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  • My father my inspiration Shruti Haasan

    Actress Shruti Haasan, daughter of veteran actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan, says her father has been very inspiring for her. She marvels at her father's dedication and says he has the same enthusiasm that a newcomer has for his work. "He has been an inspiration for me, personally. Just the way I look at him deal with his career, how he works," Shruti said here. "Even at this time, he does so much ...

  • Film production a thankless job Preity

    Actress Preity Zinta, who is gearing up for the release of her debut production venture "Ishkq in Paris", finds production work difficult. She says it's more like crisis-management and is a thankless job. "The toughest part was crisis-management. Production, of course, is a thankless job," she said at a promotional event of the film. "What happens is that everybody's problem is your problem. ...

  • Woman gang-raped friend assaulted in Bihar two held

    A day after a 22-year-old woman was gang-raped and her friend was beaten up by three men in Bihar, two of the accused were arrested Wednesday, police said. The two attackers were arrested in the Banka district, police said. "We will arrest the third accused soon and will file charge sheet within 24 hours," Superintendent of Police Pushkar Anand told IANS over telephone from Banka, about 180 km ...

  • BCCI blames Sahara for arbitration failure

    The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Wednesday blamed Sahara Adventure Sports Limited for the failure of the arbitration and said the body "cannot be held responsible" for the breakdown of the process. Sahara, who own the Pune Warriors India franchise, pulled out of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Tuesday due to BCCI's refusal to bring down the franchise fee for the IPL. "While it ...

  • Chandila was to do spot fixing in another IPL match

    Ajit Chandila of Rajasthan Royals was about to spot-fix in another Indian Premiere League (IPL) match too for which he had taken Rs.15 lakh from a Punjab-based bookie, police claimed here Wednesday. During interrogation Chandila has revealed the name of another bookie, Deepak Kumar, 35, a resident of Patiala, Punjab. "Kumar contacted Chandila April 4 and a meeting was held between them in a ...

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Kingdom of Heaven

Kingdom of Heaven

On paper at least, Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven looks like a powder keg lobbed into a burning building. Considering the current global sociopolitical context, making a film about the 12th-century war between Christians and Muslims for control of Jerusalem would seem a ... ...

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  • Bihar rights panel seeks report on scribes plight

    Taking cognizance of prolonged harassment faced by a journalist and his family by their landlord for not paying an exorbitant rent here, Bihar's rights panel Wednesday sought a report from the city police chief on the issue. The Bihar Human Rights Commission has directed Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj to submit a report soon in the matter, an official said. "We deliberated ...

  • Maoists attack Chhattisgarh police camp

    The Maoists early Wednesday attacked two police camps in Chhattisgarh but there were no reports of casualty in the firing, police said. The rebels attacked Chhattisgarh Armed Forces (CAF) personnel in camps at Minpa and Burkapal in Sukma district and the intermittent firing lasted for an hour, police said. Coming under fire from the Maoists, the CAF personnel retaliated till the attackers ...

  • Tamil Nadu police issues alert for cricket bookie

    Tamil Nadu's Crime Branch-Crime Investigation Department (CBCID) Wednesday said a lookout notice has been issued to all airports for Kitty alias Uttam alleged to be a bookie with links in spot fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL). In a statement issued here, CBCID said: "Sustained efforts are being taken to apprehend Kitty alias Uttam who has emerged as one of the most important ...

  • Andhra local body elections to be held next month

    The local body elections in Andhra Pradesh will be held in June, Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy said Wednesday. Addressing a state-level convention of the Congress here, he said panchayat elections would be held in the third or the fourth week of June while elections to urban local bodies like municipalities and corporations would be conducted in the third week of August. The chief ...

  • Indian Banks ex-chief gets 1 year jail for cheating

    A CBI special court here Wednesday sentenced M. Gopalakrishnan, former chairman-cum-managing director of Indian Bank, and another official to one-year jail terms for cheating and abusing their official position. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court also sentenced the bank's zonal manager A.V. Shanmugasundaram to one-year jail and gave a two-year jail term to S. Dhanasingh, ...

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