Written by Rahul on 18 February 2009
Washington, Feb 18 (ANI): British actress Kate Winslet credits her toned physique to “a wing and a prayer”, insisting she’s “too busy” to even think about exercising.
The Oscar nominee, who has struggled with weight since she was a teenager, insists she hasn’t been slimming down for the big ceremony.
When asked if she was dieting, Winslet said, “N.O. (I) absolutely do not. I’m very sort of relaxed and vocal about these things. I have not done a stitch of exercise since October. I literally have not had the time.”
“I’m just going to eat normally, I’m not going to make cuts.
“If I’m keeping it together it’s by a wing and a prayer. I just want to enjoy this,” she added.
The 33-year-old actress is winning accolades for her role in The Reader, and is tipped to win the Best actress at the Oscars.
She has already scooped two awards in Golden Globes and walked away with Best actress gong at the Baftas. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 17 February 2009
London, February 17 (ANI): Brit passengers have been asked to follow the ‘No Kissing’ sign recently uncovered at a railway station to lighten traffic and lessen delays.
Virgin Rail chiefs at Warrington Bank Quay station in Warrington, Cheshire, decided to put up the sign just at the passenger drop-off point, and suggested travellers to use the short-stay car park if they wished to be with their loved ones for some more time.
“We have not banned kissing in the station,” the Daily Express quoted a Virgin spokesman as saying.
“But we have put the sign up at the drop off point because it is not a very big area and it often gets busy with lots of traffic.
“The sign is a light-hearted way of getting people to move on quickly.
“If people wish to spend a little more time with their loved ones before they leave, then they should park in the short-stay car park nearby,” the rep added. (ANI)
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Written by admin on 08 February 2009
All eyes on Satyam’s new CEO AS Murthy
Finding an effective leader is a problem for companies even in good times, but the task gets tougher when an employer is in the midst of a royal mess. Given that, Satyam’s board, now led by Kiran Karnik, has done a good job in finding a CEO in just 3 weeks’ time.
The man now in the hot seat, AS Murty, ‘ has the required bandwidth and support’, the board concluded. A Satyamite for 15 years, Murty now has the arduous responsibility of ‘restoring the confidence of 53,000 employees and their families, 300,000 shareholders’ and a fast shrinking client base which till January 22 was 690.
Murty has ‘no misgivings about the enormity of the task’, but has expressed confidence about accomplishing ‘the impossible’. But this insider’s appointment, barely a day after the Sebi finally began questioning B Ramalinga Raju for its probe into insider trading in the Satyam stock as well as fraud and market manipulation, is jarring.
For starters, Murty sold 21,000 shares of Satyam on December 12 and 14. On the fateful day that the original board agreed to the Maytas firms’ buyout—December 16, Murty offloaded another 19,000 shares. Satyam’s spokespersons are citing ‘personal’ reasons for Murty’s decision.
But there are other pertinent questions. Some Satyamites believe Murty is a ‘Raju camper’, as is evident from his confession letter. He was part of the task force Raju formed to ‘address the situation arising out of the failed Maytas acquisition attempt’. As leader of Satyam’s global delivery team, it’s also unlikely that Murty had no idea about Raju’s claimed operating margin of 3%.
Does anyone know the whereabouts of the other person Raju recommended as interim CEO—Ram Mynampati? Last reported, he was in the US, ostensibly to assuage clients. But several Fortune 500 clients are still walking away.
The Company Law Board’s grant of immunity from prospective legal actions against new directors and management may have been an essential assurance for the new board and CEO to go about their job. But like in the case of members of the new board, might it have been better to appoint an outsider as CEO?
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