Monday, June 23, 2008

Naomi Campbell pleads guilty to assault!


Supermodel Naomi Campbell pleaded guilty today to assaulting two police officers during an "air rage" incident at Heathrow Airport. The anger-afflicted mannequin was charged with six different offenses, including attacking police officers, using abusive language to cabin crew and disorderly conduct as well as trying to kick police officers who tried to remove her from a British Airways flight. Naomi lost her temper after being told that one of her bags wasn't loaded on the plane. After using obscenities and demanding another flight, she was handcuffed and removed from the jet, but not before attacking the police officers who restrained her. She faces fines and up to six months in jail if the harshest sentence is handed down at Uxbridge Magistrates Court.

Padmapriya suicide case: police arrest Atul Rao!

The police arrested Atul Rao, childhood friend of Udupi MLA K. Raghupati Bhat, who allegedly helped his (Mr. Bhat’s) wife Padmapriya Bhat to go to New Delhi, in Mangalore on Monday, on charges of kidnapping and abetment to suicide.

Padmapriya Bhat committed suicide in a flat in New Delhi on June 15. Mr. Rao was brought to Manipal at about 6 p.m.

Addressing presspersons here on Monday, the investigating officer B.G. Achar said that Atul Ram alias Atul Rao was arrested at 1.30 p.m. from a spot in Mangalore on Monday.

Asked if Mr. Rao was in a hospital in Mangalore when he was arrested, he said: “Atul was not in a hospital. We got information that he was at a place in Mangalore and we arrested him from there.”

Mr. Achar said Mr. Rao was arrested following a complaint given by Mr. Bhat and after seeking legal opinion. A case was registered on Sunday night.

Mr. Rao was arrested under Sections 365 (kidnapping) and 306 (abetment to suicide) of the Indian Penal Code.

He would be produced in a Udupi court on Tuesday.

“The investigations are going on. I will be interrogating him (Mr. Rao). Many witnesses are yet to be questioned. Evidence is being collected. We (the police) visited Kunjargiri with Atul Rao today (Monday). A first information report (FIR) has been filed and has been dispatched to the court,” he said.

When asked about Mr. Atul Rao’s health, Mr. Achar said: “We are following all the guidelines issued by the Supreme Court in this regard. He will be produced before a doctor.”

Members of the Udupi Block Congress Committee staged a dharna in front of the taluk office and later staged a “rasta roko” for sometime here on Monday demanding a CBI probe into the death of Padmapriya Bhat, wife of Udupi MLA K. Raghupati Bhat.

Congress leader Pramod Madhwaraj said that though the Congress had faith in the State police, it had been reduced to “being a puppet in the hands of Home Minister V.S. Acharya.

KPCC spokesperson M.G. Hegde said that even a CBI probe might not reveal much as “all the evidence was systematically destroyed from day one by the police under the instructions of the Home Minister.”

The BJP was now saying that Mr. Bhat was grieving and a private matter should not be politicised. But it was the Sangh Parivar which had indulged in moral policing and made life difficult for people in Udupi and Dakshina Kannada districts.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Angelina Jolie - Latest crush!


There's no doubt that meeting Angelina Jolie can be nerve-wracking – but her Wanted costars say the superstar mom is incredibly down-to-earth.

"It's a little intimidating, someone like her who is presented as a goddess. [But] it takes, like, 30 seconds and you figure out she's just a cool woman," Wanted actor Thomas Kretschmann said at the film's press day Monday.

The German actor, who plays an assassin in the action flick out June 27, also described Jolie as "a cool mommy."

Kretschmann's kids and the Jolie-Pitt youngsters "played together from time to time" on set, he said. "She knows exactly what she wants and she's extremely smart."

But Jolie isn't the only "cool" person in her household. Costar Common calls Brad Pitt "a good dude."

"We hung out and he was a cool cat," said the rapper-turned-actor.

And Jolie? "She's an incredible mother, a beautiful mother," Common said. "She has so much realness to her."

Britney Spears Wants To Save Her Marriage!!


Britney Spears has told the father of her children she wants to halt divorce proceedings.

A source "close to the couple" told the National Enquirer magazine: "Britney called Kevin and told him 'I'm not divorcing you! I want my family back!'

"He was stunned. The call was about custody rights, and though Kevin suspected Britney has been stalling the divorce because of second thoughts, he was shocked when she told him she wanted him back.

"The conversation grew heated and Kevin said he wasn't interested in a reconciliation.

"Britney got upset and threatened to drag out the divorce for months until he saw things her way and came back to her.

The 25-year-old - who has two sons, 21-month-old Sean Preston and nine-month-old Jayden James with Kevin - has reportedly been telling friends filing for divorce was a mistake and she wants to rebuild her marriage.