Wafaa Yaakoub, a 23-year-old teacher from the Law Faculty of Bahrain University, is crowned as Miss Arab World 2007 after nearly six hours of contest on 28th July, Saturday. The 25-year-old Miss Egypt Shaimma Mansour and Miss Lebanon Abeer Layous, 23, became first and second runner-up. Seventeen women from 15 countries attended the final competition at the closing ceremony of the second Miss Arab World Contest. After being crowned by Miss Arab World 2006 Claudia Hanna from Iraq, Yaakoub said she was very happy to win the title. Asked whether she would continue her teaching career after winning, Yaakoub hesitantly nodded in affirmation. Baharaini Wafaa is first ever contestant from Bahrain to participate in Miss Arab World. Wafaa showed poise under pressure as she gave confident ...

Wow! I want to see Black Taj Mahal. I would definitely love to see black Taj Mahal where Salman Khan will be romancing Ali Carter in the movie “Marigold”. And also would love to see magnificent sheesh mahal and Agra Fort sets of “Jodhaa Akbar”. Yes! We are getting Holly (Hollywood) for good. National award-winner art director Nitin Desai will throw open the sets of Jodhaa Akbar to the public once Ashutosh Gowariker wraps up the shoot of his period film. The idea came to Desai after he visited Hollywood studios like Universal and Warner Bros, which is part of every tourist’s itinerary. “Desai will be preserving the sets which have been erected for the magnum opus. Desai put in three years ...

Salman Khan, Apna Sallu! I fell for him when I saw him in “Maine pyar kiya” for the first time. Since then I’ve had a Love and Hate kind of relationship with him. Love grew for him when I saw him in “Baggi”, Wao! What a skinny macho lover he was. Pradeep hates him, but I don’t care. I Loved everything about him, if I am not wrong, he is the first actor of the bollywood who set the trend of bare and waxed chest. 42, he was and still is every girls dream man…..Mr Right! He was fantastic and so real on “Kaun Banega Crorepati” with his girlfriend Katrina Kaif. The Khan has made it to the headlines for roughing up ...

Shilpa sweetheart, don’t let fame rule your head. You are already in deep shit with all these rumours of you and Raj Kundra. And now this, that Max Clifford, UK's biggest and best known publicist, the veteran PR who represents Gerald Ratner, Gillian Mc Keith, Peter Jones and Simon Cowell has “dump” you. I reckon you are on wrong track now, don’t act like Jade Goody. Nobody likes her, remember! What went wrong…? 1) An extremely affable Clifford confirmed, "It was becoming impossible! We had a six month contract and it came to an end. "But I will say that it was a waste of our time. We had the opportunity to do a lot. I was hoping ...

Der Aaye, Durust Aaye.... I was waiting for this news (banned). Don’t know why shiv-sainiks didn’t do any dharna or something to protest against the “chaddi” ads on TV. Well now the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has banned television advertisements of two underwear brands. The Ministry has found advertisements of Lux Cozy/Cozi Underwear and Amul Macho Underwear inappropriate and both have been prohibited for transmission or retransmission on all broadcasting platforms with immediate effect. Update: 23/02/2010 Shah Rukh Khan’s Kolkata Knight Riders has drop the idea to appoint the Lux cozi as the official apparel franchisee of the team. Channels have been told that they have to strictly adhere to the Advertisement Code prescribed under the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 ...

Yesterday I saw “Partner” and it was highly amusing. As usual you can’t expect any sense from David Dhawan’s movie, so I just went empty head to the theatre with no expectations of a very “Dhasu” storyline. I just wanted to see Govinda and Salman together under David Dhawan’s direction. And I must say film was fantabulous. “My” Salman was like a hot pepper in it. He is a real hunk we have in the industry. Don’t know why, but he is getting hot and sexy day by day. On other hand I am very happy to see Govinda back on track and doing things he is good at. “Bhagam Bhaag” didn’t give him that much exposure, but Partner has definitely done wonders ...

The second Miss Arab World Contest has taken off in Egypt, with the participation of some 19 contestants. According to the organizing committee at a press conference, the candidates to the contest came from 16 Arab countries, including Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, Iraq, Bahrain,Saudi Arab, Libya and Palestine. Bahrain and Saudi Arab are first time entering the contest. Wafa Janahi, 23, is a Bahrain University graduate and Ghada Hassan, 19, a girl from Saudi Arabia is studying business in an academy in Egypt The jury in Miss Arab World consists of fashion, beauty and tourism experts as well as academies and the finalists chosen from more than 10,000 participants who registered through internet. The final result of the contest is expected to be announced on 27th July, ...

Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath have signed in to play in the breakaway Twenty20 Indian Cricket League, the Former Captain and Chief Executive of Indian Cricket League revealed to the "The Australian" newspaper. He also said that more Australian players are on the verge of signing up to ICL. According to the Media Reports, Damien Martyn and Justin Langer had also been contacted for the ICL, but they have rejected the offers. The Australian newspaper also reported that New Zealand Test captain Stephen Fleming has been approached to captain one of the six teams in multi-million dollar rebel Twenty20 League in India later this year. Fleming is the first current Test player to be speculatively linked to the competition, all the others have retired. The Media Reports ...

Google's magic may be working in US,Canada and Europe but doesn't work quite well in Rest of the World. Earlier this month, internet research firm comScore released a new study that put Google a few steps behind the competition in Asia-Pacific, and now it says that Google are also trailing in Latin America. Internet Research Firm comScore has today released the first report on Latin American Internet usage, based on data collected through the comScore World Metrix audience ratings service. Google tops Yahoo! but trails to Microsoft. The study says, Microsoft sites received over 47 million unique visitors, while Google traffic was close to 46.5 million. Yahoo, who was leading in Asia Pacific region is well behind with just  35 million unique visitors.  ...

Google Analytics seems to be down. I am trying to access it from last 2 hours, but getting the same message. "The requested URL /analytics/home/report was not found on this server" Few days back I faced the rare error of Google Search. I have been using Google Search from last 7 years but never seen any errors in Google, that was the first incident, so I took screen shot of the error. Screenshot of Google Analytics Error   Screenshot of Google Error Update 1 : 25th July,2007 12:25 pm Google Analytics is up and running. Update 2 : 30th July,2007 12:25 pm My Google Analytics hasn't been updated since yesterday morning Update 3 : 30th July,2007 20:00 pm Google Analytics Blog says, Temporary Reporting ...