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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 ...

  • 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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Walk the Line

Walk the Line

From a distance, Walk the Line, which traces the life of country/rock legend Johnny Cash, is a standard-issue biopic that follows a tried-and-true formula about a deprived rural kid who finds his voice and makes it to the top of the music industry, battling drugs and inner demon ... ...

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  • Working birthday for Mohanlal

    Malayalam superstar Mohanlal, who turns 53 Tuesday, will be busy shooting for upcoming Tamil action-drama "Jilla". "He is with us on location shooting for the film. Since we are halfway through the first schedule, he didn'twant to leave the sets. However, we threw a surprise party for him to welcome his birthday," the film's director Nesan told IANS. Lal plays Vijay's mentor in the film, which ...

  • Separatist shutdown affects life in Srinagar

    A shutdown called by separatists affected life in Srinagar Tuesday, although the authorities did not impose any restrictions in the city. While shops, educational institutions, business establishments and public transport remained suspended in the city, government offices, banks and post offices functioned normally. Few private vehicles were seen plying in several areas of the city. Scores of ...

  • Vinod Rai made audit office a potent peoples watchdog

    Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai, who demits office Wednesday, will be remembered for turning the statutory body into a pugnacious watchdog of good governance and administrative integrity at a time when India is experiencing the need for greater transparency and a rebalancing of power that has tilted over the years towards the executive. Rai's five-year tenure (2008-2013) has been a ...

  • Sushant Singh Rajput to shoot in Kashmir

    Filmmaker Abhishek Kapoor, who introduced Sushant Singh Rajput to filmdom with "Kai Po Che!", is all set to roll the cameras with the actor again for his next film, which will be widely shot in Kashmir. "The film is set in Kashmir and Delhi. So, naturally the script lends itself to be shot in the Valley," Kapoor told IANS. The said film, produced by Ekta Kapoor, is an adaptation of Charles ...

  • BJP parliamentary board to discuss general elections

    The parliamentary board of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is meeting here Tuesday to chart out the strategy for the 2014 general elections. The meeting will be attended by the functionaries of the newly-appointed parliamentary board of the party, which include Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. This will be the first meeting of the BJP parliamentary board to be attended by Modi after he ...

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