MUMBAI  ( 2008-04-01 11:15:39 ) : 

Film and Television Producers' Guild of India (FTPGI) honoured veteran Bollywood filmmaker Yash Chopra with its top award for ‘outstanding contribution to Indian Cinema’.
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan received the best actor award for his performance in the Yash Raj Films’ super hit film "Chak De! India".
Kareena Kapoor walked away with the best actress trophy for her comic portrayal of a young Sikh girl in "Jab We Met" at a glittering presentation ceremony at the MMRDA Ground in the Bandra-Kurla Complex in northwest Mumbai Sunday.
FTPGI hosts its own award ceremony to honour Indian artistes as well as creative and technical personalities from the film industry every year.
The trophies are known as "Apsara" awards.
While "Chak De! India" was chosen the best movie of 2007, its director Shimit Amin bagged the trophy for the best director.
A Pakistani television channel, ARY Gold, also honoured actor Hrithik Roshan as the Best Male Style Icon of the year at the ceremony.
The star, however, could not make it to the ceremony. His father, filmmaker Rakesh Roshan, received the trophy on his behalf. Katrina Kaif bagged the Best Female Style Icon ARY Gold trophy.
Akshay Kumar, who churned out the maximum number of hits last year, was adjudged the "Entertainer of the Year" by the FTPGI jury.
NDTV Imagine honoured Deepika Pudokone and Ranbir Kapoor as the year’s best new faces, respectively.
Salman Khan and Govinda received the hit pair NDTV Imagine trophy for their breezy performances in producer Sohail Khan’s hit movie last year, "Partner".
Salman Khan, Bipasha Basu, Kareena and Riteish Deshmukh performed on the stage and livened up the well-attended awards presentation ceremony put together by Wizcraft.

KIEV  ( 2008-04-01 15:52:28 ) : 

US President George W. Bush said on Tuesday he was hopeful of an agreement with Russia on US missile defence plans in Europe but admitted the United States still had work to do to persuade Russia.
"We're dealing with a lot of history and a lot of suspicion I'm hopeful we'll have some breakthroughs we'll see," Bush said at a press conference with Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko during a visit to Kiev.
Bush was in Kiev at the start of a week-long European tour that will end with a meeting in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi with President Vladimir Putin.
"Obviously we've got work to do to persuade the president and the people around him that the missile defence system is not aimed at Russia," he said, insisting that the missile system was not "an anti-Russian device."
The United States has outlined plans to place interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar system in the Czech Republic to counter potential threats from "rogue" states such as Iran or North Korea.
Russia has objected to the plans, saying there is no immediate threat and that the system is aimed at Russia. Talks on missile defence between the United States and Russia are ongoing but have so far not yielded any agreement.