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  • Share of developing nations in investments set to triple by 2030 Share of developing nations in investments set to triple by 2030

    WASHINGTON - The share of developing countries led by China and India in global investment is expected to triple by 2030 to three-fifths, from one-fifth in 2000, says the latest edition of the World Bank's Global Development Horizons (GDH) report, which explores patterns of investment, saving and capital flows as they are likely to evolve over the next two decades. Seventeen years from now, ...

  • Three vital steps to a more secure India

    No matter what cosmetic gloss (or acne ointment) is put on the recent stand-off between the Indian border police and the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA), India is perceived as having come off second best in test of wiils, as the Chinese intruded across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh, and camped in 'Indian territory' for 20 days. As a regional power of substance, with robust armed ...

  • Warm morning in Delhi hot day ahead

    It was a warm morning in the capital Saturday with the minimum temperature settling at 24.8 degrees Celsius, a notch below average for the season. The Met Office has forecast a hot day ahead. "The sky will remain clear and a hot day lies ahead for the city. The maximum temperature is expected to reach about 43 degrees Celsius mark," an India Meteorological Department official said. Humidity ...

  • Girl raped in Odisha

    A man has been arrested for raping a nine-year-old girl in an Odisha village, police said Saturday. Santosh Rout, 45, was arrested after the girl's father lodged a complaint Friday. The victim, a Class five student, had suffered injury marks on her body, a police officer said. Rout allegedly dragged the girl to a secluded place and raped her Thursday evening when she had gone to fetch water ...

  • Omar Abdullah welcomes bail release of Hizb militant Liyaqat Shah

    Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has welcomed the release of Suspected Hizbul militant Liyaqat Shah on bail by a special NIA court in Delhi. He expressed hope that the National Investigation Agency will complete its probe soon. Liyaqat, 45, was arrested on March 20 while crossing the Indo-Nepal border in Gorakhpur with his family. He had said then that he had come to surrender ...

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Kwaidan [DVD]

Kwaidan [DVD]

Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan is a visually ravishing film that uses dazzling color palettes and carefully composed widescreen photography to bring the viewer into an entirely supernatural world. Almost nothing in Kwaidan is separable from the supernatural; the use of expansive sets, painted backdrops, and complex lighting schemes lend everything an otherworldly quality. ...

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  • Exiled Tibetans protest in Delhi demand release of 11th Panchen Lama

    Pressing for the demand of release of Tibet's 11th Panchen Lama, Gedhun Cheoki Nyima, scores of exiled Tibetans and activists held protests in New Delhi and Shimla on Friday. The Panchen Lama is the second highest religious leader after the Dalai Lama in the Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy, and is reportedly being kept under secret detention by the Chinese. This is the 18th year of his ...

  • India-EU BTIA conclude another round of negotiations

    Chief negotiators of India and the European Union (EU) met here from May 15 to May 17 and concluded another round of negotiations for the India-EU Broad-based Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA). An official press release said that all issues were put on the table for discussions. Negotiators on both sides felt that some positive movements have been accomplished, though they admitted that ...

  • 1993 Mumbai Blasts Case TADA court orders arrest of Zaibunissa Kazi Sharif Parker

    A special TADA court has issued non-bailable arrest warrants against two convicts in connection with the 1993 Mumbai blasts case. The order was issued against 70-year-old Zaibunissa Kazi and Sharif Parker alias Dada Parker after both failed to surrender within the deadline set by the Supreme Court. Kazi was sentenced to five years imprisonment by the Supreme Court on March 19, and was granted ...

  • Woman dies of swine flu in UP

    A woman died here of swine flu late Friday, health officials said Saturday. Neelam Singh had recently returned from Delhi and had complained of breathlessness and other complications. Her husband, a doctor at the King George's Medical University (KGMU) here, got her admitted to a medical facility in the city. Tests conducted on her confirmed that she was infected with H1N1 swine flu virus and ...

  • Indias bleeding insurgencies Lessons from Latin America

    The tiny northeast Indian state of Tripura has turned into the second largest producer of natural rubber in the country largely because several hundred former militants of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) were rehabilitated a decade ago and allotted land. On the other side of the world, Latin America has been no stranger to violent insurrections over the past decades, most ...

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