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New Delhi, June 18 : Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram today reviewed the delivery of interceptor boats under the coastal security scheme with the CMDs of Goa Shipyard Limited and Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited, Kolkata.

While noting that delivery of boats has commenced from April 2009 and 13 interceptor boats have been dispatched to Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Goa, Lakshadweep and Puducherry, Chidambaram underlined the need to ensure that there are no slippages in time-lines.

Melbourne, June 18 : The Kevin Rudd Government has smashed the annual record for VIP jet flights, handing taxpayers a three million dollars bill in the process.

New figures show VIP aircraft activity last year was up to 10 per cent more than the previous year, The Daily Telegraph reports.

Government documents say the increase was due solely to extra use by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Governor-General Quentin Bryce.

London, June 18 : A Britney Spears look-alike has shaved her head just like the singer did during her meltdown.

Lorna Bliss, 28, from Cambridge, is said to have spent more than 135,000 pounds in the past 10 years in copying Britney.

She is so dedicated to her full-time job that she took a razor to her head and rid herself of her blonde locks.

She even attempt to mimic Spears' odd behaviour-brought on by the breakdown of her marriage to Kevin Federline-by running at photographers with an umbrella.

Paris - US computer services giant Hewlett Packard and French-American telecommunications equipment supplier Alcatel-Lucent said Thursday they are forming a 10-year-global alliance to help customers combine telecommunication and internet technology
(IT).

In a joint statement, the companies said they planned to launch a global program to transform communication networks "into converged, next-generation infrastructures."

London, June 18 : Hollywood director Guy Ritchie has spent 100,000 pounds to have a white Mercedes "builders" van modified into a full-on passion wagon.

The work is done by Welsh-based firm called Touch of Class which had also pimped her ex-wife and pop icon Madonna''s car into a pink disco for her Sorry music video.

Owner of the firm Dayne Bartlett has been constantly in touch with the 40-year-old director to fulfil his desire of a dream car.

Sarajevo - Thousands of Bosnian war veterans, joined by their families and labour unions, rallied in Sarajevo on Thursday to protest planned cuts of their pensions.

The size of the crowd, estimated at 4,000, disappointed the organizers, who had been expecting 50,000 people affected by the upcoming belt-tightening.

Pressed by the financial crisis, the Muslim-Croat part of Bosnia, the Federation Bosnia-Herzegovina, announced an emergency 10-per- cent cut of all salaries and pensions paid from the budget.