Break even
Deepika Padukone on her link ups & latest flick Break Ke Baad 
Actor Deepika Padukone, who's been linked to Farhan Akhtar, Shahid Kapoor and most recently liquor baron Vijay Mallya's son Siddharth, is unfazed by the rumours and says she has learnt to accept the fact that all this comes with the work she does.



Deepika Padukone on her link ups & latest flick Break Ke Baad 

Burning problem
Sonu Niigaam escapes unhurt during stage show Bollywood playback singer Sonu Niigaam narrowly escaped from getting his face burnt during a stage performance here.The 36-year-old singer was performing at Emperors Palace in Johannesburg, when he accidentally stepped into the path of one of the flamethrowers at the edge of the stage."What are doing, man? Do you want me to burn my face?," a clearly irritated Niigaam told the technicians from stage before continuing with his performance.

Playing Rajneeti
My character resembles Duryodhana: Manoj Bajpai 
Manoj Bajpai says his character in forthcoming Raajneeti is very similar to Duryodhana from the Hindu epic Mahabharata - he is powerful, regal and politically motivated."I am playing Virendra Pratap Singh. My role is almost like Duryodhana in Mahabharata," Manoj said.

Basic instinct
Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor has lent support to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to promote vegetarianism in India. Shahid shot for an advertisement of PETA in Mumbai on Sunday in which he urged people to switch over to vegetarianism.As for appearing in the publicity campaign and becoming a vegetarian, he said it was an individual's personal choice and out of certain conviction."This is something very personal. I changed because something inside me made me want to change. These are very personal choices, which can only be made by yourself; nobody else can force them on you.

Jokes apart
After making a career out of doing comic and light-hearted films, Arshad Warsi is now all set to take a serious route.The actor, fresh from the success of his film Ishqiya, has taken up a stark thriller delving into the issue of corruption, which will mark the debut of filmmaker Bejoy Nambiar who has been an assistant to Mani Rathnam for the past many years.Arshad, popularly known as Circuit, his screen name in ‘Munnabhai' movies, will play a out-of-job cop in the yet-untitled film which revolves around a hit and run case."This is a serious, issue based film and I can't explain how much I am looking forward to begin work on it.

Party politics
Daniel Radcliffe takes first step into politics
Actor Daniel Radcliffe has taken his first step to embark on a career in politics by signing up as the advisor to Britain's Liberal Democrats party, say reports.Radcliffe had recently revealed his political allegiance, saying, "I'll be voting Lib Dem, without a shadow of a doubt. (Party leader) Nick Clegg rang me and we had a good chat. He's seriously impressive."

Hughs support
Sandra Bullock gets supporting shoulder from Hugh Grant British heartthrob Hugh Grant has reportedly turned out to be the 'friend in need is a friend indeed' for actor Sandra Bullock, after news of her husband Jesse James cheating on her broke out.The 49-year-old actor has been nothing short of a Godsend to his Oscar-winning friend and Two Weeks Notice co-star Sandra Bullock who is dealing with sudden crisis in her personal life after a tattoo model Michelle Mcgee claimed that she had a long affair with James, Mirror reported online.

Cozy corner
If you thought one needs kanals of spaces and loads of money to make a house, check out Sina and IS Bhore’s place in Sector 38 West. “A beautiful home bears a personal touch,” says Sukhamni Bhore, who after completing a course in interior designing did up her own place as the first assignment.“I was low on budget as well as time and yet I am pleased that the house bears the stamp of those who live here,” shares Sukhmani.

Informal living area with book shelf

Song of freedom
Enough of documentaries, campaigns, lectures, billboards posters…all for the cause of the girl child. But here comes another one, an album albeit with a difference, titled Babula, which aims to motivate people to check female foeticide. “What puts it in a different league is that it doesn’t make any false claims or asks people to daydream about their daughters becoming a Kalpana Chawla or a Kiran Bedi when they grow up,” says Jagmeet Bal, director of the video, from the city but now settled in Mumbai.
Jagmeet Bal with Priyanka Chopra

Fest forward
It’s curtains up on the 2nd Chandigarh Arts and Heritage Festival, 2010. The event committed to establishing Chandigarh as a global destination for the arts, is set to be held at Tagore theatre and Plaza Sector 17. Being organised by the Chandigarh Administration, the festival kicks off on the World Theatre day i.e. March 27 and continues till April 1.

Spade work
Veggie vagaries
I get many queries about successful cultivation of vegetables in the kitchen garden. No doubt experimentation and first-hand experience are the best teachers, there are a few tips that may help.Small things make big differences. Now when we are growing summer vegetables, you may be facing some common problems. One of them is non-germination of ladyfinger or rotting as the seeds emerge. Ladyfinger should always be sown after soaking the seeds overnight. 

Just walk, no talk
A drunk and sloshed Amitabh Bachchan in Hum clearly demarcated that there are two types of people in this world. At this moment, while giving it a good, we fully agree with Big B. Indeed, there are two kinds of people in this world. One, those who like to possess and flash every expensive, swanky cell phone they see in a mobile shop. Whether or not they understand the features, they flaunt it with aplomb. They are the ones credited for increasing the revenue of the telecom industry. This is a category that comes up with walk and talk ideas. They just talk and talk and talk, dedicated patrons of the mobile industry. And, the second type (the true descendants of our race), who have conveniently ignored, and brushed aside the benefits of technology. They 'fear' the word 'mobile phone', as it was some kind of 'microbial attack'. Mr Bachchan you were so right!

The heat is on
Summer heat can play havoc on your PC. A brush of cool air can do the trick. Check out how?
Summers are hitting in and so is the heat. Heat is one problem that has prominent effect on all our gadgets. One of them is a computer. Like a heat stroke hits us our PC's might just go through a core stroke. There is no specific time or place for it to happen, but, yes it could happen to you if you live in an area with lot of dust around and you have placed your PC write next to a door or in front of a open window. In basic terms, a CPU is a collection of millions of microscopic electronic 'switches', all crammed into a tiny space known as its 'core'. 

Photo symbiosis
Sometimes you come across a rare scene or an interesting site/happening, which you want to immediately capture through your mobile cameras. Also, you cannot resist sharing the picture and video with your friends or colleagues. But we face challenges in order to share the moment with our pals. Either we would connect our mobile phones with our PCs and share them through e-mail or blogs. Or, we would share something later through Bluetooth. But now we have mBit's p2p without any limitations of time and reach.

Dil, Dosti etc
MSN India launches a unique and first-of-its-kind Hindi Portal - MSN Yuva. Yuva is a one stop shop online Hindi channel for the local and global youth of India. It is One of MSN India's many innovations - MSN Yuva is an effort to reach out to the Hindi speaking youth of the country. It offers a window into every aspect that interests Gen X, from sports, to entertainment, to career counseling, to the latest news. MSN Yuva, replete with all this and more, can be accessed www.msnindia.com/yuva/at.