Priyanka Chopra happy for cousin’s debut with Yash Raj Films

Actress Priyanka Chopra is very happy that her cousin Pariniti Chopra is making her debut as an actress with Yash Raj Films.

“Pariniti is my sister. Today only she has signed a film with YRF. I am very happy that YRF singned her,” Priyanka told reporters at a promotional event of her film “7 Khoon Maaf” held at JW Marriot hotel Monday.

Pariniti has been signed for the film “Ladies V/S Ricky Bahl” where actor Ranveer Singh and actress Anushka Sharma are yet again sharing the screen space after their recent hit “Band Baaja Baaraat” under the same banner.

Based on the story developed by producer Aditya Chopra “Ladies V/S Ricky Bahl” is a romantic comedy where a charming conman Ricky Bahl cons girls for a living, but finally meets his match.

The film is set to go on floor early April with plans to hit theatres worldwide Dec 9 this year.

Pariniti works with YRF in their marketing department and she did PR for her film “Pyaar Impossible” too, reveals Priyanka.

“She works with YRF’s marketing department. In fact, she worked as PR for my film with YRF,” said Priyanka.

Asked what tips she would like to give to her sister, she quipped, “I would call her and say that.”

- IANS

Lost savings bonds: Treasuryhunt.gov helps find missing bonds.

re you looking to find a missing savings bond from the Treasury Department? A hot topic on the Google trends on Friday, January 14, Treasuryhunt.gov is the place to search for this information.

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For missing bonds and notes issued prior to 1974, or bonds that are not series E, you must contac the Treasury Department directly. If you have a lost or stolen bond that has not matured, you must file form 1048 or 3062-4.

Rishi Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit set the stage on fire

What would happen if two of the Bollywood’s dance legends come together on one stage? The stage would indeed be on fire. Something similar happened on the sets of Sont TV’s “Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 4″ when veteran actor Rishi Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit danced together.

Rishi, who was on the sets of the dance show to promote his new film “Patiala House”, and Madhuri set the stage on fire as they both performed to the popular song “Ek mein aur ek tu” from the movie “Khel Khel Mein”.

The duo have done handful of films together like “Sahibaan”, “Yaraana”. Their last film together was “Premgranth” in 1996.

Rishi is known for dancing on his knees and the actor reveals that it helped him in impressing his actress wife Neetu Singh.

With just Sushant Singh Rajput, Ragini Khanna, Mahi Vij, Yana Gupta, Ankita Lokande, Shekhar Suman and Mieyang Chang left in the field, the competition has got tough. Earlier, these celebrities were just giving one performance and now they have to give two. Besides Madhuri, the judges panel for the show includes Remo D’Souza and Malaika Arora Kha

It was time to change focus, get intense – Akshay Kumar

BollywoodWorld.com, Akshay Kumar is in the mood for intense and dramatic roles and will be seen as a Sikh guy trapped in the patriarchal family system in “Patiala House”. He says he accepted the offer as it was completely opposite to his real life story and also because he is keen to change his funny guy image.

“It was a conscious decision to do a serious role because it’s been three years since I’ve done something like this. The last was ‘Namastey London’. I’ve been away from it for quite sometime now and was concentrating on comedy. So I thought of changing focus and doing something serious,” Akshay told IANS in an interview.

“While playing the character, I felt that I’m playing what real people go through in life, what circumstances they face. I’m not playing just a role, it is a culmination of the lives of common people out there,” added the 43-year-old.

Akshay showed his funny side in his first hit comedy “Hera Pheri”, but his comedies like “Action Replayy” and “Tees Maar Khan” bombed at the box office.

Set in London, “Patiala House” sees Akshay Kumar’s character Gattu trapped between his dreams and his father’s aspirations for him.

The film has been directed by Nikhil Advani and co-produced by Bhushan Kumar, Mukesh Talreja, Krishan Kumar and Akshay along with his wife Twinkle Khanna.

Akshay says what attracted him to the role was that his life story was completely opposite to his character in the movie.

Ohio's unemployment rate dips slightly in December

(WOIO) - Ohio's unemployment rate was 9.6% in December, down from 9.8% in November, according to data released Friday morning by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

The number of workers unemployed in Ohio in December was 567,000, down from 580,000 in November. The number of unemployed has decreased by 71,000 in the past 12 months from 638,000. The December unemployment rate for Ohio was down from 10.8% in December 2009.

The U.S. unemployment rate for December was 9.4%, down from 9.8% in November.

Snow up to 9 inches, with 1/4 inch Layer of Ice for Londonderry

According to the National Weather Service low pressure will begin to move northeast from the Gulf of Mexico tonight…then intensify at it heads up the eastern seaboard Tuesday. the low will move through the Gulf of Maine Tuesday night and Wednesday.

Snow will overspread New Hampshire and then Maine during the day on Tuesday. Enough warm air may wrap into the system to change the precipitation over to rain along coastal regions and extreme southeast New Hampshire by Tuesday night. Further inland a mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain is expected with all snow anticipaSix inches or more of snow with mixed precipitation causing a thin layer of ice is likely, especially away from the immediate coast. right along the shoreline A few inches of snow will accumulate before the mixing or changeover to rain occurs. The precipitation will wind down on Wednesday. In the meantime expect very slick travel…especially over inland sections.

Winter storm warning in effect from 7 am Tuesday to 10 am est Wednesday

The National Weather Service in Gray has issued a winter storm warning for mixed precipitation which is in effect from 7 am Tuesday to 10 am est Wednesday. the winter storm watch is no longer in effect. Storm duration and accumulation forecast has increased since Monday afternoon.

• Timing: Snow will enter the region Tuesday morning between 7am and 10am in Londonderry followed by mixed snow sleet and freezing rain away from the coast Tuesday night. The precipitation will wind down Wednesday morning.
• Accumulations: 5 to 9 inches or more of snow with one quarter inch of ice.
• Impacts: Travel will be treacherous. Scattered power outages are possible.
• Forecast confidence: Forecast confidence in snow amounts is moderate to high however, there is still some uncertainty in the track of the low. A slightly further east low track will mean lesser snow amounts especially in the northern New Hampshire and western
  Maine mountains. A track further west would yield more snow for the mountains but more of a mix on the coastal plain and perhaps a bit more freezing rain than forecast.
• Instructions: A mixture of snow sleet and freezing rain will make for difficult travel across the region Tuesday into Wednesday.

ted over far northern areas.

Ana Zorrilla

Ana Zorrilla came to Louisiana SPCA to provide her services to animals and human community of New Orleans and now being the CEO of LA/ SPCA along with the Mayor Mitch Landrieu said they would pursue their service for the animals to the city in the year 2011 under a new agreement.

After a long discussions and controversies in the agreement it was a relief for the residents and animals of the city as the amount of money to provide these services were increased to $1.92 million and it is enough as it included a number of service like—bite case response and quarantine, adoption services, lost and found services, disaster and hurricane assistance, stray animal sheltering and trapping, cremation of un-adopted ones and inspection of stables for mules used to pull carriages.

The LA/SPCA have been known already to provide quality services for decades and now with co-operative donors, officials and under the leadership of Ana Zorrilla the people of New Orleans are sure they could be satisfied with all the work which commenced yesterday.