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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan delivers a baby girl


Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan have become proud parents of a baby girl. The actress gave birth to a girl this morning at the Seven Hills hospital in Andheri, a western Mumbai suburb
Ash was accompanied to the hospital by her parents Vrinda and Krishnaraj Rai, brother Aditya, husband Abhishek and in-laws Amitabh, Jaya and Shweta Nanda. 

The news of Ash's pregnancy was broken by Amitabh Bachchan through Twitter in June this year. As Bollywood's first family  and their well-wishers celebrated the Big B  received over 2000 congratulatory tweets the same day and people thronged the Bachchan residence in Juhu  to celebrate.

The Bachchans chose a suburban hospital for the delivery, presumably to avoid media glare. While TV news channels, on their part, had agreed to stay away from the developments, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry had ordered television media not to park their vans outside the hospital.

Bachchan was questioned about having asked the I&B ministry to intervene in the matter. To which, he replied: 'HaHa ! Print MidDay asking if I have told I&B Ministry to block media news of Aish delivery ! Absolute rubbish ! Good try MDay ! &B and media matter ! Firstly I have no such intention ever, secondly do you really think I&B would listen to me !?? No way baby !'

Ash and Abhishek got together during the filming of Guru and got married in a glitzy ceremony in 2007 in the presence of the family's closest friends and associates.



Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan are also grandparents to daughter Shweta Nanda's two kids -- daughter Navya Naveli and son Agastya.

SC to frame norms to process mercy pleas


New Delhi, November 15
The Supreme Court today directed the government to provide details of all mercy petitions filed by death row convicts in order to lay down guidelines to be followed by officials while processing such pleas before forwarding these to the President or the state Governors.
A Bench comprising Justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhaya asked Additional Solicitor General Harin Raval to collect the information from the Centre and the states and provide it to the court within four weeks.
The Bench passed the order while hearing Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar’s petition pleading for commutation of his death penalty in view of the eight years of delay in the rejection of his mercy plea by the President. Bhullar was sentenced to death on August 25, 2001 for carrying out a bomb attack on September 10, 1993 on the then Youth Congress President MS Bitta.
The Bench made it clear that it wanted the details to ensure that all the convicts, irrespective of the fact whether they were in a position to put pressure through their supporters or had the means to approach the judiciary time and again, were treated alike by the authorities and got uniform benefit, if any.
A large number of such convicts were not in a position to engage a lawyer or were not aware of their right to seek pardon by filing mercy petitions, the Bench noted.
The SC appointed senior counsel Ram Jethmalani and TR Andyarujina as amicus curiae to assist the Bench on the issue. Pending receipt of the information and the views of the amicus, the Bench posted the next hearing in the case for the second week of January 2012.