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  • 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 ...

  • PM asks SEBI to take steps to eliminate stock market insider trading

    Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has asked market regulator Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI)to root out the disease of insider trading from stock markets. Participating in SEBI's silver jubilee celebrations in Mumbai on Friday, Dr. Singh said his government is committed to strengthening the regulator's enforcement powers, and added that he was in favour of making it easier for foreign ...

  • BCCI president Srinivasan says wont resign arrested son-in-law Meiyappan to be produced before court

    Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president N Srinivasan said late Friday night that he will not resign from his post in the wake of his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan being arrested by the crime branch of the Mumbai police for his involvement in the Indian Premier League (IPL) betting-spot fixing scandal. In an interview given to the CNN-IBN television channel, Srinivassan said he ...

  • Completely support Mumbai Indians says Ranbir

    Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor asserts that he "completely" supports his home team Mumbai Indians in the sixth edition of Indian Premier League. "I am completely supporting Mumbai Indians," Kapoor told a television channel while promoting his forthcoming film "Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani". Directed by Ayan Mukerji, the movie, coming out May 31, is produced by Dharma Productions and stars Ranbir's ...

  • Pleasure to lead Rajasthan Royals Rahul Dravid

    Despite having gone down to the Mumbai Indians in a nerve-wracking IPL playoff, Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid lauded his teammates for splendidly rising up to challenges both on and off the field, and said it has been a "pleasure to lead this team". Dravid said the squad has "probably given more than they been asked to". "Just take our team spirit, our energythe fight we had as a ...

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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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  • Mumbai stutter past Rajasthan to book IPL final berth

    in front in the death over, but eventually Mumbai managed to finish it off. Chasing 166 to book a place in the finals, Mumbai started off briskly scoring 45 runs in the first six overs. The duo galloped to 70 in nine overs before Tare was snared by Sanju Samson of the bowling of Kevon Cooper. Meanwhile, Smith continued his good run with the bat and kept scoring at a brisk rate as Mumbai went ...

  • Mumbai Indians pip Royals to reach IPL final

    were the other contributors for Rajasthan. Bowling the last over speedster Lasith Malinga conceded 18 runs including two extremely wide deliveries. Harbhajan 3/23 and Kieron Pollard 2/6 were the most successful bowlers for the Mumbai ...

  • Pressure mounts on Srinivasan to resign Gurunath arrested

    The clamour for Indian cricket board president Narayanswamy Srinivasan's resignation got louder after his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, Chennai Super Kings chief executive, Friday was interrogated by Mumbai police in the IPL spot fixing scandal and later arrested. Chennai Super Kings, however, sought to distance itself from Meiyappan, whose name cropped up during questioning of Bollywood actor ...

  • Gurunath arrested by Mumbai police

    Mumbai police late Friday night arrested Gurunath Meiyappan, son-in-law of Indian cricket board chief N. Srinivasan, in the IPL spot fixing scam after three hours of intense interrogation, an official said. Questioned at the office of the Crime Branch, Meiyappan was confronted with the evidence against him and arrested around midnight. His name criopped up in the scam during revelations by ...

  • Himachal courts quashes appointment of 480 teachers

    In a setback to the previous Prem Kumar Dhumal-led BJP government in the state, the Himachal Pradesh High Court Friday quashed appointments of 480 teachers made in 2011 as these were not in accordance with law. Delivering the judgment, Justice Rajiv Sharma said the appointments of postgraduate teachers under the Postgraduate Teacher Class III (non-gazetted) Recruitment and Promotion Rules of ...

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