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  • Aditya Singhal wins Indias Best Dramebaaz

    He was called "the silent one" on "India's Best Dramebaaz" (IBD), and 13-year-old Aditya Singhal's sheer talent helped him win the reality show meant for children in the age group of five to 15 years. The youngster, who was the eldest among the finalists, was thrilled about his victory. The show, judged by Sonali Bendre, Anurag Basu and Vivek Oberoi, aimed at grooming children by testing their ...

  • IPL betting gang busted in Varanasi

    A gang betting on the Indian Premier League (IPL) was busted here late Saturday and ten people arrested, police said. The arrests were made from Chowk area of the city after a tip off from a police informer. While the gang leader of the betting syndicate, Mahendra Singh managed to give police a slip, eight others were arrested. Varanasi Senior Superintendent of Police Ajay Kumar Mishra told ...

  • Belaguered BCCI chief attends Dalmiya dinner in Kolkata

    BCCI president N. Srinivasan, facing uncomfortable questions over his son-in-law's arrest in the spot fixing scam, attended a dinner thrown by former board chief Jagmohan Dalmiya here Saturday, amid speculation that some BCCI members have come together to ensure his exit from Indian cricket's apex body. Besides Dalmiya and Srinivasan, Indian Premier League Commissioner Rajeev Shukla, board vice ...

  • Super Kings seek to distance themselves from spot fixing murk

    Amid the growing chorus for sacking BCCI chief and Chennai Super Kings boss N. Srinivasan in wake of the spot fixing allegations, his team Saturday sought to distance itself from the raging controversy. Appearing before the media on the eve of Indian Premier League final against Mumbai Indians at the Eden Gardens Sunday, team coach Stephen Fleming read out a statement asserting that its ...

  • DTC to replace faulty AC buses

    Transport Minister Ramakant Goswami Saturday directed the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) to replace its faulty air-conditioned buses that break down frequently. "The corporation has also been asked to call bus providers to ensure effectiveness of cooling in the AC buses to avoid any inconvenience to passengers," Goswami said in a statement issued here. "The government has taken note of the ...

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Dead Man Walking

Dead Man Walking

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind." -- John Donne And so feel most opponents of the death penalty, including Tim Robbins, the writer-director of "Dead Man Walking," one of the first films to openly tackle this issue. But you wouldn't know Robbins' politics from watching the film because he does the audience the service of not preaching h ... ...

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  • Women misuse rape law to force lovers to marry them Court

    Penal provisions on rape have been misused by some women who develop consensual physical relationship with their lovers and after the breakup file false rape cases to force them to marry them, the Delhi High Court has said. Justice Kailash Gambhir said rape law was often misused by women as weapon for "vengeance and vendetta" to harass and blackmail their male friends by filing false cases to ...

  • Camaraderie consistent selection CSKs mantra of success Fleming

    Chennai Super Kings coach Stephen Fleming Saturday attributed "loyalty to players" and "consistency in selection" for the success of his team which has played in five IPL finals and won two of them. "We had a strategy right from outset that we will be loyal to players that became apparent when we retained 95 percent of our players when all the players went for auction the second time. What we ...

  • Kerala cops bring Bitti Mohanty to Jaipur

    A Kerala Police team Saturday arrived in Rajasthan's capital Jaipur with former Odisha police chief's son Bitti Mohanty, who jumped parole in 2006 while serving a sentence in a jail here for raping a German tourist. Mohanty, son of former Indian Police Service officer B.B. Mohanty, was brought to Jaipur in the morning and taken to the Central Jail, a Rajasthan Police officer told IANS. "He ...

  • Four arrested in Delhi for making selling firearms

    Four people were arrested here for manufacturing and supplying high quality illegal firearms to criminals in the national capital region and Uttar Pradesh, police said Saturday. Allauddin, 40, Mohammad Rustam, 28, Shakir, 30 and Shehzaad, 22, all from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar were arrested Friday from near Shanti Van in north Delhi. "The gang was operating for the last several years. We got a ...

  • Rahul Gandhis Maharashtra visit cancelled

    Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's proposed visit to Maharashtra Monday to interact with farmers has been cancelled, his office said Saturday. However, it did not assign a reason for cancelling the visit. An earlier statement had said that Rahul Gandhi was to go to villages in Osmanabad and Jalna districts of Maharashtra. He was to visit piped water schemes and interact with ...

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