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Would you like to be addressed as an Indian or a Maharashtrain or a Punjabi or a Gujrati? I would personally take pride in calling myself an Indian and would not like it if my rights and privileges were marginalized due to my place of birth.

But Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray seems to have very austere views about regionalism. He made some inflammatory remarks against north Indians that has led to incidents of violence in the state. He was arrested on the wee hours of Tuesday morning for his alleged involvement in the attack on north Indian candidates appearing for a railway recruitment examination.

“We will not let it happen again. I accept this is very bad for us. The state government’s image is tarnished. We will not allow this to happen again,” said Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh.

But hours after being arrested, he was granted bail on a surety of Rs 15,000 on Wednesday.

Raj Thackeray was also arrested eight months ago, and was let off on bail with a warning that there should be no repeat of violence. But the last warning didn’t seem to work. Everyone seems to be asking the same question – Will the warning work this time?

“Arrest me and be ready to bear the consequences…. You will have to regret,” this was the outcome of Raj Thackrey in a ceremony at Bahadursheikh Naka in Chiplun, on last night. After his arrest his supporters has started making noise too and police has to use some force to let them in control.

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After fighting one hell of a series at the DLF Indian Premier League (IPL) and boosting her team’s morale to the core, the Punjabi Preity is back on the Bollywood front with all her energies jam packed and so are her schedules as she is lined up with four films and the famous Bacchan world tour.

The oh so busy bee explained how the game got her so engrossed even not realizing the stuff she is missing out at the film front and informs that she has to start dubbing for two different movies titled “Har Pal” and “Heroes”.

The latter movie comprises of Salman Khan as her co-star. She has also signed a cameo in Salman’s next home production starring Kareena and the man himself. The film has been titled Mr. and Mrs. Khanna. Explaining her friendly bonding with Salman, she expresses her excitement to work for him and clarifies it not to be an ordinary item number but an interesting cameo. Another reason she states for agreeing to the stint is the director of the movie, Mr. Prem Soni being a very dear film and on the lighter note, she chuckles and reasons that as Salman has played a lot of Prems in different movies, so this cameo is for Prem.

Another prestigious director going ga-ga over Preity’s work is none other than Deepa Mehta of the Water fame who has cast her in her next Punjabi movie titled, “heaven on Earth” and claims that she is the best actress she has worked with till date.

Describing her experience of the Indian Premier League, she claimed that she has enjoyed the series to the core and learn her lessons too. Rubbishing the rumors of her sitting on a player’s lap, she claimed that it is not at all her to make a public spectacle by do8ing such a thing and denied her being of that sort.

The Mohali team co-owner also revives of the series time when she even got to realize who her real friends was, because there were a lot of her so called friends cribbing over not being called for the matches and making issues of no sense.

Learning her experiences from the series Preity admits she sure is a more mature person after the IPL and explains that there are a lot of things to be looked after for the next season of the Indian Premier League but as of now she has her commitments totally to the Bollywood front and is all set to deliver hits and recreate her magic on screen and on stage as well as she performs on stage with the Bachchan parivar on their World tour.

Tags: Bachchan, Bachchan Family, Bollywood, Deepa Mehta, DLF IPL, Har Pal, Heroes, Hindi Movie, IPL, Kareena, Kareena Kapoor, Mohali, Movie, Mr. and Mrs. Khanna, Preity, Preity Zinta, Punjab, Salman, Salman Khan, Water

Kings XI Punjab beat Mumbai Indians in their third Indian Premier League match in Mohali on Friday night by 66 runs recording their first victory after two straight loses.

Kumar Sangakkara, who made 94 out of 54, helped Kings XI Punjab to set a competitive target of 183 in 20 overs. Sangakkara knocked 13 boundaries and a six.

Mumbai Indians chasing the target could only reach 116 runs for 9 in their 20 overs in absence of injured Sachin Tendulkar.

Aussies pace ace Brett Lee first dismissed the great Sanath Jayasuriya caught and bowled for 1 and then running-out countryman Luke Ronchi (11), breaking the wickets with a splendid throw off his own bowling.

Young Piyush Chawla (2-16), S Sreesanth [Images] (2-31) and Irfan Path (2-19) then snatched vital wickets to send the Mumbai Indians sinking.

He bounded a 73-run partnership with the second wicket with opener Karan Goel, who was run-out after scoring individual 18.

Skipper Yuvraj Singh (18) came to the crease after the fall of Goel but did not last long, Bravo taking a superb catch off the bowling of Pollock.

Harbhajan Singh (3 for 32) was the most successful bowler for the visitors.

None of the Mumbai Indians could score much for the team. Pollock gave 22 while Utthappa scored 21. Captain Harbhajan even could not open his account.

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The sixth IPL match was named to Rajasthan Royals who won the match by 6 wickets against Kings XI Punjab in Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur.

Punjab Kings elected to bat first scored 166 runs at lose of 8 wickets. Watson’s brilliant play helped Rajasthan Royals to reach the manageable target within 18.1 overs losing 4 wickets.

Watson scored highest of the team with 76 runs for 49 balls including 5 fours and 5 sixes. Jadeja scored 36 out of 25 including 5 fours and 1 six. Both led the team to victory doors.

Other players include Lehmann who scored 17 out of 16 balls while Akmal gave 15 runs. Pathan (7) and Kaif (5) couldn’t score much.

Royals’ captain Shane Warne (3-19) and pacer Sidharth Trivedi (2-25) were the main wicket-takers.

Despite of brilliant performance of Captain Yuvraj Singh who struck a half century and raced to 57 runs in 34 balls including six fours and three sixes, Kings XI Punjab have to face second successive lose.

Karan Goel (26) and Piyush Chawla (24) were the other contributors with the bat who led the team to set a target of 167.

Hopes gave 16 runs out of 16 balls while Sangakkara also scored 20 out of 8 balls.

Other players are dull today. Irfan Pathan’s batting added 12 more runs only while Brett Lee disappointed his fans and left the ground without opening his account.

Watson was elected Man of the Match scoring highest run of 76.

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