Top Manipuri actress arrested for terror links

October 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja arrived here from Mumbai Sunday morning after spending 110 days in jail for allegedly raping his domestic help. He was granted bail Thursday.

September 28th, 2009 PATNA - Superstar of Bhojpuri cinema Manoj Tiwari's nephew Rakesh Tiwari was arrested for allegedly killing a woman in Bihar's Kaimur district, police said Monday. Rakesh, accused of killing young married woman Punam Devi, was arrested late Sunday night, a police officer said.

September 27th, 2009 ZURICH - Film director Roman Polanski has been arrested in Switzerland under a 31-year-old US arrest warrant and may be extradited to face sex abuse charges, police in Zurich said Sunday. The director, who has been wanted since 1978 in the US on charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl, had been due to receive a prize at the Zurich Film Festival, but was arrested as he arrived at Zurich airport Saturday evening.

September 19th, 2009 MUMBAI - Veteran actor Om Puri plays a terrorist who masterminds a massive attack in the US in Rensil d'Silva's "Kurbaan" and says he has no reservations about playing a 'jehaadi' as audiences are mature enough to differentiate between an actor and a film character. Irrfan Khan had apparently said no to playing a terrorist in "Kurbaan".

September 13th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie was overcome with emotion during a trip to a refugee settlement in Africa Saturday. The "Tomb Raider" actress, a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, spent a day at the Dadaab refugee camp on the Kenyan border to see the conditions that 285,000 starving Somali refugees live in and could not control her feelings from showing, reports contactmusic.com.

September 5th, 2009 LONDON - Jack Tweed, the 22-year-old widower of British reality TV star Jade Goody, has been arrested for sexually assaulting a young girl. Tweed, who wed Goody just weeks before she died from cervical cancer in March, was held after police barged into his home Friday morning following a 19-year-old woman's allegation that he had sexually assaulted her hours earlier, reports contactmusic.com.

September 1st, 2009 JAMIE FOXX was so shocked after a man tried to break into his Philadelphia hotel suite, he can't go to a bar without eyeing the emergency exit. A 47 year old man was arrested in April (09) and charged with burglary, stalking, and making criminal threats, after claims he tried to get into the Ray actor's room on two occasions.

August 4th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood star Michael Douglas' son Cameron has been arrested for the possession of methamphetamine, an addictive drug, with intent to distribute. The 31-year-old was taken into custody by federal authorities in New York Monday, reported contactmusic.com.

July 26th, 2009 MUMBAI - A small time Bollywood producer-director was arrested for allegedly raping an aspiring actress, police said here Sunday. "The accused, Ram Kumar Kumavat had promised a role to the 24-year old victim in one of his forthcoming movies.

July 2nd, 2009 IMPHAL - Noted Manipuri cinematographer L. Surjakanta was arrested here Thursday on charges of aiding a top separatist outfit leader, police said.

July 2nd, 2009 MUMBAI - His "Kabul Express" was critically acclaimed and his latest release "New York" has turned out to be a commercial success widely appreciated by critics as well. Ecstatic with the phenomenal response that his film on terror has generated, director Kabir Khan now wants to move on to lighter subjects.

June 14th, 2009 MUMBAI - Popular Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja was arrested here late Sunday for allegedly raping his maid, police said. The 19-year-old maid lodged a complaint with the Oshiwara police station in Andheri (West) Sunday evening, and police summoned Ahuja for questioning, a police official said.

June 11th, 2009 LONDON - English musician Pete Doherty has again been arrested in less than a week, this time on suspicion of drunken driving and drug possession. The Babyshambles frontman, who was recently arrested at an airport in Switzerland after he was suspected of taking drugs in an aircraft toilet, played a solo show in Gloucester, south west England, Wednesday night and was held 30 minutes after the gig, reports mirror.co.uk.

June 8th, 2009 LONDON - English musician Pete Doherty has been arrested at an airport in Switzerland after he was suspected of taking drugs in a plane toilet. The singer was flying from London to Geneva, Switzerland Friday ahead of a planned concert in the country but cabin crew on the British Airways flight became concerned when they allegedly found the star slumped in the aircraft's lavatory, reports contactmusic.com.

May 29th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh is ascertaining possible terror links of Abdul Rauf Daud Merchant, convicted killer of Bollywood music baron Gulshan Kumar, who was nabbed while hiding in a town in the eastern region, media reports here said Friday. Bangladesh is specifically probing Merchant's possible link to the haul of a huge arms shipment in 2004.