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Kate Moss Gold Sculptor
Date: 08/31/2008:
Marc Quinn, a British sculptor, is ready to unveil his latest creation to the world, a $2.8 million, 110 pound solid gold statue of the supermodel, Kate Moss . Qninn in 2006 had created Sphinx, a painted bronze statue of Moss in a somewhat provocative yoga pose. So far the London museum has so far only released a close up photo of the statue's face. The statue will be on display from Oct. 4 through Jan. 25, 2008.

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Ranbir Kapoor To Direct A Film?
Date: 08/28/2008:
Even thou he has acted in only two film, he is now thinking about directing. Recently there has been news that the newest Kapoor in the Indian cinema, Ranbir Kapoor has shown interest in directing a film under his grandfather’s R K Films banner.

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Kara DioGuardi Added As Judge On Americal Idol
Date: 08/26/2008:
Kara DioGuardi will has been signed to appear on the next season of the popular tv show American Idol 8 as the forth judge along side Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul , and Randy Jackson.

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Sania Mirza Retires Pulls Out Of US Open
08/22/2008:
Sania Mirza has pulled out of the U.S. Open on because of a right wrist injury that flared at the Olympic Games. Sania had surgery on the right wrist back in April 2008 in Miami, Florida. This will leave India unrepresented in the singles events at the U.S. Open because Prakash Amritraj and Sunitha Rao both failed to qualify for the main draw of men's and women's events. The U.S. Open is scheduled to being Monday, August 25, 2008 in Flushing, New York, USA.

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08/21/2008:
Reliance Big TV launches Direct to Home (DTH) service which should provide high picture quality. The service will be available in 6,500 towns and will initially broadcast over 200 channels with digital quality picture and sound. Now Reliance will provide competition to already existing service providers like Tata Sky, Dish TV, Sun Direct and DD Direct.

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08/21/2008:
After lossing the first ODI match, India fought back to even the ODI series to 1 to 1. India won the Toss and chose to field first and bowled Sri Lanka in 38.3 overs for total of 142 thanks to the bowling of Zaheer Khan and P Kumar's bowling. But the small total seemed to be too much for India's batting as India was to 75 for 5 until debutant Subramaniam Badrinath and Zaheer Khan battled the Sri Lanken's bowler to provide a win for India.

Labels: cricket

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Jiah Khan Going To Acting School?
Date: 08/21/2008:
It well known that Bollywood star Kangna Ranaut and Jiah Khan are not the best of friends. During a recent interview with Kangana Ranaut, she was asked if she missed out working with Aamir Khan , and to that she replied with sometimes like its destiny but at least I wasn't sent to acting classes by Aamir. This in reference to recent news that Aamir Khan has asked Jiah to attend acting classes before her shooting for the film, Ghajini (2008) , began. Kangana Ranaut was the first choice for Aamir to play the role opposite him in Ghajini, but Kangana leaked out the news before the formal announcement was made, which annoyed Aamir and she was out of the film and replaced with Jiah Khan. The film will also have Asin Thottumkal and Jiah, plays a medical student, playing opposite Aamir. Asin had also acted in the same part in the original Tamil version of the movie.

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08/18/2008:
Akhil Kumar's Olympic boxing medal dream came to an end on Monday after lossing to Moldovan Gojan Veaceslav 3-10 in his 54kg quarterfinal match. Now its up to Jitender Kumar (51kg) and Vijender Kumar (75kg) who will be fighting in their quarterfinal matches on Wednesday. All three boxers come from Bhiwani, a Haryana town which is supports by London-based steel magnate Lakshmi Narayan Mittal .

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Rajiv Gandhi Award For Saif Ali Khan And Lara Dutta
Date: 08/18/2008:
Saif Ali Khan (Best Actor) and fellow Bollywood stars Lara Dutta (Best Actress) and Darsheel Safary (Child Prodigy) were given awards at the Annual Rajiv Gandhi Awards 2008 for their contribution to Indian cinema, at a function held at N.C.P.A. ( Mumbai ) on Aug 17, 2008. The function also included some great performance by such Bollywood stars as Salman Khan , Kareena Kapoor , Rakhi Sawant and music composers Shankar Ehsaan Loy.

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Aamir Khan In Tears At Award Ceremony
Date: 08/14/2008:
Recently at the 11th Gollapudi Srinivas Award function at the Kamaraj Arangam, Chennai Aamir Khan was awarded the award for the Best Debutant Director for Taare Zameen Par (2008) , along with a check for Rs 1.5 lakh. Known for his generosity, Aamir immediately handed the check over to the MGR Film Institute in Chennai as a gift. Earlier in the ceremony Aamir came to tears after hearing the speech from doyen of Tamil cinema K Balachander saying good things about the up and coming director, Ammir Khan.

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08/12/2008:
Abhinav Bindra won the gold medal during the 2008 Summer Olympics for 10 meter air rifle event. This also marked the first ever individual Olympic gold medal for India in 108 years. India last won a gold during the 1980 Olympic Games for Hockey. Now it will be Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal turns to go for the gold. Saina Nehwal stunned fourth seed Chen Wang of Hong Kong to move into the quarter finals of the women's singles badminton.

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Sania Mirza Retires Hurts In Her First Round Match In The Olympic Games
08/11/2008:
Sania Mirza had to retire hurt during her first round match in the Beijing Olympic Games because of a wrist injury. Sania was trailing Czech Iveta Benesova 1-6 1-2. The injury could also force Sania to miss her doubles first round match tomorrow. Sania is scheduled to play along with her partner Sunitha Rao against the French pair of Tatiana Golovin and Pauline Permentier. Top seed, Ana Ivanovic also had to withdraw from the single match due to a thumb injury. American Lindsey Davenport also pulled out of the singles and Maria Sharapova did not even make the trip to China becuase of her shoulder injury.

Labels: ana-ivanovic, maria-sharapova, olympic-games, sania-mirza, sunitha-rao, tennis

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Deepika Padukone On Cover Of Maxim India August 2008 Issue
Date: 08/10/2008:
Deepika Padukone gave a great phoot to Maxim for the August 2008 edition of Maxim India . The photos will be part of the Maxim India August 2008 edition. Her next big release Bachna Ae Haseenon (2008) is also due out on August 15, 2008.

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Deepika Padukone Tops The Maxim Hot 100 List India
Date: 08/07/2008:
Deepika Padukone has been selected the winner of the worlds most famous list. The world"s largest Men's magazine Maxim India has decided to debut the list in India with LG Scarlet as the title presenters. Deepika was choosen from reader reaction, industry feedback along with other factors. Deepika joins ikes of previous no 1's Lindsay Lohan, , Eva Longoria, , Marissa Miller, who have topped the list. Deepika Padukone is also a new comer to the Indian film inductry with her debut film last year Om Shanti Om (2007) and second movie will be Bachna Ae Haseenon (2008) is due for release Aug 15.

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Shilpa Shetty To Host Season 2 Of Big Boss
Date: 08/07/2008:
Shilpa Shetty the winner of the Big Brother UK, will be the host of Bigg Boss 2 Indian version of the show. The show will star to air on TV on August 17, it will also make it the first reality show to be telecast on all seven days of the week. The show is have 14 people locked into a house under the surveillance of over 30 cameras for a period of three months.

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Paris Hilton Responds To Ad By Republican candidate John McCain
Date: 08/07/2008:
Paris Hilton who seems to always find a way to get into the news has now responded to some ads that were created by the Republican candidate John McCain. The ad compares the Democrat candidate Barack Obama to Hilton and Britney, which could suggest Obama was no more than a celebrity candidate. Paris also discussed her version of the energy policy which seems to be a hybrid of McCain's offshore oil drilling plan and Obama's incentives for new energy technology.

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Sarkar Raj Headed For Oscar Library
Date: 08/06/2008:
Ram Gopal Varma's Sarkar Raj (2008) script is going to be added to the prestigious Academy of Motion Pictures Oscar Library. The script will at the library permanently for the students of media. The movie was about the political issues, and the power games played by the politicians against each other and starred Amitabh Bachchan , Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in the pivtol roles. Films like Devdas (2002) , Kal Ho Na Ho and Lagaan have already been added to the prestigious library that were produced by the Indian Film industry.

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Mary Kate Olsen To Be Subpoenaed
Date: 08/05/2008:
Mary Kate Olsen will be subpoenaed by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration office in New York to testify in front of a grand jury in regrads to the investigation surrounding Heath Ledger's accidental overdose death. Per the investigation five medications were found in Heath's body at the time of his death per the DEA.

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08/05/2008:
The US basketball team wrapped up their final exhibition game with a win over Australia 87-76. Now they will be heading to Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics . The US basketball team was undefeated during their exhibition games but will have some tougher games during the Olympics. Dwyane Wade scored 22 points and LeBron James .

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India Levels Series By Beating Sri Lanka
08/03/2008:
India won the second match against Sri Lanka by 170 runs to level the three game series 1 to 1. The match was played at Galle International Cricket Ground. Virender Sehwag was named the man of the match after scoring an unbeaten 201 to lead India. Sri Lanka was given 2 full days to chase the score of 307 runs, but the Sri Lankans collapsed for 136 an hour before the close of day 4. Harbhajan Singh gave some twist and turns to the balls to pick up 10 wickets in the match.

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India Levels Series By Beating Sri Lanka
08/03/2008:
India won the second match against Sri Lanka by 170 runs to level the three game series 1 to 1. The match was played at Galle International Cricket Ground. Virender Sehwag was named the man of the match after scoring an unbeaten 201 to lead India. Sri Lanka was given 2 full days to chase the score of 307 runs, but the Sri Lankans collapsed for 136 an hour before the close of day 4. Harbhajan Singh gave some twist and turns to the balls to pick up 10 wickets in the match.

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Sania Mirza Exits Early From Nordic Open
08/01/2008:
Sania Mirza is having some difficultly with coming back from her injugries. Sania has hard some tough losses in early rounds of big tournements. Today was no difference, the Indian ace, Sania, lost in three sets to Czech Iveta Benesova in the second round. Sania had won the first set 4-6 but could not finish the match and Iveta won the last two sets 6-3, 6-3. The Hyderabadi girl had already lost in her doubles match just in the first round.

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