Bollywood megastar Amitab Bachchan and actress Vidya Balan have been named PETA's hottest celebrity vegetarians of 2012.

The other names in the running were Miss India Neha Dhupia, actor Shahid Kapoor, Sonu Sood, southern star Dhanush, Kareena Kapoor and veteran actress Hema Malini.

Bachchan, 70, has been named the hottest vegetarian celebrity three times in the past and even won the crown in PETA Asia's equivalent contest last year.

Balan, who has won the crown in 2010, too has often credited her curves to her meat-free diet, saying, "I am a vegetarian, as a result my metabolism has improved and this is a huge contributor to weight loss."......Read More

Kashmir Valley continued to reel under intense cold as temperatures across the state plunged further, even as the fringes of the famous Dal Lake here were frozen for the first time this winter.

The summer capital Srinagar registered the coldest night of the season for the second time this winter as minimum temperature dropped to minus four degrees Celsius, a MeT Department spokesman said.
 
Srinagar had registered the season's coldest night on December 23, when the MeT department recorded the temperature
at minus four degrees Celsius.
 
He said Kargil, in the frontier region of Ladakh, was the coldest recorded place in the state with a low of minus 16.2 degrees Celsius, while the nearby Leh town shivered at minus 16.0 degree Celsius.

The famous ski-resort of Gulmarg in north Kashmir recorded a low of minus 9.0 degree Celsius, while Pahalgam in south Kashmir registered a minimum of minus 7.8 degrees..... Read More

Rapper Honey Singh, who was forced to cancel his scheduled New Year’s Eve show following protests against the backdrop of the recent brutal gang-rape incident, sought on Tuesday to wash his hands off the controversy triggered by offensive lyrics in some of his songs.

Singh (28), who has sung for several Bollywood movies, said he had not authored the lyrics that are being attributed to him. The lyrics have been termed offensive towards women by activists, who have started an online campaign against Singh.

A first information report has also been lodged against the rapper in Lucknow. When contacted, his manager Anup Kumar claimed the Gurgaon show was cancelled not because of the protests but in solidarity with the Delhi gang-rape victim.

“We did not cancel the show because of this petition and FIR. We cancelled it in the wake of the Delhi gang-rape issue. This is not the first concert we are cancelling in Delhi after that horrific incident. We had also cancelled our much publicised December 25 event,” Mr. Kumar told PTI.

Bristol Hotel, however, disputed Singh’s version, saying it was the management and not Singh who decided to cancel the performance.......Read More

She comes from a film family and is married into another one but actress Kareena Kapoor says she endeavours to have a life outside the world of showbiz.

The 32-year-old actress, who tied the knot with actor Saif Ali Khan in October last year, says she has friends outside Bollywood and she tries to keep her personal life separate from her work.
 
"The key is to realise that we are here to work in this industry. I'm not over-friendly with anyone, I don't get into anyone's personal space because I don't want people to get into mine. I have a life outside of films," Kareena said.
 
Having faced huge media curiosity surrounding her marriage to Saif, Kareena says she prefers her work to make
more news than her personal life.
 
"Some of my friends are from the industry but most of them are not. So that is a part of life that I cherish. I go to work and come back. I want to keep it like that - go to work, come home and let my work talk more than anything else," she says......Read More