A girls college will be setup by superstar Amitabh Bachchan in Uttar Pradesh named after his daughter-in-law and Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

According to a leading daily, an aide from Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited (ABCL) informed that the Daulatpur village committee has handed over the land to Amitabh Bachchan Sewa Samiti (ABSS), a newly formed organisation and the construction will commence soon. Reportedly, there would be a school from nursery to class 12 and later it will be upgraded to a degree college.

Initially, the responsibility for construction of the college was allotted to actor-turned-politician Jaya Prada’s Foundation. However, it has now been given to ABSS.

Bachchan had laid the foundation stone of Aishwarya Rai College in the Daulatpur village on January 27, 2008. Source

Mega star Amitabh Bachchan, who has been associated with the government polio eradication campaign, has said that his granddaughter was given polio drops Tuesday in his presence.

“Day before yesterday (Tuesday), my little granddaughter was given polio drops in my presence,” Amitabh Bachchan said here Thursday on being felicitated for his contribution to the polio eradication campaign.

The campaign has successfully managed to eradicated polio across India for nearly 15 months now.

Amitabh Bachchan said: “We must ensure that there must be no cause of polio for at least three consecutive years. We have just crossed one year and there is still a long way to go.”

He further added: “As a parent, I can only ask you, request you and get angry on you to continue this very noble cause.” Source

It has been confirmed that Aishwarya Rai will be attending the Cannes Film Festival in May. This year she is attending Cannes on behalf of L’Oreal and not for promoting any film. She has been the global face of  L’Oreal brand for a decade and being a true professional, she always honors her commitments to the company. Also, Mrs Bachchan is likely to travel with her five-month-old daughter, commonly known as Beti B. This will be the little girl’s second time abroad, after travelling to Dubai with her mother earlier this year.

The Cannes Film Festival is one of the world’s premiere film events and it’s a good opportunity for Aishwarya to renew her contacts with producers and directors from outside the Bollywood film industry.

Aishwarya won’t be the only member of Bollywood film industry walking the red carpet. Arjun Rampal and Bipasha Basu will also be there.

The Cannes Film Festival will be held from May 16 to 27 in France. Source

Recently turned mother Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who gave birth to a daughter a few months back, has been ranked the 2nd most popular brand ambassador worldwide in a recent survey, conducted by World Watch Report, a leading international marketing research company in the luxury watch industry.

Ace golfer Tiger Woods, who is the brand ambassador of Tag Heuer watches, topped the list with 16.2 %, while Aishwarya bagged 9.00 % votes for being the brand ambassador of Longines watches. The other Indians on the list are cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar(3.3%) and actor Preity Zinta (1.7%) ( in the ninth and fifteenth place respectively).

Former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has worked in Bollywood as well as Hollywood films and is considered one of the most beautiful women in the world. Source

Strong buzz doing the rounds is that Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is all set to make a big comeback in a movie opposite Shahrukh Khan.

The movie is said to be directed by Sriram Raghavan and is titled ‘Happy Birthday’. Initially, the movie was planned keeping Aishwarya and John Abraham in mind. However, the project could not materialize back then.

Now that his latest movie, Agent Vinod is all set for a release next month, Raghavan is now focusing on ‘Happy Birthday’. The movie might roll in November 2012.

Now, the main question is, will Aishwarya Rai give a nod to the project? Source

Finally, three months after she was born, the daughter of Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan has a name.

The Bachchans have indeed taken their sweet time to zero down on a name for their bundle of joy. The name starts with an ‘A’ or even ‘Aa’, but it’s not yet been revealed to the world. However at a forum where Abhishek Bachchan was a speaker, he confirmed that the name has been finalized.

“We’ve got a name, and I’ll announce it very soon, but in terms of releasing a photograph you know I… if people see her in everyday life that’s fine by me, but I just think releasing the photograph is a very pompous thing to do. We don’t believe in any ceremony in terms of naamkaran,” Abhishek Bachchan said.

There has been a rumour that the Bachchans have finalized the name ‘Aaliya’ for the little one, but Abhishek denied that.

Buzz is that the Bachchans will announce the name of Aishwarya Rai’s daughter to the world once Amitabh Bachchan returns home from Seven Hills Hospital where he’s recuperating from a surgery done ten days ago. More

Grandfather Amitabh Bachchan, who is recuperating from abdominal surgery at the Seven Hills Hospital, had a special visitor yesterday.

Daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan dropped by the hospital with her 3-month-old daughter, still known as “Beti B”. We got exclusive pics of mom Aishwarya holding her daughter while coming out of the hospital.

This is “Beti B’s” first public outing since her birth on November 16 last year at the same hospital in Mumbai. Source

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who has largely been out of the public eye since the birth of her daughter on November 16, attended the reception of Bollywood actors Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D’souza who got married on Friday.

Aishwarya, traditionally dressed in an anarkali suit, set off a frenzy as photographers covering the event rushed to click the one image no one wanted to miss.

Aishwarya was briefly spotted and clicked when the Bachchans hosted media mogul Oprah Winfrey at their home during her first India visit. Later, she drove with Oprah, father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan and husband Abhishek to a party hosted by Parameshwar Godrej to welcome Oprah. Source

Recently, Salman Khan was caught in an uncomfortable spot when both his ex-girlfriends Aishwarya and Katrina, and Salman himself landed up at the same venue for their respective assignments.

Last heard, the two women can’t stand each other. While both have been Salman’s girlfriends at some point (an obvious reason to dislike each other), zoom reporters dug deeper to find out that when a famous toy company modeled their new doll on Katrina, Aishwarya tried to undermine Katrina by saying that the toy company had originally approached her, but she refused the offer and so it went to Katrina. This obviously did not go down well with Katrina. More

Shahrukh Khan visited the Bachchan’s residence to meet none other than Beti B. Reportedly, the actor offered his blessings to Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s newborn daughter.

‘Shah Rukh drops by to meet the ‘little one’, a few others too from the fraternity visit the still in wonder bundle.. and we spend all our time in trying to spend as much time as possible with her !! Simple pleasures of life..!!’ Big B wrote on his blog.

With the arrival of Beti B, it seems that the speculated long time rivalry between the Bachchan parivar and SRK will soon come to an end. Also, Abhishek and SRK were recently spotted having a good time together at photographer Dabboo Ratnani’s 2012 calendar launch. Source

American chat show queen Oprah Winfrey will be soon visiting India to shoot her new chat show Next Chapter with spiritual guru Deepak Chopra. She even wants to participate in the Jaipur Literary Festival in the country. Oprah tweeted, ‘Never been to India, it’s been on my vision board forever (sic).’

Interestingly, if reports are to be believed, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan are planning to host a party for Oprah when she visits Mumbai during her tour. Both Aishwarya and Abhishek have appeared on Oprah’s show.

Also, Oprah is keen to meet Beti B as per sources. Source

As reported, a lavish ceremony will be organised for the baby post January 15 (Makar Sankranti, which is when the period finishes).

Bring all this up and Abhishek Bachchan says, “I haven’t figured the name yet. But I’ll lock on it soon. Aishwarya (wife, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan) and I didn’t know whether we were going to have a boy or girl. So we didn’t jot down names.”

However, he admits they want to settle for a name that starts with the alphabet ‘A’. “We had shortlisted a few, but it’s difficult to choose that ‘one’,” asserts the new father, adding, “I can’t tell you the names that we’re considering right now. Ash and I want it to be with the letter A.”

The new father is often compared to his dad — Amitabh Bachchan — in terms of his acting skills and box-office hits. Does he feel his daughter too may face those pressures? “It’s a blessing to be my parents’ son and my grandparents’ grandson. My child will grow up saying her parents are actors. But I don’t want her to use that as a crutch. She will have to work her way around things the way her parents and grandparents did,” states Abhishek, whose forthcoming film, Players releases this Friday. More