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Mumbai:  Shares in beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines slumped nearly 18 per cent on Friday as concerns heightened about the cash-strapped carrier's ability to raise funds to continue operations. The carrier, whose losses doubled in the September quarter due to high fuel costs, has cancelled scores of flights in recent weeks as it struggles to raise working capital. "The fresh infusion of capital in Kingfisher is still uncertain. There is nothing concrete coming from the company, except that flights still continue to be cancelled, and the market is reacting to that uncertainty," said KK Mital, chief executive for portfolio management services at Globe Capital. CNN-IBN The Financial Times reported Kingfisher Chairman Vijay Mallya said in an interview he was close to sealing a $ 370 million deal with an Indian private investor and a consortium of banks that would save the airline. Mallya said on the social networking site Twitter that the report was 'factually wrong', ...

Mumbai:  As soon as Amitabh Bachchan announced that Aishwarya Rai has given birth to a baby girl, congratulatory messages from Bollywood stars started pouring in, welcoming the new arrival in the Bachchan family. "Congratulations!! Baby B had a baby girl!! @juniorbachchan!!! All the love and happiness...am sure she will be the prettiest girl ever!!! (sic)," filmmaker  Karan Johar wrote on twitter. "@juniorbachchan how beautiful is this feeling. Allah bless u and Aish. Dying to come & see the three of u...YAY!!!! Now u really r PA lov u," super star Shah Rukh Khan tweeted. IBNLive "OMG! So excited Baby B is Daddy to a little Angel! Congrats Ash n @juniorbachchan and to the entire family! Welcome sweet baby girl:)," actress  Bipasha Basu  said. Javed Akhtar : "Congratulations Amitabh ji, this has evoked my memory of the day when Shweta was born. Time flies and how swiftly !!" Anupam Kher : "CONGRATULATIONS @juniorbachchan and Ash. So so H...

Mumbai:  Actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has given birth to a baby girl, the first child for the former Miss World and her actor husband Abhishek Bachchan. The delivery took place at the Seven Hills Hospital in Marol, Mumbai. A proud grandfather, Amitabh tweeted on Wednesday morning, "I AM DADA to the cutest baby girl !!" Later in the day, an excited dad Abhishek said both mother and daughter were doing fine. "Thank you all for your prayers and good wishes. Both Aishwarya and the baby are doing great and taking some much needed rest....And I'm trying my level best to get rid of this caffeine high and get some sleep too. Don't think it'll work. TOO EXCITED!!!!," Abhishek tweeted. IBNLive Aishwarya, 38, has been married to Abhishek for more than four years and the star couple had been fending off baby rumours for months before the pregnancy was confirmed in June. Aishwarya was expected to give birth to her first child in November and the media had followed h...

The Bachchans:  Bachchans are busy celebrating the arrival of Aishwarya and Abhishek's daughter. Let's meet the Bachchan clan Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan's father was a famous Hindi poet. He is most popular for his book 'Madhushala'. He passed away in 2003. Harivansh Rai Bachchan got married to Shyama in 1926. Shyama died after ten years of marriage. Harivansh married Teji Bachchan (in the picture) in 1941. They had two sons, Amitabh and Ajitab. Born in 1969, Amitabh Bachchan is the most popular Bollywood celebrity today. Ajitabh Bachchan (second from left) is Amitabh's younger brother Amitabh Bachchan is married to actress Jaya Bachchan. They have two children, Abhishek Bachchan and Shweta Nanda. Jaya was born in a Hindu Bengali family to Taroon Kumar Bhaduri and Indira Bhaduri. Her father was a writer, journalist and stage artist. Abhishek's elder sister Shweta Bachchan Nanda is married to industrialist Nikhil Nanda. Nikhil and Shweta have t...

New York:  Facebook said Wednesday that it has stopped most of the spam that has flooded many users' pages with pictures showing graphic sex and violence. The social-networking company urged its 800 million-plus users to remain vigilant to keep their accounts from being hijacked. That includes reporting suspicious links on friends' pages and not clicking on links that offer deals that are too good to be true. Social-networking sites are popular targets for spammers because people are more likely to trust and share content that comes from people they know. This makes spam, scams and viruses easy to spread. Still, Facebook says less than 4 per cent of content shared on the site is spam. By comparison, about 74 per cent of email is spam, according to security firm Symantec, though the bulk gets filtered out before reaching the inbox. Over the past couple of days, many users have complained about finding links on their Facebook pages taking them to images depicting jarring violenc...

 Delhi:  The  suspicion  raised by former India batsman Vinod Kambli over the 1996 World Cup semi-final against Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens has turned heads, but is there validity to what he claims? Kambli, who walked off the field on the night of March 13, 1996 in tears after the match was awarded to Sri Lanka by default, on Thursday said he found "something amiss" in the game. AFP Kambli claims that his suspicion arose due to Mohammad Azharuddin's decision to field first even though it was unanimously decided, according to him, that the team would bat after winning the toss. However, the manager of the team, Ajit Wadekar, has doused those by stating that it had been decided the night before that India would field if they won he toss. He also pointed out the thinking that since Sri Lanka at the time were very good at chasing – three of their four on-field wins in the tournament had come thus – so they would not let them chase. The rationale makes sense, and if the ma...