Bhindi Baazaar Inc: Vedita Pratap Singh's Raunchy Debut

The actress is seen in two sex scenes
Lucknow girl Vedita Pratap Singh has shot two bold scenes in her debut film 'Bhindi Bazaar Inc.' The actor said she has already warned her mother about the lovemaking sequences.

Vedita will be seen as Shabana, an over-ambitious girl who can go to any limit to achieve what she wants in life.

She has two intimate scenes, one with actor Pawan Malhotra and the other with Prashant Narayan in the movie.

She had initial inhibitions about shooting the lovemaking scenes and said she was a bit taken aback because she had not done anything of this sort before.

Set in Mumbai, 'Bhindi Bazaar Inc.' is about pick-pocketing, an art which helps many earn their bread and butter.

Bhindi Baazaar Inc. is a thriller directed by Ankush Bhatt and produced by Karan Arora, starring Kay Kay Menon, Piyush Mishra, Prashant Narayanan, Deepti Naval, Shilpa Shukla, Pawan Malhotra.

The film is set in the underbelly of Mumbai, between the infamous by-lanes where crime is prevalent as a way of life. The film was announced at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

'Bhindi Baazaar Inc.' is the story of a pawn and his calculated moves to reach the other end of the chessboard. Revolving around vicious crime syndicates, the film starts with a game of chess being played between two characters: 'Shroff' and 'Darzi'.

70,000 Children Infected By HIV in India

An estimated 70,000 children are infected with HIV in India and the ailment is caused to most of them by parent-to-child-transmission.

70,000 children are infected with HIV in India - AFP

New Delhi, Jun 11 : An estimated 70,000 children are infected with HIV in the country and the ailment is caused to most of them by parent-to-child-transmission (PTCT), according to a recent finding by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO).

Participants of a UNICEF-state AIDS Prevention and Control Society seminar here said, quoting NACO estimates, that a small proportion of these children are infected by unsafe injections and blood transfusions.

"UNICEF supports the government in its effort to halt and reverse the HIV/AIDS outbreak in India to reduce the transmission of HIV from infected mothers to their children," the country chief of UNICEF, HIV and AIDS, Ivonne Camaroni told the media on the sidelines of the seminar on Thursday.

With 21,000 children infected every year through PTCT, the UNICEF wanted to provide strategic supplies of drugs and commodities, improve the capacity of staff by developing innovative communication approaches for prevention and care and helping to improve monitoring and reporting systems.

The possible factors behind infection of children were mother-to-child transmission, blood transfusion and HIV positive mothers not having availed prevention facility during pregnancy, Camaroni said.

"In West Bengal, UNICEF tied up with the organisation 'Bengal Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS' for a study which surveyed 995 HIV affected families," another UNICEF official said.

The survey was on families who were HIV positive and have HIV/AIDS infected or exposed children, another UNICEF official said. The number of children affected with HIV was high in districts like North and South 24 Parganas, Kolkata, East Midnapore, Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling.

Economic profile of the families show that 72.3 per cent fall in the BPL category, with most belonging to the unorganised sector and daily wage earners. "The report findings give us a glimpse into the harsh reality faced by the families and children living with HIV and AIDS," UNICEF West Bengal chief Lori Calvo said.

The finding showed that 29 per cent of fathers and 33 per cent of mothers of the surveyed children were illiterate.

"The study underscores the need to improve existing services in terms of access to appropriate medicine, nutrition and additional services like free transportation based on the socio-economic condition of the families," Camaroni said.

Sharapova Shows Off Abs

Sharapova shows off her washboard abs in sizzling sports bra shoot

Maria Sharapova

London, Jun 11 : Tennis queen Maria Sharapova has long been known for her pretty face and her oomph factor so required for success in modeling, and the former world No. 1 used it to good measure to sizzle in her new Nike’s ‘Make Yourself’ campaign, where she posed in a tiny sports bra alongside a bevy of fellow female sports stars.

The Russian tennis player, who was ousted in the French Open semifinal earlier this month by the eventual winner Na Li, rejoiced flaunting her rock hard abs and bulging biceps during an Annie Leibovitz photo shoot, reports the Daily Mail.

The stunning 24-year-old showed off her washboard stomach in tiny blue hot pants and a white sports bra while holding an abdominal crunch position.

The advertisements will appear in upcoming issues of Seventeen, InStyle and Glamour magazines.

Now, 3-D Printed Bikinis To Custom Fit Every Curve!

For the first time ever, designers have created bikinis called the ‘N12 bikini’ made from 3-D printers which could adapt to fit every woman’s curves perfectly.

The world's first 3-D printed two-piece is made of small nylon discs that are held together by thread-like springs.

Shapeways used their 3-D printing technology to create the material for the designers and called it Nylon 12, which is 'ideal swimsuit material as it is innately waterproof', and this is where the ultimate custom fit 3-D bikinis got its name from.

“Thousands of circular plates are connected by thin strings, creating a wholly new material that holds its form as well as being flexible," Discovery News quoted the designers Jenna Fizel and Mary Haung of Continuum Fashion as saying.

“The layout of the circle pattern was achieved through custom written code that lays out the circles according to the curvature of the surface. In this way, the aesthetic design is completely derived from the structural design,” they added.

First National Lu-Tran Kung Fu Championship in New Delhi

In a country where Cricket rules the roost, Om Prakash Thapa, founder of Lu Tran Kung - Fu Association (INDIA) has organised the first ever National Lu-Tran Kung Fu Championship in New Delhi. He plans to take an Indian team to the Kung-Fu World Cup.

By Ashim Sunam

Om Prakash Thapa, founder of Lu Tran Kung - Fu Association (INDIA), is not satisfied as he has not received any financial help from the government in organising National Lu-Tran Kung Fu Championship. In an exclusive interview, Thapa told this CJ that, “People in India only know about cricket, hockey, etc, so this Championship would help in spreading awareness of the game and help in spotting talent across the country.” In a confident tone, he later said, “I would like to place India in the Kung-fu world map”.

Om Prakash Thapa and Sanjay Sharma, founders of Lu Tran Kung - Fu Association (INDIA) decided to host a first ever National Lu-Tran Kung Fu Championship in New Delhi. The event started today at Jamia Millia Islamia university sports complex, which had also been used during the Commonwealth games 2010.

Martial arts players, which includes both boys and girls from Gujarat, Maharashtra, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Himachal Pradesh along with other states would be competing in the first ever National Lu-Tran Kung Fu Championship in New Delhi. He further said that Delhi and Assam have good Kung-Fu players.

With the Kung-fu World Cup scheduled in the US, he has high hopes of taking an Indian team to the world cup. “One of the main motives for organizing the event is to look out for players who can represent India at the world cup,” says Thapa, who is also the chief coach for LFTKA (India). But he also adds that if he does not find suitable players, India would not be sending a team for the World cup.

The winners of the Kung-Fu championship would be given certificates, medals, and uniforms, etc. They would not be given any cash prize money. It is with some help from his friends and sponsors that he has been able to organize this Kung-Fu championship.

Irom Sharmila's silent resilience ignored

New Delhi, Jun 11 : When it comes to fasts and dharnas, popularity clearly matters. Baba Ramdev and Anna Hazare hog the public limelight and the Centre's attention but a woman who has been on a fast in Manipur against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act has been ignored for ten years now.

The high profile fasts of activists in Delhi and the silent 10-year long fast of Irom Sharmila - Hazare and Ramdev are followed by TV cameras, their voice heard all over the country but Irom Sharmila fasts unnoticed by the national media, alone and ignored.

The Iron Lady of Manipur as she is often called has been on a fast for the last ten years protesting against the AFSPA that is in place in parts of Manipur and the north east and gives the Army and the paramilitary forces the power to shoot or arrest on mere suspicion. The Indian state has kept her alive on a cocktail of vitamins and nutrients. She is force-fed twice a day through her nose.

"I can't tolerate the atrocities on my contemporaries, on my people. This is God's will. I will carry on. It's intolerable," said Irom Sharmila Chanu.

Anna Hazare and Ramdev are known across India but perhaps the true satyagrahi is Irom Sharmila Chanu who for ten years hasn't eaten anything - not a morsel of food, not a drop of water.

Ramdev and Hazare are received at airports, invited to joint panels with government, she is treated like a criminal, perhaps because she's in Manipur and ignored by the media.

"My question is why can't they consider the northeast states like the rest of the country?" said Sharmila.

MTV Cancels Skins

Advertisers shunned show that depicted teens having sex, taking drugs

James Newman portrays Tony, right, and Sofia Black-D’Elia portrays Tea in a scene from Skins. (AP Photo/MTV)

MTV has pulled the plug on controversial sexed-up teen drama Skins after just one season. The much-talked-about US adaptation of the British hit, deserted by advertisers under pressure from the Parents Television Council, never attracted a huge audience, although it outperformed MTV's other scripted show, The Hard Times of R.J. Berger, which has been renewed, Entertainment Weekly notes.

"Skins is a global television phenomenon that, unfortunately, didn’t connect with a US audience as much as we had hoped,” MTV said in a statement. The PTC says the cancelation should serve as a warning for networks not to push boundaries.

"Life would be easier if MTV and other networks would take the concerns of parents and families seriously before even beginning production on something like this," a spokesman said.

Rachel Thevenard portrays Michelle, left, and Camille Cresencia-Mills portrays Daisy in a scene from "Skins."
(AP Photo/MTV)

4K Google Guitar Tunes Posted to YouTube

Bonus: Google will leave Doodle up one more day

Got your guitar out? No, not your Stratocaster, but your Google guitar?

Stretch your finger, because the Christian Science Monitor and several other sites are posting directions for and YouTube demos of some of the top songs tech-strummers are playing on the Google Doodle posted yesterday to honor guitar innovator's Les Paul's 96th birthday. Players have already plucked out some 4,000 tunes (or bit of them) and posted them to YouTube, notes CNET.

The doodle's runaway popularity has convinced Google to keep it up another day. The Monitor has tracked down instructions or demos of hits like "Stairway to Heaven," "Joy to the World," "Obladi, Oblida," "Louie Louie," and, of course, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."