Sunday, June 14, 2009 MUMBAI: Actor Aamir Khan has turned down the state government’s offer to do an anti-child labour campaign. And now the government is reportedly planning to approach Shah Rukh Khan for the same.According to our source, the Labour Ministry had been pursuing Aamir for over four months, as they believed the actor is ideal for the campaign. Of course, there has to be logic behind everything Aamir does! The actor has reportedly clarified that since he’s been doing a lot of government interest campaigns, his credibility would suffer if he spoke on every social subject.Explaining his decision, Aamir said, “I’m doing a lot of public service messages and I didn’t want to dilute the (message in the) ads that I’ve already done by doing another one.” The actor has done some public interest commercials of late like the election campaign and tourism promotion.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in
Comments