Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Nevada (US), March 18 (ANI): A short experimental film about the salt fields of Central Kutch in India has made into the competitive category in internationally renowned 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival of USA being held March 23-28, according to reports.
Titled “Scene 32”, this film by Shambhavi Kaul, examines ...
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
[caption id="attachment_29909" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A.R. Rahman"][/caption]Nevada (US), Mar 17 (ANI): Some of the tickets for Oscar winner A.R. Rahman’s Chicago (USA) June 18 “Jai Ho Concert” are now selling for 1,050 dollars per person on his official website.
This “Jai Ho Circle” ticket includes: no waiting in line - express ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
Nevada (US), March 15 (ANI): The prestigious 34th Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF), from March 21 to April six, will pay special tribute to India’s late actor-director-producer-writer Guru Dutt, whom it calls “Bollywood Guru”.
Festival will showcase his “Kaagaz Ke Phool” (1959, with Waheeda Rehman), “Mr. & Mrs. ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
Nevada (US), March 15 (ANI): USA has expressed ‘major concern’ regarding discrimination against Roma in Romania.
In its annual “Human Rights Report” about Romania issued recently, US Department of State says: “Roma faced persistent poverty and had poor access to government services, few employment opportunities, high rates of school attrition, ...
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Nevada (US), Mar 9 (ANI): A new film, titled "Karma: The New Revolution", will explain the role of Karma in the recent golfer Tiger Woods'' apology, according to reports.
Reportedly releasing on March 15, it will also explain the role Karma played in the death of entertainment icon Michael Jackson. ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
Nevada (US), March 8 (ANI): Roma migrants are returned by force to places where they are at risk of human rights violations, according to Thomas Hammarberg, European Commissioner for Human Rights.
Roma reportedly migrated mostly from Indian subcontinent to Europe many centuries ago.
In his “viewpoint” published on his official ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
Nevada (US), March 8 (ANI): There were no nominations for ‘Made in Asia’ films at 82nd Academy Awards given in Hollywood (USA) on March seven, and out of four films nominated with Asia-focused topics, only one (The Cove) was able to win.
‘The Cove’ (Louie Psihoyos), which won in ‘documentary ...
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Nevada (US), Mar 7 (ANI): In a remarkable interfaith gesture, Fifth Annual Catholic Diocesan Youth Rally held at Reno (Nevada, USA), involving Catholic teenagers from various parts of Nevada, heard from area Muslim-Hindu-Buddhist-Jewish leaders.
Catholic teenagers listened intently in the chapel of Bishop Manogue Catholic High School to Muslim imam ...
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Nevada (US), March 6 (ANI): Women of India have outperformed Indian men in philanthropy.
Latest list of Forbes Asia of “48 Heroes of Philanthropy” contains only four Indians and all of them are women.
These philanthropic heroes are: Anu Aga (67, Director of Thermax; Thermax donates 1 percent of its ...
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Nevada (US), March 6 (ANI): Hindus and Jews have portrayed His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI as ‘un-Christian’ for not strongly supporting the cause of the Roma who face ‘apartheid” conditions in Europe.
Rajan Zed, acclaimed Hindu statesman; and Rabbi Jonathan B. Freirich, prominent Jewish leader in Nevada and California in ...
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