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  • India and China agree to boost trade and paper over border differences India and China agree to boost trade and paper over border differences

    NEW DELHI - India and China Monday played down a recent border stand-off and agreed to maintain peace along their disputed boundary as well as boost economic relations. Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang, who decided to make India the first stop of his maiden foreign jaunt as premier, stressed that the population of the two nations comprised one third of the world. Both countries have ...

  • President vice president PM pay tribute to Rajiv Gandhi

    President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi Tuesday paid homage to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 22nd death anniversary. The leaders offered flowers at his memorial Vir Bhumi here. Sonia Gandhi, the late leader's wife, was also joined by son and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, daughter Priyanka and ...

  • I thought Im too ugly to be an actress Shruti Haasan

    Actress Shruti Haasan, daughter of legendary actor Kamal Haasan and actress Sarika, always wanted to be in showbiz, but was skeptical about facing the camera because she didn't find herself attractive enough to be a heroine. "I always wanted to become actress, but I always thought I am too ugly to be an actress. I was always in the sport, in the sun and always running around. I always thought ...

  • Li Keqiang declares 2014 as year of exchanges between India China to boost friendship

    Stressing on the need for increased people-to-people interaction between India and China, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday declared 2014 as the year of exchanges between the two nations to boost understanding and friendship. Addressing captains of Indian industry at a function organised by FICCI here, Keqiang said: " The year of 2014 will be to boost understanding and friendship between ...

  • UPA releases TV spot on communal amity

    Amar, Akbar and Anthony are the buzzwords in the latest United Progressive Alliance (UPA) television commercial Sadbhav (good faith), which seeks to showcase communal harmony and unity among people in various parts of the country. The TV spot shows common people like students, housewives and office-goers going about their everyday activities with the overarching theme of amity between different ...

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2012 [Blu-Ray]

2012 [Blu-Ray]

As Kim Newman noted so forthrightly in his book Apocalypse Movies: End of the World Cinema, The more complicated a civilization becomes, the more fun it is to imagine the whole works going up in flames. Director Roland Emmerich has clearly taken this sentiment to heart, as he has built his car ... ...

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  • Three-time summiteer wants another stab at Everest

    Anshu Jamsenpa, the first Indian woman to scale Mount Everest thrice, wants to scale the world's highest peak for the fourth time if the Nepalese government waives the royalty tax imposed on climbers, her husband Tsering Wange said. Anshu, a mother of two, became the first Indian woman to conquer the Mount Everest for a third time Saturday. She was among the 13 climbers of the first Northeast ...

  • Annual report of Australia-India Institute-Australia India Youth Dialogue Partnership launched

    The annual report of the Australia-India Institute-Australia India Youth Dialogue Partnership was launched at the Australian High Commission here last evening in the presence of Australian High Commissioner Patrick Suckling and Australia-India Institute (AII) Director Professor Amitabh Mattoo. The event was held in the Murray Harris Room of the Australian High Commission. Speaking on the ...

  • Himachal park set for Unescos natural heritage status

    India's richest biodiversity site in the western Himalayas, the Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP) in Himachal Pradesh, is likely to become the country's seventh natural Unesco World Heritage site, a wildlife official said. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has favoured including the GHNP in Unesco's final listing, park director Ajay Srivastav said. "On the ...

  • CAG dates back more than 150 years

    The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) is a 153-year-old institution, dating back to 1860. Vinod Rai, who demits office Wednesday, is independent India's 11th CAG. CAG conducts three kinds of audits - financial, compliance and performance. Officials said the finance ministry had in 2006 noted that performance audit was within the scope of CAG and he should have access to records. Officials ...

  • Producer C.V. Kumar to turn two shorts into feature films

    Producer C.V. Kumar, who has already introduced two short filmmakers into the industry with projects like "Pizza" and "Soodhu Kavvum", is set to turn two more shorts into feature films in Tamil soon. "I have shortlisted two shorts which will be made into regular films soon. I will officially announce more details about the projects soon. I feel there is lot of potential and novelty in short ...

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