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  • Dravid to retire from IPL

    Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid has indicated that he will retire from the Indian Premier League, after the Champions League T20 later this year. "I am 41 and 12 months are a long way ahead," was Dravid's reply to a media query on whether he will play the next season of the IPL. With the Royals qualifying for the Champions League T20 beginning Sep 17 in India, Dravid said he may not play ...

  • Dravid hopes spot fixing truth will be revealed

    Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid hopes that investigators "get to the bottom of the mess and reveal the truth" about spot fixing. "I believe truth sets you free. I sincerely hope that we get to the bottom of this mess and reveal whatever the truth is, no matter how painful it is," Dravid told media persons after his team went down fighting to the Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier ...

  • `Liqour ban on Goa beaches will save Russian lives

    Goa has received a pat on the back from Russian Ambassador Alexander M. Kadakin for banning consumption of hard liquor on the state's beaches. He said it will "help save" Russian lives. "No hard drinks should be sold on beaches. It will add safety to the lives of Russians who come here. It will help save their lives," Kadakin told IANS at the inauguration of a consular office here ...

  • Gurunath spends night in lock-up to be produced in court

    After spending a night in the crime branch lock-up, Gurunath Meiyappan, son-in-law of BCCI chief N. Srinivasan is likely to be produced before a magistrate for remand here Saturday afternoon, police sources said. Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Himanshu Roy said early Saturday that Meiyappan, who was arrested around midnight, would be produced before a court within 24 hours. "We have ...

  • Another hot day ahead for Delhi

    There was no respite from the searing heat in Delhi with the minimum temperature shooting up four notches above average at 30.5 degrees Celsius early Saturday. The Met Office has forecast another sizzling day ahead for the capital. "The heatwave conditions would continue across the national capital. The maximum temperature Saturday is expected to be around 45 degrees Celsius," an India ...

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Umberto D. [DVD]

Umberto D. [DVD]

Film scholar and critic Andr Bazin captured perfectly the essence of Italian neorealism when he described it as an ideal synthesis between the rigor of tragic necessity and the accidental fluidity of everyday reality. Ironically, he wrote these words in response to a screening at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival of Vittorio De Sicas Umberto D., which most historians date as the last neorealis ... ...

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  • BCCI should clarify on IPL spot fixing government should act firmly against guilty D. Raja

    Communist Party of India-Marxist leader and former Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament D. Raja on Saturday expressed concern as a citizen of India over spot fixing episode in the ongoing sixth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Speaking exclusively to ANI TV, Raja called on the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to speak out and clarify what it was doing to end such scams and ...

  • Gurunath Meiyappan to be produced in court today in IPL spot fixing case

    The son-in-law of BCCI president N. Srinivasan, Gurunath Meiyappan, will be produced in a Mumbai Court on Saturday. He was arrested on Friday night after being questioned over his involvement in IPL spot fixing case. Even as the arrest of his son-in-law Meiyappan has given rise to the demands of his resignation from the post of BCCI president, N Srinivasan said late Friday night that he will ...

  • Woman daughter jump off moving truck in UP die

    A mother and her three-year-old daughter were killed in Uttar Pradesh late Friday after they jumped off a speeding truck while resisting a sexual assault by the driver, police said Saturday. The incident took place near the Chitaura toll plaza in Fatehpur, 120 km from here, after Raj Kumari, 30, along with son Deepak, daughter Meena and husband Rakesh hitched a ride in a truck. After ...

  • Brigadier injured in Pakistani firing in Kashmir

    A senior Indian army officer and two soldiers were injured near the Line of Control (LoC) Friday evening after Pakistani troops resorted to heavy firing at Indian posts in the Nowgam sector of north Kashmir's Kupwara district, an official said. "A brigadier and two soldiers were injured in the firing at Tutamari Gali of Nowgam sector near the LoC yesterday (Friday) evening," an army officer ...

  • BSF arrests Pak woman in Samba District of Jammu and Kashmir

    Border Security Force (BSF) personnel have arrested a Pakistani woman who entered Indian territory along the Indo-Pak border in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district on Friday. Border Security Force personnel observed some suspicious movement along the International Border near the Kamore forward post in the Ramgarh area of Samba sector and arrested the woman. Nothing incriminating was recovered ...

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