'When I did Bhoot we got a lot of appreciation. After that I didn't get any script that was good in this genre.'

The Gray Man is mindless fun, worth your monthly Netflix subscription, notes Aseem Chhabra.

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'Indian diplomacy faltered amidst multiple failures of statecraft.' 'The functionaries responsible must be held to account for their abject failure,' asserts Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.

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US President Donald Trump praised fans of NASCAR racing on Monday morning after he triggered protests on football fields across the country with criticism of NFL and other athletes who kneel during the national anthem as unpatriotic.

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Middlesbrough are back in the Premier League after a 1-1 draw with 10-man Brighton & Hove Albion in their multi-million pound promotion decider on Saturday while Burnley sealed the Championship title with a 3-0 victory at Charlton Athletic.

'In Carol, Cate Blanchett reminds us what a real movie star is and why we are enamored by her acting and looks.'

Loss-making Nokia gains full control of the profitable venture Nokia Siemens Networks for $2.2 billion, a cheaper than-expected price, analysts said, although they also noted the acquisition would put pressure on Nokia's balance sheet.

The US needs to do three things to help the newly elected Nawaz Sharif government in Pakistan, says Stanley A Weiss

'I would not be surprised if there is a spectacular act of Pakistani terrorism in India in 2012 intended to celebrate the triumph over the hyperpower. Of course, the home minister of India will once again mouth the terrifying formula: 'If there is another terrorist attack, we will...'

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India's services sector income is on the rise, but what of the quality of people, asks Sanjaya Baru.

Amid a row between China and the US-based search engine Google, Premier Wen Jiabao has said his country is looking forward to the strategic dialogue with Washington in May to resolve trade and currency disputes

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Financial services company Morgan Stanley's Asia chief Stephen Roach is more bullish on Indian economy than China.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is slated to present the Budget on February 26.

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'India has got a large collection of world-class companies, extraordinary entrepreneurs, well-developed markets and an educated workforce that will act in its favour. What's been missing between this micro and macro is political impetus to reforms. The recent election changes the prospects for reforms,' says Stephen S Roach, chairman, Morgan Stanley Asia.

Is Asia a bouncy, bouncy Tigger? Or, like the proverbial dead cat, are Asian tigers on a merely temporary upward trajectory? Certainly, Asia's tigers and, if you will bear with the zoological references, its canaries, too, have done better recently.

These small-scale entrepreneurs offer luxury goods and services that eager customers are still willing to pay for.

We must use the crisis to find the sensible middle ground between finance fetishism on the one hand, and status quo statism on the other.

But Citi's woes might call for more visionary and charismatic leadership than he can offer.

It is possible to calm the waters, but it'll mean unlearning our post-Depression lessons

I open up this space to you now, dear readers. Write in to me with examples, good and bad, of books being adapted to film, and your thoughts on the questions I'm currently thinking about. There is much I still want to discuss, and over the coming weeks this column will, from time to time, keep revisiting the subject at length.

The film is flat, and it does no justice to its lead actor Mike Myers' reputation of a terrific entertainer.

The root cause of the crisis is the income-deficit of the sector.

In the ongoing World Economic Forum, Kamal Nath asserted that US recession will not slow down India's economic growth.

America used to "drive the bus" in global economic terms; now other areas of the world are getting more attention. The U.S. consumer used to be unstoppable; now the cracks are starting to show. The U.S. financial sector used to be a massive profit center; now it is more like a massive black hole.

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Stephen S Roach, chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, warned that Asia and India will be hit hard due to a likely recession in the US in 2008, saying "if US sneezes, Asia will catch a cold." Predicting a significant correction in emerging market equities, which would also not spare the fast rising Indian stock markets, Roach, who is regarded as one of the Wall Street's most influential economists, said he did not believe in the global de-coupling theories.

The US economy could show resilience around the second or third quarter on the housing front, which will increase chances of rate hikes

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ICC president Percy Sonn accepted an invitation from the ICC Board to extend his term in office until June 2009.

Stephen S Roach, chief economist at the US-based Morgan Stanley, returning from his fourth trip to India in three years, said the South Asian country has achieved breakthroughs in savings and foreign direct investments.