VIP Casting their Vote in Parliment Election | Bollywood Star Voting Photos

From Aamir Khan to Anil Ambani, India's biggest celebrities came out in droves from their airconditioned homes to wait in queue patiently for their turn to vote -- and urge the young to step out and exercise their franchise in the third round of the staggered elections.

In the great equaliser that are the elections, the stars of the silver screen and the celebrity industrialists were stood in the queue among common people to cast their vote.

Here is is a journey through photographs of star icon voitings..

Aamir Khan, who broke his holiday in the US with his children, said after casting his vote: ''I have travelled 48 hours to cast my vote, so people can certainly go out from their homes to cast their vote. If you love your country, this is the day to show it. I'm happy to see so many senior citizens casting their vote here. I appeal to the youngsters to come out and vote.''

Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor said: ''It is our basic right to vote, so people should vote. We need to elect the right person.''

Writer, director Gulzar was accompanied by his director daughter Meghna Gulzar.

Indian billionaire Anil Ambani, right, prepares to cast his vote at a polling station in Mumbai, India, Thursday, April 30, 2009. India's financial capital goes to the polls today.

Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan (2nd R), son Abhishek Bachchan (R), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (2nd L) and Jaya Bachchan show ink marks on their fingers after casting their votes at a polling centre in Mumbai April 30, 2009.

Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan shows the ink mark on his finger after casting his vote at a polling centre in Mumbai April 30, 2009.

Bollywood star John Abraham (L) helps an old woman to reach a polling centre for casting her vote in Mumbai April 30, 2009.

Hema Malini and Esha Deol at a polling center in Mumbai to cast their votes in India’s parliamentary elections

Fraida Pinto and Dev Patel Pictured on Romantic Dating.

Rumors of a romance between the two stars of Slumdog Millionaire have been circulating for months, but now the young love seems to have been confirmed, with a secret rendezvous in Israel.
The mother of Dev Patel, who plays Jamal in the Oscar-winning movie, has confirmed that her son flew out to Israel to join former co-star Freida Pinto, where she is filming for Julian Schnabel's latest film Miral.
According to the British tabloid The Daily Mirror, 18-year-old Patel and 24-year-old Pinto were snapped enjoying an intimate meeting together in Tel Aviv.
Patel's mother told the Mirror: "First it was the film and now everything else seems to have slotted into place. Life can't get any better for him. Freida is really beautiful and I am really happy for them. Yes, we knew he was flying to Israel to see her."
Media reports say that the two spent several hours at a hotel in the city, then visited the port before dinner at a beachfront restaurant.
The reports claim that the two were "smooching and holding hands" to the delight of a passing group of Japanese tourists.
Pinto's latest movie, Miral, is the story of an Arab woman who tries to open an orphanage in Jerusalem following the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.
Another report says :
Dev Patel and Frieda Pinto have been photographed on a lunch date.
The 19-year-old former Skins actor and the 24-year-old actress - who played childhood sweethearts in Danny Boyle's Oscar-winning blockbuster Slumdog Millionaire - have denied they are a couple in real life, but rumours could resurface after the pictures showed them looking into each other's eyes.
Dev had apparently flown to Israel especially to visit Frieda, where she is filming her new movie Jerusalem.
An onlooker told The Sun: "They looked very happy together and they didn't seem to care who saw them. Dev couldn't take his eyes off her - and she kept snuggling up to get closer to him."
It was reported in February that Dev, of Harrow, North West London was spotted shopping for rings with Frieda at a High Street jeweller on Valentine's Day.
But the pair refuse to comment on their alleged romance.
Frieda said last month: "I won't talk about my relationship with Dev."
He has said: "She is very beautiful but there's no romance."

Pinto was photographed nestling into Patel's shoulder during a cosy al fresco lunch date. The actress is shooting her latest film, Miral, in Israel and Patel has flown out to see her.
Rumours of a relationship began shortly before Slumdog Millionaire swept the board at the Oscars in February. Pinto, 24, and Patel, who turned 19 this week, denied they were an item, but their cover was blown by co-star Anil Kapoor. "When I meet them, I feel there is something happening," he said, adding that the couple shared "a magical chemistry".
Pinto's ex, Rohan Antao, blamed Patel for their relationship breakdown. "I don't know if they were having a sexual relationship but if I came face to face with him I would have things to say. Now everywhere I go I see them on billboards. I am devastated," he said.
The lovebirds come from very different backgrounds - Pinto is a glamorous former model from Mumbai, while Patel still lives with his mum in Harrow. It was Mrs Patel who persuaded her son to audition for his debut role in the E4 drama Skins, in which he played a sex-mad teenager.
Slumdog Millionaire has propelled both actors to Hollywood stardom. After Miral, Pinto will film a role in Woody Allen's next film, while Patel has been cast in M Night Shyamalan adventure The Last Airbender.

Dev Patel's Mom Confirms his Love with Frieda Pinto

Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel’s mum has confirmed her son’s off-screen love with Freida Pinto.
Patel and Pinto have always denied dating each other but the pair was recently caught enjoying an intimate lunch date in Israel, where Pinto, 24, is filming on location.
And Patel’s mum Anita says she is really pleased to see the two in love.
“First it was the film and now everything else seems to have slotted into place,” the Mirror quoted Anita as saying.
“Life can’t get any better for him. Freida is really beautiful and I am really happy for them. Yes, we knew he was flying to Israel to see her,” she added.
The real life love story is said to have started on the set of Danny Boyle’s multi-Oscar-winning film.And they have become increasingly close since travelling the world together to promote the movie.

Leave it to a mom to spill the beans.
After months of speculation about the relationship between “Slumdog Millionaire” stars Dev Patel and Freida Pinto, Patel’s mother has confirmed that the pair are a couple.
“First it was the film and now everything else seems to have slotted into place,” Anita Patel is quoted as saying Monday in London’s Daily Mirror.
The rumors had ratcheted up over the last few days as the two vacationed together in Tel Aviv. “Yes, we knew he was flying to Israel to see her,” Mrs. Patel said of her son, 19.
Pinto, 24, took time off from filming her latest movie in Jerusalem. The couple spent a few hours together in a hotel before taking a stroll around the harbor and sharing an early champagne dinner at a seaside restaurant.
Photos of the two smooching and holding hands at a table quickly surfaced online.
“Life can’t get any better for him," said Patel's mom. "Freida is really beautiful, and I am really happy for them.”

Where are the Slumdog Millionaire Kid Stars.......?

Slumdog kid star Rubina Ali is news following selling attempt by her father Rafiq Qureshi, but nobody is talking about the other kid stars of the Oscar winning movie. We just made a search on other kid stars..

Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail (young Salim)
Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, 10, was given a flat by the city on his return from the Oscars, and now attends an English-speaking school. Recently, he was beaten by his father and got seriously ill, reports claim. Ismail was last spotted in Delhi.

Tanay Chheda (middle Jamal)
After the Slumdog, Tanay featured in a German-made documentary on the industry and is currently in Mumbai shooting My Name Is Khan. Bollywood superstar is in the lead role and Tanay is portraying as the child actor. Recently, film maker Karan Johar made it clear that Tanay would be playing the childhood role of Shah Rukh Khan in all his movies. My Name Is Khan based on the true story of a disabled Indian man detained by the US authorities.

Ayush Mahesh Khedekar (young Jamal)
Ayush Mahesh Khedekar lives in a well-to-do suburb of Mumbai. He was seen earlier this month at a Bollywood fundraising event for children’s education, sporting a new scorpion tattoo. Khedekar has been in front of the camera since he was four, appearing first in television commercials for Colgate and Kellogg’s, then in popular TV series.
And about the other stars…… is anybody know…… just comment in detail………..

Mary Killed Her Husband to Get Her Secret Lover Back..

Honey Mary wanted out of her marriage to Infosys employee Umesh Krishnan and be reunited with her lover.
The city police claim to have solved the murder of 28-year-old Infosys BPO employee Umesh Krishnan and have arrested two from a gang of six which includes Krishnan’s wife Honey Mary (25) and a paramedical employee.The police arrested Honey Mary along with Bipin Kumar Singh, a native of Jharkhand and a paramedical staffer. They are yet to find Honey Mary’s lover (whose name they refused to disclose), two engineers who were the lover’s colleagues in Surat and a journalist.Krishnan, a resident of Nanjundappa Garden Street in Ramaswamy Palya, died due to suffocation in the early hours of March 2. Mary, who was in the house at the time of the murder, had told the police that some robbers had killed her husband after gagging him and escaped with gold, cash and mobile phones, all worth over Rs 80,000. The police suspected Mary of having a role in her husband’s murder and went through her mobile phone records and finally succeededin booking her.Love’s labour lostIn 2006, Mary was pursuing her bachelorette degree in teaching when she came in contact with a Tamil Nadu-based mechanical engineering student. The two took to each other and had decided to get married. But in 2008, Mary was married off to Krishnan, a distant relative. Unable to deal with the loss of his love, Mary’s lover is said to have attempted suicide. Mary, who found little interest in her marriage, continued her previous relationship and the two were in regular contact over the phone. By this time, Mary’s paramour found a job in a private company in Surat. At work, he discussed his complicated love life and sought help from his friends and colleagues.The murder plotHis colleagues, in turn, introduced him to a journalist who is said to have hatched the murder plan. Accordingly, Bipin Kumar Singh and another accused, an engineer, gained entry into Mary’s house. Going by her lover’s instructions, Mary did not bolt the doors from inside and allowed the killers to get in. While Krishnan was in deep sleep, Mary, along with the two men, caught hold of his legs and hands and gagged him with a binding tape. To make it seem like a murder for robbery, Mary removed her gold valuables and handed them to Bipin along with two mobile phones. She also tied the tape around herself to make the police believe that the killers had tied her up before killing her husband. After the murder, Mary wanted to marry her lover and fly abroad to start a family and a new life.

Journalists throwing shoes towards Leaders, Event Videos.

For recent few months, throwing shoes towards leaders has been a new kind of protest, especially for journalists. Here are the videos of three major "shoe attacks"...

George W.Bush



P. Chidambaram



Chinese PM

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Throwing Shoes towards Leaders; The Protest of New Age...

It seems like journalists and shoes have formed a special bond. Following the footsteps of the Iraqi journalist, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, who hurled his shoes at former US President George Bush in December 2008, an Indian journalist, Jarnail Singh, has now used the same stunt to express his anger at Indian Home Minister Chidambaram.
Singh was irate with the minister’s reply to a question on the 1984 riots in India, in which hundreds of Sikhs were killed, and then threw his shoe at the minister.
But it seems like politicians have been trained to dodge flying shoes from journalists at press conferences; like Bush, Chidambaram managed to avoid the shoe, smiled, and then asked security guards to take the reporter out of the room.

Here are some recent 'shoe throw protests':

George W. Bush
George Bush narrowly avoided being hit in the face today by a pair of shoes hurled by an angry Iraqi journalist who called the outgoing President a dog during a farewell visit to Baghdad.
The attack highlighted the contempt felt by many Iraqis for Mr Bush, whose presidency will be defined by his decision to invade Iraq, a move that brought down Saddam Hussein but also destroyed the lives of tens of thousands.
Displaying quick reactions, the incumbent President ducked as the size 10 missiles hurtled over his head, one after the other, at a joint press conference with Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister, in Baghdad’s Green Zone.
Mr Maliki stuck out a hand to try to block the second shoe.
"This is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog," shouted the journalist, Muntazer al-Zaidi, before he was bundled from the room by security staff.
Throwing shoes is particularly insulting in the Middle East. A crowd of Iraqis used shoes to whack a toppled statue of Saddam after the 2003 invasion.
Mr Bush tried to brush of the slight, saying: "It doesn't bother me … I didn't feel the least threatened by it.”

P.Chidambaram (Indian Home Minister)

A shoe was thrown at Home Minister P Chidambaram during a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday.
The shoe was thrown by a journalist from the Dainak Jagran daily , Jarnail Singh, who was asking a question on the 1984 Sikh riots.
The man was immediately taken off the conference room and has been detained. While speaking to reporters, Jarnail Singh said that it is his way of protesting against the clean chit given to Congress leader and riots accused Jagdish Tytler.

Jarnail Singh, the journalist from Dainik Jagran who threw a shoe at Home Minister P Chidambaram during a briefing at the Congress office in New Delhi on Tuesday, has been released. But here is a look at how it happened.
Responding to Jarnail Singh’s questions, the Home minister said neither the Home Ministry nor any the government had put pressure on the CBI in the Tytler case.
But as the Singh persisted with his questions, Chidambaram told him “no arguments, you are using this forum” at which point the journalist hurled his shoe.
As he was being taken out by the security personnel, Jarnail said, “Whatever I did, the method was wrong. But I did for a right cause.”
Chidambaram later said he forgave the shoe-thrower. Jarnail Singh has been let off by the police because Chidambaram has told them not to take action against him.

Wen Jiabao (Chinese Minister)

A protester has thrown a shoe at Wen Jiabao during a speech at Cambridge University and called the Chinese prime minister a "dictator".
The shoe landed about a metre away from Mr Wen and the protester, a young man, was then removed by security guards.
Mr Wen, who earlier signed a series of trade agreements with Gordon Brown on the final day of a three-day UK visit, described the incident as "despicable".
Protests have taken place about human rights and Tibet during his visit.

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Heavy Rain Continues in Dubai Sharja, UAE..

Dubai and adjoining emirates were lashed by heavy rain late Wednesday and Thursday morning. Residents of Satwa and Bur Dubai reported seeing hail stones.
The meteorology centre also reported heavy rain in Masafi and some areas of Sharjah. Earlier in the day the temperature rose to 38 degrees Celsius in Dubai.
A senior forecaster at the Dubai Meteorological Department said it is not the all-time high temperature in Dubai as it had risen to 43 degrees Celsius a few years ago.
Meteorologists said the high temperatures were due to a new weather system developing in eastern Saudi Arabia. The system hit the emirates causing rain and thunderstorms.
In Oman, the Meteorology Department issued a warning of unstable weather conditions in the north, especially in Musandam where high waves are expected.

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Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and 200 other horsemen participating in the 100 kilometer endurance race that had to be postponed, expressed their pleasure at the snow and rains in Seih Al Silm, a location between Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

Many Dubai residents woke up to heavy rains on Thursday morning.

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Shocking News for Men !! She is a 11th Timer !!

Twenty-six-year-old Kausar Begum aka Umme Kausar married eleven times, on each occasion conning her man and absconding with his money. The Mumbai police finally caught up with her in the city. It’s talaq in reverse, and it’s been highly profitable for this profligate woman. Don’t go by the innocent face!

Twenty six-year-old Kausar Begum alias Umme Kausar alias Kausar Salma, a resident of HBR Layout, II Block, married 11 men from various Indian cities and abroad. Each time she claimed that it was her first marriage, only to dump the latest victim and, worse, fleece him subsequently using dowry harassment allegations. Finally, the law has caught up with her.Sub Inspector V S Shelar from Sion police station in Mumbai took Salma into custody and then took her to Mumbai after producing her before the 10th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in the city. The Mumbai police action followed a complaint by Syed Hasham Ahmed, a businessman and her former husband, with the Sion police. Mumbai police have arrested Kausar on charges of IPC 406, 420, 504, 506 R/W34, which include breach of trust, intimidation and intentional insult.
“Marriage was just a medium for Kausar and her sister Nazia Begum. Kausar has married 11 men and deserted them within a short period of time. Her family purchased a Rs 2 crore worth bungalow in HBR Layout. Where did the money come from? She even got married to a nawab of Hyderabad and he had to eke out Rs 50 lakh when she threatened to lodge a complaint against his family members,” Hasham told Bangalore Mirror.

With Abdul Rafeeq alias Kutty

Police sources said that Kausar did it with the full complicity of her parents and that she was quite an expert in conning men in this fashion. What makes the case as much sinister as it is scandalous, is that Kausar reportedly is backed by a city DCP who took voluntary retirement and also a network of agents across the country and abroad. Kausar once got married to a man in Dubai whom she then ditched. She and her sister have ditched four men each in Bangalore alone, including the son of a mullah, police sources added.

With her parents

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Hasham revealed how the trap was sprung. He was first approached by Rahmat Ulla Belt. “He is an agent and he painted a good picture of Kausar’s family, saying that what they lacked in wealth they more than compensated for with pedigree.
I convinced my parents and got married to her in June 2006. She started harassing me in a month’s time and one fine day she absconded with valuables. Later, her family members called me and started abusing me. Then, they got me attacked in Mumbai and I lost my little finger,” he said.
That was not the end of story. Hasham had to shell out Rs 20 lakh for a final settlement, and then despite that Kausar went ahead and filed a dowry case! “It was at this point that I hired private investigators and gathered information about them.
Kausar and her sister have lodged dowry cases on two former husbands and are claiming maintenance from them,” Hasham said. “Insallah, she has been arrested. It is a relief not only for me but for many young men who suffered at her hands,” he added.

New Ferrari style of Motorbike............Ferrari V4 design..

Israeli industrial designer Amir Glinik has come up with an incredible Ferrari motorcycle concept using a modified engine from the Ferrari Enzo supercar. Using drive-by-wire technology, the V4 superbike features hand controls adapted from an F-16 fighter jet and buttons based on those found on the steering wheel of Ferrari’s Formula 1 racecars. Other controls for the sound system and trip computer are located on an all weather touchscreen.“Vintage and modern Ferrari projects influence my design,” Glinik notes. “It’s a mix of what I find to be the best Ferrari lines with the latest technology I could think of in terms of engine, gear and driving management.” He has also made a version in bright yellow. As far as how fast it goes and how much the bike would cost, we can only speculate about very big numbers in both cases. We have no idea if Glinik’s V4, which he’s been working on for the past few years, will ever reach the production stage, but we think he’s got a real winner here.

Israeli industrial designer Amir Glinik has come up with an incredible Ferrari motorcycle concept using a modified engine from the Ferrari Enzo supercar. Using drive-by-wire technology, the V4 superbike features hand controls adapted from an F-16 fighter jet and buttons based on those found on the steering wheel of Ferrari's Formula 1 racecars. Other controls for the sound system and trip computer are located on an all weather touchscreen.
"Vintage and modern Ferrari projects influence my design," Glinik notes. "It's a mix of what I find to be the best Ferrari lines with the latest technology I could think of in terms of engine, gear and driving management." He has also made a version in bright yellow. As far as how fast it goes and how much the bike would cost, we can only speculate about very big numbers in both cases. We have no idea if Glinik's V4, which he's been working on for the past few years, will ever reach the production stage, but we think he's got a real winner here.

Mercedes Benz SCL600, New Stunning Design, Joystick controlled.!

No steering wheel, you drive it with a joystick. No pedals either.Can you drive with a joystick? Your kids and grandkids probably can. The influence of video games in our lives has really arrived, wouldn't you say?

"new Mercedes-Benz SCL600" automobile — including technical innovations such as a joystick in place of a steering wheel, a video monitor in place of a rear-view mirror, and swiveling gull-wing doors — are difficult to classify as "true" or "false." They are genuine photographs of a real car, but that car was constructed as a research vehicle, not as something to be made available for purchase by consumers (although some of its features may have been, or soon may be, incorporated into commercially-available models), and it isn't really "new" (in a technological sense), as it was introduced over ten years ago. The above-displayed photos are pictures of DaimlerChrysler's F 200 Imagination -->F 200 concept study, produced by the Mercedes-Benz design team and unveiled at the Paris Motor Show in 1996 to show off "groundbreaking systems for improving safety and comfort in passenger cars" and demonstrate "just how technical innovations could open up new avenues for the styling of future top-of-the-range cars." The full DaimlerChrysler press release described the vehicle thusly:

• Vehicle: F 200 Imagination Introduced in: 1996 Where: Paris Motor Show Goals: Testing of new ergonomics concepts based on drive-by-wire technology; cockpit design Drive: Four-stroke spark-ignition engine, 12 cylinders, 6.0 liters displacement, 290 kW (394 hp), rear-wheel drive, 5-speed electronically controlled automatic transmission Technical highlights: Sidesticks instead of a steering wheel: drive-by-wire o Forward-looking driving dynamics control o Active Body Control (ABC) o Headlight system featuring variable light distribution o Production launch as bi-xenon headlights with active light system in the Mercedes-Benz E-Class (W 211) o Video cameras in place of a rearview mirror o Electro-transparent panoramic glass roof: Production launch in 2002 in the Maybach 62 o Swiveling gullwing doors: Production launch in 2003 in the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren o Voice recognition for mobile phone: Production launch in 1996 under the name LINGUATRONIC in the Mercedes-Benz S-Class (W 140)

· Does the car of the future still have a steering wheel and foot-operated controls? The Mercedes-Benz F 200 Imagination, presented at the 1996 Paris Motor Show, serves to test a new ergonomics concept and is the product of the joint efforts of engineers and designers. Sidesticks — little joysticks in the doors and the center console for steering and braking — replace the steering wheel. This is impossible without electronic assistance, and so the technology is called drive-by-wire. Where until now exclusively mechanical elements have existed which are directly activated by pulses of force emanating from the driver, these are now linked with electric and hydraulic actuators whose desired actions are determined by electronic pulses. If the driver pushes the sidestick forward, the F 200 Imagination accelerates. If he moves the lever to the right or left, the vehicle steers to the right or left. If he pulls the lever back, the vehicle brakes and, if desired, after stopping drives in reverse. To get a little relief the driver can switch the system to the front seat passenger and his sidesticks. Drive-by-wire is a technical solution entailing consequences — for the interior, for example. If there is no more steering wheel and no more pedals, the passengers have more space and thus more comfort. It also serves safety since the cockpit and the footwell can be designed completely different. The F 200 Imagination embodies the thoroughgoing networking of electronic systems. One result is its advanced driving dynamics control. The electronics recognize the driver’s commands as requests for a certain driving state — accelerate, brake, steer, reverse — and decide in a flash how to comply with the commands in the best and safest manner. This is situational in nature because the computer utilizes the information of various sensors which tell it the road speed, wheel revolutions, engine revolutions, road condition and body motions. Based on this data, the computer decides, for example, how sharply the wheels should be angled during cornering or what engine speed is appropriate for driving on a wet road. The system is interlinked with the Active Body Control (ABC). Even when the going gets risky, the electronics keep the car safely on course through lightning-fast intervention in steering, braking, engine or transmission management and chassis control. The driver can fully utilize the technical capabilities of his car without transgressing the physical limits — a genuine advantage for safety. The electronically controlled rear spoiler system of the F 200 Imagination also assists him at this, setting itself upright in a flash and acting as a drag for better deceleration when an emergency braking situation is detected. The F 200 Imagination research car presents further innovative technology. For example, the headlights featuring variable light distribution: Six individual reflectors in each module, each with a separate bulb, are switched on and off depending on situation and speed in order to provide optimal light for driving at all times without blinding oncoming traffic. In curves, the light follows the wheel angle set by the driver, enhancing safety for night-time driving. At high speeds on superhighways an additional spot reflector is engaged to better illuminate the roadway far ahead. Innovations at the rear end too: the very compact taillight unit incorporates nine separate functions. The inconspicuous turn signal is a slender, arched neon tube distinguished by high luminous power and long life. Safety is always stressed by Mercedes-Benz, as demonstrated in the F 200 Imagination by the first-ever window airbag, which inflates itself across the side walls and considerably reduces the risk of head injuries in side crashes and rollovers. Since the coupe study does not have a conventional steering wheel, the front airbags are incorporated in a kneepad underneath the dashboard. Instead of conventional rearview mirrors the experts employ a video system with five permanently installed minicameras. Four of them are discreetly concealed in the roof frame struts on each side of the car and, out on the road, constantly have an eye on the areas next to and behind the F 200 Imagination. The fifth camera is in the rear bumper and automatically switches on when the vehicle backs up. The images appear on various monitors in the vehicle interior where the conventional mirrors otherwise would be located. In passing, so to speak, the F 200 Imagination also showed what a large, modern coupe might look like — heralding essential design features of the Mercedes-Benz CL which debuted in 1999. The F 200 Imagination has a transparent roof to flood the interior with light. Its special feature: the electro-transparent glass can be darkened at the push of a button to avoid excessive heating of the interior due to strong insulation. The glass has an intermediate layer, a liquid crystal film made of electrically conductive plastic. Electric current causes its crystals to array themselves so that the glass is transparent. In the meantime, this roof can be purchased in a car built by DaimlerChrysler: the Maybach 62. In the sum of its characteristics, the F 200 Imagination is a pioneering research vehicle, particularly its electronics, which enable new concepts and will play a bigger role in future cars. Of course, they must be subjected to intensive testing before they go into production. The F 200 Imagination played an important part in this and was forerunner of a Mercedes-Benz SL of the R 129 series that was equipped with electronic steering and sidesticks for test purposes in 1998 and thoroughly road-tested. Some of the findings: steering, braking and accelerating using a sidestick do require one to learn to think differently, but open up new dimensions in respect of driving dynamics, ride comfort and handling safety. The steering ratio and steering forces can be made variable and adapted to the particular situation — differently for parking than for negotiating a fast curve. To brake, the foot no longer has to be moved from the gas pedal to the brake pedal, so that the driver can respond more quickly.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to adopt indian Child

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are reportedly planning to add to their family by adopting a child from India.
The Changeling actress revealed her plans to one of the child stars of Slumdog Millionaire – which is set in the poorest areas of Mumbai - when she met him at last month's Oscars.
When asked by 10-year-old Azharuddin Mohammed if she would consider adopting a child from his home country of India, Angelina – who is in a long-term relationship with Brad Pitt - reportedly replied: "Well, I'll let you into a little secret, we will soon."
Angelina was said to be very taken with Azharuddin and Rubina Ali, nine, when she met them at Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles – where Slumdog Millionaire picked up eight prizes.
Both children were recruited for the film from the deprived areas of Mumbai where they live.
Angelina, 33, and Brad already raise three adopted children together - Maddox, eight, from Cambodia, Pax, five, from Vietnam and Zahara, four, from Ethiopia.
They also have three biological children, Shiloh, two, and eight-month-old twins Vivienne and Knox.
Brad and Angelina have made no secret of her desire to have more children.
In January, Brad joked the couple were already "overdue" another child, saying: "We average about two a year, so I guess we're overdue, aren't we?"
In 2006, Angelina and Brad visited an orphanage in the Indian city of Pune and spent time meeting the children at the centre and giving them presents.
A senior staff member at the centre said at the time: "Brad and Angelina were lovely and adore kids. Every move and every look of the couple was filled with love for our children and we were floored with their genuine affection."

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are to extend their multinational brood with a child from India, according to reports. The pair already has three adopted children - Maddox, seven, from Cambodia, Pax, four, from Vietnam and Zahara, three, from Ethiopia - as well as biological daughter Shiloh, two, and their seven-month-old twins Vivienne and Knox.
Jolie recently revealed plans to adopt from India when she met the child stars of Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire.
When ten year old Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail asked the Tomb Raider star why she hadn't adopted from his home country, she replied, "Well, I'll let you into a little secret, we will soon."
A source tells British newspaper the Sunday Express that the couple originally showed interest in adopting from India when they visited the country's Priya Darshini Orphanage in 2006, but were too busy to finalise the details.
The insider says, "They filled out all the paperwork but had to put the adoption on hold because of all their other commitments."

Rubaina Ali to act in a drink commercial with Nicol Kidman

Don’t know whether the film (Slumdog Millionaire) is making any difference in the lives of slum kids, but it actually making difference to the kid actors of the film. As we earlier posted Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Mohammed has recently lend a small role in a Bollywood flick. However actor Rubina Ali is continued her form, as she is done a commercial with Australian actress Nicole Kidman.The ad is for a beverage company which also stars Bollywood actor Arjun Rampal. Shoot of the ad was recently done in Udaipur, India.Rafiq Ali (Rubina’s father) is very happy with her daughter’s progress as he believes that her rising profile could lead to a better life for the family.He later added, “We are very proud of her and hope she continues to become a big star. Maybe then we will be able to live in a proper house. She was paid more for the ad than the movie.”

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ star Rubina Ali is said to have been paid more than the Oscar winning film for a drinks commercial with Hollywood superstar Nicole Kidman.
According to the nine-year-old slum dweller’s father, the money Rubina is receiving for doing the ad is more than the total she got for the film.
"The Slumdog Millionaire people haven't kept all their promises despite all the media attention. We have no information about the supposed trust fund and the 21pound-a-month that they were giving for her studies has stopped coming,” the ‘Telegraph’ quoted Rafiq Ali as saying.
“The money she is receiving for doing this ad is more than the total she got for Slumdog," he added.
He hopes that Rubina’s rising profile could lead to a better life for the family.
“We are very proud of her and hope she continues to become a big star. Maybe then we will be able to live in a proper house,” he said.