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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 ...

  • Early monsoon beneficial for kharif crops

    The early and heavy monsoon rains in India have raised the hopes of a record plantation and sowing of kharif crops, a farmers' body representative said Tuesday. Sudhir Panwar, president of Kisan Jagriti Manch, a farmers' body, told IANS that the moisture coming from early rains is crucial for the sowing of coarse grains, oil seeds, pulses, cotton and nursery plantation of rice. The early ...

  • Sex racket busted in Delhi woman pimp arrested

    A sex racket was busted here after two Uzbek women who were held hostage for five months in a house and were repeatedly sexually abused by customers, escaped, police Tuesday said. A woman pimp has been arrested. The two women from Uzbekistan managed to flee from the clutches of the sex racket Sunday and reached Safdarjung Hospital, where they sought help of hospital authorities to approach ...

  • Lucky to have this character in Issaq Prateik Babbar

    Bollywood actor Prateik Babbar, who will be seen in "Issaq" soon, said that he is lucky to have landed his role in the film as it had everything in it. "I am lucky to play this character. The role has everything in it; drama, violence, heroism. It is a perfect package for any package," he said at the poster and music launch of the film. The actor also added that he did a lot of preparation for ...

  • Missing student found dead in Yamuna river

    A 21-year-old class 12 student, who had been missing for five days, was found dead in the Yamuna river here, police said Tuesday. Victim's family alleged murder while police contended it was suicide. Vineet, a resident of south Delhi's Sunlight colony area, was found dead near the Kalindi Kunj barrage Tuesday afternoon. "He was missing from Delhi's Sarai Kale Khan area since June 13 evening. ...

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Enchanted [DVD]

Enchanted [DVD]

Is there some subversion afoot in the House of Mouse? Enchanted, a fantasy in which characters from a faux-traditional Disney animated fairy tale come crashing into the real-life world of New York City, neatly parodies almost all of the most cherished traditions of the Disney institut ... ...

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  • PM conveys dismay over Sri Lanka move on 13th Amendment

    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday told a delegation of Sri Lanka Tamil MPs that he was "dismayed" by reports suggesting that Colombo planned to dilute certain key provisions of the 13th Amendment on devolution of powers to provinces ahead of polls to the Northern Provincial Council. The prime minister noted that the proposed changes "raised doubts about the commitments made by the Sri ...

  • Kochi to host World Economic Forum India Meet Chandy

    Kerala's business capital, Kochi will host the prestigious the World Economic Forum's India meet Nov 8-9, said Chief Minister Oommen Chandy Tuesday. Chandy told reporters here that this is a rare honour for the state. "India has hosted this event 28 times in the past, of which Mumbai hosted it once, while Delhi played the host on all other occasions," he noted. "More than 250 top notch ...

  • 163 people rescued from flooded areas in Uttarakhand Himachal

    A total of 163 people were rescued Tuesday from flood-affected areas caused by torrential rains in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, disaster management officials said. While 71 people were rescued in Uttarakhand, National Disaster Management Authority's (NDMA) teams rescued 86 people in Haryana and five in Uttar Pradesh, an NDMA official said. Twenty-six teams of the National Disaster ...

  • Barasat gang-rape Protests rock Kolkata web after Mamatas village visit

    People protested on the streets of Kolkata, women government staff took out a march at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's seat of power, while the web users poured scorn on her Tuesday, a day after she shouted back at demonstrators in a village while on a visit to the house of a gangrape-murder victim. Joining angry women, youths, rights organisations and college and school students, who held ...

  • Yamuna crosses danger mark in Delhi to rise further

    The Yamuna river crossed the danger mark in the national capital, an official said Tuesday, creating panic among residents and galvanising authorities into action. The water level of the Yamuna had reached 204.98 metres Tuesday, flowing above the danger mark of 204.83 metres. It is likely to touch 207.05 metres by Wednesday noon, a Delhi government official said. A total of 8.06 lakh cusecs ...

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