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.”

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, an Indian matrimonial website held a poll asking the voters to pick their favourite bahu (daughter-in-law) from Bollywood. Among the names contending for the title were Aishwarya Rai, Kajol, Gauri Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Twinkle Khanna, Kiran Rao and Malaika Arora.

But it’s Kajol who emerged the favourite bahu after getting 43.08 percent votes in the poll in which 250,000 women participated. Surprisingly, Kajol scored over Ash, who many thought would top the poll.

Gourav Rakshit, business head of shaadi.com is quoted as saying: “The results show that today the women are looking to be more independent and are willing to adopt stronger roles in their life. They believe in themselves and aspire to emulate top achievers in their field.”

Kajol has been married to Ajay Devgan for 11 years now. She put her acting career aside to raise her daughter Nysa, who’s quite grown up now. However, Kajol still remains very selective about the films she does because her daughter and her family continues to be her priority.