MUMBAI: After a lavish Marathi-style wedding yesterday, actors Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D’Souza got married at a church in suburban Bandra today.

The Bollywood couple had sealed their 8-year-long relationship with a Maharashtrian-style wedding at Grand Hyatt hotel yesterday.

Riteish, son of former Mahrashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, is from a Maharashtrian family, while Genelia was born into a Mangalorean Catholic family, which is why, the wedding was also solemnised in a Christian way at a church today.

Clad in a full-length white gown, Genelia looked her best, while Riteish was seen in a black suit. In a traditional Christian way, the couple, said ‘I do’ in front of the father.

Riteish (32) and Genelia (24) had been seeing each other since their Bollywood debut ‘Tujhe Meri Kasam’ in 2003.

While yesterday’s wedding ceremony was attended by Bollywood bigwigs, today’s was a completely private affair, where, only close friends and family members were present.

Several bigwigs like Shahrukh Khan, his wife Gauri, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn, Kajol, Abhishek Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Suniel Shetty, Ashutosh Gowariker, Karan Johar, Shahid Kapoor, Asin, Sajid Khan, Sajid Nadiadwala, Sharad Pawar, Praful Patel, Raj Thackeray and others had attended yesterday’s ceremony.

The couple will be hosting a reception at Grand Hyatt Hotel tonight, where several Bollywood celebrities, politicians and other eminent personalities would be present.

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LUCKNOW: Expressing confidence that his party would form the next government in Uttar Pradesh, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that even if the Congress loses, it will “not ally with thieves and goons”.

“We are winning the elections and I will continue to work for you with my last drop of blood and sweat. Even if you give the Congress two or four seats, we will not ally with thieves and goons,” Rahul said at a public meeting in Varanasi, referring to Mayawati’s and Mulayam’s rule in the state. He further said: “We will compromise only with the people of this state and I will be here for you.” The statement is being seen as Rahul’s attempt to put to rest the speculation of a Congress-SP combined government in case of a hung Assembly after the elections. The party wants to make the maximum possible gains in the elections and gauge the public mood before taking any decision regarding alliances after elections.

Gandhi highlighted the lack of amenities in Uttar Pradesh by relating his personal experience. He said that when his mother had fallen ill and was taken to a hospital for treatment, he and his sister Priyanka were very worried about her well-being since she was to undergo a surgery. “The hospital had good doctors, nurses and very good facilities but at that time it I was reminded of what happened to my brothers in Uttar Pradesh in a similar situation,”

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UNITED NATIONS: Russia and China vetoed on Saturday an Arab and Western-backed resolution at the UN Security Council calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down over his bloody crackdown on a popular uprising.

The setback in diplomatic efforts to defuse the revolt peacefully came after world leaders and Syrian opposition activists accused Assad’s forces of killing hundreds of people in a bombardment of the city of Homs, the bloodiest night in 11 months of upheaval in the pivotal Arab country.

Shortly before the Security Council voted, US President Barack Obama denounced the “unspeakable assault” on Homs, demanded that Assad leave power immediately and called for UN action against Assad’s “relentless brutality”.

“Yesterday the Syrian government murdered hundreds of Syrian citizens, including women and children, in Homs through shelling and other indiscriminate violence, and Syrian forces continue to prevent hundreds of injured civilians from seeking medical help,” Obama said in a statement. “Any government that brutalises and massacres its people does not deserve to govern.”

He and other Western and Arab leaders put unprecedented pressure on Assad’s veto-wielding ally Russia to allow the Security Council to pass a resolution backing an Arab League call for Assad to transfer powers to a deputy.

But US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Saturday it had not been possible to work constructively with Russia ahead of the vote, even though military intervention in Syria – fiercely opposed by

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Eminent filmmaker Raj Kanwar (53) passed away on Friday morning in Singapore. Kanwar who has been suffering from kidney ailment since the past year had gone there for a kidney transplant but breathed his last even before the operation happened. The film industry was in a state of shock over the untimely demise of this prolific filmmaker.

Incidentally Kanwar’s elder brother K Pappu also died of the same ailment five years ago and at the age of 53. Kanwar’s body will be flown to India today. Kanwar is survived by his wife Anita and two sons Karan (20) and Abhay Kanwar (16). The cremation will be held at Oshiwara on Sunday afternoon at 12.

Raj Kanwar (earlier assistant to Rajkumar Santoshi) arrived in Bollywood with a big bang with his directorial debut Deewana which launched one of the country’s biggest superstars in the form of Shah Rukh Khan.

The film went on to smash all box-office records and then Kanwar went on to create some of the biggest hits in the form of Laadla, Jeet, Daag-The Fire, Har Dil Jo Pyaar Karega and Andaaz. He successfully launched the career of several Bollywood stars – Priyanka Chopra, Lara Dutta, Arya Babbar, Amrita Rao, apart from SRK. Known for his shy nature and extremely low-profile life style, Kanwar was a man of few words whose only passion was cinema. In the last couple of years

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