Mumbai,-John Abraham's
body has been a central point for his filmmakers but the
actor feels, now directors no longer approach him for his
physique.
"Films are a visual medium, From Shahrukh to Aamir,
everybody maintains a great body as they realize that it is a
visual medium, and that their body should be good. But that
was never my concentration. 'Body' will never be my central
point. But I know how my audience talks to me, they say what a
great body he has got, why should I loose that," John told in an interview.
"People die to have this kind of physique and I worked so
hard for it. So why not play around with it, why not do
things, as it will only add to my characterisation," he said.
But now 38-year-old actor feels Bollywood times are
changing and filmmakers are looking at the other side of John
Abraham.
Indian Sikh attacked in Australia
Melbourne, -A 22-year-old Indian taxi driver
in Australia was attacked by four men who ripped off his
turban and repeatedly punched him during the assault.
The men attacked Ravisher Singh yesterday in the city's
southeastern suburb after an argument with him.
Three men have been arrested on the charges of assault,
according to Local newspaper.
Singh said he had picked up the group from the Mentone
Hotel and was driving them to the Chelsea Heights Hotel.
An argument started with the men when they arrived at a
pub on the corner of Springvale and Wells roads and Singh got
out of his taxi.
The men ripped off his turban from his head and
repeatedly punched him, the report quoted Singh as saying.
He said the men knocked him to the ground and left his
face bloodied and bruised before fleeing.
"Indians have had this for five or six years and it
will happen again unless something is done to stop it," Singh
was quoted as saying by the report.
"We are just working hard trying to make a living. We
don't deserve this," he added.
Gas Tragedy: 27 years on, no consensus
on victims' number
Bhopal,-Even after the passage of 27 years, a
consensus between the government and the NGOs on the
number of victims of Bhopal gas disaster is elusive.
The leakage of methyl isocyanate gas from (since defunct)
Union Carbide pesticides plant in Bhopal on the night of
December 2 and 3 led to the worst industrial disaster in the
world, in which thousands perished and many more suffered
permanent ill-effects.
The two prominent NGOs which are fighting for the rights
of the victims, namely, Bhopal Group for Information and
Action (BGIA) and Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sangthan,
claim that actual figure of casualties is much higher than the
official figure.
"Madhya Pradesh Government has put the death toll at
5,295 in an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court," said Rachna
of BGIA.
But in another criminal petition filed in the apex court,
government put the death toll at 15,248, she said, adding that
it was for the government to tell which figure was correct.
Afghan rape victim freed from jail
but to marry attacker
Kabul,-Afghan President Hamid Karzai today
ordered the release of a woman who was jailed for adultery
after being raped but she now faces having to marry her
attacker, officials said.
The move came after some 5,000 people signed a petition
for the release of the woman, named Gulnaz, who has served two
years in prison after a relative raped her at her home. She
has been raising the child she had by her attacker in a prison
cell in Kabul.
The case again highlights the poor state of women's rights
in Afghanistan, 10 years after a US-led invasion ousted the
Taliban who were notorious for their harsh laws against women.
Elsewhere in Afghanistan today, it emerged that a teenage
girl and her family were sprayed with acid after apparently
rejecting a marriage proposal for her.
India's coffee exports up 22 pc
at 19,403 tonnes in November
New Delhi,-India's coffee exports rebounded
in November after witnessing a fall in the first month of the
2011-12 coffee year, rising by 22 per cent to 19,403 tonnes.
The country had shipped 15,927 tonnes of the brew
overseas in the same month of the 2010-11 coffee year
(October-September), according to Coffee Board data.
Overseas shipments of the brew from India had declined by
20 per cent to 19,195 tonnes in October of the 2011-12 coffee
year from 24,119 tonnes in the year-ago period.
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