Didn't use daughter's name to win 'Bigg Boss': Shweta Tiwari

Shweta Tiwari, the first woman to bag the 'Bigg Boss' title, says people feel she had got sympathy votes for being a single mother, but she never used her daughter to win the show.  

Many of Shweta's fellow contestants felt that she kept talking about her daughter on the show and that would have led her to win, but the popular television actress completely refutes such claims.

'I never said it, everyone in the house used to say that Shweta is a single mother and she needs this money. I'm not so weak that I will use my daughter to win. I am capable enough that even if I would have not won this, I would have been able to take good care of her,' the 30-year-old told IANS in an interview.

The actress has daughter Palak from her estranged husband Raja Choudhary who had also participated in the season two of 'Bigg Boss', which was won by Ashutosh Kaushik.

Shweta pipped other finalists - Dolly Bindra, Ashmit Patel and Khali - to bag the top honour and says the win was unexpected.

Ind vs SA T20: India beat South Africa by 21 runs

DURBAN: An injury-hit India produced a disciplined all-round performance to notch up an emphatic 21-run victory over South Africa in the only Twenty20 International on Sunday. 

Scorecard 

Playing without key openers Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag, India rode on a brilliant half-century by Rohit Sharma (53 off 34 balls) and Suresh Raina's racy 23-ball 41 to post a competitive 168/6 after skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat. 

• India lost 1st wicket in 3rd over – 1-18 (Vijay, 2.4 ov)
• W Parnell to M Vijay, OUT! A terrific catch by van Wyk! Full ball, on off and Vijay goes for a big hit down the ground but only skies the ball. van Wyk has to run back and puts in the dive to get his hand to it. First breakthrough for the Proteas!
• India: 50 runs in 5.1 overs (31 balls), Extras 2
• India lost 2nd wicket in 8th over – 2-67 (Kohli, 7.3 ov)
• J Botha to V Kohli, OUT – Bowled! Botha has broken through his defenses and knocked his stumps over. India have lost their second wicket.
• India: 100 runs in 11.6 overs (72 balls), Extras 2
• RG Sharma: 50 off 32 balls (5 x 4, 2 x 6)
• India lost 3rd wicket in 13th over – 3-109 (Sharma, 12.5 ov)
• JP Duminy to R Sharma, OUT! What a catch! He’s picked that on the rope! Wide and full, Sharma looks to hit that for another six over long-on. It looks good until Ntini times a perfect jump and plucks that out of the air. He manages not to tread on the rope with his feet – it was that close!
• India lost 4th wicket in 14th over – 4-110 (Yuvraj Singh, 13.1 ov)
• R Peterson to Y Pathan, OUT! Run out! Mis-communication or no communication! Yuvraj is gone. Wide ball down Pathan’s leg stump, de Villiers doesn’t pick it up, and Yuvraj goes for the single. Pathan isn’t interested and Yuvraj has to sprint back. Fine leg whips the ball to the bowler and he’s well short of his ground.

Sourav Ganguly fans threaten to stall release of SRK’s Ra.One

Kolkata. After Sourav Ganguly went unsold in the IPL auctions, virtually finishing his on-field cricketing career, supporters of the former Indian captain have decided to take up the issue with Shah Rukh Khan. SRK owns IPL team Kolkata Knight Riders, which had decided not to retain Ganguly for the fourth season, thus offloading Ganguly onto the auction floor.

Ganguly fans have decided not to let SRK’s upcoming movie Ra.One get released in West Bengal unless the Bollywood actor issues a public apology to Dada and all the Bengalis everywhere in the world for pushing Dada into such “ignominious” position.

SRK plays a robot called G.One in his upcoming movie Ra.One

“It’s a well thought of conspiracy,” claimed an angry Jatin Ganguly while burning an effigy of SRK, “why has Shohrukh Boka called himself G.One in the movie? Souravda is the one and the only G.”

In what turned out to be one of the major embarrassments in his chequered career, Sourav Ganguly was left red-faced as none of the 10 franchises put his name up in the wish list for the second time after the first round of auctions ended in Bangalore on Sunday. Similarly Chris Gayle, Brian Lara, Sanath Jayasurya were all rejected during the first round and never came up for a second discussion. Only Mohammed Kaif turned out to be real lucky as he was finally snapped up by Royal Challengers Bangalore for $130,000 after being ignored twice.

One of the realistic reason could be his base price of $400,000. By the time the re-auctions of the unsold players were held, it became clear that his old team KKR who had a purse of $425,000 won't bid for him. Ditto for Chennai Super Kings who had almost exhausted their purse with only $385,000 remaining.

Onions becoming headache for India

India is trying to persuade Pakistan to resume full exports of onions, foreign minister S M Krishna said on Friday, as food inflation weighs on Asia's third-largest economy and fuels anger against the ruling coalition.Discontent over food inflation has been a major headache for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who is struggling with a slew of corruption charges against his government, eroding its political capital from an impressive election victory in 2009. Last month, India abolished import taxes on onions after prices nearly tripled in a month.
"We have initiated talks and before not too long, we are hopeful we will find a solution to this, easing pressure within our country for onions," Mr Krishna told a press conference in Delhi

2G spectrum scam: CBI summons A Raja for questioning

New Delhi, Oct.26 : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday reiterated its demand that Telecom Minister A.Raja be sacked for his controversial role in the allocation of 2G spectrum.
Addressing a news conference in the capital here this afternoon, BJP General Secretary Arun Jaitely claimed that by allocating 2G spectrum at prices that were in existence in 2001 and not what was the prevailing rate in 2009, A.Raja had colluded in a fraud and loss of more than Rs.60,000 crores, making it the largest scam in independent India history.
"It is unfortunate that the Prime Minister has chosen to comment on the innocence of the minister, even while the investigations are on. There was no occasion for the Prime Minister to send such a signal to the investigative agencies directly under him," Jaitely said.
"This country has been robbed of a large amount of money by this misdemeanour of the Telecom Department. The compulsions of the coalition politics should not come in the way of an honest investigation. Propriety requires that while the investigations are under way, the minister should cease to be in office. His continuation in that ministry is itself a deterrent to an honest and independent investigation," he added.
"The entire nation is closely watching this investigation. Let this investigation not result in holding civil servants guilty and the minister innocent. It was the minister who is the prime accused and the civil servants were only carrying out his dictates," Jaitely further said.
He said that with the Central Bureau of Investigation registering a regular case with regard to the allotment of spectrum for the 2-G license issued by the Department of Telecommunications in 2007; the offices of the Department of Telecommunications have been searched and various documents have been seized, there was serious ground to assume that an impropriety had been committed in the public domain.

"When spectrum was alloted in 2008, why was it done at 2001 prices?" he asked.

Even in a draw, India can rejoice

A tame draw was perhaps the worst climax this pulsating series could have had. Almost daily, the series threw up exciting and riveting action, but the last day of the high-octane contest turned out to be a rather damp squib. Could the series have finished anyway different from the way it did?

Perhaps it could, but it would have taken a very confident India to go for the target of 340 runs on the last day of the match. One could argue that being the No. 1 side, India could have at least tried and given a shot at it.

Probably, the visitors would have gone for it had there not been so much baggage from the past. They have never won a series in South Africa and slumping to another loss in pursuit of a highly unlikely victory must have deterred them from giving it a real shot.

Karan Johar returns to candyfloss cinema

Karan Johar is back with a bang with his upcoming directorial venture Student Of The Year starring three newcomers. The film will be produced by none other than Karan's best friend, Shah Rukh Khan.

The project was kept under wraps for a long time, but now Karan is promoting his new

 

film on Twitter.

Karan, who is known for promoting new talents, will be launching Mahesh Bhatt's daughter Alia Bhatt, David Dhawan's son Varun Dhawan and another newcomer Siddharth Malhotra. Varun and Siddharth are not new to this industry, as they have assisted various directors.

While KJo tried to dabble in serious stuff with My Name Is Khan, his directorial debut Kuch Kuch Hota Hai still remains the favourite among his fans. So is he now gearing up for another fun flick on college life like KKHH? Stay glued to this space.