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  • VM Nine Agra teenagers to collectively pen book

    Nine teenagers - seven girls and two boys - are to collectively produce a volume of short stories before the Taj Literature Festival in December. The lucky nine - Kuhu Goyal, Yusura, Priyanshi, Aniruddha, Yashi, Amrita, Subundhu, Bhavya and Kuhoo Srivastav - were selected after a fortnight-long grooming camp attended by 60 teenagers. They were then put through a three-day workshop conducted by ...

  • Bangladesh allows transit for foodgrains for northeast India

    In a major policy change, Bangladesh will allow India ferry foodgrains for the mountainous northeastern states via its territory, a Tripura minister said here. "Initially, the Bangladesh government has agreed to transport 10,000 tonnes of foodgrains for Tripura through its territory," Tripura Food and Civil Supplies Minister Bhanulal Saha told IANS. "The Bangladesh government issued necessary ...

  • Lapataganj director happy with shows comeback

    Director Dharam Verma, who directed popular show "Lapataganj", is happy that the show is coming back with its second season. He says the new season promises a lot. "Lapataganj" is the story of the people residing in an imaginary town of the same name. They lead a happy life against all odds. The show was famous among audiences for bringing to them several colourful flavours of rural India. The ...

  • Indian team departs for Champions Trophy May 29

    The Indian cricket team will depart for England and Wales from here May 29 to participate in the ICC Champions Trophy to be held June 6-23. This will be the seventh and final Champions Trophy as it is due to be replaced by the ICC World Test Championship in 2017. India are placed in Group B along with South Africa, West Indies and arch-rivals Pakistan. India open the tournament when they take ...

  • Shantanu and Nikhil use Disney characters for kidswear

    Designer duo Shantanu and Nikhil have created a signature line based on Disney characters. The line is for children aged between 6 and 14. The designers, who are known for fusion wear, have associated with Disney Channel for its campaign Jet Set 2. This will be the designers' first kidswear line. "The collection is about celebration, joy, and happiness. Colours like apple green, sky blue, ...

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Umberto D. [DVD]

Umberto D. [DVD]

Film scholar and critic Andr Bazin captured perfectly the essence of Italian neorealism when he described it as an ideal synthesis between the rigor of tragic necessity and the accidental fluidity of everyday reality. Ironically, he wrote these words in response to a screening at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival of Vittorio De Sicas Umberto D., which most historians date as the last neorealis ... ...

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  • Mizoram to lay roads with World Bank aid

    The northeastern state Mizoram expects to get financial aid from the World Bank for the development of roads in the mountainous state, bordering Myanmar and Bangladesh, officials said here Saturday. "A four-member World Bank team visited various parts of Mizoram earlier this week. The World Bank officials are strongly pushing for a free trade regime in the region and keen to provide technical ...

  • Slips with holograms to replace coins on Kolkata buses

    The familiar scenes of commuters arguing with conductors in Kolkata buses over short change may soon be a thing of past as the bus operators have now hit upon the idea of handing out coupons, or "due slips" with holograms, in lieu of change. Faced with an acute shortage of coins, operators on select routes would give these slips to the passengers. These will contain the amount of change to be ...

  • R.K. Mathur takes over as defence secretary

    R.K. Mathur, a 1977 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre, took over as defence secretary Saturday. According to an official release, Mathur has a rich and varied experience in public administration and has held senior positions at state and central levels. He has held the position of chief secretary of Tripura. He also served as the additional secretary and ...

  • Anand Sharma lays foundation for NID Hyderabad

    Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma Saturday laid the foundation stone of the National Institute of Design (NID) here. The NID, which is coming up on the campus of University of Hyderabad, is expected to offer undergraduate and postgraduate courses from 2015-16. This will be the third NID in the country. The first such institute was established in Ahmedabad in 1961. The minister ...

  • Katrinas sister makes screen debut opposite Kunal Nayyar

    Slow and steady seems to be the course of Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif's younger sister Isabel's career. She has been signed to play the second lead opposite British Indian actor Kunal Nayyar in French director Jean-Francois Pouliot's "Dr. Cabbie". The film, co-produced by Salman Khan, features Vinay Virmani, who played one of the title roles in Bejoy Nambiar's undervalued "David". Salman ...

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