New Delhi, April 13 : Leona Lewis preserves her voice by speaking as little as possible.

The ''X Factor'' winner confessed that she went to extremes to make sure her vocal chords remained intact.

The 24-year-old revealed that her antics included being a ‘word-miser’ and missing out on nights out with pals, reports the China Daily.

New Delhi, Apr 13 : Pop star Lily Allen is planning to get a tattoo saying ‘Shut up’, which will remind her to stay quiet.

The 23-year-old crooner believes that the permanent reminder will make her life easy, reports the China Daily.

"In fact I''m getting a tattoo on my wrist that says, ''Shut up!'' Perhaps it will remind me to keep my mouth shut when I shouldn''t say certain things - that might make my life easier," she said.

The Smile singer hopes if she could learn not to reveal the intimate details of her life, people would stop being so interested in her.

New Delhi, April 13 : Mischa Barton has admitted that she felt ‘empowered’ following her recent break-up.

The 23-year-old star, who recently parted ways with Kooks frontman Luke Prichard after a brief relationship, said that being single has made her confident and mature, reports the China Daily.

"I''m still working on it but I''ve grown so much in the past six months. I''ve grown immensely and it''s because I''ve been single. After I broke up with a boyfriend last year, I felt empowered,” she told Britain''s Cosmopolitan magazine

New Delhi - Eleven security personnel and four Maoist rebels were killed in a 10-hour gunbattle after the rebels laid siege to India's largest bauxite mine in the eastern state of Orissa, police said Monday. A group of 100 armed Maoist rebels laid siege to the state-run National Aluminium Company's bauxite mine at Panchpatmali in Koraput district, some 370 kilometres south-west of Orissa's capital Bhubaneshwar late Sunday.

New Delhi, Apr 12 : Congress leader and Minister of State for External Affaires, Anand Sharma, on Sunday slammed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Lal Krishna Advani for repeatedly criticizing Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.

He further said Advani's own record as Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister had been a disaster.

New Delhi, Apr. 12 (ANI): A distant relative of former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is also in the electoral fray from the Lucknow Parliamentary constituency.

President of the 75 year old women organization Bazm-e-Khawateen, Shehnaz Sidrat has filed her nomination from Lucknow, the political citadel of the former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Sidrat claims she belongs to the family of a famous Congress leader late Hayatullah Ansari.

According to her, Ansari's wife Sultana Hayat was a cousin of Musharraf's father Syed Musharrafuddin.