Wellington (New Zealand), Apr. 1 : New Zealand must make one of their biggest selection gambles in recent times when the third test against India starts at the Basin Reserve on Friday.

A rehabilitated Tim Southee has been included in the 13-man squad for the must-win test and now he must play at the expense of James Franklin.

Yes, a bowler for a batting all-rounder.

Deepa Mehta’s recent ‘Heaven on Earth’ is about domestic vilolence and has a similar premise to that of another NRI tale on the same issue- ‘Provoked’.

Both the women involved in the films are Punjabi women, one from the UK and the other from Canada.

Deepa says that she’s fed up of being asked if her film is similar to Jagmohan Mundhra's ‘Provoked’.

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Munich - Special envoys for Afghanistan and Pakistan met Wednesday in the Bavarian city of Munich to discuss the formation of a contact group to deal with the region.

Envoys from 14 nations are taking part in the discussions, the aim of which is to improve coordination and act on the implementation of new strategies in the landlocked Asian nation.

Among those taking part are US special envoy Richard Holbrooke, Germany's Bernd Muetzelburg and EU special envoy Ettore Sequi.

Shilpa Shetty has once again spoken out against allegations that she broke up the marriage of her fiancé Raj Kundra and his wife.

She strongly says that she started a relationship with Raj Kundra only after he got divorced.

The 30 something actress found fame in Britain when she appeared alongside the late British reality TV star Jade Goody in ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ in 2007 and won the series. She met millionaire the 34 year old shortly afterwards who was then separated from his wife.

His estranged wife Kavita publicly blamed the actress for the break-up of the marriage.

Beijing - A former police chief in China's south-western Yunnan province has been jailed for 18 years for illegally selling explosives and accepting bribes, local media reported Wednesday.

Kang Tianxiang, 43, a former public security bureau director of Yunnan's Yiliang County, was originally handed a life sentence by the province's intermediate court, according to the Metropolis Times newspaper based in the provincial capital, Kunming.