London, Sept. 17 : British actress Joanna Lumley has said that the government’s treatment of retired Gurkha soldiers and their families is a scandal, and yesterday, she joined a protest at London’s High Court in support of their quest for citizenship and medical welfare rights.
The protest was held ahead of a two-day hearing to decide if 2,000 of the Nepalese war veterans will be allowed to live in Britain.
The TV and movie beauty stood alongside 86-year-old Victoria Cross hero Tul Bahadur Pun, who served in the Second World War with her late father, James, and saved his life by single-handedly storming Japanese machine-gun positions.
These days John Abraham is next on the hit list of Salman Khan, after Vivek Oberoi and Shah Rukh Khan.
This happened, when John promptly accepted the offer of an advertisement, of an international energy drink. The ad was earlier offered to Salman but he kept it in abeyance due to dates problems and perhaps to hike the price.
Sallu, was busy shooting for ‘London Dreams’ and ‘Yuvraj’ and apparently no dates were available for the advert, whereas, the officials of the energy drink were in a hurry and wanted to begin the promotional campaign soon.
Jade Goody, who was out from the second season of Big Boss due to cancer in the first week of the launch of the show, lowered the level of curiosity among the viewers. The glamour quotient of the house, with the expulsion of Rakhi Tandon, Monica Bedi and Ketki Dave's has also been lowered.
It seems that the production house has finalized on Diana Hayden to add to the glam share. So it was that the glamorous beauty would soon be entering the Big Boss premises.
An autographed portrait of Britney Spears donated her and her family donated an autographed portrait of the singer to the charity with a starting bid of $10,000 on an auction site.
The Los Angeles-based Promises Foundation, which aims at providing behavioral health services to low-income women and their children, got the portrait painted in oil colors of the singer which has the dimensions of five-by-four-foot.
Lisa Rogg who is the director of the organization said, “The Spears family gave us this painting out of their generosity and it was their idea for the auction.”
Kay Kay Menon is all set to become the most expensive villain of any Bollywood film. The producers have spent around Rs.220 million on his character, Ritz. A lot of money has been spent on his costumes and other props. The special effect and ‘the castle’ have also drawn a big amount. The film is directed by Goldie Behl. He said that the character Ritz, is designed in a very subtle and attractive way. Generall, most of the money is spent on heroes in films but the production has spent a good amount the make the villain very graceful, magical and mysterious.
The villain Shakal of the ‘Shaan and Mogambo’ was the most expensive character before Ritz. The film was released in 1980.
Shah Rukh Khan.
week of the launch of the show, lowered the level of curiosity among the viewers. The glamour quotient of the house, with the expulsion of Rakhi Tandon, Monica Bedi and Ketki Dave's has also been lowered. 
autographed portrait of the singer to the charity with a starting bid of $10,000 on an auction site. 
