King Khan and Maddy are siblings

Wow! This seems to be the right combo and you all know it. Maddy had rippled with high waves his much-alike idiosyncrasies of Shah Rukh Khan. Be it his style of uttering dialogues or gestures, Maddy resembles SRK in it. The most exciting part is that King Khan opts for Maddy to play his brother’s role in My Name is Khan directed by Karan Johar. As known earlier, Shah Rukh dons the role of a guy possessing Asperger’s Syndrome and Kajol plays the female lead role.

Shooting for this flick hit the floors by next month in mid of November. Meanwhile, Maddy is electrified pairing up with biggies of Bollywood, ‘3 idiots’ with Aamir and Saif Ali Khan and ‘Theen Patti’ with Amitabh Bachchan. Well, the choco-chap seems to be more disappointed with Tamil film industry for none of his previous flicks did witness great openings at box-office.

India 66th in global hunger list

India appears to have made some progress in tackling the hunger and malnutrition issue, but the situation remains “alarming” in the country on this front, according to the Global Hunger Index released on Tuesday.

India ranks 66th on the 2008 Global Hunger Index of 88 countries, a report released by the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) said.

According to the 2008 Global Hunger Index (GHI), India’s hunger rate fell to 23.7 points, from 32.5 points in 1990, while Congo showed highest hunger rate of 42.7 points at 88th place.

“The major threat of hunger is in 33 countries including India,” the report said adding that rising food prices pose serious threats for malnourished people in these regions.

Other countries like Bangladesh scored 25.2 points (70th place), Pakistan 21.7 points (61st), Nepal 20.6 points (57th), Sri Lanka 15 points (39th), Thailand 9.9 points (23rd), China 7.1 points (15th) and Mauritius 5 points (1st), it said.

The report noted that countries that have scored between 20-30 points are in an alarming condition. The index ranked countries on a 100-point scale, with zero being the best score having no hunger and 100 being the worst.