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Tamil old Actress Manjula Vijaykumar's sudden death

Veteran actress Manjula Vijayakumar, who had worked in more than 100 films in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada, died in Chennai today due to a stomach injury. she was 59.  Manjula is survived by husband, actor Vijayakumar and three daughters who had also acted in Tamil films as heroines.  Manjula made her debut as a supporting actress in a 1969 filmShanthi Nilayam. She was seen in her first lead role inRickshawkaran (1971).  In the late '80s, Manjula was seen in supporting roles. She has worked with the likes of NTR, Sivaji Ganesan, Gemini Ganesan, Kamal Hassan and Rajinikanth.  As the news of her demise spread, southern actors took to Twitter to mourn the loss of the late actress.
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Despicable Me 2 is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated family action comedy film and the sequel to the 2010 animated film Despicable Me.[7] Produced by Illumination Entertainment and distributed by Universal Pictures, both films are directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, and written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio. Steve Carell, Russell Brand, and Miranda Cosgrove reprise their roles. Kristen Wiig, who played Miss Hattie in the first film, voices agent Lucy Wilde. Ken Jeong, who played Talk Show Host, voices Floyd Eagle-san. New cast members include Benjamin Bratt as Eduardo and Steve Coogan as Silas Ramsbottom, head of the Anti-Villain League. The film premiered on June 5, 2013 in Australia,[8] and was theatrically released in the United States on July 3, 2013.[2]
A spin-off film, Minions, focusing mainly on Gru's yellow henchmen before they met, is set to be released on December 19, 2014.[
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Trance is a 2013 British psychological thriller film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Joe Ahearne and John Hodge. The film stars James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, and Vincent Cassel.[3] The world premiere of the film was held in London on 19 March 2013.[4] Although the description of the plot below is linear, it is not the only method of interpreting the time line. Washington Post writer Michael O'Sullivan describes Boyle as "playing fast and loose with reality."
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Odd Thomas is a 2013 thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Dean Koontz. Director Stephen Sommers is also a producer of the movie, along with Howard Kaplan and John Baldecchi of Fusion Films
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Man of Steel is a 2013 American superhero film directed by Zack Snyder, produced by Christopher Nolan, and scripted by David S. Goyer. Based on the DC Comics character Superman, the film is a reboot of the Superman film series that portrays the character's origin story. The film stars Henry Cavill in the title role with Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Michael Shannon as General Zod, Diane Lane as Martha Kent, Kevin Costner as Jonathan Kent, Laurence Fishburne as Perry White, and Russell Crowe as Jor-El. Man of Steel is intended to launch a shared fictional universe of DC Comics characters on film.[8] Development began in 2008 when Warner Bros. Pictures took pitches from comic book writers, screenwriters and directors, opting to reboot the franchise. In 2009, a court ruling resulted in Jerry Siegel's family recapturing the rights to Superman's origins and Siegel's copyright. The decision stated that Warner Bros. did not owe the families additional royalties from previous films, but if they did not begin production on a Superman film by 2011, then the Shuster and Siegel estates would be able to sue for lost revenue on an unproduced film. Nolan pitched Goyer's idea after story discussion on The Dark Knight Rises, and Snyder was hired as the film's director in October 2010. Principal photography started in August 2011 in West Chicago, Illinois, before moving to Vancouver and Plano, Illinois. Man of Steel's red carpet premiere in the U.S. was attended by its principal cast members in New York City on June 10, 2013.[9] The film was released to the general public on June 14, 2013, in conventional, 3D[10] and IMAX theaters.[11] The film has grossed more than $620 million at the worldwide box office, but was met with mixed critical reception. Many critics praised the film's story, acting, visuals and reinvention of the titular character, while others were critical of the film's pacing and lack of character development.

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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is a 2013 comedy film directed by Don Scardino and written by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, based on a story by Chad Kultgen & Tyler Mitchell, and Daley & Goldstein. The film follows Las Vegas magician Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) as he attempts to reunite with his former partner Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi) to take on dangerous street magician Steve Gray (Jim Carrey). It also features Alan Arkin, Olivia Wilde and James Gandolfini.
The film began development in 2006, when New Line Cinema bought Kultgen's script, "Burt Dickenson: The Most Powerful Magician on Planet Earth". The development process gained momentum when Charles McDougall was hired as director in 2011, but he eventually left the project and was replaced with Scardino. Daley and Goldstein rewrote Kultgen's script which then saw further rewrites from Jason Reitman in June 2011.
Filming was scheduled to begin in October 2011, in Los Angeles, California but was pushed back to January 2012. On a $30 million budget, filming began on January 10, 2012 in Nevada with filming later moving to Los Angeles. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone was released on March 15, 2013, and earned over $27 million. Reviews generally praised Carrey's and Arkin's performances, but criticized the plot's inconsistent tone and predictability.
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Dead Man Down is a 2013 American neo-noir thriller crime film written by J.H. Wyman and directed by Danish director Niels Arden Oplev. The film stars Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Dominic Cooper, and Terrence Howard. This is Oplev's first film since The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, also starring Rapace and scored by Jacob Groth. It was released on March 8, 2013
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Hummingbird (released as Redemption in the US and Crazy Joe in France) is a 2013 British-American action thriller film written and directed by Steven Knight and starring Jason Statham.
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Veteran lyricist: Vaali(கவிஞர் வாலி (டி. எஸ். ரங்கராஜன்)) passes away

Veteran poet and lyricist Vaali, who has been undergoing treatment in a private hospital in Chennai, died on Thursday. Vaali's health condition deteriorated further in the last few days and was kept on a ventilator and breathed his last on Thursday.

Vaali, 81, is one of the most respected and revered lyricists, penned lyrics for over 10,000 songs in a career that spans over five decades. The lyric writer was honoured by the Indian Government by the Padma Shri for his contribution to the field of arts and cinema.

Vaali's last film that he worked on was Bharatbala's Maryan that stars Dhanush. He wrote the lyrics for two songs in the film.
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Raanjhanaa (Ambikapathy)is a 2013 Indian romantic drama film, directed by Anand L. Rai and written by Himanshu Sharma. The film is produced by Krishika Lulla under the banner Eros International. It stars actor Dhanush in his Bollywood debut, Sonam Kapoor and Abhay Deol in its lead roles.[4] The film was released on June 21, 2013 worldwide,[5] while the dubbed Tamil version titled Ambikapathy[6] was released a week after its Hindi counterpart.[7][2] The dialogue of the Tamil version was written by John Mahendran.
The background score and soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman. The Hindi lyrics of the tracks were penned by Irshad Kamil, whereas the Tamil lyrics were written by Vairamuthu.
Within a week of its release, its collections surpassed INR34 crore (US$5.8 million). The film was declared a hit by Box Office India.
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Thillu Mullu is a 2013 Tamil comedy film directed by Badri who earlier directed Veerappu and Ainthaam Padai. It is a remake of Rajinikanth's film Thillu Mullu which itself was a remake of Hindi film Gol Maal.[1] The film stars Shiva and Isha Talwar.[2][3] Prakash Raj enacted the character essayed by the late Thengai Srinivasan.[4] Kovai Sarala, Sathyan, Ilavarasu, Manobala played supporting roles.[5] The music was jointly scored by M. S. Viswanathan and Yuvan Shankar Raja who for the first time worked together.[6] While the film’s muhurat took place on August 24, the shooting commenced in September.[7] The film released on 14 June 2013 to positive reviews
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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag mints Rs8.5 crore on opening day

A paid preview of the movie on Thursday minted Rs1.5 crore, and the buzz for the movie only ended up getting a boost.
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, deemed a moving and inspirational tale of life of Indian sprinter Milkha Singh, managed an impressive Rs.8.5 crore business on its opening day.

The movie, which released Friday, features Farhan Akhtar as the Flying Sikh, and he is said to have got as real as it gets for the role.

A paid preview of the movie on Thursday minted Rs1.5 crore, and the buzz for the movie only ended up getting a boost.

On its opening day, the movie made Rs. 8.5 crores across India, where it opened in 1,500 screens.

According to trade analyst Taran Adarsh, "'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' had an amazing pick up in evening shows on Friday".

Confirming the same, Piyush Raizada, director, Delight Cinemas, told IANS: "It had a good occupancy on Friday, and it will do well this weekend."

Co-produced by Viacom18 Motion Pictures and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Pictures, the movie was much-awaited ever since it was announced, and then its powerful and clean-cut trailer opened to viewers.

Farhan's performance, which is a result of several personal sessions with the man himself - Milkha Singh, has been immensely appreciated, while actresses Sonam Kapoor and Divya Dutta also make their mark with small, but meaningful performances.

Members of the film fraternity have been heaping praises on the project, with some saying, it will "go down in history". Until then, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag on Bollywood's box office!
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Nokia Lumia 720 is a mid-range bonanza


The Nokia Lumia 720 has hit the markets last month and a lot of people are wondering if it's worth the money.

The smartphone is the technology giant's mid-range Lumia smartphone that seems to conveniently fall good on the pockets with its decent price while it still manages to look pretty chic.

My experience with the phone for two weeks has been quite satisfactory. With its sturdy design, colourful appearance, satisfactory long battery life and light weight; the phone has an impressive build.
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LG launches worlds slimmest full-HD LCD panel for smartphones

LG Display has launched the world's thinnest full-HD LCD panel for smartphones.

The Korean company has announced the thinnest 1080p and 5.2-inch (132 mm) display LCD panel ever. It's only 2.2mm thick and has  2.3mm bezel.

The display also features a full HD 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution and LG Display claims that the screen will provide good visibility under strong sunlight. The screen can also manage 535 nits of brightness.

It's likely that LG is using the same panel in its upcoming flagship smartphone LG Optimus G2 which was recently spotted in leaked pictures and video.
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Telegram service in India to close at 9 pm on Sunday(July 14, 2013)


The first experimental electric telegraph line was started between Kolkata and Diamond Harbour in 1850 and it was opened for use by the British East India Company the following year. In 1854, the service was made available to the public.
The 160-year old telegram service in the country will operate for the last time on Sunday.

"Tomorrow is the last day for telegram services. The service will start at 8 am and close by 9 pm," BSNL CMD RK Upadhyay told PTI. "The service will not be available from Monday."

State-run telecom firm BSNL has decided to discontinue telegrams following a huge shortfall in revenue. The service generated about Rs75 lakh annually, compared with the cost of over Rs100 crore to run and manage it.

The use of telegrams has declined with the spread of mobile phones and the Internet in the country.

The first experimental electric telegraph line was started between Kolkata and Diamond Harbour in 1850 and it was opened for use by the British East India Company the following year. In 1854, the service was made available to the public.

There are about 75 telegram centres in the country, with less than 1,000 employees to manage them. BSNL will absorb these employees and deploy them to manage mobile services, landline telephony and broadband services.

Faced with declining revenue, the government had revised telegram charges in May 2011, after a gap of 60 years. Charges for inland telegram services were hiked to Rs27 per 50 words.
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The Attacks of 26/11 is a 2013 Hindi docudrama film[10][11][12] directed by Ram Gopal Varma, based on the 2008 Mumbai attacks.[13] The film stars Sanjeev Jaiswal in his film debut, playing the role of terrorist Ajmal Kasab, with art direction by Uday Singh. It also features Nana Patekar in a pivotal role. A seven minute promo of the film was released over internet on 23 November 2012.[14][15]The film had an worldwide release on 1 March 2013.[16][17][18]
The first look of the film was revealed on 17 January 2013.[19][20] The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) passed the film, uncut, with an 'Adults Only' certificate.[21] The film was selected to be screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, in the Panorama as well as the Competition section.[22][23] The film had a worldwide release on 1 March 2013, to positive reviews,[24][25] and was opened to critical acclaim at the Indian Films Division Auditorium, in New Delhi.
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3G is an Bollywood horror film directed by Sheershak Anand & Shantanu Ray Chhibber, and produced under Eros International and Next Gen Films. The film features Neil Nitin Mukesh opposite Sonal Chauhan in lead roles. It released on 15th March 2013
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Himmatwala is a 2013 Indian action comedy film directed by Sajid Khan and jointly produced by UTV Motion Pictures and Vashu Bhagnani. The film features Ajay Devgan opposite Tamannaah in the lead roles. It is an official remake of the 1983 film of the same name, directed by K. Raghavendra Rao starring Jeetendra and Sridevi.
The first look poster of Himmatwala was revealed on 8 August 2012, whilst the trailer unveiled on 24 January 2013.[3] The film was released on 29 March 2013 and was critically panned from the critics and was a huge commercial failure.
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Bommarillu (English: Dollhouse) (About this sound pronunciation (help·info)) is a 2006 Telugu romantic comedy film directed and co-written by Bhaskar, and produced by Dil Raju. The film stars Siddharth Narayan, Genelia D'Souza Prakash Raj and Jayasudha. Following the film's box office success it was remade in Tamil as Santosh Subramaniam (2008),[2][3] in Bengali as Bhalobasa Bhalobasa (2008), in Oriya as Dream Girl (2009) and will be remade in Hindi as It's My Life (2013).
The film primarily revolves around the relationship between a father and son, in which the father's excessive concern for his son, and interference in his life, leads to the latter harbouring bitterness towards his overbearing father. The film opened to Indian audiences on 9 August 2006. On its way to winning accolades and rave reviews, the film went on to win the South Filmfare Awards among other prominent awards. The film's success broke several records at the box office during its prime and is one of the highest grossing Telugu films till date.
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Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana (English: If you want to come, Will I say no?) is a 2005 Telugu, romance film, starring Siddharth and Trisha Krishnan. The film is directorial debut of Prabhu Deva.[1] The soundtrack was composed by Devi Sri Prasad. The film garnered eight Filmfare Awards South and has turned out to be a blockbuster.[2] The film was remade in Tamil as Something Something... Unakkum Enakkum, in Kannada as Nenello Nanalle and in Bengali as I Love You. The film is now remade in Hindi as Ramaiya Vasta Vaiya which is scheduled for release on 19 July 2013.[3]
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Stalin (Telugu: స్టాలిన్) is a 2006 Tollywood film directed by A. R. Murugadoss. It stars Chiranjeevi in the lead role with Prakash Raj, Sharada Urvashi and Khushboo in supporting roles. Anushka Shetty performs an item number in the film. Shooting for the film was done at various locations in India including Hyderabad and Chennai as well as Italy and Austria. The basic premises of the plot has been inspired from Pay it Forward. A remake of the film is currently being shot in Hindi titled Mental, directed by Sohail Khan, starring Salman Khan, Daisy Shah, and Tabu.
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Mirapakay (English: Chilli) is a blockbuster 2011 Telugu-language film, directed by Harish Shankar. The film stars Ravi Teja, Richa Gangopadhyay, and Deeksha Seth in the lead. The film, which has music scored by S. Thaman, was released on 13 January 2011. The film has been dubbed in hindi as Khallas and into Tamil as Murattu Singam.
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Andhra CM meets Sonia Gandhi ahead of today's Cong meet on Telangana


Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kirankumar Reddy met UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi ahead of the Congress Core Group meeting on Telangana.

Telangana: Either way, UPA has little to gain now

The outcome of the crucial meeting on the vexed Telangana issue is being awaited with bated breath in Andhra Pradesh.

Related: Iron fist on Telangana protesters

Congress leaders from Telangana and non-Telangana regions camped in Delhi to drum up support for their cause with the party high command.

Those from Telangana hoped that the high command would take a decision in favour of a separate state and that their non-Telangana counterparts should not try to scuttle it.

However, odds are stacked against those seeking bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh with most of the leaders invited to the meet having reservation against it, it was learnt.

Defence Minister A K Antony and Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, who are members of the Core Group, are said to have reservation against the bifurcation of the state. Antony, said sources, has been arguing at Core Group meets that creation of Telangana would lead to the revival of Naxalism in the region.

Shinde, on the other hand, was learnt to have apprised the party leadership that creation of Telangana would stoke trouble in Gorkhaland and Bodoland, although it may not have much impact in Vidarbha.

As per party sources, AICC general secretary in charge of Andhra Digvijaya Singh, who submitted a report to Congress president Sonia Gandhi after extensive consultations with state leaders, is in favour of united Andhra, although he has not committed himself to either side of the debate on public fora.
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Iceman Dhoni breaks SL hearts

Leave it to me, he says. I want to take this to the last over. Me against one man. One on one. I know I am better than the last man the other team can put up against me. Once again, MS Dhoni reduced a lost match into a one-on-one contest with an opposition bowler, and knocked off the 15 required in just three hits. You could see the bowler - Shaminda Eranga, 9-2-34-2 until then, wickets of Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli to his name - was intimidated the moment he saw the first one fly into the top of the top tier.

Bear in mind that this was a treacherous pitch with seam, spin and uneven bounce. Dhoni was injured, and had come back only for this match. He wasn't running as hard as he does, and wickets were falling at the other end. When Dhoni came in, the asking-rate was 3.35, but with falling wickets and turned-down singles, it hit the improbable towards the end. Dhoni, though, kept refusing singles, kept admonishing the last man Ishant Sharma for taking off for panic-stricken singles.

Ishant couldn't be blamed. The game had unravelled fast for India. They were cruising when Rohit Sharma had braved for yet another fifty despite another painful blow to his body (which makes it atleast four in two innings against Sri Lanka), despite many balls that seamed past his edge, despite the slow start. When India were 139 for 3 in the 32nd over, though, Rangana Herath delivered a grubber, and it squeezed under Rohit's bat. Things were about to change.

The pitch was still difficult to bat on as Suresh Raina soon found out. He thought he had a half-volley from Suranga Lakmal when he went for the drive, but even after pitching that full the ball seamed away appreciably and took his edge. The accurate and wily Herath saw an opening now. And burst through it. In the 38th over, his last, Herath trapped Ravindra Jadeja and R Ashwin - whose combined figures had been 17.5-1-65-6 - in successive deliveries. India 152 for 7.

The drama had begun. Only a few minutes earlier, Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara had gone on and on - for overs it seemed - about an obstructing-the-field appeal against Dhoni. He had taken two steps down the wicket, and then realised he would have hit the other batsman if he ran straight. So he ran, nay hared on a bad hamstring, at an angle, but didn't change his direction for the remaining 20 yards. The throw hit him, and the two senior Sri Lankans would not leave the umpire's side. They knew they needed this man out as soon as possible.

For the next half hour, though, Sri Lanka would have thought they didn't need to get Dhoni out. Dhoni tried to intimidate Lakmal once during the Powerplay, but after that he began playing the percentage game. Sri Lanka knew Dhoni couldn't manipulate the strike with that hamstring, and controlled the game well. Lasith Malinga - seven overs for 54 runs until then - finally got his radar right, and got Bhuvneshwar Kumar toe before wicket with his dipping slower yorker. In the tense overs that followed, R Vinay Kumar lost his cool, and slogged and got out. India 182 for 9 after 46.2 overs.

With any other batsman than Dhoni, you would expect panic. Dhoni, though, wanted to corner just one man. He wanted to bring it down to that one man. He was also daring Sri Lanka to keep back Malinga, who had one over left, for the last. Sri Lanka didn't. Malinga bowled the 48th. Dhoni faced the whole over, looking unhurried, for just a scrambled couple.

The only man hurried was Ishant, who tried a suicidal single off the last ball of Malinga's over to keep Dhoni on strike. The ball, though, had gone straight to the fielder, and Dhoni was miffed Ishant tried such desperation. It was not becoming of someone batting with the coolest and the best batsman in ODI cricket. Ishant would do that again off the first ball of the next over. Twice Dhoni let Ishant know what he did was not right. Ishant faced another dot. Then another dot. Seventeen off nine. Dhoni was cool at the other end. He had marked out his man. He knew it wouldn't be an experienced bowler in the last over.

Two runs came off the last three balls of the 49th over, but Ishant was made to feel under no pressure. He had been told to leave it to the man who knew his way around these lanes. Then began the great show. As soon as Ishant left alone - yes, left alone - the last ball of the 49th over, Dhoni signalled to the dressing room for a new, heavier bat.

As Angelo Mathews psyched Shaminda Eranga up for the last over, Dhoni practised a few swings with two bats held together. Calculatedly he picked out one. Eranga went to his mark. This match should not have been on, but in Dhoni's book this was even odds. Eranga bowled a nervous first ball: a wide length ball, which Dhoni swung hard at. That was a nervous ball, and would have been out of the ground had Dhoni connected. Dhoni didn't.

The second ball, though, was closer to Dhoni - swing, and met that hunk on the up. And up it went. And far. And kept going. Over the top of the stands. You could see it in Eranga's eyes now. It was now going to be nigh impossible for Eranga to execute his skill. In one hit, Dhoni had brought it down to just luck for Sri Lanka. The luck was not with them. Eranga bowed length again, Dhoni went hard again, and the ball flew off the outside half of the bat, and over point.

It was over already. Eranga just ran up for the formalities, delivered another length ball, and was dispatched over extra cover. The iceman had done it again, but he hadn't had a great first half of the day as a keeper and a captain. Apart from not having been at his best with the gloves, Dhoni had also let Sri Lanka off the hook with his choice of part-time bowlers ahead of the specialist spinners, who would eventually go on to cut Sri Lanka's effort short.

Bhuvneshwar had given India his customary breakthroughs in the first spell, the scoring was difficult, but Virat Kohli and Raina provided Sangakkara and Lahiru Thirimanne relief with their odd long hop or big wides. Their partnership took Sri Lanka to 171 for 2, but then Thirimanne made a mistake, and almost every batsman that followed. In over-aiming during that Powerplay, Sri Lanka had lost their last eight wickets for 30 runs, letting Dhoni off the hook now.

You will be justified to think of Dhoni's choice of bowlers as odd. As you would have been with his persistence against all logic with Ishant in the Champions Trophy final. Just that the results were drastically different
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Letter written by Ilavarasan before death recovered: Police

A four page letter purportedly written by Dalit youth Ilavarasan in which he states that none should be held responsible for his death, has been recovered by the Special Investigation Team probing the case.

SP Asra Garg said that the letter mentions details of how the boy had fallen in love with the upper caste girl Divya and talks of his subsequent marriage to her.

The SP said they had recovered the letter based on 'secret' information.

He claimed the handwriting in the letter matched that in the notebooks used in college by Ilavarasan. The letter would be submitted in court along with the post-mortem report and other material evidence, Garg said.

The autopsy performed yesterday on Ilavarasan, who was found dead on a railway track on July 4, stated that the youth had died of a "serious head injury" even as the probe was transferred from government railway police to local police.

The report came after Madras High Court directed the state government to preserve till Tuesday the body of Ilavarasan and give the deceased's father a copy of the post-mortem report along with video footage of the procedure, both of which have been done.

Ilavarasan, whose marriage to Divya triggered anti-Dalit violence in three villages of Dharmapuri district in November last year, was found dead along a railway track here on July 4, a day after the girl said she would never go back to him and instead stay with her mother.


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Nigeria's endless cycle of corruption

A new corruption survey by Transparency International shows that nine out of ten of the countries with the highest reported bribery rate in the world are in Africa.

A country that this year did not make the top ten, but where 44% of respondents admitted to having paid a bribe, is Nigeria.

In Lagos, BBC Africa's Tomi Oladipo has been finding out how corruption affects various sectors of society.
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Egypt: Elections do not make a democracy

Mursi's overthrow last week put the United States on the spot. Could Washington support the removal of a democratically elected government, even one we did not like?

An election is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for democracy. That's the takeaway from the continuing upheaval in Egypt. Last year, Mohamed Mursi became Egypt's first freely elected president.
Mursi won with 51.7% of the vote, slightly more than the 51.1% that Barack Obama won in 2012. Mursi was the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist organisation that had been banned and persecuted in Egypt for 60 years.
Mursi's overthrow last week put the United States on the spot. Could Washington support the removal of a democratically elected government, even one we did not like?
The Mursi government may have been elected, but there are other requirements for a democracy. A democratic government has to guarantee minority rights. It has to accept the opposition as legitimate. It has to be willing to abide by the rules. And the truest test of a democracy is that the government has to give up power if it is defeated at the polls.
The Mursi government failed all those tests except the last one. That's because it was only in power for a year and got removed by the military before it could stand for re-election. In that one year, however, Mursi asserted near-unlimited power over the country.
He appointed Islamic radicals to key positions. He rammed through a new constitution that enshrined the principles of Islamic law. He arrested opponents and allowed attacks on religious minorities. He neglected the failing economy. He angered the military by calling for Egyptian intervention in Ethiopia and Syria. Friday, the Republican chairman and ranking Democratic member of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee issued a joint statement saying, "Real democracy requires inclusiveness, compromise, respect for human and minority rights and a commitment to the rule of law.
Mursi and his inner circle did not embrace any of those principles and instead chose to consolidate power and rule by fiat." Egypt has always been a secular country. But a majority of its voters are religious and, given a chance to compete in free elections, they will elect an Islamist government. That has happened in other Arab and Muslim countries as well, for example, Tunisia, Turkey, Iran. In 2006, Palestinians in Gaza elected a Hamas government allied with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.
Islamist governments usually infuriate the secular population and antagonise the military which is what happened in Egypt. Tensions are also high in Turkey, where a relatively moderate Islamic government faces large-scale protests by the secular population. The point is, elections sometimes produce unsavoury results.
The classic example was the German parliamentary elections of July and November 1932, which made the Nazis Germany's largest party. As a result, Adolf Hitler became chancellor in 1933. Mursi is no Hitler, but the Muslim Brotherhood is a paranoid and fanatical movement whose long-term commitment to democracy is much in doubt.
To radical Islamists, elections are a way to gain power. They are enraged because the results of Egypt's 2012 election have been nullified. "Didn't we do what they asked?" an Islamist voter told The New York Times, "We don't believe in democracy to begin with. It's not part of our ideology. But we accepted it. We followed them, and then this is what they do?"
An Islamist in Libya had this complaint: "Do you think I can sell to the people any more? I have been saying all along, 'If you want to build Shariah law, come to elections.' Now they will just say, 'Look at Egypt,' and you don't need to say anything else." To many Islamists, the United States has been exposed as hypocritical. We promote democracy, but we will not stand by a democratically elected government when it is threatened.
Many believe that Washington was complicit in Mursi's overthrow. The Obama administration reportedly tried to broker a compromise that Mursi was unwilling to accept. At the same time, secular Egyptians complain that Washington did not criticise Mursi's undemocratic regime. To them, it proves that Washington is interested only in stability, not democracy.
Didn't the United States support the corrupt regime of deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak all those years? More than any other recent event, the overthrow of the Mursi government in Egypt highlights a conflict between the form and the substance of democracy. "Why is it just ballot boxes?" a human-rights activist asked.
"Are ballot boxes the only forms of democratic expression when the rulers fail the people?" We Americans nurture the pothole theory of democracy. We like to believe that, if a radical government is elected, it will quickly learn that it has to moderate and serve the needs of the people in order to stay in power. It has to fill the potholes and keep the lights on.
But to many Islamic radicals, the ballot is just an alternative to the bullet as a way to gain power. They are ready to abandon democracy if the military and the West won't allow them to stay in power. There was a frightening sight in Egypt last week.
Thousands of Mursi supporters rallied under the black flag of jihad and chanted, "No more elections after today!" But democracy means a lot more than holding elections. That's something they have to learn. We just learned it in Egypt.
(Bill Schneider is professor of public and international affairs at George Mason University and a resident scholar at Third Way.) (Bill Schneider)


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Warrant against Mallika Sherawat


A local court of Vadodara issued a bailablewarrant against Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat in connection with an obscenity case.

The Vadodara district court issued the warrant and asked her to appear before it on August 19.

Former president of the Baroda Bar Association, Narendra Tiwari, had filed a case and sought a non-bailable warrant against Sherawat over her "obscene" dance performance at a New Year eve party held in Mumbai on December 31, 2006.

Tiwari had filed the suit after watching Sherawat's performance on television channels. He had made Sherawat and the management of the five-star hotel, where the event was held, respondents in the case.

The court had issued summons to Sherawat last week to appear before it on Saturday.

Since Sherawat did not remain present in the court, Tiwari sought issuance of a non-bailable warrant against her. However, after hearing the application, the court issued a bailable warrant against her.

The actress had been issued summons in this case in the past as well. She had moved Gujarat High Court seeking quashing of the summons. However, her plea was dismissed and she was asked to approach the lower court.

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Sensex rebounds, riding on rupee recovery


A benchmark index of Indian equities markets was trading at 0.60 percent or 115.72 points up during the pre-noon session Tuesday as rupee recovered after touching a record low of 61.21 against dollar a day ago.

Rupee was trading at 60.12 against dollar at 11.24 am on Tuesday.

Almost all the sectors were trading in green, led by healthcare, capital goods, banking index (bankex) and consumer durables sectors.

The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the S&P Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 19,399.37 points, was trading at 19,440.49 points in the pre-noon session, up 115.72 points or 0.60 percent from its previous day's close at 19,324.77 points.

The Sensex touched a high of 19,486 points and a low of 19,399.37 points in the pre-noon trade.

The S&P BSE healthcare index was up by 124.73 points, capital goods index increased by 121.64 points, bankex moved up by 133.90 points and consumer durables index inched up by 98.27 points.

The wider 50-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was also trading 0.68 percent or 39.40 points up at 5,850.95 points.

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By Sarah McBride and Alistair Barr
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 with 307 people on board crashed and burst into flames as it landed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday after a flight from Seoul, killing two people and injuring more than 180.

Witnesses said the tail of the plane appeared to hit the approach area of the runway, which juts out into San Francisco Bay, as it came in for landing.
The tail came off and the aircraft appeared to bounce violently, scattering a trail of debris, before coming to rest on the tarmac.
Pictures taken by survivors immediately after the crash showed passengers emerging from the wrecked plane and hurrying away. Thick smoke then billowed from the fuselage, and TV footage later showed the aircraft gutted and blackened by fire, with much of its roof gone.
There was no immediate indication of the cause of the accident, and federal officials were traveling from Washington to investigate. One survivor said the pilot seemed to be trying to gain altitude just before crash.
Asiana Airlines said the flight, which had originated in Shanghai, had carried 291 passengers and 16 crew members. Most were Chinese, Korean and U.S. nationals.
Dale Carnes, assistant deputy chief of the San Francisco Fire Department Chief, said two people were killed in the crash, and 49 were transported immediately to area hospitals with serious injuries. Another 132 people were later taken to hospitals with moderate and minor injuries.
Five people were in critical condition at San Francisco General Hospital, according to spokeswoman Rachael Kagan. She said a total of 52 people were treated for burns, fractures and internal injuries.
Three people were in critical condition at Stanford Hospital.
The crash was the first-ever fatal accident involving the Boeing 777, a popular long-range jet that has been in service since 1995. It was the first fatal commercial airline accident in the United States since a regional plane operated by Colgan Air crashed in New York in 2009.
San Francisco International Airport, a major West Coast hub and gateway to Asia, was shut down for several hours after the crash and flights were diverted to Los Angeles, Seattle, Oakland and San Jose. By late afternoon two runways had reopened even as scores of safety workers scoured the airfield for debris.
'TOO LOW AND TOO FAST'
Survivor Benjamin Levy told a local NBC station by phone he believed the plane had been coming in too low.
"I know the airport pretty well, so I realized the guy was a bit too low, too fast, and somehow he was not going to hit the runway on time, so he was too low ... he put some gas and tried to go up again," he said.
"But it was too late, so we hit the runway pretty bad, and then we started going up in the air again, and then landed again, pretty hard," Levy said.
He said he opened an emergency door and ushered people out. "We got pretty much everyone in the back section of the plane out," he said. "When we got out there was some smoke. There was no fire then, the fire came afterward."
Photos and TV images showed that emergency chutes had been deployed from at least two of the aircraft's exits.
Ying Kong of the Bay Area city of Albany, who was waiting at the airport for her brother-in-law, Fawen Yan, 47, from Richmond, California, said he telephoned her after surviving the crash to say it had been "really smoky and scary."
"He feels it difficult to breathe, but he's okay," she said. She added: "He said a lot of people had to run."
Vedpal Singh, a native of India, was on board the flight along with his wife and son when the aircraft struck the landing strip hard.
"Your instincts take over. You don't know what's going on," said Singh, who had his arm in a sling as he walked through the airport's international terminal and told reporters he had suffered a fractured collar bone.
"I'm very, very thankful to God," he said.
Asiana Airlines said the passengers included 141 Chinese, 77 South Koreans, 61 U.S. citizens and one Japanese citizen. It did not give the nationality of the others.
At an evening media briefing, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said: "It is incredible and very lucky that we have so many survivors."
INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY
The Asiana flight left Seoul at 5:04 p.m. Korean time and touched down in San Francisco at 11:28 a.m PDT, according to FlightAware, a website that tracks flights.
Asiana, South Korea's junior carrier, has had two other fatal crashes in its 25-year history.
A senior Asiana official said the pilot was Lee Jeong-min, a veteran pilot who has spent his career with the airline. He was among four pilots on the plane who rotated on two-person shifts during the 10-hour flight, the official said.
Deborah Hersman, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said the agency was sending a team of investigators to San Francisco and it is too early to determine the cause of the crash.
"We will be looking at everything," she told reporters at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, outside Washington. "We have to gather the facts before we reach any conclusions."
The FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said her agency was also sending investigators.
Boeing expressed concern for those on board the flight and added that it will provide technical assistance to the NTSB as it investigates the accident.
A San Francisco airport spokesman said that a component of the facility's instrument landing system that tracks an incoming airplane's glide path has been out of service in recent weeks and was not operational on Saturday.
Pilots and air safety experts said the glide path technology was far from essential for a safe landing in good weather. But Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, a retired pilot and safety consultant who gained fame for landing a plane safely in the Hudson River in 2009, said investigators would certainly be looking into the issue.
"The pilots would have had to rely solely on visual cues to fly the proper glide path to the runway, and not have had available to them the electronic information that they typically have even in good weather at most major airports," he told the local CBS News affiliate.
A British Airways 777-200ER crash-landed a few yards short of a runway at London's Heathrow Airport in 2008. All on board survived. Investigators blamed the crash on fuel blockages caused by ice particles formed during the long flight from Beijing - a finding that led to changes in the design of the Rolls-Royce engines used on some 777s.
The Asiana 777-200ER that crashed in San Francisco on Saturday was powered by engines from Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of United Technologies .
(Reporting by Alistain Barr, Sarah McBride, Ronnie Cohen, Poornima Gupta, Laila Kearney, Dan Levine, Gerry Shih, Jonathan Weber and Peter Henderson in San Francisco, Jackie Frank and Toni Clarke in Washington, Kevin Gray in Miami and Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles.; Editing by David Storey and Philip Barbara)
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The waterfall Dettifoss is located in Vatnajökull National Park in Northeast Iceland, and reputed to be the most powerful waterfall in Europe. It is also the largest waterfall in Europe in terms of volume discharge, having an average water flow of 193 cubic meter per second. Its volume often increases, especially when the weather or volcanic activity prompts glacial melting on the Vatnajokull glacier icecap. The waterfall is so powerful that it makes the surrounding rocks vibrate, the vibrations can be felt by hand.

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