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September 2009

Radcliffe trying hard to get driving licence

September 30, 2009 Entertainment

Twenty-year-old “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe is so determined to pass his driving test that he has moved to Dorset to learn driving. The young star finds it easier to concentrate on his driving lessons in the quieter country lanes than congested roads of the capital. “He told me he was down from London taking [...]

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Another season of I-League begins with Churchill facing Mahindra

September 30, 2009 Sport

The expanded I-League with fourteen teams and a record 182 matches to be played across 26 rounds will kick-off Thursday with defending champions Churchill Brothers taking on Mahindra United at the Cooperage in Mumbai. The third season of the I-League will be the biggest since its inception as the National Football League (NFL) in 1996-97 [...]

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I’ll try to bring more kids to children film fest: Nandita Das

September 30, 2009 Entertainment

Actress Nandita Das, the newly appointed chairperson of the Children’s Film Society of India (CFSI), promises to bring maximum number of kids to the children film festival, starting Nov 14, despite the fact that kids are hooked to reality shows. “My top priority at this moment is to attract large number of children from different [...]

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PM greets China on 60th anniversary

September 30, 2009 India

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday congratulated the Chinese government and people on the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic and said that “strategic and cooperative partnership” between India and China had developed over the years. In a message to Premier Wen Jiabao, the prime minister said: “This is an important milestone in [...]

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Mayawati government accused of defying court over memorials

September 30, 2009 India

The Uttar Pradesh government was Wednesday accused of defying the Supreme Court by continuing work at Dalit leaders’ memorial sites in Lucknow. The accusation was made by Lucknow resident Mithilesh Kumar Singh, whose lawsuit against Dalit memorials has left the Mayawati regime face contempt proceedings for allegedly violating the Supreme Court Sep 8 order stopping [...]

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Congress hails Rahul for democratising youth bodies

September 30, 2009 India

The Congress Wednesday hailed party general secretary Rahul Gandhi for his efforts to introduce internal democracy in the student and youth wing of the party. “The efforts of Rahul Gandhi to introduce internal democracy by holding organisational election in the Youth Congress and National Students Union of India (NSUI) can be called as revolutionary from [...]

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Two-year jail for Indian Oil official

September 30, 2009 India

A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court here Wednesday sentenced a former Indian Oil official to two years in jail for illegally issuing gas connections about two decades ago. According to CBI officials, the case was registered against R.C. Sahni, 65, area manager of Indian Oil in Chandigarh in November 1990. The court also [...]

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Drew Barrymore injured while shooting for ‘Whip It’

September 30, 2009 Entertainment

Hollywood actress Drew Barrymore badly bruised her leg while filming for her directorial debut “Whip It”, about a roller derby team. Barrymore, who is also acting in the movie, was left black and blue when a training session with Detroit Derby Girls star Racer McChasher went wrong, reported contactmusic.com. “We were wrestling and rolling around [...]

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Court approves denial of admission to Meerut girl in Delhi varsity

September 30, 2009 India

The Delhi High Court has denied admission to a Meerut girl in a varsity in the capital on the ground that her study centre for the B.Ed course for teachers’ training was not here. The court, in a ruling this week, agreed with the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University’s decision to deny admission to Nisha [...]

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Bopanna-Qureshi ousted from Malaysian Open

September 30, 2009 Sport

India’s Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan’s Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi blew up a set advantage to go down fighting 6-2, 6-7(4), 11-13 to Russia’s Igor Kunitsyn and Czech Jaroslav Levinsky in the $947,750 Malaysian Open tennis quarterfinals here Wednesday. The India-Pakistan wildcard pair committed nine double faults as compared to their opponent’s five and were broken thrice in [...]

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