Producer Bunty Walia’s film, ‘Lamha’, is a first film to be entirely shot in post-insurgency Kashmir. Though all precautions were taken for the shooting of the film, it still ran into trouble with protesting mobs.

The reason the locals were protesting was that they were afraid of being portrayed negatively, as the film is supposed to present a realistic look of the state with guns and militancy.

Members of the media community of Kolkata arranged a function on Sunday to honor cricketer Sourav Ganguly. Sourav has decided to take retirement from the international cricket after the conclusion of the India-Australia Test series, completing his 13-year cricket career.

Journalists across the city gathered here and honoured his contribution to the Indian cricket. They asked him to lead young cricketers from the state to glorify the name of West Bengal.

Sourav's wife Dona and daughter Sana were also present at the function.

Former players and the Australian media have criticized Ricky Ponting for 'baffling' captaincy in the recent match. Australian media alleged that Ponting used part-timers to try to improve over rate to save his captaincy.

It is to be noted that Ricky has employed part timers instead of his regular pacers after the tea interval during the fifth day of the Nagpur Test. He actually wanted to step up the slow over-rate to avoid a ban in the next Test match.

Indian bowler, S Sreesanth ruled out any quarrel at his birthday party held at an apartment in Bangalore. He said that media reports are baseless and nothing wrong happened in his presence.

He said that it was, infact, a small gathering of close friends who were dancing and enjoying in his apartment on music beats. He criticized his neighbors for spreading baseless rumors for cheap publicity. Regarding the charges of bleeding, Sreesanth said it was due to the injury, caused by fall of a brick on the head of one of his friend.

India and Qatar signed various agreements on defense, security and intelligence sharing. The agreements were signed after a meeting between Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and Qatar Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassem Bin Jabor Al-Thani.

Dr. Singh is on a two day tour of the gulf nations. PM would meet Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani, who has arranged a special private lunch for PM and his wife on Monday.

During the Web 2.0 conference held in San Francisco this week, MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe suggested that Social networking site MySpace might be working on its very own MP3 player. DeWolfe, who admitted that a MP3 could soon be released, held talks with Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr.

The possibility of working on Mp3 player was not directly specified by DeWolfe, but it was neither denied.

DeWolfe said, "For now, we are much more focused on the service. But, if anything, we'll be accretive to iPod sales, unless we develop a device."