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  • Andhra Pradesh to get third manufacturing zone

    Andhra Pradesh will get another National Investment Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ), Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma announced Saturday. It will come up at Ongole in Prakasam district. This will be in addition to two NIMZs already cleared in principle by the central government for Medak and Chittoor districts. Sharma told reporters here that Andhra Pradesh would be the second state after ...

  • N.Srinivasan denies any knowledge of Gurunaths involvement in betting

    The Board for Control of Cricket in India President N.Srinivasan has denied any knowedge of the involvement of his son in law,Gurunath Meiyappan in betting on IPL matches. Commenting on the arrest of Gurunath, he said whatever steps or action have been taken in case of anybody else, same will apply to him. "There will be no discrimination", he added. Srinivasan also claimed ignorance when ...

  • India is regressive depressing says Mallika Sherawat

    India is "regressive for women" and a "depressing" place to be, says Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat, explaining why she divides her time between India and the US. She was speaking the 66th Cannes International Film Festival, at an interaction at The Variety Studio. Mallika has flaunted the link of her interview on her Twitter page. Talking to Variety's Steve Gaydos, the 36-year-old Indian ...

  • VM Go around Asia on luxury cruise this summer

    Aspiring to give every passenger a best-ever cruise experience, Royal Caribbean International's groundbreaking Voyager-class ship Mariner of the Seas, will begin its maiden Asian journey from Singapore in June. The grand liner docked here Friday on its voyage from Dubai to Singapore. It will dock at Kochi Sunday before heading for Singapore, from where it will begin its maiden Asian journey ...

  • CBI probe demanded into Ghaziabad family murders

    Politicians, traders and social activists here are demanding a CBI probe into the arrest of a man for the gruesome murder of a family of seven, claiming that the accused has been framed by police. Local Congress leaders led by former minister Satish Sharma are on an indefinite sit-in here to press for the demand for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the case. Sharma said that ...

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The Expendables 2

The Expendables 2 delivers precisely what you might expect from a sequel to Sylvester Stallones red-meat roundup of over-the-hill action stars from two years ago. There is plenty of the samefiery explosions, massive weapons, heavy artillery, deep voicesand what the film now ... ...

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  • Fugitive Andhra murderer extradited to US

    Nerusu Lakshminivasa Rao, a software engineer from Andhra who murdered his wife and two children in the US in 2008, has been extradited to face trial there, police said. The fugitive, against whom an international arrest warrant was issued by a US court, was sent to the US by an American Airlines flight late Friday night. Additional Director General of Police (CID) T. Krishna Prasad said in a ...

  • Dunno Y...Na Jaane Kyun sequel to be light breezy

    The sequel to controversial Bollywood drama film "Dunno Y...Na Jaane Kyun", which released in 2010, will be light, breezy and romantic, unlike the original. The sequel is directed by Tonje Gjevon, a Norwegian. Made by a Norwegian production house The Hungry Hearts, the film will be shot in Norway, and it will be made in Norwegian, English and Hindi. The genre of the sequel will be unlike the ...

  • Delhi offers no shelter for mentally challenged girls CWC member

    There are no shelter homes for mentally challenged girls in Delhi, a member of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) said Saturday. "There are no shelter homes for mentally challenged girls in the national capital. We need to look into this matter," Charu Makkar, a member of the CWC said, in the course of a day-long discussion on government schemes for underprivileged children at India ...

  • Cops probe link between Chennai hotel owners wife bookie

    Investigations are on to find out why the wife of a Chennai-based five-star hotel owner telephoned a cricket bookie, now under arrest, over a 100 times, police said Saturday. Without naming the woman, her husband or the name of the hotel, an official of Crime Branch-Crime Investigation Department (CBCID) of Tamil Nadu Police told IANS: "The woman has made more than 100 calls to Uttam C. Jain a ...

  • Legislation soon to deal with malpractices in sports Sibal

    The union government will soon bring stand-alone legislation to deal with malpractices in sports, Law Minister Kapil Sibal said Saturday. "We have decided to enact stand-alone legislation to deal with unfair practices in sports. There is no offence under Indian Penal Code (IPC) as of now for unfair practice in sports, so you cannot punish anyone," Sibal told reporters here. Sibal said the ...

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