'I am glad my driver's wife got compensation, but am I not entitled to anything? I have been running around for succour but have not received even sympathy.'
A Ganesh Nadar visits the mortuary in Mumbai, where the bodies of the terrorists killed in the 26/11 attacks are kept.
Five deaths in the district which were thought to be suicides were reinvestigated by a persistent police force and shockingly all turned out to be murders.
'The actors are far out. They all underplay their parts. There is no overacting and there is no trying to achieve dramatronics.'
'If the army says sit we have to sit and if they say stand we have to stand. We were better off under the LTTE.'
No posters, banners or blaring loudspeakers the election buzz is missing in Dharavi, till recently known as Asia's largest slum.
'The Northeast is the biodiversity saviour of the country,' says Sikkim MP Prem Das Rai. 'Thirty to 40 per cent of the biodiversity of the country is housed in the Northeast. It is the battery of India. Not only oil and gas but it has a hydroelectricity capacity of 70,000 MW. It has so much colour and diversity within itself.'
By fasting during Ramzan, Kader Mohideen carries forward the faith of his forefathers. His knowledge of computers has not dimmed his belief in the Quran. In that there is a lesson for this materialistic world.
C N Annadurai, whose birth centenary is being celebrated today, was a pioneer in many ways. Fondly called Anna (elder brother) he was the first person to cross over from films to politics. Born to a weaver family in caste-ridden Tamil Nadu, it is amazing that he went on to become the chief minister of that state.
The film has powerful performances and a lot of nudity.
Music composers Siddharth-Suhas may not have hit the big league yet but they're definitely in demand.
Late Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajashekhara Reddy's home in Hyderabad was crowded to the brim and overflowing with grief.
The entire length when construction is complete will be 62 kms. In the first phase, 30 kms are being developed. The cost is estimated to be Rs. 864 crores. The construction should finish by 2012 and then the developer will have to maintain the road for a period of 17years. The government will pay for the maintenance of the road and thus sparing the motorits the burden of paying a toll.
The Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction test costs around Rs 1,500 rupees and CARD test, Rs 500.
The pain in Priti Sawant's eyes is heart-wrenching, but her belief that her husband will rise from that hospital bed is a lesson in courage.
The Tamil Nadu Youth Congressis getting a long awaited revamp. the organisation's office bearers are in Delhi to discuss the deatils. In Uttar Pradesh and Punjab the same strategy paid rich dividends for the party in the Lok Sabha polls.
'People don't look at the economics of the environment. They look at the profits of development,' says Probir Banerjee.
Prabhakaran strode in, wearing his trademark safari suit. Well built, very sure of himself. He put his hands on the table and looked around the hall scanning the entire area slowly. There was pin drop silence. We had been told not to get up but those on stage had risen.
Some of them have been here for so long that they can't remember how their homes in Sri Lanka looked. Some have been born here and know only of the homes that their parents describe.
Picsquare is a portal where one can print one's photographs and can even get them embossed on mugs, T-shirts, calendars, scrap books and have them delivered at home.
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