Lucknow couple to tie the knot in hot air balloon

September 29th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Police Tuesday arrested a man in the Uttar Pradesh capital and recovered fake Indian currency with the nominal value of Rs.500,000 from his possession. Girijesh Yadav was arrested from the Manak Nagar area of the city, based on information divulged by one of his associates, Arif, whom police arrested a couple of days ago, police spokesperson A.K.

September 8th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Marriages may be made in heaven but could be solemnised in a police station as it happened with a love-struck couple in Uttar Pradesh's Maharajganj district, who faced strong opposition from their families. Lorik (23) and Guddi (21), of Aauratar village in the Maharajganj district, who had eloped Sunday, approached the police at Nichlaul police station for help.

June 10th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Low-cost carrier IndiGo will start operations in Uttar Pradesh July 5 with daily flights from Lucknow to Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi and Patna. "We have been eyeing Lucknow for a while," IndiGo president Aditya Ghosh said at a media briefing here.

May 13th, 2009 SHIMLA - Piyara Singh, 105, a World War II veteran, and his paralytic spouse Hansa Devi, 103, believed to be the oldest couple in Himachal Pradesh, exercised their franchise Wednesday. While Piyara Singh reached the polling station at Dharamsala in Kangra district on foot, the wife was piggybacked by her eldest son.

April 22nd, 2009 NEW YORK - American magician David Blaine is all set to tie the knot with French model Alizee Guinochet.he two were spotted kissing in Central Park over the weekend, and 36-year-old Blaine confirmed that they were engaged, reports the New York Post. Guinochet, 23, was even seen wearing two "pre- engagement" gold bands, one with small diamonds.

March 29th, 2009 LONDON - Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty will probably tie the knot with beau Raj Kundra in October this year, the Daily Mail online reported Sunday. The couple have set a tentative date in October and plan to have a traditional ceremony in India, the report said.

March 20th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A stepfather and mother have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh for attempting to kill their daughter after she refused to enter the flesh trade, the police said Thursday. 'Shyam Sunder, 26, and Usha, 40, from Palanpur in Gujarat had brought their 20-year-old daughter to Lucknow last month to hand her over to some pimps they were in contact with,' police inspector Sanjay Rai told IANS.

March 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) seems to have taken the lead in terms of costly electioneering material, namely six-feet tall blue elephants, costing Rs.5,000 each. 'Prepared from waterproof cloth, the elephants have been made following special orders placed by BSP activists,' Rajesh Agarwal, owner of Sheela Enterprsies, told IANS in Lucknow.

March 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - They are huge, they are blue and they are full of air! They are the Bahujan Samaj Party's (BSP) jumbo campaign delight. The elephant-shaped material, which when inflated become six-feet tall, costs Rs.5,000 each and is being sold as 'gubbara' (balloon).

March 12th, 2009 JAIPUR - Jaipur is famous for 'Gulal Gota', made by melting lacquer into a fine membrane balloon. Only a few craftsmen can make 'Gulal Gota', a tender colour bomb thrown at unsuspecting passerby or a willing player during the festival.

March 10th, 2009 LONDON - Pop star Justin Timberlake is planning to tie the knot with his long time model-turned-actress girlfriend Jessica Biel in Italy this summer. The couple has been dating since 2007 and is rumoured to be engaged after the singer was spotted shopping for diamond rings at a jewellery store in New York recently, reports contactmusic.com.

February 27th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Marriages are said to be made in heaven and it got a bit closer to that in the case of a Lucknow-based couple who exchanged their vows Thursday evening in a hot air balloon. Guests, media persons and even onlookers watched with curiosity as the ceremony took place nearly 35 feet above the ground in the gondola of a hot-air balloon that took off at 10.20 p.m.

February 14th, 2009 BEIJING - More than 2,500 couples have tied the knot on Valentine's Day in China, an official said Sunday. Valentine's Day is becoming increasingly popular for marriages among the Chinese people, said Li Ziwei, chief of the marriage bureau under the civil affairs department.

February 13th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Each day of the last three years has been Valentine's Day for a Malaysian couple -- she is aged 106 years while her husband is just 37. When Muhammad Noor Che Musa and Wok Kundor tied the knot over three years ago, nobody gave their marriage much of a chance.

January 11th, 2009 LONDON - American hip-hop group Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie has married Daytime Emmy Award-winning American actor and former fashion model Josh Duhamel. The couple proclaimed 'I do' at a lavish star-studded wedding Jan 10 in Malibu, Califronia, and are believed to be heading to the Bahamas for honeymoon, reports dailymail.co.uk.