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  • Ex-Im Bank loan guarantee to Air India upheld by US appeals court Ex-Im Bank loan guarantee to Air India upheld by US appeals court

    WASHINGTON - A U.S. appeals court has upheld a decision by the U.S. Export-Import Bank to finance the sale of 30 Boeing wide-body jets to Indian state-owned carrier Air India in a legal challenge brought by Delta Air Lines to the loan guarantee. The court has however directed the government-run bank to better explain its rationale for providing loan guarantee, which Delta claimed as a ...

  • CBI court outs off hearing on Andhra ex-ministers custody

    A CBI special court Wednesday adjourned, to June 25 hearing on the agency's petition for judicial custody of former Andhra Pradesh ministers Sabitha Indra Reddy and Dharmana Prasada Rao in the case of alleged disproportionate assets of YSR Congress party chief Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy. The two former ministers wanted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to submit to the court the unedited CD ...

  • Child abducted for adoption rescued in Ghaziabad

    A nine-month-old child, abducted by his family's neighbour for adoption by his childless brother-in-law, was rescued Wednesday and the kidnappers arrested, police said. Giving details, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Nitin Tiwari said that Tuesday night Ramesh quietly abducted Vansh, his neighbour's son, while he was playing in the neighbourhood. When the child remained missing for a ...

  • Priority to rescuing stranded people in Uttarakhand PM

    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said the priority of the government was to rescue people stranded by heavy rains and flash floods in Uttarakhand and provide succour to the affected people. According to the PMO's Twitter account, the prime minister, who made an aerial survey of affected Uttarakhand along with Congress president Sonia Gandhi, said: "Our hearts go out to the families of ...

  • Mahakshay My dad original disco dancer

    Mahakshay is teaming up with his father Mithun Chakraborty for the first time in "Enemmy" and says it is an honour to dance with the "original disco dancer". "My father is the original disco dancer and it is an honour to dance with him in the film. This is for the first time I am sharing the screen space with my father," Mahakshay, who entered fildom in 2008 with "Jimmy", told IANS. "My father ...

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Kingpin

It has always been said that funny is a matter of taste. "Kingpin" is a matter of being funny by being tasteless. "Kingpin" is a gross, screwball comedy sprinkled with social and cultural satire, then loaded with bathroom humor and a whole heaping of cinema in-jokes and movie spoofs, plus one good sheep joke. If anything, "Kingpin" features a great competition between two characters for the worst ... ...

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  • Priority to evacuate people in danger R.P.N. Singh

    Union Minister of State for Home R.P.N. Singh said Wednesday everything possible was being done to rescue flood-affected people in Uttarakhand, stranded after the heavy, incessant rains that began last Saturday. "Our priority is to evacuate people in grave danger and take them to safe areas. Many people are stranded in the hills," Singh told reporters. Differing with the media reports that ...

  • Bigg Boss Kannada TRPs soaring

    Reality show "Bigg Boss Kannada", hosted by southern movie star Sudeep, has surpassed the popularity of Kannada version of the "Kaun Banega Crorepati" (KBC) game show with a 4.7 TRP rating and as many as 47,000 votes for individual contestants. The TRP ratings of the show are much higher. On an average, the show delivers a TRP of 4.7 per week, according to TAM research. "People are watching ...

  • Barasat rapists to be hanged in a month says Mamata

    West Bengal Chief Minister said Wednesday her government was determined to "hang" within a month the perpetrators of the gang-rape and murder of a teenaged girl in North 24-Parganas. "Our government is determined to punish the criminals. Our target is to hang the rapists within a month. We have done it before and we can do it now," Banerjee told a party rally in the district. Banerjee Monday ...

  • India may get German TT coach

    The Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) is likely to appoint Germany's Peter Engel as the head coach of the national team. The position has been lying vacant since the 2012 London Olympics. Engel is currently in charge of the Spanish women's team and is expected to come to India in August. "I am really looking forward to come to India though I have not signed a contract yet. I see great ...

  • Baba stays media manager on Windies tour

    The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Wednesday rewarded media manager R.N. Baba for keeping the media at bay in the Champions Trophy by asking him to stay with the India team on its forthcoming tour the West Indies for the tri-series. Baba became unpopular with the media at the way he handled India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni's press conference before the team left for the ...

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