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IPL auction
Cricket's biggest carnival - the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction - got underway in Bangalore on Saturday, with 353 players going under the hammer and a total of $90 million to be spent.
Star Screen Awards 2011
While Salman Khan won the Jury's choice Best Actor Award for Dabangg, Shah Rukh Khan won the same by Popular choice. Best Actress award went to Vidya Balan for the movie Ishqiya.
No One Killed Jessica review
No One Killed Jessica is the first release of the year. It's inspired by the high-profile murder of model Jessica Lall, a crime that rocked the nation 11 years ago. Filmmaker Rajkumar Gupta brings the tragic story on celluloid in his second directorial venture that is releasing Friday.
Train Status
Heavy fog descended on the national capital on Saturday morning disrupting air and rail traffic.
Air operations at the IGI airport were affected due to the dense fog leading to delay in schedule of several flights.
Vampire History
Dreamy vampires, a surly doctor and a rapper in "Recovery" are top winners at the People's Choice Awards.
"The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," TV's "House M.D." and Eminem each won four awards at Wednesday's ceremony, hosted by Queen Latifah at the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles.
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Black Birds fall from sky
The mysterious incident of birds falling from the sky has gone beyond United States now. Dozens of jackdaws were found dead in Sweden after several cases in Kentucky and Louisiana. Five of the dead jackdaws found in the city of Falkoping were being tested.
Salmaan Taseer
A Pakistani Taliban faction linked to trainer of suicide bombers Qari Hussain on Thursday claimed responsibility for the assassination of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, saying that the "man who killed him was from among us."
"We claim responsibility for the killing of Salmaan Taseer. The Punjab Governor was our target and we have planned this programme and the man who killed him was from among us," Shakirullah Shakir, a spokesman for the fidayeen group associated with Qari Hussain, told on phone from an undisclosed location.
CES
Today at CES, Polaroid execs, with the help of new creative director Lady Gaga, have just taken the wraps off a new line of photo-capturing gadgets; like the company’s spokesperson, the cameras are as intriguing as they are outlandish.
Ted Williams
He's now known on the Web as the man with the golden voice. But before that, he was known as a guy standing on the side of the road with a sign - just like many other homeless people.
The man with the golden voice, Ted Williams, is an internet sensation is now getting job offers from all over the world.
Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain wrote that "the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." A new edition of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer" will try to find out if that holds true by replacing the N-word with "slave" in an effort not to offend readers.
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