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  • Ex-Im Bank loan guarantee to Air India upheld by US appeals court Ex-Im Bank loan guarantee to Air India upheld by US appeals court

    WASHINGTON - A U.S. appeals court has upheld a decision by the U.S. Export-Import Bank to finance the sale of 30 Boeing wide-body jets to Indian state-owned carrier Air India in a legal challenge brought by Delta Air Lines to the loan guarantee. The court has however directed the government-run bank to better explain its rationale for providing loan guarantee, which Delta claimed as a ...

  • Chandy gets full support from UDF in con-couples dubious deals

    A week has elapsed since the doings of a con-couple rocked the high and mighty, including the office of Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, but the United Democratic Front (UDF) has decided to back him with all its might. The Kerala assembly has virtually stopped functioning and is now witnessing a free-for-all as the Left opposition has announced that it will keep up the pressure till it sees ...

  • BJP walks out of assembly to sit in opposition

    The BJP walked out of the Bihar assembly Wednesday before Chief Minister Nitish Kumar could prove his majority in the house after dumping his former ally. The Bharatiya Janata Party announced that its legislators would not take part in the trust vote. "Our legislators have walked out," BJP legislative party leader Nand Kishore Yadav, the new leader of the opposition, told the media. He ...

  • On a mission to revive Arabic calligraphy in India

    As beautiful as pearls, his calligraphic pieces adorn mosques in different parts of the world, international exhibitions, drawing rooms and even private jets. Muqtar Ahmed, an Arabic calligrapher, has achieved what many only aspire for and he is now on a mission to revive the dying art of calligraphy in the country. The 45-year-old recently became the only Indian to obtain an 'Ijazah' (Masters ...

  • Comedy Nights... right mix of reality fiction Sumona

    "Comedy Nights with Kapil" includes performance and interaction with the live audience, which makes it a right amalgamation of reality and fiction, says TV actress Sumona Chakravarti. Produced by comedian Kapil Sharma, the show that will go on air June 22 on Colors, and it will feature the actress in an important role. "I think it is a wonderful mix between the two. It is a nice amalgamation. ...

Movie Review

Late Marriage (Hatuna Meuhet)

Late Marriage (Hatuna Meuhet)

Dover Koshashvilis feature directorial debut, Late Marriage (Hatuna Meuhet), is a blistering (and often funny) critique of conservative family traditionalism intruding on the realm of romantic love. Taking place in Tel Aviv in a close-knit community of Jewish migrs from Soviet Georgia, it tells the simple story of how a family controls its adult sons life and how he is too weak to d ... ...

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  • Survivors bring back harrowing tales from the hills

    Akash and his three friends watched in horror as a rain swollen river in Uttarakhand washed away their car, leaving them stranded. On their return to Haridwar, they said they escaped the nature's fury by taking shelter at a private helipad. All four feel they have had a second birth. At one time, they had given up all hopes of surviving the rampaging floods in Uttarakhand that have claimed ...

  • Aamir wouldve been a tricky sword to use for ...Theseus Kiran

    Filmmaker Kiran Rao, who is presenting "Ship Of Theseus", says it would not have been wise to let her filmmaker-actor husband Aamir Khan present the film as he would have managed to pull a crowd, but the film can't take a wide audience. Rao is releasing director Anand Gandhi's internationally acclaimed "Ship of Theseus" July 19 in association with UTV Motion Pictures. "The film was produced ...

  • DU extends hoyurs for form submission

    Delhi University has given an extension of a few hours for submitting online and offline registration forms for admission to the varsity's newly-introduced four-year undergraduate programme. Wednesday is the last day for submission of the forms. The registration for the optical mark registration (OMR) forms has been extended till 4 p.m. Wednesday in all the 18 admission centres. The online ...

  • Coalgate Left targets Manmohan Singh as CBI questions ex-members of PMO

    With the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) expected to record the statement of T K A Nair, the senior-most bureaucrat in the Prime Minister's Office, in the coal blocks allocation scam case, Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D. Raja on Wednesday said Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will have to own a responsibility. Raja said the coalgate is the biggest scam in post-independent ...

  • Himachal hydropower units remain shut for fourth day

    The country's largest hydropower plants in Himachal Pradesh remained shut for the fourth consecutive day Wednesday following a high silt level in the Sutlej river, triggering a power crisis in Punjab, Haryana and Delhi. The plants in Kinnaur district were shut down Sunday as the silt level in the river shot up following incessant rains. "The silt level in the river is still alarmingly higher ...

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