Michael Jackson has topped Forbes magazine's list of 'Top-Earning Dead Celebrities' for the second year in a row.

As per the Forbes magazine report, over the past 12 months, Jackson's estate brought in $170 million from sales of his music and his stake in the Sony/ATV catalogue. However, this is a big drop from the $275 million which Jackson's estate earned in the previous 12 months.(IANS)

Indian cricket team vice captain Gautam Gambhir is getting married to Delhi based Natasha Jain on 28th October.

He has invited Kolkata Knight Riders owners Shahrukh Khan, Juhi Chawla and her husband Jai Mehta to his wedding. However, Shahrukh Khan has few commitments and he is not sure whether he will be able to make to the wedding or not. His upcoming much awaited movie Ra.One is releasing world wide on 26 October 2011.


Bollywood stars including Akshay Kumar is also expected to grace the occasion. Most of the Indian cricketers and former players are expected to grace the occasion.

Natasha Jain belongs to a prominent business family from Delhi. It is known that Gautham Gambhir also belongs to Delhi. This is a arranged marriage. The wedding was fixed about seven months ago but it is maintained confidentially.

An anti-Gaddafi fighter shows the media what they say was the golden pistol of Muammar Gaddafi, near Sirte October 20, 2011.

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Muammar Gaddafi, who ruled Libya with an iron fist for over 40 years, was killed Thursday after being on the run for some two months when he repeatedly vowed to keep fighting until death.

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Gaddafi shown alive, manhandled before death: Al Jazeera television showed images of Muammar Gaddafi, apparently wounded but still alive when he was captured.

Gaddafi was shown being manhandled by a group of fighters and appearing to struggle against them at one point. He was shown with a bloodied face and being pushed against a car and being struck on the head by a pistol.

Mary Blair (October 21, 1911 – July 26, 1978), born Mary Robinson, was an American artist best remembered today for work done for The Walt Disney Company. Blair produced striking concept art for such films as Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Song of the South and Cinderella. Her style also lives on through the character designs for the Disney attraction It's a Small World, the fiesta scene in El Rio del Tiempo in the Mexico pavilion in Epcot's World Showcase, as well as an enormous mosaic inside Disney's Contemporary Resort. Several of her illustrated children's books from the 1950s have never been out of print, such as I Can Fly by Ruth Krauss. Blair was honored as a Disney Legend in 1991, one of the first women to be given the honor. In honor of her contribution to art and animation the Google doodle of October 21,2011 was based on her artwork.

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Born October 21, 1911 in McAlester, Oklahoma, Mary Browne Robinson moved to Texas while still a small child, and later to California when she was about 7. Having graduated from San Jose State College, Mary won a scholarship to the renowned Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, where teachers included Pruett Carter, Morgan Russell and Lawrence Murphy. In 1934, she married another artist, Lee Everett Blair (October 1, 1911 – April 19, 1993). She was the sister-in-law of animator Preston Blair (1918–1994).

Both Blairs soon began to work in the animation industry, joining the Ub Iwerks studio. Lee went on to work at the Harman-Ising studios before ultimately joining the Walt Disney studio where he was joined by his wife in 1940. She worked briefly on art for Dumbo, an early version of Lady and the Tramp and a second version of Fantasia which was not released until the late 1990s.

After leaving the studio for a short time in 1941, Mary traveled to various South American countries with Walt and Lillian Disney and other artists on a research tour as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy. During those trips, Mary and Lee worked on concept art for the animated feature films Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros with Mary credited as art supervisor on those films.

After that she worked on several package films excluding Fun and Fancy Free and worked on 2 partially animated features Song of the South and So Dear to My Heart. The early 1950s were a busy time for the Disney studio, with an animated feature released nearly every year. Mary Blair was credited with color styling on Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953) and the artistic influence of her concept art is strongly felt in those films as well as several animated shorts she designed during that period.

After the completion of Peter Pan, Mary resigned from Disney and worked as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator, creating advertising campaigns for companies such as Nabisco, Pepsodent, Maxwell House, Beatrice Foods and others. She also illustrated several Golden Books for publisher Simon & Schuster, some of which have never gone out of print, and designed Christmas and Easter sets for Radio City Music Hall.

At the request of Walt Disney, who highly regarded her innate sense of color styling, Mary began work on the attraction It's a Small World, originally a Pepsi-Cola sponsored pavilion benefiting UNICEF at the 1964 New York World's Fair which moved to Disneyland after the Fair closed and was later replicated at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World Resort as well as Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland Paris and Hong Kong Disneyland.

In 1967, Mary created mural art for the Tomorrowland Promenade. Two similar tile murals flanked the entrance corridor. The one over Adventure Thru Inner Space was covered over during subsequent renovations of that Disneyland area in 1987 with the opening of Star Tours and the other remained until 1998 when the Circle-Vision 360° was replaced with Rocket Rods and a new mural to convey the new theme of the area. In 1968, she also was credited as color designer on the film version of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.

Her design of a 90-foot-high (27 m) mural remains a focal point of the Disney's Contemporary Resort hotel at Walt Disney World, which was completed for the resort's opening in 1971.

Mary Blair died of a cerebral hemorrhage on July 26, 1978.

While the fine art she created outside of her association with Disney and her work as an illustrator is not widely known or appreciated, her bold and groundbreaking color design still serves as an inspiration to many of today's contemporary designers and animators.

In 1991, Mary was recognized with a posthumous Disney Legend award. Also posthumously, she received the Winsor McCay award from ASIFA-Hollywood in 1996

Mumbai. Malad(West) branch of Bank of India is under criticism for being customer unfriendly. The Malad residents say that past one year has been very bad and the Reserve Bank of India officials don’t care about the plight of the customer.


The cheques clear in 4 – 5 days and if some one drops the cheque in the branch’s ATM, then it takes 8 – 10 days. People have to pay rent, school fees, buy daily necessities etc and they are forced to ask money from friends and relatives. Sometimes the cheques bounce due to late clearing & cheque clearing comes after 1P.M or 2 P.M . Bank’s Chief Manager Kuldeep Botha was asked about it and he said “I myself am writing letters to the bank and I am tired of replying to the people.”

Now day’s even the local cheque takes 7 – 10 days to clear. Who is going to take responsibility? Government or Bank or the RBI? RBI should take action against Bank of India say the residents. While the cheques don’t clear, the Bank is prompt in cutting minimum balance charge or cheque bounce charges.

“If the customers are being harassed, they should be paid compensation. Why should it be given the status if a national bank and should be demoted to some small time collection center,” say the locals.

As per the IBNLive sources the Mumbai civic authorities have slapped a hefty fine on Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar for his new home in the city. As per the news Sachin paid the BMC Rs 4.35 lakh for staying in his four-storeyed bungalow in Mumbai's suburb Bandra.


Sachin has paid the BMC Rs 4.35 lakh for staying in his new without getting an OC.

As per the law, one cannot enter a flat or building without receiving an OC for it. A senior official from the building proposals department said action could be initiated against Sachin by slapping a notice under Section 350 (A) of the BMC Act for occupying premises without an OC.

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Mumbai.Manmohan Gupta president of’ Gandhi Vichar Manch’ of Malad(W) says that an Elevated road should be built from Dahisar to Bandra on link Road & S.V.Road. This will reduce traffic problems in the stretch. Sanjay Nirupam, Member of Parliament, Mumbai North is trying hard for the elevated road. During a function, he told Manmohan Gupta that his demand will be soon met and work will begin soon. Manmohan Gupta said “I thank the government and Sanjay Nirupam for the initiative. This will reduce the traffic and provide relief for the people.”

Take care of holy men says Manmohan Gupta, president of ‘Gandhi Vichar Manch’

Be it a priest in Temple, church or Mosque, the government should take care of them. The reason is that the holy men were taken care by the Kings also. They used to be support with money and material for discharging their duties. Similarly, the government should take care of them. They should be paid monthly maintenance like senior citizens, free train pass, free hospital, free Bus charges, etc. This will help them to give a direction to the society.

Manmohan Gupta president of ‘Gandhi Vichar Manch’ says "I am talking about the known priests. People go to mandir, masjid and church and meet these priests. The people get right directions. Govt. should support them."

Police filed cases against Telangana Rastra Samithi (TRS) chief K Chandrasekar Rao, employees union leaders Swamy Gowd and Vittal for making instigating speeches and creating rift between people from different regions in the state.


The cases were filed under IPC 153A section and Police Forces Rights Protection Act. The cases filed against the three leaders are non-bailable and warranted immediate arrest.

Police in its FIR against KCR stated that he had tried to instigate people to attack peoples' representatives (houses of MPs and ministers) while speaking at a meeting convened by the Telangana electricity employees union at Mint Compound. KCR had called for physical attacks on Congress MPs and MLAs for not resigning from their posts, the FIR said. The TRS chief has been booked under section 153 (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony) of the Indian Penal Code, police sources said.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/10312104.cms

It will be the first film to tell the Apple founder's story on the big screen.