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From skimpy skirts to tight fitted tank-tops. From sleek evening gowns to bikinis. We have seen them all but when it comes to the sensuous quotient there is nothing that beats the Indian saree. Many fashion designers and Bollywood too swears by it. When going for an informal do or a hip party you can never go wrong with a saree. And the saree bug has bitten the foreigners alike. Here's a look at leading ladies from various fields who wore a saree and how... Popular American girl band, Pussycat Dolls Australian beauty Tania Zaetta Liz Hurley Anna Kournikova - She charms everyone both on and off the field alike Serena and Venus - The Williams sisters Oscar-winning actress Dame Helen Mirren Jelena Jankovic, the fastest rising player on the tennis circuit

Well known Indian actor Anupam Kher has opened Britain's first Bollywood acting school in Ealing . Kher has chosen the West London suburb as an ideal place to train British actors to crack the Indian film industry. Taking up the first class, the actor instructed his students in the finer points of cliches, once considered an essential ingredient for the thousands of commercial films churned out by Bombay based studios each year. Kher's purpose is not to replicate the Kitsch of past films but to demonstrate the traps that his students will be trained to avoid. "Indian cinema has changed because the audience has changed. They are not easily impressed anymore. They want to see films about how people behave in real life. What i am not trying to do is to get rid of cliches, which for years we've seen in Bollywood movies," he said. At the end of the course, each of the seven trainees will travel 4,500 miles from the Ealing Instisture of Media to Kher's school in Mum...

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India's 1st Gold Medal at Beijing Olympics Beijing: Abhinav Bindra won India’s first ever individual Olympic gold medal when he claimed the men’s 10m air rifle shooting title in Beijing Monday 11th August 2008. Bindra, 25, a businessman from Chandigarh, followed his world championship title two years ago to finally win a landmark gold medal for India. The Indian trumped his rivals with the best finish of 104.5 in the 10-shot final as he went into the last shot level with Hakkinen on 689.7 points. While Bindra secured his best score of 10.8 in the deciding shot, Hakkinen managed only 9.7 to concede the silver to Zhu, whose last shot was 10.5. Bindra finished with a combined tally of 700.5. Bindra said, “Life cannot get better than this. I’m thrilled about winning the gold... It’s very difficult to describe how I feel because the winning moment is yet to sink in. I guess it was my day today.” Dedicating his victory to family and fellow Indians, “I know my country was yea...

Cellphones may soon replace plastic cards for withdrawing and depositing money. Some banks have already started testing the technology and may implement it later this year. ICICI Bank has already started experimenting with card less transactions though it is not known which company’s technology platform they use. The bank has recently launched card less remittance service. Apart from that, a Bengaluru based mobile payment solution provider mChek is working with banks in India and abroad to roll-out its card-less technology platform. An employee of the firm, focused on mobile bill payment , recharge, flight bookings, and movie ticketing, says mobile phones can be the second level of authentication, beyond passwords, for establishing identities. Airtel has this technology already in use. Using two levels, rather than just one, implies a greater level of assurance. Currently, when an ATM card is inserted into a machine and a pin entered, the combination of the two, which is registered wit...

Batman has no limits," says Bruce Wayne to his manservant, Alfred, early in The Dark Knight, and the accountants at Warner Brothers, which released the movie, are likely to agree. I'm not so sure. The Dark Knight, praised by critics for its sombre themes and grand ambitions, has proven to be a mighty box office force in a summer already dominated by superheroes of various kinds. But any comic book fan knows that a hero at the height of his powers is a few panels removed from mortal danger, and that hubris has a way of summoning new enemies out of the shadows. Are the Caped Crusader and his colleagues basking in an endless summer of triumph, or is the sun already starting to set? The season began with Iron Man back in May, which anticipated The Dark Knight in striking many reviewers as a pleasant surprise and hordes of moviegoers as a must-see. The July Fourth weekend belonged to Hancock, which played with the superhero archetype by making him a grouchy, slovenly drunk rather t...