A gay Toronto couple was detained for 28 days in Dubai for carrying the prescription arthritis drug Celebrex which is prohibited in the United Arab Emirates UAE Rocky Sharma and Stephen Macleod who have been together for 10 years were stopped upon arrival in Dubai on Aug 2 where they planned to pass the day before reverting to Toronto from a vacation in India Macleod had a bottle of the prescription arthritis medication Celebrex in his suitcase They were told Celebrex is a controlled substance in UAE and even though they did not present themselves to border officials as a couple both partners were detained acirc 8364 33

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Dil Chahta Hai (Hindī: दिल चाहता है, Urdū: دل چاہتا ہے, English: The Spirit Desires) is a 2001 Hindi language film written and directed by Farhan Akhtar, starring Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Preity Zinta, Sonali Kulkarni and Dimple Kapadia. It is set in modern-day urban Mumbai and focuses on a major point of passage in the lives of three young friends.

The film tells the history of three friends graduating from college and transitioning into life as adults. Each person has a dissimilar view of living and beloved in particular.

Akash (Aamir Khan) does not think in love, so he does not keep girlfriends for more than two weeks.

Sameer (Saif Ali Khan) is a genial, well-meaning, desperately romantic but confused guy who is prone to romantic infatuations and believes to get found true love whenever he gets attracted to a girl.

Siddharth (Akshaye Khanna), or Sid, an artist by profession and the most age of the three, is not concerned in trivial romances and is consecrated to his work.

Akash, who is not merely a cad in his personal life (breaking hearts, proposing to a daughter named Shalini (Preity Zinta) in jest) but likewise a mischief-maker in his friends’ lives, craftily engineers a separation between Sameer and his girlfriend. He then plans a vacation trip to the beaches of Goa.
Sameer predictably “falls in bed” in Goa with a pretty Swiss girl, a level that ends in disaster. He returns home to witness that his parents have ordered a meeting with a possible marriage prospect. He resists at first as he does not require an arranged marriage, but the second he sees the girl, Pooja (Sonali Kulkarni), he realises that she is ‘the one’. Unfortunately, she is already in a kinship with somebody else and Sameer has to be contented with but being her friend.
Sid, in the meantime, befriends and finally falls in bed with Tara (Dimple Kapadia), an older divorcee and alcoholic, who had moved into a nearby house and shares his beloved for art. He decides to continue it from her, suppressing all hopes of a relationship as he knows that she, like about other mass in society, would think this scandalous. When his house and friends start finding out, everything goes wrong. Sid’s mother is horrified and wrongly accuses Tara of having led Sid on. Akash makes fun of Sid’s true intentions and his offensive remarks create a break in their friendship. Tara hears that Sid has quarrelled with friends and family because of her and feel that she has finished his life, refuses to see him.
Akash, on the other hand, is also experiencing romantic upheaval. His parents send him to Sydney, Australia to play for the home business. On the flight, he meets Shalini again. He apologises for his earlier prank and asks her to read him about the new city. Even though Shalini is busy to marry someone else, she finds herself agreeing and they both, eventually, start to find a certain “something”. She tries to get out how he feels, but he holds back. She then leaves for India to marry Rohit, her fiancé. Akash lets her go, then realizes that he can’t survive without her and returns to India to win her back. He proposes to her a day before her marriage and she accepts with the boon of Rohit’s parents.

This picture is another loaded to me by my wonderful boyfriend. I knew as shortly as he handed me the DVD that I would love it because he has wonderful taste (he chose me, didn’t he?). The three guys in this picture are all drop-dead handsome, each with different talents and beauty. Their acting and growing as a case is brilliant and they show three of the ways men in seeking love behave. The cad, the romantic and the afraid-to-love.

The picture is set in Bombay and Goa as good as in Sydney. Although, I would hate to get paid the taxi fare and diminished the sentence it would have interpreted to get from classic-Sydney shot to classic-Sydney shot. And I wish to bring in Sameer’s office with the Harbour Bridge, Luna Park and Opera House all framed in his window.

Did I love this movie? Yes, I did. I know a serious romance and this picture has three important romances. I didn’t cry, although the sad bit was really moving. Given that all the characters were from rich, upper-middle class families, I shouldn’t have had a lot in common with them, but in fact I did. I have met guys like all 3 of these men. If I were to pigeon-hole myself I would bear to say I am more like Sid but like I was more like Sameer. I am nothing like Akash, as my boy friend would attest.
The picture moved along at a respectable pace even though it was a 3 hour film, the scene was beautiful (I love India as often as I love Sydney), and the camera work was excellent.

What did I not enjoy about the picture? At 180 minutes it was very long, but so it did be the romances of three guys, and each guy had adequate time billing. The girls were very beautiful but their characters were not very developed, apart from Tara, and the others seemed but too slow to hang in and out of love. But I reckon the picture is near the guys and not really about the girls.

Would I see this movie again? Yes, and likely more than once. It did not accept the affect that Rang de Basanti had on me and I remember no other film ever will (besides Dil Chahta Hai is a butterfly and Rang de Basanti is a powerful movie about friendship, courage and sacrifice). Both movies are about love, very much. I am a man broad of love, love that has been recently awoken just over six months ago. So these movies both get so often to say to me.

Author: Earwig’s Thoughts

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Time zone: IST (UTC 5:30)
Country India: State Haryana: District(s) Yamunanagar
Population 532,000 (2001)
Area: • Elevation (AMSL)  • 255 m (837 ft)
Coordinates: 30.1°N 77.28°E

Yamunanagar (Hindi: यमुनानगर, Punjabi: ਯਮੁਨਾਨਗਰ) is a metropolis and a municipal council in Yamunanagar District in the Indian province of Haryana. The old town is called Jagadhri. The railroad station servicing the township is called Jagadhri railway station.
Yamuna Nagar has a singular mix of basic modern amineties like shopping malls, ATMs network, Health Care, Education but however it has a really sweet spell of old city, relaxed life and smiling people, who love good food and small talks. It is a green, clean and prosperous industrial town.

Sapphire Hotel

The metropolis is one of the best developed cities of Haryana and has good educational and medical facilities. It has highest literacy rate in Haryana as far as training is concerned.
Western Yamuna canal of the river Yamuna flows on one face of the city. This canal servers the irrigation needs of the farmers. The channel has century old path ways, called pattri locally, on both sides which answer has connecting routes between villages even now and also facilitate the irrigation department to hold the canal, however these pathways provide a preferct scenic walk with water on one position and green lush farms on other hand. One can make a dip or evening get a tractor ride after the walk. There are about very peaceful patches where one can relax, cook a fish and take a nice picnic.
The river itself marks the limit of the territory with the land of Uttar Pradesh which borders the city on the easterly slope of river Yamuna. The neighbouring city being Saharanpur in the country of Uttar Pradesh.
In the north, the district borders the land of Himachal Pradesh, Sirmaur being the territory and the towns of Nahan and Paonta Sahib being the towns nearby.

Yamuna River

Tajewala headworks from where the Yamuna canal is diverted is also north of the city.
Jagadhri is an adjoining town famous for its stainless steel industry. Yamunananar is also famous of its industries such as Ballarpur industries paper mill, sarswati sugar mills, Indian general and sugar engineering works, Kamal Engineering Corporation, Poly plastics etc. Most of the larger units in the townspeople are ISO certified. This city produces sugar machinery, paper machinery along with highly efficient equipments for petro-chemical plants, which are shipped to various refineries across the country. The metropolis is likewise known for its Plywood productions, due to the easy availability of primary raw material – Popular logs. It has also one of the india largest railway carriage and wagon repair workshop recently reliance has also installed thermal power house in the town. HUDA (Haryana Urban Development Authority) has done major development process in the land-stretch linking the twin towns.

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Amritsar (Punjabi: ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਸਰ, meaning: The Lake of the Holy Nectar) is the administrative headquarters of the Amritsar district in the commonwealth of Punjab, India. The 2001 Indian census reported the universe of the metropolis to be over 1,500,000, with that of the entire district numbering just over 3,695,077.Amritsar is situated in the northwest portion of India in the Province of Punjab, 32 kilometres (20 mi) east of Lahore, Pakistan. Some have interpreted the name Amritsar to come from Amŗit-saagar, meaning “The Sea of the Ambrosia of Immortality”.It is base to the Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the religious and cultural heart of the Sikh religion. This important Sikh shrine attracts more visitors than the Taj Mahal in Agra and is the numeral one address for non-resident Indians (NRI) in the unit of India. Amritsar is considered important and holy by hindus as well, as according to the greatest epic of hinduism, this was a spot where Sita, the wife of Lord Rama, gave birth to twins Lava and Kusha. The bear took post in the ashram of Valmiki rishi. Beside this Durgaina temple is besides a very famous hindu temple.Amritsar is likewise known for the incidents of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in 1919 under British Rule and Operation Bluestar in 1984 under the former Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi.
The principal commercial activities include tourism, carpets and fabrics, farm produce, handicrafts, service trades and light engineering. The metropolis is popular and known for its food and culture.As of 2007, 85% of the universe in Amritsar district are Sikh. The entire population of Amritsar is 1,547,695. The city has a significant Hindu population, who cast the largest minority. Males constitute 55% of the universe and females 45%. Amritsar has an average literacy rate of 75%, higher than the national average of 59.5%. 15% of the universe is under 6 days of age. The main spoken speech in Amritsar and in the surrounding villages is the Punjabi dialect of Maajhi, considered to be Standard Punjabi. Other languages spoken in the city are English and Hindi. Before partition there was a great universe of Muslims. Amritsar was one of the most affected cities by violence during the division of British India into India and Pakistan.Modern Amritsar is currently seeing rapid urban growth. To help the evolution process, the Administration of India and Authorities of Punjab have released a Rs.3,150 Crore (roughly 769 million USD) plan to develop Amritsar. The planned budget would fund construction of roads, sewage management, water, and a mass Rapid Transport transit system. Amritsar is witnessing a spurt in high-end residential property and multiplex development, courtesy the government’s decision to set up a particular economic zone there, and the growing concern of real estate developers.
Leading developers from Delhi as good as local ones have lined up a series of townships comprising of villas, luxury apartments, service apartments and penthouses. About a dozen malls are likewise in several phases of completion. A new city Convention Centre has been planned{as of October 2007}, as are four 5 star hotels – the Radisson Hotel Amritsar is to give by October 2008 The Taj and Holiday Inn Group, Marriott Hotels are also completing projects.To protect Amritsar’s historical and spiritual heritage, part of the new budget is consecrated to the saving of religious shrines in the city
Source: Wikipedia

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