Suniel Shetty is very fatherly: Shweta Bharadwaj

June 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI J - President Pratibha Patil replaced the Governors of Karnataka, Bihar, and Madhya Pradesh. According to a communiqui issued by the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Devanand Konwar will be the new Governor of Bihar replacing R L Bhatia.

March 30th, 2009 LONDON - Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty has apparently been approached to star in EastEnders. The 32-year-old actress is said to be in talks with the producers of the hit BBC series, where she's likely to play a member of a new Asian family about to move into Albert Square, reports The Daily Express.

March 28th, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - 'What cannot be changed has to be endured,' Bollywood actress and Rajasthan Royals owner told a press conference here Friday ahead of the IPL series in South Africa from April 18. Shetty made a whistlestop visit from London as the Rajasthan Royals became the first IPL team to announce plans for the second edition of the hugely successful series which will be played out in South Africa because of security concerns in India.

March 27th, 2009 LONDON - Indian actress Shilpa Shetty has credited late Jade Goody with making her a star in Britain. The Bollywood stunner and the TV celebrity appeared on Big Brother in 2007, where Goody sparked thousands of complaints from viewers for her allegedly racist abuse of Shetty.

March 21st, 2009 MUMBAI - Sanjay Dutt is yet to get the green signal from the Supreme Court to contest the Lok Sabha elections, but many of his friends in Bollywood have already volunteered to campaign for him. Among the leading stars who have already put a sizeable chunk of their time aside to follow Dutt on his campaign trail in Lucknow are Anil Kapoor, Ajay Devgan, Arshad Warsi and director David Dhawan.

March 20th, 2009 LONDON - Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty has said that she's glad she didn't get to see her dying friend Jade Goody because she wants to remember her as the bubbly girl she met two years ago. Shetty had planned to see the former Big Brother star on her trip to London but couldn't meet her when Goody's health deteriorated.

March 15th, 2009 LONDON - Cancer-stricken reality TV star Jade Goody will be visited by foe-turned-friend Shilpa Shetty for a tearful last goodbye before she loses her battle against the disease. Shetty, 33, has regularly kept in touch with Goody over the phone since the mother of two learned two months ago that she was dying, mirror.co.uk reported.

February 26th, 2009 MUMBAI - Suniel Shetty finally returned to shooting Wednesday following a chest injury two months back and says he is as nervous as hell. 'I restart with Aditya Dutta's 'Garam Chai' where I've to match my comic timing with Chi Chi (Govinda).

February 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday accused the Congress-led the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government of violating the constitution and dictating terms to the Election Commission. 'The Congress, in particular, is behaving like the boss and as if it is thinking that when the government appointed him (Chief Election Commissioner), it has the right to remove him', senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley told reporters here Tuesday.

January 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - He himself has a well-toned body and exercises regularly, but actor-turned-producer Suniel Shetty says when it comes to the fittest body in tinsel town, Akshay Kumar wins hands down as he has maintained his physique throughout his 18-year career. 'Akshay has the fittest body in Bollywood, and all these years we have seen him getting better day by day,' Suneil Shetty told IANS.

January 22nd, 2009 MUMBAI - He has never gone without gymming in the past ten years, except now. A serious chest injury on the sets of Priyadarshan's comedy 'De Dana Dan' has had Suniel Shetty laid up for the past six weeks without exercise.

January 16th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Mumbai gangster Uday Shetty, who hit the headlines in India in 2003 after police said he was involved in an extortion case that embroiled Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty's family, was brought out before the media by Nepal police here, 72 hours after he was arrested and reportedly kept in a secret location. Along with the 34-year-old Uday, who comes from Kalyan in Maharashtra's Thane district near Mumbai, police also named four other Nepali members of a kidnapping gang who have been behind over 50 abductions.

January 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Singer-actress Sophie Chaudhary is working with Suniel Shetty in Inder Kumar's comic caper 'Daddy Cool' and says her co-star feels she is like Oscar award-winning actress Goldie Hawn. 'Suniel calls me the Goldie Hawn of India.

January 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - 'Mission Istaanbul' actress Shweta Bhardwaj says she has the ability to beat King Khan's energy on screen. 'I would really want to work with Shah Rukh Khan because I want to beat his energy.

December 22nd, 2008 MUMBAI - The entire cast of director Priyadarshan's forthcoming comedy 'De Dhana Dhan' had been shooting non-stop underwater at Film City here for two weeks and most of them are unwell. 'Though the water is clean, it isn't exactly the aqua-blue swimming pool water.