Bollywood’s most sought after star Katrina Kaif has much to celebrate– Katrina topped the ‘Most Popular Celebrities’ list and was featured second on the ‘Most Popular Mobile Queries in India’. She also had blockbuster films this year New York, De Dana Dan and Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani.

Katrina Kaif was also voted the ‘Sexiest Actress’ by London Eastern Eye and featured 2nd on the ‘Top Online Newsmaker of 2009’ list by Yahoo. With this sort of fan following Katrina Kaif has decided to pay attention to the films she will hence forth do. Reveals an insider, “Katrina does not want to upset her fans. She will now only do films she believes in also roles that interest her.”

Katrina Kaif is also doing what she promised to do- is branch out into different sorts of roles and this year she will be seen in Rajniti where she plays an ordinary woman battling bribery who goes on to become the chief minister of the state.

“Katrina is also getting choosy with the stars she wants to work with, “adds the source. Fine, Katrina seems to have lady luck on her side and with a string of great character driven movies and ‘A’ list actors and directors routing for her- there is no stopping this beautiful diva.

The fact that Katrina is giving tough time to her competitors became evident recently when Katrina beat Priyanka Chopra in the fight for a crucial film role.

Buzz is that Katrina will be the main lead in the sequel of the hit film DOSTANA. Previously, Priyanka Chopra had played the key role in the film. But, given the soaring popularity of Katrina by the day, the makers of the film have decided to cast Katrina this time around. Priyanka will not be completely out of the film; reportedly she will be seen doing a cameo role in the film.

The script of DOSTANA 2 is still being given a final shape. Though the shoot of the film will begin after some time, the war battle for the female lead has surely created some more attention in the film.

Since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, much has been written about deaths that might have been prevented but for the negligence of various institutions.  We have covered the responsibility of the Army Corps of Engineers, and its “monumental negligence” for not preserving the levees that collapsed.  But now, we are finding out that many excruciating deaths in hospital and nursing homes could have been prevented too.

A combined project of the New York Times and ProPublica has reported on a massive corporate failure at New Orleans hospitals to start emergency backup power systems, causing patients to gradually die as they “languished for days awaiting transport.”

In fact, 3 years before Katrina, one of Pendleton Memorial Methodist Hospital’s senior executives wrote in a report that the hospital lacked the sum of generators needed “to accommodate an emergency flood with 15 feet of water,” and that one of hospital’s 2 main generators would be “nonfunctional in about 2 feet of flood water.”  The report, written in response to alike flooding that had already occurred in Texas, recommended that a $7.5 million fix be undertaken to avert such a tragedy.  That warning was never heeded.

One more patient who died at Pendelton was 73-year-old Althea LaCoste.  In her family’s lawsuit, they say she died horribly and, in turns out, with no cause, in “sweltering heat after nurses spent hours pumping air into her lungs by hand in the pitch dark…”.

In the meantime, according to Robert Wise, vice-president of the Joint Commission, the accreditation body for the majority American hospitals, “There are many [hospitals] that still know they have to move their generator,” and that with no power, will be “literally dead in the water.”

It seems there is simply no end to the institutional negligence surrounding Hurricane Katrina.

Katrina is one angry woman right now. Since the media carried the story that she was in New York to meet Ranbir even though she was in London with her family, the actress is seeing red. According to her publicist, she was infuriated with the news.

And more so because they had called her in London to hear her viewpoint of the news. Katrina was already going through a rough patch in her relationship with Salman Khan; this story may only have added fuel to the fire. Will Katrina Kaif take some action against the media? Only time will tell.