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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 ...

  • Mamata accuses media house of planning to murder her

    In the wake of a noisy protest she faced while visiting a gang-rape-murder victim, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday claimed that a leading media house was conspiring with the CPI-M, Congress and Maoists to kill her. Banerjee told a party rally in North 24 Parganas that during her return from the Monday visit to Kamduni village in the district, she was told by police that ...

  • Treat your taste buds with mock meats

    Here's an interesting offer for vegetarians - a variety of healthy mock meats have been launched to woo their taste buds. Godrej Nature's Basket has introduced variety of healthy mock meats, including alternatives to chicken, crabs, prawns and lobsters, a statement said. Food lovers can choose from delectable vegetarian burgers, fried strips, hot dogs, sausages, veg schnitzels, polony and even ...

  • Delhi Plice to get 370 more patrol vans

    Delhi Police will get 370 more Police Control Room (PCR) vehicles next week, said an officer Wednesday. "With the addition of 370 PCRs, the number of patrolling vans will go up to 1,000," a Delhi Police officer told IANS. Delhi Police have 630 PCR vans, of which 150 are non-functional. After the Dec 16 gang-rape of a young woman in the capital, the government sanctioned purchase of these new ...

  • Sensex closes marginally higher consumer durable stocks gain

    A benchmark index of Indian equities market Wednesday ended the day's trade marginally higher than the previous day's close upon hopes of continuation of the US central bank's bond-buying programme. The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Samp;P Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 19,224.09 points, closed the day's trade at 19,245.70 points, up 22.42 points or 0.12 percent from ...

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Late Marriage (Hatuna Meuhet)

Late Marriage (Hatuna Meuhet)

Dover Koshashvilis feature directorial debut, Late Marriage (Hatuna Meuhet), is a blistering (and often funny) critique of conservative family traditionalism intruding on the realm of romantic love. Taking place in Tel Aviv in a close-knit community of Jewish migrs from Soviet Georgia, it tells the simple story of how a family controls its adult sons life and how he is too weak to d ... ...

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  • Dont judge anti-aging cream by price

    Is anti-aging cream worth the money? Expert says the quality of an anti-aging cream depends on the formulation and not the price. There is a plethora of anti-aging products, so it gets difficult to select the right product for the skin. According to Oriflame India's beauty and make-up expert Aakriti Kochar, one needs to be extra careful while choosing such products. "The formulation plays a ...

  • World Bank offers $216 mn loan for Kerala transport projects

    The World Bank Wednesday offered a $216 million loan for upgrading state highways and road safety in Kerala. A tripartite agreement between the World Bank, the Indian government and Kerala was signed here in this regard. "The objective of the project is to improve road conditions, traffic flow and road safety with a focus on vulnerable road users on selected roads in Kerala," according to an ...

  • Ali Zafar happy to spend quality time with family

    Pakistani actor Ali Zafar doesn't believe in being overworked as he loves to spend quality time with family. "I am very happy with the kind of scripts that I am getting right now, but more than that I am happy that I am distributing a lot of time to my family and not burning out myself with work," Ali told IANS "I want to balance myself between work and family and I am happy that I am managing ...

  • India China must collaborate for movies culture Jackie Chan

    Jackie Chan, one of Asian cinema's most prominent faces, is keen that India, the world's largest film producing nation, and China, globally the second largest film market, must collaborate to make movies, and exchange culture more often. Singing and dancing in a Bollywood film is also on his wish-list! In the capital to inaugurate the Chinese Film Festival, jointly organised by the India-China ...

  • BJP asks state units to help in Uttarakhand relief

    Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh Wednesday asked state units to postpone their organisational work and provide assistance and relief to people affected by heavy rains and floods in Uttarakhand. In a release, Rajnath Singh expressed his heart-felt condolences to those who have lost members of their families in the floods. "The president has directed all the BJP state units ...

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