London Fashion Week: Campbell On Ramp To Raise Charity For Haiti
This year, the London Fashion Week began with a charity fundraiser show, which was planned by supermodel Naomi Campbell after staging the same in New York earlier.
Campbell, 39, had organised the Fashion for Relief Haiti show on February 12 as part of the New York Fashion Week to raise money in aid of the earthquake-hit Caribbean nation. Annabelle Neilsen, Kate Moss and other models also joined Campbell on the ramp. The models paid tribute to late fashion designer Alexander McQueen, while featuring his creations. The show was sponsored by Prime Minister Gorodn Brown, his wife Sara Brwon and Campbell under the aegis of ‘White Ribbon Alliance For Safe Motherhood’. Campbell is goodwill ambassador of the above mentioned organization.
London Fashion Week: Campbell On Ramp To Raise Charity For Haiti was first posted on February 19, 2010 at 1:16 pm.
Indians 8th Most Attractive People in World
LONDON: Indians 8th Most Attractive People in World, Indians figure in the list of 10 most attractive people in the world with Americans topping the chart, a survey has found.
Brazil comes second in the poll of more than 5,000 globe-trotting Britons.
Spain is third while Australia — with its blonde, tanned surfers — was voted into fourth place. Italy is fifth, Sweden sixth and England seventh in the poll.
India — home to Bollywood beauties Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor and Katrina Kaif, and heartthrob Salman Khan — is eighth. France follows at nine and Canada finishes off the top 10.
“America has got a lot on offer and boasts of some of the sexiest people on the planet,” a spokeswoman for www.OnePoll.com — which carried out the survey — was quoted by The Daily Telegraph as saying.
“The likes of Jessica Alba, Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt (all Hollywood actors) help America’s image as a hot bed of good looking people. But with a population of more than 300 million, they do have an unfair advantage.”
“But in fairness, when you think of good looking countries, Sweden, Italy, France and Brazil all spring to mind before us lazy, pale Brits,” the spokeswoman said. “If you’re looking for some fun in the sun, you now know where to head.”
Indians 8th Most Attractive People in World was first posted on February 19, 2010 at 3:22 pm.
Hurriyat Conference urges people in Kashmir to shun election
SRINAGAR: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference, India-held Kashmir’s main separatist alliance on Friday appealed to the people of the region to boycott India’s general election, prompting authorities to place two separatist leaders under house arrest.
The decision by the alliance, which bands nearly a dozen political, social and separatist groups, comes after United Jihad Council (UJC) asked the separatist alliance to support their call to shun the poll.
UJC is an amalgam of 13 groups fighting Indian troops in Jammu and Kashmir, the country’s only Muslim-majority state.
“Elections are no substitute for the aspirations of the Kashmiri people and for the resolution of the dispute,” Hurriyat Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said in a statement.
India’s general election began last week, but voting in the Kashmir valley has been split into three phases starting from April 30.
The staggered voting is to allow thousands of security forces to move around the troubled region.
Besides Congress and its main opposition Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, the regional National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party are also contesting in the Himalayan region.
“Elections in the presence of 700,000 Indian troops is itself a dispute. I appeal to people to stay away from polls,” Farooq said.
Hardline separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani has already called for a boycott of the April-May election.
But another senior separatist leader, Sajjad Gani Lone, who walked out of Hurriyat in 2002, said this month that he would contest the poll and take his struggle to parliament in New Delhi.
On Friday morning Hurriyat’s Farooq and Geelani were placed under house arrest as they prepared to lead anti-poll rallies, police said.
Hurriyat Conference urges people in Kashmir to shun election was first posted on April 24, 2009 at 9:24 pm.
