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  • Thousands of flood-hit without food in Uttarakhand

    As the skies cleared Thursday, rescue and evacuation operations picked up in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand but those who survived the nature's fury alleged major food shortages. Harrowing tales of devastation and agony emerged as the air force, army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) continued to rescue people from the hills. Officials told IANS that while the evacuation process had been ...

  • 400 tourists still in landslide-hit Kinnaur says Himachal CM

    Over 400 tourists are still stranded in landslide-hit Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh, Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh said Thursday adding that they will be evacuated in the next two days. An official statement said the chief minister had instructed officials to evacuate the stranded 400 people within two days. The chief minister held a meeting of government officials in Mandi town, where ...

  • Natarajan calls for corpus fund to tackle sea oil spills

    Union Environment and Forests Minister Jayanthi Natarajan Thursday called for setting up a corpus fund to help quick response to oil spills in the sea and protecting India's fragile coastal eco-system. In the recent past, there have been frequent incidents of leakages of crude from broken ships or from oil company pipelines on India's west coast. However, the cleaning up operations post-spills ...

  • Eduheal Foundation BSE Institute to launch BSE International Financial Olympiad

    Eduheal Foundation and BSE Institute Ltd - a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) will soon launch a joint initiative called the BSE International Financial Olympiad (BIFO) to create awareness about financial literacy amongst students at a young age. The Eduheal Foundation (EHF) is a registered international level NGO promoted by leading educationist, academicians and ...

  • Ramaiya Vastavaiya wholesome entertainer

    Producer Kumar Taurani says his son Girish's debut film "Ramaiya Vastavaiya" has all the elements to make it a compelete family entertainer. Directed by Prabhudheva, the film is a remake of the director's first Telugu film "Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana". Also starring Shruti Haasan and Sonu Soon, it is scheduled for a July 19 release. "'Ramaiya Vastavaiya' is a romantic film. It has a lot of ...

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Cape Fear (1991) [DVD]

Cape Fear (1991) [DVD]

The character of Sam Bowden as played by Nick Nolte in Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear is a far different man than the one played by Gregory Peck in J. Lee Thompson's 1962 original. As played by Peck, Sam Bowden was a pillar of dignity, honesty, and rationality, a good-hearted Southern attorney and family man forced to unleash his inner animal when his family is threatened by an unst ... ...

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  • Puthiya Tamizhagam to support Kanimozhi in Rajya Sabha poll

    Dalit outfit Puthiya Tamizhagam, which has two members in the Tamil Nadu assembly, Thursday announced it will support DMK's Kanimozhi in the June 27 Rajya Sabha elections. "We do not want our votes to go waste and hence have decided to support the DMK in the Rajya Sabha elections," party chief K. Krishnasamy told reporters here. He had also met DMK president and Kanimozhi's father M. ...

  • Shortcut Romeo cooly crafted cat-and-mouse game

    Film: "Shortcut Romeo"; Cast: Neil Nitin Mukesh, Ameesha Patel and Puja Gupta; Director: Susi Ganesh; Rating; There are two ways of doing a full-on masala film. You either turn it on its head and poke fun at ridiculous cinematic conventions. Or you treat the stereotypical characters and sacred cows of our cinema with full seriousness. "Shortcut Romeo" takes the midway route. It seems so full ...

  • Idea Cellular slashes 2G data rates by 90 percent in 8 circles

    Idea Cellular slashed its data tariff by 90 percent across eight circles for the 2G data plan users and the new tariff will be applicable from July 1, the company said Thursday. It said the users can now access data for just 2 paise per 10 kilobytes, which is a 90 percent reduction in the existing tariff of 2 paise per kilobytes. Idea users in the eight circles of Tamil Nadu amp; Chennai, ...

  • Why Anand L. Rai prefers to work with southern actors

    Bollywood director Anand L. Rai prefers working with southern actors because his scripts demand simple characters and he finds these in them. While he worked with Tamil actor R. Madhavan in "Tanu Weds Manu", he roped in Dhanush for "Raanjhanaa". "I think it's because the scripts I write require characters with lot of simplicity and honesty. I find that in southern actors and that's precisely ...

  • Naveen Patnaik announces Rs.5 crore aid for Uttarakhand

    Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday announced assistance of Rs.5 crore for disaster-hit Uttarakhand, where floods and landslides have washed away thousands of homes and killed over 150 people. The aid would be provided from the Chief Minister's Relief Fund, an official of the Chief Minister's office told IANS. Although local media reports said about 100 people from the state have ...

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