Salman Khan Is Kareena’s Favourite Actor

Kareena Kapoor has the distinction of acting with all the top Khans of Bollywood. She acted with Aamir Khan in 3 Idiots, Shah Rukh Khan in RA.One, Salman Khan in Bodyguard and Imraan Khan in Ek Main…Ek Thu. She will be soon seen in Agent Vinod with her beau Saif Ali Khan.

At a recent function held in Mumbai, she had to choose her favourite actor and Kareena Kapoor had picked Salman Khan.

The 31 year old actress said that Salman Khan is a sweetheart and the lifeline of Bollywood.

ANOTHER MISS SRI LANKA DEBUTS IN BOLLYWOOD

Miss Sri Lanka 2009, Gamya Wijayadasa makes her debut in Manish Manikpuri’s Aalaap with an item song called Chadhti Jawaani.The music of the item song has been composed by Agnee and the song is already a rage all over Chattisgarh where Gamya performed recently at a promotional event organized by the producers Nishant Tripathi and Abhishek Mishra of Sri Shankaracharya Arts.

Gamya has an MBA from the University of Melbourne and says that she flew down to Raipur to shoot this song even without having heard it.

“It’s a situational number that has been picturized at an engagement party of one of the pivotal characters in the film.”

The lyrics of the song sung by Kanika Joshi and Bonnie Chakraborty go like: “Chadti jawani mazedar/Dheere dheere le le maja.”

Being a Sri Lankan, Gamya didn’t understand most of the song’s lyrics.

“But that wasn’t an issue. The film deals with how music is used to quell Naxallism in Chattisgarh ad stars Amit Purohit, Pitobash, Rituparna Sengupta, Raghuvir Yadav, Omkar Das Manikpuri, Murli Sharma, Aabid Shamim and Abhimanyu Singh.”

Gamya Prasadini Wijayadasa was the winner of Derana Veet Miss Sri Lanka in 2009.

NAVI PILLAY SPEAKS ON SYRIA, NOTHING ON SRI LANKA

Sri Lanka has already extended an invitation to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, to visit the island and observe the progress towards comprehensive reconciliation, Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said.

Addressing the 19th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva today (27), he added that there is already a senior advisor of the High Commissioner’s office working in Sri Lanka from as far back as 2005.

Samarasinghe, the Leader of the Sri Lanka Delegation, stated that in the light of this commitment by Sri Lanka, “there is no justification or urgency whatsoever” in floating a resolution calling for the implementation of the LLRC’s recommendations and engagement with the High Commissioner, when this has already been effectively undertaken by the Government.

He stated that Sri Lank has also continued to engage in Geneva and at other international fora, and briefed the international community about the country’s progress, problems and solutions that it has devised.

We have hosted several high profile officials from several countries to visit Sri Lanka to view the reconstruction work, the Minister said. “We continue to engage the international community by inviting them to witness first-hand the progress being made on the ground.”

Sri Lanka has already extended an invitation to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, to visit the island and observe the progress towards comprehensive reconciliation, Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said.

Addressing the 19th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva today (27), he added that there is already a senior advisor of the High Commissioner’s office working in Sri Lanka from as far back as 2005.

Samarasinghe, the Leader of the Sri Lanka Delegation, stated that in the light of this commitment by Sri Lanka, “there is no justification or urgency whatsoever” in floating a resolution calling for the implementation of the LLRC’s recommendations and engagement with the High Commissioner, when this has already been effectively undertaken by the Government.

He stated that Sri Lank has also continued to engage in Geneva and at other international fora, and briefed the international community about the country’s progress, problems and solutions that it has devised.

We have hosted several high profile officials from several countries to visit Sri Lanka to view the reconstruction work, the Minister said. “We continue to engage the international community by inviting them to witness first-hand the progress being made on the ground.”

POLICE BUST ILLEGAL MAID HIRING NETWORK RUN BY LANKAN WOMAN

Kuwaiti police has arrested a Sri Lankan woman and many Asian housemaids who have absconded from their employers to work at other houses for more money.The Sri Lankan woman, in her 60s, confessed to giving jobs to absconding maids at other houses in return for KD100 ($360) paid by the new employers.

Police raided her house in Kuwait City and arrested seven Sri Lankan maids, one Indian and one Filipina.

“Police raided the house after receiving a tip off from an Asian woman…the Sri Lankan told police that woman reported her because she was jealous,” the Arabic language daily Alanba said, adding that all those arrested would be deported from the oil-rich Gulf emirate.

SRI LANKA EXPECTS 10% DROP IN ITS IRAN CRUDE DEMAND

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Sri Lanka expects a range of inflation-fighting policies will cool demand enough to help it trim its crude imports from Iran by at least 10 percent, a senior government official said on Friday.

“We’re quite confident there will be a reduction in the quantity of oil we purchase because of our new policies,” the official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. “Our own view is that it will reduce by at least 10 percent, and that will satisfy both parties.”

Sri Lanka may be hard hit by U.S. sanctions on Iran, given that it gets 93 percent of its crude from Tehran.

The United States is the island nation’s largest trading partner, while Iran is its fourth biggest.

In the last month, Sri Lanka has increased interest rates to avert a looming balance-of-payments crisis, raised state-controlled fuel prices, and stopped defending the rupee currency.