MOVIES
Dark clouds over desi box-office
Badal earned a paltry $ 64,000 last weekend. Given the usual pattern of 45 to 50 per cent decline for desi movies in the second week, it could exit with just about $ 150,000 in three weeks.

NEWS
Confidentiality: Census to issue television ads to reassure minorities
Census officials are worried that a lot of people, either out of cynicism or negligence, will not fill in the forms.

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