Friday, January 23, 2009

"Slumdog Millionaire" gets 10 Oscar nominations before Mumbai premiere... and other news

"Slumdog Millionaire" gets 10 Oscar nominations before Mumbai premiere
AP - January 22, 2009 10:53 AM ET It picked up 10 Oscar nominations, including best picture, on the day the movie was set to premiere in Mumbai, India, ...
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'Why Slumdog fails to move me'
BBC News
With its mixed cast, the much-feted and hyped film is also Boyle's paean to Mumbai (Bombay), India's edgy metropolis of extremes, and Bollywood, ...
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LeT staged Mumbai mayhem, says Germany
New Delhi: Stating that its investigations had confirmed that the Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) had staged the Mumbai mayhem, ...
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Kashmir - the elephant in the room
Times Online
Arrogant, ham-handed, startling, impertinent – these are the sort of words used here, with reason, to describe David Miliband's comments on the Mumbai ...
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LeT responsible for Mumbai attacks: German police chief
New Delhi (PTI): Germany, which lost three of its citizens in Mumbai terror strikes,on Thursday said it felt that Lashkar-e-Taiba was responsible for the ...
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Mumbai slum residents object to 'Slumdog's' name
The Associated Press
MUMBAI, India (AP) — Several dozen Mumbai slum residents protested the award-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" on Thursday, calling the film's title ...
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Mumbai Indians swap Uthappa for Zaheer
Mumbai Indians [Images], led by Sachin Tendulkar [Images], have swapped Karnataka Ranji Trophy captain Robin Uthappa for left-arm pace spearhead Zaheer Khan ...
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Court upholds charges against 11 Malegaon accused
MUMBAI: A special court here on Thursday upheld Mumbai Police's Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) chargesheet, slapping charges under the stringent Maharashtra ...
Read at Times of India

Why Miliband tried to rationalise Mumbai attack
None of the indigenous Kashmiri organisations has linked the Mumbai [Images] attack to Kashmir. Yet Miliband sought to provide a legitimacy to the LeT's ...
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How ATS got two key confessions
MUMBAI: Police officials had to resort to psychological tactics and some quick innovative thinking to break down the accused in the Malegaon blast case on ...
Read at Times of India

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