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Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and Shubhomoy Sikdar report on how Nitish Kumar's political opponents allege that the Bihar chief minister is involved in a controversy that may tarnish his clean reputation.

After seeing MiD DAY's report on the Rakhi Sawant gun controversy on Tuesday, veteran actress Rakhee Gulzar telephoned the paper to say that the Italian 8 mm pistol, which two arrested UP criminals claimed was Rakhi's, actually belonged to her.

Daulatpur village head Raj Kumari, her son Avnindra Singh had moved the court for filing a case against Bachchan and five others, alleging that the actor had "cheated" people by announcing setting up of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Mahavidyala Degree College in the village, whereas no work has started even after the announcement made two years back. Bachchan had purchased 16 bighas of land in Daulatpur village in Fatehpur tehsil of the district in two phases -- in 2006 and 2007 -- and had announced setting up of the college.

At the IPL awards night, during an act with superstar Shah Rukh Khan, Bhajji jokingly said, `Bhangra toh langra hai’ (`Bhangra is lame’). This comment did not go down well with members of the Punjab Heritage and Culture Society, who saw the promos of the event on air recently.

BJP President Nitin Gadkari courted a major controversy by making abusive remarks against Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad for not supporting the cut motions in the Lok Sabha.

China's official media have now waded into the controversy surrounding Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh's remarks in Beijing, praising him for speaking out against restrictions on Chinese companies but criticising his comments on Chinese dams on the Brahmaputra river.

Vidhu Vinod Chopra, the producer of the super-hit film “3 Idiots” served notice for copyright violation on the makers of animation film “The 4th Idiot”. The notice was served on the “The 4th Idiot” producer and director Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury while the 35-minute film - dealing with memory enhancement techniques - was being screened for students of the local City Montessori Schools

Talks between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) on a future government set-up in Jharkhand seem to have reached a dead end. The BJP leadership pparently turned down a JMM proposal of a 50:50 power sharing arrangement under which each of the two coalition partners would head the government for half of the tenure of five years.

The hardworking Jat community of Haryana, Delhi, Rajsthan and Western U.P. is facing serious identity crisis. The whole country, Union Law Minister Veerapa Moily, National Human Rights Commission, media, particularly the English press and electronic media and Congress party high command is up in arms against the Jats for demanding amendments in the Hindu Marriage Act banning marriages between the same gotra (sub-caste) and in the same village.

A copyright case has been filed against the Roshans While Hrithik Roshan and the 'Kites' team are soon headed to New York for the movie's world premiere, there's been trouble brewing for them in India.

All Voices - Mumbai Terror Attcks, 26/11 main accused Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab is found guilty, according to judge ML Tahaliyani pronounced the verdict in the biggest terror trail witnessed in recent times. The two Indians, who were named as co-accused in the case, have been acquitted.

Anu Malik who is a judge on season five of Indian Idol, is up in arms against the channel airing the show and has threatened to consider his options. Anu is peeved that a co-judge, singer Sunidhi Chauhan, isn’t only being given more prominence in the publicity campaign, she’s also being paid more than him. Anu has been a judge on the show since it was launched while Sunidhi joined it only this season.

Union Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor landed himself in a fresh controversy when Lalit Modi, an avid user of Twitter, tweeted that the Union minister had asked him not to reveal the ownership pattern of the IPL Kochi franchise. The dispute erupted when Modi disclosed the names of some of the owners of the consortium that bought the franchise for $333 million. Modi has also alleged that he was told by Tharoor not to ask who these shareholders were.

Now it’s Shahrukh Khan who’s being linked to the Kochi IPL controversy. Sunanda Puskhar, who is purportedly involved in this controversy, is now linked to Shahrukh’s team KKR. The businesswoman claims that earlier she was offered to join the Kolkata franchise. She tells a new agency, “I had previously been approached by Karim Morani of Kolkata Knight Riders to join them in a similar capacity and had regretted that the timing was not convenient for me.”

Tennis star Sania Mirza is again on media against the controversy that has been raised with her would-be Pakistani cricketer shoaib Malik. Hyderabad star sania mirza already got engaged with an industrialist, but it haven`t gone up to marriage due to some reasons. Then she recently decided to marry Pakistani ex-captain shoaib malik.

Kings XI Punjab’s former skipper, Yuvraj Singh wanted to shift out of the side and play for the Mumbai Indians this season.

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan today said the controversy over his presence at a function here for the inauguration of the second phase of the Bandra-Worli sea link has been "manufactured".

Ramdev hinted at entering politics, saying that he would join with the objective of cleansing the system. Ramdev said he would not stand for elections personally, but would field candidates in all 543 Lok Sabha constituencies.

Uttar Pradesh politician woman Mayawati wore money garland behind honor of 76th birth anniversary of founder Kanshi Ram. Mayawati, a chief minister and UP politician woman, and other Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader were together for founder anniversary.

The who and who of Bollywood was present at the 55th Filmfare Awards held at the Yash Raj studios. The noisy auditorium turned silent after Neil Nitin Mukesh told his seniors Shahrukh Khan and Saif Ali Khan to shut up. The delegates at the function feared for the worst, as the memories of director Ashutosh Gowariker bursting out at Farah Khan and Sajid Khan at a film award function, rushed back. Neil lost his cool at the recent Filmfare Award after co-host Shahrukh and Saif tested his patience. Shahrukh pulled the final trigger by saying why he has three names and no surname. He went on to say that his surname is Khan and so too Saif’s but he has no last name. On being mentioned on his family, Neil got into a rage and told Shahrukh to restrain himself, as his father was in the audience. He didn’t stop there. He told Shahrukh to just ‘shut up’.