशन  मनिष पन्तले गरेका हुन्। चलचित्रमा दिलीप रायमाझी, नन्दिता के.सी., सन्तोष अग्रहरी, रजनी प्रधान, मनोज श्रेष्ठ आदि कलाकारको  महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका छ। केन्द्रीय चलचित्र जाँचपास समिति (सेन्सर बोर्ड) ले यो चलचित्रलाई विश्वभरि प्रदर्शन गर्न पाउने गरी युनिभर्सल (यू)  सर्टिफिकेट दिएको छ। तत्कालीन राजदरबार तथा हालको नारायणहिटी संग्रहालयमा पहिलो पटक छायांकन गरिएको यो चलचित्रको निर्माण  श्रीनगर फिल्म्स प्रालिको ब्यानरमा गरिएको हो। निर्देशक पन्तकै लेखन तथा छायांकन रहेको यो चलचित्रमा वीरेन्द्र अग्रहरीले संगीत भरेका  छन्। दिनेश अधिकारीको नृत्य तथा सानु कुमारको द्वन्द्व निर्देशनको चलचित्र जिन्दगानी दर्पण छायाँमा सामाजिक कथा चित्रण गरिएको  बताइन्छ। चलचित्रमा एउटा आइटम गीत पनि छ जसमा नृत्य गर्ने क्रममा नायिका सुष्मा कार्कीले उत्तेजक हाउभाउ प्रस्तुत गरेकी छिन्।

जापानमा पंखा र पानीको सुविधा रहेको ब्रा उत्पादन भएको खबर केही दिन अघिमात्र सार्वजनिक भएको थियो ।
महिलालाई आफ्नो वक्षस्थल शीतल पार्नका लागि यस्तो सुविधा प्रदान गरिएको भनियो ।
तर अब महिलाले केवल शीतलता पाएर मात्र भएन । अब ब्रा ले नै महिलाहरुको सुरक्षा समेत गर्ने भएको छ ।
बेलायतमा महिलाहरुको सुरक्षाको लागि यस्तो ब्रा तयार गरिएको छ जसमा पेस्तोल राख्ने गोजी समेत बनाइएको छ ।
उक्त ब्रा मा थर्मोप्लास्टिकको एउटा खोल राखिएको छ, त्यसमा महिलाहरुले जुनसुकै डिजाइनको रिभल्भर राख्न सक्नेछन् ।
उक्त ब्राको डिजाइन गर्ने डिजाइनर लीजा लूपरले महिलाहरुको सुरक्षालाई ध्यान दिँदै आफुले त्यस्तो ब्रा डिजाइन गरेको बताइन् ।
आफुले पहिले आफ्नै लागि मात्र भनेर यस्तो ब्रा को डिजाइन गरेको भएपनि अरु महिला साथीहरुले यसलाई साह्रै रुचाएकाले त्यसलाई बजारमा ल्याउने सोँच बनाएको उनको भनाइ छ ।

After weeks of anticipation, speculation and debate, Euro 2012 finally gets under way on Friday when co-hosts Poland take on Greece in Warsaw.
The tournament sees 16 of Europe's best footballing countries compete for the Henri Delaunay Trophy, with the final taking place in Kiev on 1 July.
The home nations are represented by England - who begin against France on 11 June - while Republic of Ireland are also in action.
Football fans will see 31 games over the next three weeks, as Spain look to defend the title they won in Vienna four years ago.
Eight stadiums across Poland and Ukraine are being used for the tournament, from the smallest in Lviv which holds just under 35,000 fans, to the colossal 70,000-seater Olympic Stadium in Kiev which hosts the final.
BBC Sport's pundits have backed Germany to win this time around, with only former captain Alan Shearer backing England to make the last four.
As well as France, Roy Hodgson's England will come up against Sweden and co-hosts Ukraine in Group D, while Giovanni Trapattoni's Republic of Ireland are in a tough group consisting of Croatia, Italy and defending European and world champions Spain.

Other fancied teams this time around are the Netherlands - who are in the 'group of death' alongside the Germans, Portugal and Denmark - while Russia could spring a surprise from Group A.

England - who failed to qualify for the last tournament in Austria and Switzerland four years ago - have never won the European Championship, with their best result in recent memory a semi-final defeat by Germany at Wembley in 1996.

Mahika Rana realised her maiden triumph in tennis after lifting the title in the U-12 girls’ singles category in the First Boris Lissanevitch Memorial Junior Open Tennis Championship at Satdobato, Lalitpur on Thursday. Rana put an end to a barren run of five years, defeating Ira Raut 6-3, 7-5.
Nevertheless, Raut shrugged off her defeat to win the title of U-10 girls’ singles. She edged Alsha Regmi 6-0, 6-0. Abhilasha Bista and Nima Rokka finished at third.
Shamyak Bhusan Bajracharya became the champion in U-10 boys’ singles after ending the challenge of Aryan Subedi 6-1, 6-0. Brishtit Gurung and Aryan Giri finished at third.
Meanwhile, national champion Ashlesha Lissanevitch and Bibhuti Karki confirmed their encounter for the ultimate glory in the U-16 girls’ singles.
Lissanevitch’s younger sibling, Ivanhoe and Ashok Kunwar will vie for the U-16 boys’ singles while Bibhuti Karki and Mayanka Rana will battle it out for the U-14 girls’ singles.    

                    One person was killed and 17 wounded when Indonesian soldiers opened fire on civilians after a deadly dispute sparked by a road accident in Papua province, police said Thursday.

The shootings took place late Wednesday after residents, angry that two soldiers on a motorcycle hit and injured a child, stabbed one of the troops to death and seriously injured the other in the city of Wamena, police said.

"Following the road accident soldiers from the local military arrived in two trucks and took revenge by firing gunshots toward local residents and setting a number of houses on fire," national police spokesman Saud Usman Nasution said.

"The trouble then spread to the city centre where a number of shops and houses were also damaged by gunshots," he told AFP.

Jhon Wetipo, in charge of the Jayawijaya district of which Wamena is the capital, said the soldiers shot one man dead and wounded 17 people, one of them critically.

He said troops set 37 homes on fire, but that calm had been restored by Thursday morning.

The provincial military spokesman denied that there had been a shooting or that troops had set fire to homes but residents contacted by AFP supported the police version of events.

Indonesian security forces are widely accused of abusing the basic rights of indigenous Melanesians in Papua, where a low-level insurgency has simmered for decades.

In 1969, Indonesia took control of Papua, a former Dutch colony on the western half of New Guinea island, after a vote among a select group of Papuans widely seen as a sham.

                   China's President Hu Jintao called on his Iranian counterpart Friday to be "flexible and pragmatic" ahead of talks on Tehran's nuclear programme, the state Xinhua news agency said.

Hu also urged Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to cooperate with the UN nuclear agency, as the two leaders held talks in Beijing ahead of the next round of talks between world powers and Iranian negotiators to try to find a diplomatic solution to the standoff over Iran's nuclear programme.

Western governments and Israel suspect Iran is trying to develop a bomb behind the veil of its civilian nuclear programme, a charge denied by Tehran which says it is developing civilian atomic power.

The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will urge Iran in talks Friday to allow it access to sites where Tehran is suspected of working on an atomic bomb, particularly a military base near the capital.

China hopes Iran can "take a flexible and pragmatic approach, have serious talks with all six related nations, and enhance dialogues and cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency so as to ensure the tensions can be eased through negotiations", Xinhua quoted Hu as saying.

Hu also promised Ahmadinejad that China would continue to play a "constructive role in settling the issue through peaceful means", Xinhua said.

                              Around two dozen political parties including the Nepali Congress and CPN-UML organised a protest assembly, which was dubbed as their “show of strength”, at Khula Manch in the Capital on Friday.
The parties called for the gathering against what they call the “UCPN (Maoist)’s premeditated plan to capture state power and impose authoritarianism through the drama of another Constituent Assembly elections.”
Top leaders of NC, UML, among others parties, addressed the mass meeting in which they came down heavily upon the Maoists. The leaders urged the Maoists to quit the government at the earliest to pave way for consensus.  They held the Maoists responsible for the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly.
The party leaders refuted the accusations made by the Maoists of being against federalism and said they were never against federalism.
Raising objection to the PM’s decision to disband the Constituent Assembly (CA) and announce fresh elections, the parties warned of intensifying their protests if the ruling coalition did not come to political consensus.
Various rallies taken out from different places across the city merged into the joint protest assembly.
NC President Sushil Koirala, senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba, Vice President Ram Chandra Poudel, CPN Chairman Jhala Nath Khanal, senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal and among other leaders addressed function.
Various rallies taken out from different places across the city merged into the joint protest assembly.
To proclaim unity among the parties, the leaders held their hands together for a moment before kick starting the program. The program was named as ‘National Democratic Mission’

              माओवादीले असार १ गते राजधानीमा जनप्रदर्शनको भब्य तयारी गर्न नेवाः र ताम्सालिङ राज्य समिति अन्तर्गत केन्द्रीय सदस्यलाई निर्देशन दिएको छ ।
शुक्रबार पार्टी केन्द्रीय कार्यालय कोटेश्वरमा केन्द्रीय सदस्यहरुको संयुक्त छलफलमा पार्टी अध्यक्ष पुष्पकमल दाहालले जनप्रदर्शनलाई व्यापक र बृहत् बनाउन  निर्देशन दिएका हुन् ।
  पार्टी उपाध्यक्ष नारायणकाजी श्रेष्ठले दिएको जानकारीअनुसार पहिचानसहितको सङघीयता, सङघीयतासहितको संविधानको लागि पार्टीले आयोजना गरेको जनप्रदर्शनको कार्यक्रमलाई व्यापक बनाउन निर्देशन दिएको बताए ।
'सङघीयता विरोधीको चलखेल बढेकाले संविधानसभाबाट संविधान बन्न नसकेको र त्यसलाई जनताको बीचमा लगेर नङग्याउने विषयमा जनताको साथमा कदम चाल्ने निर्णय भएको हो' उनको भनाइ थियो ।
उपाध्यक्ष मोहन वैद्य पक्षधरले असार १ गतेकै दिन कार्यकर्ता भेला बोलाएको सन्र्दभमा एमाओवादीकै संस्थापन पक्षले सो दिन जनप्रदर्शनको कार्यक्रम अगाडि सारेको हो । पार्टी उपाध्यक्ष एवं प्रधानमन्त्री डा. बाबुराम भट्टराईले पछिल्लो राजनीतिक घटनाक्रमबारे बताएका थिए ।

कांग्रेस, एमाले लगायतका दुई दर्जन दलले माओबादको सत्ता कब्जाको रणनीतिको बिरोध गर्न एक लाख जनता उतार्ने उदघोष गरेका थिए । तर, १५ हजार जनता पनि मुस्किलले   खुल्लामञ्च उतारे । खुल्ला मञ्चमा आउने जाने सहित गरी १५ हजार उपस्थित भएको नेपाल प्रहरीले अनुमान छ ।
'बढीमा १५ आएको अनुमान गरेका छौ,' महानगरीय प्रहरी आयुक्त कार्यालयका प्रवक्ता एसएसपी भोगबहादुर थापाले भने,'एक-एक गरी गनेको होइन, ठाउ ओगटेको आधारमा अनुमान हौ ।' यस अघि एउटा दलले गरेको कार्यक्रममा खुल्ला मञ्च भित्र नअटेर सडकमा समेत भरिभराउ हुन्थ्यो । विगठित संविधान सभामा सहभागि कांग्रेस, एमाले, माले, राप्रपा, जनमोर्चा, जनशक्ति, सदभावना लगायतका अन्य दल सहभागि थिए । उदघोषक कृष्णगोपाल श्रेष्ठका अनुसार बिरोध सभामा २७ दल सहभागि थिए । कार्यक्रममा सहभागिहरु सरकारलाई दबाब दिन भन्दै यो चर्को घाममा जनप्रदर्शनमा उत्रेका थिए ।
 कार्यक्रमको मन्चमा बसेका सबैलेजसोलाई वक्ता राखेका थिए ।  कहिल्यै नाम नसुनिएका पार्टी र तिनका नेता समेत उपस्थित थिए । धेरै साना पार्टी र तिनका अध्यक्षको नाम उद्घोषकले समेत राम्ररी उच्चारण गर्न सकेनन् । नाम भन्न अप्ठेरो हुने भएपछि उनले पार्टीको नाम मात्रै भनेर प्रतिनिधि आउनुस् भनेर बोलाएकान थिए ।

            प्रधानमन्त्री डा बाबुराम भट्टराईले तोकिएकै मितिमा संविधानसभाको निर्वाचन गरिछाड्ने प्रतिबद्धता व्यक्त गर्नुभएको छ ।

                                      अर्थमन्त्री वर्षमान पुनले राजस्व चुहावट नियन्त्रणका लागि प्रभावकारी उपायहरू अवलम्बन गर्न निर्देशन दिनुभएको छ ।

                एक दिनका लागि संविधानसभा पुनःस्थापनाको माग गर्दै परेको रिटमा सर्वोच्च अदालतले सरकारमा नाममा कारण देखाउ आदेश जारी गरेको छ ।

             जागीर नपाएको झोकमा पर्सामा एक युवकले आत्महत्या गरेका छन् । जागीरका लागि सवै क्षेत्रमा धाउँदापनि जागिर नपाएपछि महोत्तरीका २८ वर्षीय प्रवीण भट्टले गएराती कोठामै विषसेवन गरी आत्महत्या गरेका हुन् ।

The Metropolitan Traffic Police Division (MTPD) has enforced new rules regarding the management of the public and private sector school buses.

As per the new rules, the school buses will have to enter the respective school premises by 9 in the morning after picking up students and return back by 4:30 in the afternoon after dropping them.

Currently over 1,200 school buses play on the Kathmandu Valley roads, according to the MTPD.

Giving out this information in a news conference here on Thursday, Deputy Inspector General at the MTPD, Ganesh Raj Rai, said the new rules will go a long way in managing the Valley´s vehicular traffic.

As per the new rules, schools cannot accommodate more than 1.5 students on a single seat, have to paint the buses yellow and have to hang board in yellow in the front and rear of the bus indicating the school bus.

Amid growing threat to the existence of rhinoceros species in rhino range countries, including in Africa and Asia, Indonesia has declared 2012 as International Rhino Year.
Indonesia is among 11 countries supporting the declaration. Other supporters of Rhino Year include Nepal, India, Bhutan, Malaysia, South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
On the occasion of World Environment Day on June 5, Indonesian President President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made such a declaration at the request of International Union for Conservation of Nature and other conservation organisations. Following the declaration, it is hoped that all rhino range countries in Asia and Africa will join Indonesia and give
priority to saving rhinos though effective conservation efforts.

                An activist of All Nepal National Free Students Union (ANNFSU) has been critically injured in a shoot-out at Nayabazar in the Capital on Friday morning.
The injured has been identified as Basanta Shahi of Kailali, Dhangadi. He is undergoing treatment at the Teaching Hospital in Maharajgunj.
Shahi is  Amrit Science College, ANNFSU’s, Primary Committee Vice Chairman.
He has sustained two bullets in his body, police informed. The shoot-out took place at around 8.30 this morning.
The police have been investigating the incident.
Meanwhile, ANNFSU has said that the incident might have taken place due to the internal conflict within the union.