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1 Hrithik Roshan Named Ultimate Style Icon Bollywood Star Hrithik Roshan

1 Hrithik Roshan Named Ultimate Style Icon Bollywood Star Hrithik Roshan

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Hrithik named ultimate style icon

Bollywood star has been named the ultimate style icon of in a recent survey. Yahoo! conducted a survey poll in April. The ‘Agneepath’ star is closely by cricketer MS Dhoni and superstar Shah Rukh in the online survey conducted by Yahoo. Hrithik got 18 per cent votes, while Dhoni bagged 16 and SRK 15 per cent votes in the survey. Celebrity couple Aishwarya and were voted the most stylish couple and megastar was named the most well dressed celebrity. was declared the celebrity for whom technology and style go hand-in-hand while yesteryears actress was named for her traditional Indian fashion sense. ‘Dirty Picture’ star Vidya Balan was voted for having the most unique fashion sense.

Dada Saheb Phalke Award

Legendary Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee was conferred the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award by Vice President Hamid Ansari . He received the Swarna Kamal (golden lotus) medallion, a cash prize of Rs 10 lakh and a shawl.

Dadasaheb Phalke Academy award

Dadasaheb Phalke Academy awards are being held in the name of father of Indian cinema Dadasaheb Phalke. This award is different from the prestigious instituted by the which went to Bengali cinema legend Soumitra Chatterjee this year.

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, , wife Saira Bano, veteran actors and and others were honoured with Dadasaheb Phalke Academy awards.

Bahchchan got the Phalke Ratna award, while and Dilip Kumar got Saraswatibai Phalke award.

Veteran actors Tanuja and Vinod Khanna were handed over Legendary actor award in male and female category, respectively while received Phalke Icon Cine Artiste award. 2

Ram Gopal Gupta was given Phalke Senior Most Producer award, Gurudas Maan got Phalke Versatile Singer award and Neila Devi received Phalke Golden Era award (Shammi ’s wife).

Vidya Balan got Phalke Memorable Performance award (‘The Dirty Picture’), Ajay Devgan got Outstanding Performance award (‘Singham’), Parineeti Chopra and Pakistani singer-turned- actor received Phalke New Talent award in male and female category, was handed over Best Commercial Film (‘Zindagi Naa Milegi Dobara’), got Phalke Versatile Cine Star. Ekta Kapoor was given Phalke Icon Producer award – Film & Television.

Besides the awards, Big B unveiled a wax statue of Dadasaheb Phalke, the film pioneer who directed India’s first full-length feature, ‘Raja Harishchandra’ in 1913.

Facebook sets $28-35 price range for IPO

Facebook has set a price range of $28 to $35 for its initial public offering of stock. The company valued at between $77 billion and $96 billion. Facebook could raise about $11 billion through the IPO. The company is expected to go public on May 18 and the stock will be listed on Nasdaq under the symbol ‘FB’.

Naik appointed as head of House panel on law, justice

Shantaram Naik of Congress has been appointed the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice. He replaces Abhishek Singhvi, who resigned in the aftermath of the CD controversy. Naik has been elected to Rajya Sabha from Goa, has served on committee for a year earlier. Ansari has also appointed BSP’s Satish Misra to the Standing Committee on Home Affairs, BJP’s J P Nadda to panel on Transport, Tourism and Culture and Congress’s Satyavrat Chaturvedi to the panel on Agriculture.

Indian women won Asian Squash title

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Indian women created history by winning their maiden title as they beat Hong Kong 2-0 in the final of the Asian Team Squash championship. In the women’s final, Joshna Chinappa, ranked 71st , Dipika Pallikal, ranked 14.

India went down 0-2 to Pakistan in the men’s final.

Kohlschreiber wins BMW Open

Fourth-seed Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany won the BMW Open with a 7-6 (10/8), 6-3 victory over Croatia’s Marin Cilic.

François Hollande Elected President Of

Francois Hollande won the French presidential runoff elections with 52 percent of the votes, defeating the sitting president Nicolas Sarkozy. Hollande becomes the first Socialist president since Francois Mitterrand and only the second in the Fifth Republic.

Excise on gold jewellery, TDS on realty rolled back

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, facing protests against some taxation proposals in the 2012-13 Budget, on Monday announced a rollback of duty levied on jewellery and deferred implementation of the General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR) by a year. The government has decided to withdraw the levy (one per cent excise duty) on all precious metal jewellery, branded or unbranded, with effect from March 17, 2012.

There will no longer be required to deduct 1% of the transaction value at the time of purchase of property. Similarly, for cash purchase of jewellery, the minister has increased the threshold for tax collection at source from Rs 2 lakh proposed by him on March 16 to Rs 5 lakh now. The TCS threshold for cash purchase of bullion, excluding coin or any item weighing 10 grams or less, has, however, been retained at Rs 2 lakh.

Honour for Jaipur paediatrician

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The National Neonatology Forum of India has nominated noted Jaipur-based paediatrician Prof. Ashok Gupta as chairman of its international committee for 2012-13. The committee will assist the developing countries in taking new initiatives for newborn health care management.

SBI raises fixed deposit rates in foreign currency

State Bank of India today raised interest rates on fixed deposits in foreign currency by up to 1.75 per cent. For FCNR (B) dollar-denominated deposit, interest rate has been increased by 0.75 per cent to 3.05 per cent from 2.30 per cent for a maturity of 1-2 year.

Pandit Ravishankar gets Tagore award

Sitar maestro Pandit Ravishankar has been nominated for the first Tagore Award, instituted by the government to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Nobel Laureate , for promoting values of universal brotherhood. The name of Ravishankar, the Varanasi-born most known contemporary Indian musician, was cleared unanimously by a jury under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. On the recommendation of the jury, the award has been renamed as ‘Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony’. The award comprises Rs one crore, a citation in a scroll, a plaque and an exquisite traditional handicraft or handloom item.

O’Sullivan wins World title

Ronnie O’Sullivan won the 2012 World snooker championship beating Ali Carter 18-11 in the final. Victory gave O’Sullivan his fourth World title while defeat meant Carter had lost in his second final appearance after going down 18-8 to fellow Englishman in the 2008 edition.

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