You can feel the warm vernal sunshine when you see Genelia D’Souza gracing the cover of Cosmopolitan India March 2010 issue. Sexy and swanky.

Like a wisp of fresh breeze, she enthralls you with her casual and chic get-up, teaming a white vest with a mini denim skirt, and a white-coloured wrist watch. The gal ups the style quotient with her trendy, uneven hair cut. And what we loved were her fringes falling on her charming face as she flashes her lovely smile - simply scintillating!

For Cosmo she is a “Seriously Low-Maintenance Star” and guess we know why is that! Genelia naturally looks good with that gifted flawless skin and that killing smile. Isn’t it?

We all know by now that Kareena Kapoor is one hot lady and she is slowly taking over from Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to become the queen of India’s magazine covers!

From Vogue and Grazia to Femina and Marie Claire, Bebo has been on all the front pages and now she is taking on L’Officiel for a classy and elegant cover!

Kareena is wearing a long and slim black Dior dress which suits her body type well. And the “Kurbaan” actress has never been shy about being a size zero!

Recently she told reporters that “I think in India, size zero means being slim. Every girl wants to be really slim and I think I am quite slim. India’s size zero is associated with me and I am proud of that.”

So check out the photos of Kareena Kapoor on the cover of L’Officiel and inside the mag’s March issue and tell us what you think; hot or not? Drop us a line.

Bollywood actor Preity Zinta was on Thursday named the Indian ambassador for the joint United Nations Programme on HIV-AIDS

As an ambassador, she will raise awareness on HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, with an emphasis on women and children. Zinta is even planning to involve her Indian Premiere League cricket team, Kings XI, in the awareness programme.

“The team members of Kings XI, they will be involved in a public service film to talk about HIV-AIDS. We are also in our first game with Delhi Daredevils, which is on March 13, going to have a toss done by a person living with HIV,” Zinta said.

“We will be doing a lot of on-ground…going and creating awareness, meeting people living with HIV. I think this is the first step and there is lots more to come,” she added.

She also said that awareness is also required in villages besides in the cities.

“I think although there are so many awareness programmes being done amongst the people but something is still lacking. People need to put more efforts in the awareness programmes,” Zinta said.

“Till now awareness programmes were conducted only in the cities but now we shall have to conduct it in the villages and rural areas of the country as well,” she added.

UNAIDS is a joint venture of the United Nations, bringing together the efforts and resources of ten UN organizations to help the world prevent new HIV infections, disseminate care for people living with HIV, and mitigate the impact of the epidemic.

The 2006 estimates of the National Aids Control Organization (NACO) suggest that about 2.4 million Indians are currently living with HIV.

Rana Daggubati who makes his Hindi debut in Rohan Sippy’s Dum Maro Dum wants to bring his Telugu political blockbuster Leader to Mumbai with subtitles.

Says Rana, “The political message of the film is definitely not restricted to Andhra Pradesh. I’d like to remake the film into Tamil and then maybe Hindi. After I do Rohan Sippy’s film in Hindi, I’d like to do Leader in Hindi.”

Explains Rana, “We’ve tried to show the difference between a politician and a leader. We need responsible leaders. I play an honest leader, a Chief Minister. We’ve heard so many CMs being sworn in. We didn’t know what their oath means. From the time we were children we read about Sardar Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Mahatma Gandhi. Today my 5-year old nephew is studying about the same national leaders. Where are the political heroes of and for the new generation?” Says Rana Daggubati, “My role is actually an amalgamation of a whole lot of younger politicians from Rahul Gandhi to Barak Obama. For months my laptop would be open showing profiles of international politicians. Locally my reference points were Rahul Gandhi, Milind Deora and Sachin Pilot. Today’s youth - and I mean people from the age of 19 to 25 - is fully knowledge of present-day politics. They’re becoming more and more politically savvy. It’s a beautiful direction in which we’re heading. I thought the youngsters my age would enjoy the love story. But they connect more with the politics in Leader.”

Apparently, a song ‘Maa Telugu Talli‘ in Leader had to be changed because of the current political disturbances in Andhra Pradesh.

Rana plays it safe by saying, “There were some rumours about removing the song. We did alter it during the shooting because we understand the sensitivity of the issue.”