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India now has two trillionaires (in rupee terms) - Mukesh Ambani and his younger brother Anil Ambani. They are the Sons of Dhirubhai ambani who founded the Reliance group. Dhirubhai Ambani started his career as a dispatch clerk in Besse and Co and rose up the ranks. Later he started his own company which exported spices and imported polyester yarn. In 1966 he started a textile mill in Naroda and used polyester fiber yarn with the brand name Vimal. I still remember the “Only Vimal” advertisements the used to shown in TV every now and then. Dhirubhai ventured into petrochemicals, telecommunications, information technology, energy, power, retail, textiles, infrastructure services, capital markets, and logistics.
Like every business house Dhirubhai ambani has got the support of the government where policies where made in their favor. He was also said to be a king maker in the government. Dhirubhai’s biggest competitor during that time was Nusli Wadia of Bombay dyeing. Nusli Wadia is a Christian Parsi who happens to be the grandson of Pakistan’s founder Muhammad ali jinnah. When Nusli Wadia also got a license to build a Dimethyl terephthalate (DMT) plant the fight between him and Ambani turned ugly.
Ramnath Goenka the newspaper baron of India who founded the Indian express fought a long battle with Dhirubhai Ambani. In his paper the Indian express he published a series of articles against reliance industries citing unfair and unethical practices. It stopped only after Dhirubhai Ambani suffered stroke in February 1986. Both his sons Mukesh and Anil Ambani started managing Reliance from then on. Goenka now pointed his gun against the government and accused it of not doing enough. Goenka’s journalist’s Gurumurthy and Mulgoakar ghost wrote a letter to the president and published it in the newspaper as a scoop. The president at that time zail singh had made some changes to the letter before sending it to Rajiv Gandhi the then prime minister. The fight shifted to the government and Goenka. The Government raided the Indian express guest house and recovered the original draft and charged many cases against Indian express.
Dhirubhai Ambani suffered a major brain stroke on june 24th 2002and fell into a coma. He died on july 6th 2002. Many admire and appreciate Dhirubhai’s rags to riches story. His wife is Kokilaben Ambani. He has tow sons Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani, and two daughters, Nina Kothari and Deepti Salgaonkar. Two years after his death a feud erupted between the two brothers on the ownership of the companies. Kokilaben the matriarch of the family, KK Kamath a close friend of the Ambani’s , the managing director of the icici bank and the two sisters intervened and a settlement was reached.

The reliance was split between Mukesh and Anil with Mukesh getting reliance industries and ipcl, while Anil Ambani got Reliance Infocomm, Reliance Energy and Reliance Capital. Mukesh Ambani’s Group is called as the Reliance Industries Limited while Anil’s entity has been named Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG). Mukesh Ambani’s personal stake in reliance is 48 %.
Anil Ambani has personal wealth is estimated to be around Rs 1, 00,000 crore in terms share prices. Mukesh Ambani’s is above of Rs 1, 15,000 crore, which is his share holding in various group companies.

According to Forbes list of world’s billionaires in 2007 Mukesh Ambani is ranked 14th and Anil Ambani is ranked 18th.

Paris Hilton is always in news for getting out of jail and for going back to jail. Paris Hilton was sentenced to 45 days in jail for violating probation for drink driving.

The tabloids in America are offering up to $500,000 (£250,000) for the first pictures of Paris Hilton in jail. She is currently in the twin towers facility in down town. Hilton does not have a cellmate till now. Her cell is 12-foot-by-8-foot and she is not allowed cell phones or Blackberries, even for visitors. She has eaten her first meal since she has been to jail and that was some cereals for breakfast. When Hilton was ordered back to jail she cried and screamed to her mother and was led out by the officers. Now she has come to terms with her jail sentence and has ordered her attorney not to appeal her sentence. She said that it is learning experience for her. She was earlier released from jail by the sheriff citing that her psychological condition has worsened and the condition was later confirmed to be ADD. She is still undergoing medical and psychiatric evaluations .There are also reports that she is on the verge of nervous break down. He mother after visiting her has told reporters that it’s tough in there. It’s cold. Paris hadn’t much sleep. She also told her that she is adjusting slowly.

Michael Donkins a spokesperson for the Endeavor Talent Agency has said that they have dropped Paris Hilton as a client. Inside sources also revealed that there was a lot of tension between her and her agents for a while and that she was a difficult client.

Malaysia Prime Minister, Dato’ Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will to be marrying Ms Jean danker on Saturday, 9 June 2007 (23 Jamadilawwal 1428 Hijrah). Ms Jean Danker was the ex-wife of the Badawi’s late wife Endon mahmud’s bother Osman mahmud. i.e she is Endon Mahmud’s sister in law. She is currently known as Jeanne Abdullah. The marriage ceremony will be a private function and will be held at Seri Perdana (the official residence of the premier). Jeanne Abdullah was born in Kuala Lumpur on 29 July 1953 and is the eldest among four children. She has studied at Assunta Secondary School and was serving as the manager of the official residence of the premier.

 She has two children Nadiah and Nadene from her previous marriage.

Latest news report that  NBC has asked Mr. trump and Mark Burnet “The Apprentice” executive producer for an extension of up to a week that is June 8^th  to  decide on wither NBC wants a seventh season of the “The Apprentice”. The problem started when NBC announced the prime-time programming schedule for the fall and shunned “The Apprentice”. Trump also stated that he was moving on from the show while mark burnet boasted that the show will continue even if it is on some other  network. Trump also claimed that two other networks were interested in the show. According to the contract if NBC decides to continue with the seventh “The Apprentice” show Trump would not be able to quit. Later it was announced that NBC’s Kevin Reilly would be leaving the company and the reality TV producer Ben Silverman named co-chairman for NBC Entertainment and NBC Universal Television Studio. The Apprentice’s sixth installment averaged 7.49 million total viewers, a figure that ranks it 101st in the 2006-2007 prime time broadcast television season’s season-to-date overall viewers

Trump blamed the shows declining ratings on poor scheduling, which eventually parked it at 10 p.m. on Sundays.

I checked out the most searched words in the word tracker and one of the words was the most annoying laugh. I searched for it and came up with the you tube picture of a boy laughing in a peculiar weird manner. This seems to have been taken by school children of their friend laughing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceUacHSHOeY

Scotland Yard has come up with a bomb shell that bob woolmer who died on march 18 th during the world cup cricket match at Jamaica had died of heart failure. It is in direct contradiction to the earlier report by Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and local pathologist, Dr. Ere Sheshiah, who had conducted a post-mortem on Woolmers’s bodywho concluded that he died of manual strangulation. Woolmer was reported to be a diabetic and had breathing problems.

Sanjaya malakar and other top nine finalist from American idol will perform in different parts of the country. “American Idol” tour will include St. Paul on Aug. 4.Then they will be stopping at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland on Aug. 13.They will also be at Indiana state fair Grandstand, 1202 E. 38th St on Aug. 16 .The tickets are priced at $65, $55 and $47 and will start selling at 10 am May.

Paris Hilton the heiress of Hilton Empire is again in trouble again for violating probation on drunk reckless driving. Now she will go to jail from june 5 for violating her probation for alcohol related reckless driving. Her license was suspended in January. She was in three years probation for the same offence in September 2006. Her reality show “The simple life” will return to airwaves for a fifth season.

British-born Indian Upen patel was born in August 16 1980 in London. He has modeled for many famous brands like Westside, Hugo Boss, Zaf, Tuscan Verve, Bed Paul Smith and Zegna. He made his debut in bollywood film in “36 china town” . He has also acted in “namaste London” and Shakalaka Boom Boom. He sings also in Shakalaka Boom Boom. He got the Best Debutant actor Award at the Zee Cine Awards held at Malaysia and the GIFA award for his debut performance in 36 China Town.

His mother Lata K. D. Patel was the mayor of Brent in 1996 -1997 and his father owns several petrol stations there. His mother is the youngest woman to be voted to the office of Deputy Mayor or Mayor in Britain. His family migrated from Ahmedabad to Uganda and in the 1970s from Uganda to Britain. He is the youngest among five siblings who are lawyer, teacher and chartered accountant. His home is at Wembley north London. He finished his computer science degree at Hertfordshire University. He started modeling at sixteen and won a national competition as UK’s no 1 Indian male model. He went to Mumbai and signed up a Indian modeling agency Atul Kasbekar’s Matrix three months after graduating. Upen is also applying for dual citizenship to become a resident in India. Once he was known was Amrita Arora’s boyfriend. He has a cookery show and is ranked by Hi Blitz magazine as one of India’s most beautiful people. He is the next person to look out for in Bollywood.

Britney spears who was planning to do a live show at a Los Angeles night club was cancelled at the last minute. Her people thought that she was not ready after many rehearsals and it is now rescheduled.

Now the new schedule is to perform on Wednesday the Anaheim House of Blues in Southern California with four backup singers. This is supposed to be her first show after being in the rehab. She was rehearsing at Forty Deuce in Los Angeles and is planning to make a slow comeback instead of a big one.

According to Ricky Hoggard, Sanjaya was not the lowest vote receiver last week. How did he get booted ? To know more about who got the lowest go to Ricky Hoggard. Anyway Sanjaya is going places. He has been appearing on a variety of TV talk shows and also appeared on Late Show with David Letterman on April 23 to read the famous Top 10 list. He attended a White House correspondents’ dinner . He was a guest of People magazine.

Sanjaya and his sister Shyamali Malakar became famous as the siblings on American Idol. His sister was eliminated while he went on to be among the top 11 . Born to an Indian father and an mother of Italian descent, Sanjaya attended Shorecrest High School in Shoreline, Washington for one year before transferring to Todd Beamer High School in Federal Way. judge Simon Cowell has threatened to quit if Malakar wins.There has been lot of criticisms about his singing qualities and recently a source close to Sanjaya’s family revealed Sanjaya has been devastated by recent bad press he’s received over singing. “He’s so young and so sensitive, it’s hard for him to go out on that stage and not have that devastation affect his performance,” said the source. The judges have criticized him a lot as though he shouldn’t be on the show. If so why did they select him in the first place? Many feel that there is a media conspiracy against him even though he is not the worst performer in the current list. His idol is Stevie Wonder and he is compared to El DeBarge, of “Rhythm of the Night” fame.

After legal wrangling for almost 2 weeks the judge has finally decided that Anna Nicole smith should be buried in Bahamas.Her mother and her partner Howard K stern wanted custody of her body. The judge made the final decision after he talked to her first husband and father of her late son.Smith’s first husband Billy Smith has testified that she would prefer to be buried nearby her son at the Bhamas.He didn’t appear at the court but testified over the speaker of a lawyers cell phone.

Britney is back in rehab in an undisclosed location. There has been reports that she has gone back to the same Promises Malibu Treatment Center. Her mother is reorted to have drove her to the center. The center is known for the treatment of alcohol and drug abuse. Her appearance in family court for child custody dispute with Federline was cancelled on thurdsay. Her ex-husband had also been concerned about her and promised to look after their two children when she is in rehab. He also encouraged her to go to rehab. She is also scared that she will loose custody of her kids to Federline.The rehab programme is expected to last 40 days.

Anna Nicole Smith who became famous for fighting for her billionaire husbands estate died on Thursday at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and casino in Florida. She was rushed to a hospital after a private nurse found unresponsive .During her final days she was drinking heavily. Smith’s sixth-floor suite in the hotel had no illegal drugs, only prescription medicine, lots of prescription medicine Xanax, Provigil, Vicodin and of methadone .Her son Daniel smith has died just five months ago without any obvious disease but due to the he ill-effects of methadone and anti-depressants. Smith had checked in on February 5th at 8 p.m as a guest and was due to check out on Friday, February 9th.

The hotel security called 911 and she was rushed to Memorial Regional Hospital at 2:10 p.m and pronounced DOA at 2:49 p.m. Smith’s companion, Howard K. Stern, was with her when she died and has reported to Entertainment Tonight that her temperature was

running 104 degrees the night before. Smith’s attorney, Diane Chokondik, stated that Smith had flu-like symptoms for the last couple of days before her death. Entertainment Tonight’s Mark Steines stated that Smith had to take an ice bath on February. Prescription drugs were found in the hotel room. There has been reports of video of her being put onto an ambulance being purchased for the amount of roughly US$500,000.
Dr. Joshua Perper, Broward County medical examiner, said the autopsy excluded any physical injury, blunt-force trauma or asphyxia, meaning Smith didn’t choke to death on her own vomit. “This is clearly a sudden, unexpected and unexplained death,” he said.
While she had no “intact” pills in her stomach, toxicology tests will need to be completed, lasting three to five weeks, Perper said.
Anna Nicole Smith was born Vickie Lynn Hogan in November 28, 1967in Houston, Texas, USA. She began to be noticed after she became Playboy’s 1993 Playmate of the Year. She managed to secure a contract with Guess jeans ad campaign. She was on the cover of New York magazine on August 22, 1994 issue titled White Trash Nation. Her lawyer filed a $5,000,000 lawsuit against the magazine claiming unauthorized use of her photo claiming that she was told that the photo was for “All-American-woman look” while the editor argued that he just chose the picture which was unflattering. Later she was performing at a Houston strip club when she met oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall and they began a relationship. He lavished gifts on her. She divorced her husband Billy on February 3, 1993, in Houston. Smith, at the age 26, and Marshall, age 89, were married in Houston On June 27, 1994,.There were speculation that she married him for his wealth while she denied that she was a gold digger. He showered her with gifts and money. Marshall died on August 4, 1995, in Houston thirteen months after his marriage to Smith .

Within weeks of J. Howard Marshall’s death She joined forces with J. Howard’s other son, James Howard Marshall III, whom the elder Howard had disowned and fought for half of her late husband’s $1.6 billion estates against his son, E. Pierce Marshall, Howard III was also left out of J. Howard’s will. The case was highly publicized because of huge money involved and went on for a decade and many decisions had gone both for and against smith. In 1996 smith filed for bankruptcy because of a $850,000 judgment against her which isn’t related to court case. she claimed that Marshall promised half of his estate if she married him. A Los Angeles bankruptcy judge awarded her $449,754,134 roughly one-quarter of Marshall’s $1.6bn. In 2000 September and in July 2001 Houston judge Mike a rival ruling from a probate court in Texas deemed she was entitled to
nothing, and ordered Smith to pay over $1 million in fees and expenses to Pierce’s legal team. This prompted years of appeals hearings to resolve the question one way or the other.On May 1, 2006 the justices unanimously decided in favor of Smith; Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the majority opinion. The decision did not give Smith a portion of her husband’s estate, but affirmed her right to pursue a share of it in federal court. On June 20, 2006, E. Pierce Marshall died at age 67 after an infection. His widow, Elaine T. Marshall, now represents his estate. The case has been remanded to the 9th Circuit to adjudicate the remaining appellate issues not previously resolved.
she had her own reality TV series on the E! cable network focues on her peronal life,rated very high. She also appeared in some films like Wasabi Tuna (2003),Be Cool (2005) and Illegal Aliens (2006). In October 2003, she became a spokesperson for TrimSpa through which she claimed that she lost up to 36 kg. On September 7, 2006S a baby girl was born to smith, and was named Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, at Doctors Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas while loosing her son three days later when he was visiting his mother . He is reported to have died from a lethal combination of Zoloft, Lexapro and methadone. He is buried in Bahamas .A paternity battle has brokenout with the birth certificate recorded the baby’s father as Howard K. Stern. Her ex-boyfriend, entertainment photojournalist Larry Birkhead, has filed a lawsuit challenging the paternity and claiming that he is the father of the child. On February 9, 2007, Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt claimed that he should be the biological father of the child. Anna Nicole’s sister the baby could be the result of the preserved sperm of her late husband oil giant J. Howard Marshall. Her bodyguard Alex Denk has come forward and said that he could be the father of the baby girl Dannielynn and that he had a two-year secret relationship.Till now there are five persons who can be the father of the child. According to a ruling by the judge Smith’s body is to be preserved until February 20.

The refrigerator pictures are taken from the fridge that was in the room of Anna Nicole Smith’s bedroom in the Bahamas show several bottles of Slim-Fast and methadone. . Pictures of the fridge That is quite the odd combination you would think. Autopsy reports showed that her son had died from a combination of the methadone drug . There is another battle going on for the Bahamas mansion where anna had been living. She had claimed that  G. Ben Thompson, gave her the house. But Thompson said he had only loaned it to Smith. He had the locks changed after her death.Smith’s lawyer and companion, Howard Stern changed the locks again last Sunday.  Smith’s mother, Vergie Arthur, was also seen entering the white house.She wants to take custody of her grand daughter and bury her daughter in texas while Stern wants to bury her in Bahamas.

The nanny of the baby Alexis has come foreward claiming Anna gave her instructions to underfeed the baby so that she would look sexy.Smith, tried to kill herself two separate times.”On the first occasion, she drank in my presence an entire bottle of what I believed to be a sleeping aid,” and later she also tried to drown herself in a swimming pool. Alexis also claims that Stern rescued Smith from the pool. Alexis also heard Stern say after the rescue, “If anything happens to you, I would go to jail.”

Arthur Smiths mother wants to be named the guardian of the child and sought an order fearing the child will be taken out of the country. An injuction was issued by the judge in Bahamas on tuesday to prevent the baby from being take out of the country until the custody issue is resolved.

In another development  Anna”s incarcerated ex-boyfriend claiming he could be the babys  biological father.Mark Hatten, who is currently serving a seven-year sentence after being found guilty of making terrorist threats against Anna Nicole and beating up her neighbour, has written a letter from prison, asking for his DNA should also  be considered in an upcoming genetic test to determine who the father of the five-month-old is.According to him he gave a sperm sample to his them girlfriend Anna which she gave to a doctor for future use. He feels that she had the baby through artificial insemination.

Aliaune Thiam or Akon is from Senegal and born in October 14, 1981 in St. Louis, Missouri on October 14 1981 and moved on to his homeland in Senegal. His father is the legendary jazz percussionist Mor Thiam. He was brought up in Senegal till 7 when he moved to New Jersey to receive good education and attended Snyder High School. As a child he mastered many instruments. At school he was thrown out for selling guns and bullet and test questions. He later joined Bayonne High School. According to him even though his parents were wealthy they didn’t trust a young boy with money and he wanted extra cash and so he ended up doing what he did. At 18 he was jailed for a year and a half for car theft. During prison time he worked on his music .He has also been incarcerated for armed robbery and drug charges. He speaks French, Wolof (one of the languages used in Senegal) and English. He has no plan to sing in Wolof or French anyway.

Akon’s debut was released by SRC/Universal LP “Trouble” in June 2004. His solo debut album, Trouble was released on June 29, 2004. Akon’s sophomore album, entitled “Konvicted”, was released on November 14, 2006. The first single from Konvicted, Smack That, featuring Eminem, hit the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart. His has collaborated with Snoop Dogg, Dr Dre, Sean Paul, Styles P and Gwen Stefani. He is the CEO of Konvict Muzik and Kon Live Distribution

He is a practicing Muslim. He has three wives at his house in Atlanta and he insists that as per Koran he treats all his wives equally. One of his wife’s name is latrice. His third wife is from Cambodia. His father also had four wives and he considers “Mom. Akon’s brothers are boo and omar.

Akon will embark on a world tour in 2007 from Africa, through Europe and then to the United States. He will also be acting on a movie titled “Illegal Alien” based on his life story of which production is slated to begin next month.

 Aishwarya Rai has come a long way.  I remember staring at her in an advertisement many yeats back and she looked strikingly beautiful.  She is the daughter of a merchant marine Krishnarajendra Rai and a writer Vrinda Rai. Now the much speculated marriage to Abhishek Bachchan the son of the mega star Amitabh Bachchan is happening. The engagement has been announced by Amitabh Bachchan on Jan 14 in a quite ceremony but no date for the marriage has been announced publicly. The newspapers were speculating on this marriage eve since Bachchan family with Aishwarya visited a Varanasi temple recently.  Aishwarya’s mother also did a special pooja at Nagabana in Sonthady near Kasargod, her birthplace.

Aishwarya Rai was born in Mangalore in India in November 1 1973. She is from Bunt community who speaks Tulu. Later they moved to Mumbai. She has an elder brother Aditya Rai who is 3 years older to her and is in merchant navy. She schooled at Arya Vidya Mandir at Santa Cruz and later went to Ruparel college matunga. Later she was studying architecture when she went into modeling. She became miss world 1994. She was voted the most beautiful miss world of all times with a score of 9.911 in 2000. She is trained in classical dance like bharatha natyam. She has starred in atleast 24 Indian films and two English films like pride and prejudice by Gurinder chaddha and mistress of spice by chitra banerjee divakaruni and   directed by Berges. She is very religious and visits siddhivinayak mandir, regularly. She is very traditional in the sense that she still lives with her parents.  She also endorses for L’Oreal, Coca-Cola and DeBeers diamonds.  She is the one among the wealthiest women in India and Time magazine choose her as one of Asia’s 100 most influential people on the planet. She stands 5 foot 7 inches tall.

Her acting career started with Mani ratnams iruvar in Tamil cinema, and in hindi cinema she was introduced in aur pyaar ho gaya. She went on to star in many films and the film devdas was a major box- office success. Aishwarya was a member of the jury at Cannes in 2003. Her wax figure was on display in London’s Madame Tussaud’s wax museum. Last year she appeared for the closing ceremony if the 2006 commonwealth games in Melbourne. She has a tulip named after her in Amsterdam.

She also had romantic liaisons with actors like Salman khan and vivek oberoi. Salman khan is even reported to have even beaten her and was stalking her many years after their relationship ended.

 There have been reports of her ending her acting career with marriage. Thousands of fans of Bachchans and Aishwarya’s fans are eagerly waiting for their marriage.