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 Elite clubs of Kolkata are known for soul-stirring atmosphere, good food and perhaps some male chauvinism. For the first time in over a hundred years, a woman will now head one of these. She is a president of a different kind and while not in the league of kind of ones like Pratibha Patil, Renu Roy is all set to shatter the glass ceiling in Kolkata's social circuit. She will be the first woman to assume the post of president of Saturday Club ... which has been a male preserve for the past 106-years. Renu underplays her achievement but has clear plans about improving the club's standard. "I am happy no doubt but more women should come forward. I will concentrate on improving catering, sports and culture here,” says Roy. An accomplished actor in theatre and TV serials, Renu runs a production company and also owns an art gallery. In 2006 she became the vice president of the club and her name was proposed for the post of the President by the outgoing committee and with no other nominations Renu is president unopposed. “I feel she will do better than men,” said A K Chatterjee, President, The Saturday Club. “In our club, we do allow the women to vote in the club elections. We do give empowerment to women but never at such levels,” said Brigadier A K Dutta, secretary, The Saturday Club. Renu is hopeful that after she takes over her office on September 19, many other clubs will follow the same route and more and more women will be given chance to lead. Related StoriesSneha-follows-in-Trisha’s-footsteps  Sneha is now all set to follow in the footsteps of Trisha and Namitha. She is planning to set up fan clubs all over the state along the lines of Trisha. She has given the responsibility of getting the fan clubs up and running on the shoulder of her father. Sneha wants to do charitable work with the help of her fan clubs. Looks like the genial actress is actually following in the footsteps of megastar Chiranjeevi. & more KCR-discharged-from-NIMS  The TRS chief K Chandrashekar Rao who was on a 11 day deeksha at NIMS has been discharged from the hospital. KCR broke his deeksha after the union government a announced that it was initiating the process for the formation of a separate Telangana state. KCR was in ICU for 11 days and the doctors said that his condition was critical. He was however shifted to a special room hours after he ‘broke his deeksha’ by drinking a glass of lemon juice. KCR made a remarkable recovery and he was on more For-Babu,-media-means-only-Eenadu-and-ETV! Chandra Babu Naidu invited a lot of ridicule recently when he sprang to the defense of Eenadu chief Ramoji Rao, following the verdict on the excess ceiling land in his possession. He went overboard and used the choicest to abuses against chief minister Y S Rajashekar Reddy and the congress party. The same Babu is now silent when the RDO issued similar notice to Girish Sanghi of Vaartha. The notice says that Grish Sanghi has about 2,000 acres of ceiling land in his possession, and this is against the land ceiling act. Sanghi is a congress MP and Babu should actually have welcomed this. But surprisingly, Babu is silent on this issue and he did not care to say even one word in defense of Sanghi. Sanghi is the e more New-Year-Celebrations-prohibited-in-twin-cities:-JAC Osmania University Student’s Joint Action Committee asked all the Star Hotels, Resorts, and Clubs etc not to celebrate the New Year function on December 31st midnight, as the Telangana people are struggling for their existence. The JAC representative threatens them to face consequences if they ignore their orders. He read out the list of the Star Hotels, Clubs and Resorts which are ready to celebrate the New Year in a big way, and demanded them to cancel all their programmes immediately. He also warned some Churches which are busy in preparations for celebrating New Year. He asked them instead of celebrating the occasion, pray for separate Telangana. He reminds them that they have cancelled the Bandh declared on 25th of December to enable t more Prince’s-‘Five-lakh-Masks’-campaign-  Super star Krishna has openly announced that he will support the congress party and has asked his fans as well as the fins of his son, Prince Mahesh Babu to support the congress. The two fan clubs have been merged into a single entity. The fans clubs have been asked to strive for the victory of YS Rajashekar Reddy and the congress. While it is not yet clear if Mahesh Babu will campaign for the congress party, the fan clubs are now in the process of getting about 5 lakh masks of Mahesh Babu ready. The masks will be distributed to his fans and they in turn will campaign sporting the masks. &n more Trisha-in-Rajnis-footsteps  Trisha is one of the hottest stars in Tamil. Her career graph is rising very fast and she is also turning many people into her fans. She now has a considerable fan following and her fans clubs are coming up by the dozen. In Tamil Nadu Rajnikanth is the only actor to have fans clubs virtually in every nook and corner of the state. His fan clubs are legendary. Trisha seems to be following in the footsteps of Rajni. Her fans are making a lot of noise during the release of her films. Tall cutouts of the ac more Kolkata-girl-wins-Sa-Re-Ga-contest Fourteen-year-old Sanchita from Kolkata has won Zee TV’s Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs contest on Saturday. Thirteen-year-old Divakar Sharma from Delhi was the first runner-up while 11-year-old Sameer Mohammad from Mumbai came third. The panel of judges consisted of playback singers Alka Yagnik and Abhijeet and music composer, Bappi Lahiri. However, the final selection was made through an SMS poll. The show had kicked off four months back on Zee TV with 22 contestants in the seven to 14 year age group. Actor Shah Rukh Khan announced the names of the winners and handed over the awards to them. Pawni Pandey and Abhrokanti Saha won the judges’ awards while the first runner up, Divakar Sharma, more ULCA-repealed-–-Middle-class-happy The long awaited Urban Land Ceiling Act (ULCA) has finally been repealed. The act was repealed after a motion moved by revenue minister Dharmana Prasada Rao was passed in the assembly. The World Bank had been insisting the state government to repeal the act as a pre-condition for clearing a loan to the state government. With this, there will now be no restriction or ceiling on buying land in cities. The builders will benefit in a big way with this move. More lands will also now come out of litigation. Land prices are expected to ease in places in and around Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Tirupati etc. Observers feel that land prices will now come down to realistic levels and many middle class a well as poor pe more Clouds-on-Upen-Patels-love-affair-  Almost one-and-a-half years after they first started seeing each other, actor Upen Patel and model Shamita Singha are reported to have split. Just a year ago, Upen and Shamita seemed inseparable. The two were often spotted together at parties and social dos and they also made a trip together to Britain. But so much has changed between them over the course of just a year. Of late, reports have been pointing towards a rift and a possible split between the lovers. And a recent incident indicates th more Nag-fan-clubs-to-campaign-for-congress  Hero Nagarjuna is seen endorsing the policies of the congress government and eulogizing chief minister YS Rajashekar Reddy in advertisements that are being run on TV and cinema halls. Though Nagarjuna may not campaign directly for the congress party in the elections, he is likely to ask all his fans and fan club members to campaign extensively for the congress. Nagarjuna met the chief minister on Thursday and assured him of full support and also the support of his fan clubs. &nb more |
