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  • Asom Gana Parishad stage protest in Assam over killing of one-horned rhino

    Irate over rampant killings of endangered one-horned rhinoceros Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) staged protests in Assam. Led by former Assam Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta and senior leaders of AGP held a demonstration in Kohora against surging Rhino deaths due to poaching in Kaziranga National Park. Upset over recent spate in death of the threatened animals provincial leaders demanded ...

  • Police arrest four Maoist sympathisers in Jharkhand

    Jharkhand Police arrested four cadres of the People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI) who were acting as messengers of Maoists in Gumla district. Police had been conducting several search operations in various districts in order to catch hold of the Maoists who approach the local villagers and offer them some money. Talking to mediapersons here on Saturday, Inspector of Police of Gumla ...

  • Police conduct martial arts training for school girls in Siliguri

    Local police have conducted martial arts training for about 400 school girls in West Bengal's Siliguri district in order to combat violence against women. Recently, the alleged rapes of girl children triggered protests, reawakening concerns about safety for women and girls. In order to protect themselves, the girls were seen enthusiastic and curious to learn defence training. Deputy ...

  • Pregnancy wont affect Knowles performances

    Singer Beyonce Knowles is reportedly expecting her second child with rapper Jay-Z and it is unlikely to affect her forthcoming stage performances. She had earlier pulled out of her Mrs. Carter show world tour in Antwerp, Belgium due to exhaustion, but she performed later when the tour touched down in Switzerland. A source has said that Knowles' pregnancy will most likely not affect her North ...

  • Jimmy Saviles half-century of sex abuse to be made into musical

    Jimmy Savile's history of sex abuses against children is to be made into a musical by a British scriptwriter. Punch and Judy will tell the "dark, irreverent tale" of how the "cheekiest chappy in the land" turned into a sex-hungry monster, the Daily Star reported. The musical will use song and comedy to look at how the late television presenter managed to rape and abuse vulnerable ...

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Something Wild [Blu-Ray]

Something Wild [Blu-Ray]

Who better to direct a screwball comedy about personal reinvention than Jonathan Demme, a filmmaker who seems to change hats with every film he makes? Having begun his career in the Roger Corman school of efficient exploitation (1974s Caged Heat), he graduated to quirky off-H ... ...

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  • Turmoil Of 63 Shut Down Proms Former Students Dance Again

    Several high schools had to cancel their proms in 1963, during a time of tumultuous civil rights protests across the South, and in Birmingham, Ala., particularly. Fifty years later, some of those African-American students finally got the chance to dance the night away. Gigi Douban ...

  • Indian cinema on a mission at Cannes to dispel Bollywood image

    Sun May 19, 2013 5:35am EDT * Bollywood films have struggled at global box office * Four Indian films screened at Cannes film festival * Industry keen to lure investment to India By Belinda Goldsmith CANNES, May 19 (Reuters) - Indian movie actors and a new wave of directors are on a mission at the Cannes film festival - to show that their industry, which turns 100 this year, is more than just ...

  • Kanye performs new songs on SNL

    A day after releasing his single, "New Slaves," projecting the video on the side of buildings around the world, Kanye West returned to Saturday Night Live to perform an unreleased track, "Black Skinhead." West hit the stage dressed in a studded black leather biker jacket to perform the single which had a melody culled from Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful ...

  • Bombay Talkies is Indian cinema at its best

    According to one Western stereotype, India is a noisy, chaotic and colourful country, and so it's natural that our popular culture- our films and novels- would reflect this. They burst at the seams trying to capture our confusions and multifariousness. There is no room for subtlety. In fact, Indians are incapable of subtlety because our society itself isn't so. Om Shanti Om is the ...

  • Konig Wins 7th Stage Van Garderen Retains Tour Of California Lead

    DANVILLE (CBS/AP) -- Leopold Konig of the Czech Republic won the seventh stage of the Tour of California in a mountaintop finish Saturday, and American Tejay van Garderen finished third to keep the overall lead for the third straight day. Konig, riding for the German team NetApp-Endura team, quickly moved ahead of Janier Acevedo of Colombia with about 400 yards left and completed the 91.4-mile ...

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