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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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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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  • 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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