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Celina Jaitley announces her wedding with Peter Haag
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Celina Jaitley, working fully well this Fall's biggest trend: the masculine-feminine look. And here we thought androgyny came only in the form of Moschino's bow-front silk blouse and Alexander Wang's
The rumour of Celina’s wedding to her fiancé Peter Haag has been doing the rounds for a while. Now, the actress has herself conceded that she is married to Peter. The wedding took place last month in a monastery in Austria, in the presence of the Haag family.
Celina broke the news on Twitter and wrote: “Beloved tweeple. ..With great pleasure I would like to announce my wedding with @peterhaag on the 23rd of last month at a thousand year old monastery in Austria. We seek your blessings and good wishes, and apologize for the delayed announcement due to a family tragedy.
Celina tweeted, “Beloved tweeple..with great pleasure I would like to announce my wedding with @peterhaag on the 23rd of last month at a thousand year old monastery in Austria. We seek your blessings and good wishes and apologize for the delayed announcement due to a family tragedy. Here is a picture of the most cherished moment of our lives. [The above picture features myself and my beloved husband, flanked by my dearest father in law to my left, and my brother in law to Peter’s right.]”
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Sunday, August 28, 2011
Gaga Britney Spears Accepts Video Vanguard VMA And A Kiss From Lady Gaga 2011
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And that's what happened when Lady Gaga stepped out on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards to pay tribute to Britney Spears with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. Well, kind of. Gaga took the stage to honor Spears still in character as her male
Matt Sayles / AP LOS ANGELES — Pop star Lady Gaga picked up two awards and Katy Perry won three, including video of the year. But it was Beyonce showing off her new baby bump that stole the show at MTV's Video Music Awards Sunday.
She's a breath of fresh air and she's so exciting and her music is adding another dimension to radio that's so important," Lady Gaga, who is opening the 2011 VMAs, told MTV News. "She's [also] a truly lovely person -- which, to me,
Gaga took the stage to honor Spears still in character as her male alter ego Jo Calderone, which she'd taken on for her show-opening performance earlier in the night. And that made things pretty interesting. Calderone opened by calling Spears an inspiration, saying, "She taught us all how to be fearless, and the industry wouldn't be the same without her."
Calderone then went on to get a little personal about Spears. He told the audience he used to put up posters of the pop star on his bedroom wall and be inspired in non-musical ways. It was a weird moment, but Calderone is a young guy of the right generation — a generation that would indeed have posters of Britney Spears on his/her wall.
There's a reason, after all, she was being awarded the Vanguard Award. The tribute then turned into exactly what any great tribute to this particular diva should be: a dance party. Spears is known as one of the biggest dance pop artists of her generation, and accordingly, dancers wearing Britney's most famous video looks took the stage to get down to her biggest hits, from "Baby One More Time" and "Crazy" to "Toxic" and "Do Somethin'."
By the time the sequence dissolved into a full-stage dance-off to Spears' recent smash "Till The World Ends," children also wearing Spears' myriad costumes popped up on stage alongside their grown-up dancing counterparts. It was a fitting way to show the impact Spears' music has had. From kids to adults, everyone knows and loves Britney. As the performance ended, Gaga-as-Calderone again grabbed the spotlight to introduce the pop star and did so with the kind of bravado that carried him through his monologue earlier in the show. "Everybody, stand the f--- up," Calderone demanded.
Looking better than ever and glowing from all the praise, Spears then took the stage.
Calderone certainly liked what he saw, eying the singer before stepping forward for a semi-awkward stare-down. But Gaga, er, Calderone eventually got what he wanted: a quick kiss from the one and only Britney Spears. He wanted more, however, but alas, it just wasn't going to happen. Being a classy guy, Calderone brushed off Britney's dismissal of his advances with a cool, "I don't want Gaga to get pissed Posted in
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Polio Over 3.7 lakh migratory kids administered polio immunization drops 2011
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The European Regional Certification Commission for Poliomyelitis Eradication (RCC) announced that Europe will retain its polio-free status after the importation of wild poliovirus type 1 in 2010. At their 25th meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark
The Polio Eradication Initiative in Pakistan received a massive blow this week when four infants in China s Xinjiang province were detected with poliovirus having generic links to the virus in Pakistan. The development has put Asia s largest country and the world s largest populated country in danger of losing its 11-year-old polio-free status.
CHANDIGARH: Around 3,73,719 migratory children below the age of 5 years were administered polio immunization drops on Sunday, the first day of the 3-day sub-national immunization campaign for Pulse Polio immunization held across Punjab.
No case of polio was reported during the year 2010, while, in 2009, 4 cases were reported from the state. While2 of these were reported from Ludhiana, one case each was from Jalandhar and Mohali. Doctors say that it required at least 3 years consecutively of there being no polio case before a region can be declared in the safe zone of polio eradication.
A total of 3,147 teams and 629 supervising teams have been formed by the government to achieve an overall target covering 7,86,777 migratory children in Punjab during the 3-day Pulse Polio campaign that will continue till August 30.
According to the Xinjiang Department of Health, the four children aged between four months to two years belong to the Hotan prefecture of the province. The cases were reported from July 3 to 17.
According to information available on the website of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed importation of the virus from Pakistan. Gene sequencing has revealed that the virus has a 100 per cent resemblance with the wild poliovirus that caused the outbreak in Pakistan.
Terming the incident one of its kind, health experts placed the blame on field officials. Pakistan has reported a record 72 polio cases so far this year, that too when 2011 has been declared by the president and the prime minister as the Emergency Year for Polio Eradication. It seems that the Polio Emergency Year will go down in the history of Pakistan as the darkest year for polio eradication. The importation of the virus to China is yet another demonstration of the country s shameful performance in eradicating polio during the ongoing year, a health official remarked. Every year, the crafty scientists of the polio eradication initiative coin new technical excuses to conceal their failure. These excuses include inaccessibility, flash floods, fragile security, and poor sanitation, to name a few. This year, they are blaming Balochistan for the recent outbreak of the virus.
Another matter of concern is the increasing number of P1 polio cases, which are far more lethal than the P3 virus. Out of the 72 polio cases reported so far in Pakistan, 71 are P1 type cases, which clearly indicates that the poliovirus is on the loose, and that the coming days will be even darker for polio eradication.
Since the beginning of the year, there have been speculations of Pakistan heading in the direction of registering close to 300 cases during 2011. The country topped the list of the world s poorly-performing last year by reporting 144 polio cases. In contrast, India has reported only a single polio case so far this year and is currently seen as the best performing country in the list of polio endemic countries. Afghanistan and Nigeria have reported 13 and 25 polio cases respectively.
The Polio Eradication Initiative in Pakistan received a massive blow this week when four infants in China s Xinjiang province were detected with poliovirus having generic links to the virus in Pakistan. The development has put Asia s largest country and the world s largest populated country in danger of losing its 11-year-old polio-free status.
CHANDIGARH: Around 3,73,719 migratory children below the age of 5 years were administered polio immunization drops on Sunday, the first day of the 3-day sub-national immunization campaign for Pulse Polio immunization held across Punjab.
No case of polio was reported during the year 2010, while, in 2009, 4 cases were reported from the state. While2 of these were reported from Ludhiana, one case each was from Jalandhar and Mohali. Doctors say that it required at least 3 years consecutively of there being no polio case before a region can be declared in the safe zone of polio eradication.
A total of 3,147 teams and 629 supervising teams have been formed by the government to achieve an overall target covering 7,86,777 migratory children in Punjab during the 3-day Pulse Polio campaign that will continue till August 30.
According to the Xinjiang Department of Health, the four children aged between four months to two years belong to the Hotan prefecture of the province. The cases were reported from July 3 to 17.
According to information available on the website of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed importation of the virus from Pakistan. Gene sequencing has revealed that the virus has a 100 per cent resemblance with the wild poliovirus that caused the outbreak in Pakistan.
Terming the incident one of its kind, health experts placed the blame on field officials. Pakistan has reported a record 72 polio cases so far this year, that too when 2011 has been declared by the president and the prime minister as the Emergency Year for Polio Eradication. It seems that the Polio Emergency Year will go down in the history of Pakistan as the darkest year for polio eradication. The importation of the virus to China is yet another demonstration of the country s shameful performance in eradicating polio during the ongoing year, a health official remarked. Every year, the crafty scientists of the polio eradication initiative coin new technical excuses to conceal their failure. These excuses include inaccessibility, flash floods, fragile security, and poor sanitation, to name a few. This year, they are blaming Balochistan for the recent outbreak of the virus.
Another matter of concern is the increasing number of P1 polio cases, which are far more lethal than the P3 virus. Out of the 72 polio cases reported so far in Pakistan, 71 are P1 type cases, which clearly indicates that the poliovirus is on the loose, and that the coming days will be even darker for polio eradication.
Since the beginning of the year, there have been speculations of Pakistan heading in the direction of registering close to 300 cases during 2011. The country topped the list of the world s poorly-performing last year by reporting 144 polio cases. In contrast, India has reported only a single polio case so far this year and is currently seen as the best performing country in the list of polio endemic countries. Afghanistan and Nigeria have reported 13 and 25 polio cases respectively.
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