Alicia Keys secretly engaged to Swizz Beatz?

If rumours are to be believed, pop singer Alicia Keys has secretly got engaged to rapper boyfriend Swizz Beatz.

The singer, who has just turned 29, is said to have received a seven-carat diamond ring from the hip-hop producer just before her birthday, reports revealed.

The duo was also spotted walking along a beach in Hawaii around the date of his supposed proposal.

While Alicia’s spokesperson denied the report, her friend said: “They are currently in Hawaii celebrating the engagement and her birthday. She feels blessed. She is thrilled. She is with the man who has inspired so much of her music and her new album.”

Junior NTR’s ‘junior’ wife

The grandson of former Andhra Pradesh CM, late N T Rama Rao – Junior NTR (one of Tollywood’s leading heroes), landed in a legal controversy following his family’s decision to get him married to a Std XII student.0


Singuluri Santhi Prasad, a lawyer from Vijayawada, filed a suit in the Krishna district legal services authority contending that the girl is only 17 and the families are violating the Child Marriage Restraint Act.

Junior NTR, 27, is to get engaged to N Lakshmi Pranathi, daughter of a real estate businessman Narne Srinivas Rao, in March and the couple are to be married in May. The bride’s mother is the niece of former CM and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N Chandrababu Naidu. Naidu is believed to have played a crucial role in fixing the alliance.

Prasad filed a suit after learning that the girl is only 17. The legal age for marriage is 18. He sought a direction that the marriage be performed only after the girl is 18.

Family sources revealed that Pranathi would be 18 by May. Besides his real estate business, her father is the chairman of a local news channel.

Jai Ho! AR Rahman

Indian composer A R Rahman scored a double triumph at the Grammy Awards here, scooping two early honours for his music from Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire.


Rahman won the first Grammy of the pre-show at the Staples Center in the best compilation soundtrack for a motion picture category before his Jai Ho won in the best motion picture song category moments later.

"This is insane, god is great again," Rahman said as he accepted his second award before a VIP audience.

Rahman's rivals in the soundtrack category included Steve Jordan for Cadillac Records, Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds, and the producers of Twilight and True Blood.

In the best song category Rahman's beaten rivals included Bruce Springsteen for his song The Wrestler, from the Oscar-nominated movie of the same name.

The Grammy success comes after Rahman earned two Oscars for his music in Slumdog Millionaire at last year's Academy Awards.

The talented music maestro picked up the best original score statuette before scooping the best song Oscar.