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India on fast growth track under Modi: Osamu Suzuki

October 18, 2014 0

Tokyo, Oct.18 (ANI): India is on the fast growth track under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Osamu Suzuki, the Chairman and CEO of the Suzuki Motors told a delegation of visiting Indian parliamentarians here.

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Is Kelly back with David McIntosh?

October 18, 2014 0

Los Angeles, Oct 18 (IANS) It seems that actress-model Kelly Brook has patched up with former army men David McIntosh, three weeks after calling off their engagement.

Film director Bill Condon brings ‘Side Show’ back to Broadway

October 17, 2014 0
Director Bill Condon speaks with a reporter to promote "Breaking Dawn" from the Twilight Saga at Comic Con in San Diego

By Elly Park NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hollywood film director Bill Condon is making his Broadway debut next month with a revival of the 1997 musical “Side Show” about British conjoined twins, Daisy and Violet Hilton, who toured the vaudeville circuit in the United States in the 1930s. Condon, the director of “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn” films and “Dreamgirls” and an Oscar winner for his screenplay for “Gods and Monsters,” has reworked the play that premiered in 1997 and is based on the book of the same name by Bill Russell. Previews begin on Oct. 28 with the opening night on Nov. 17. …

Exclusive – U.S. requests production plans for Ebola drug ZMapp

October 17, 2014 0
Indian sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik works on a sand sculpture depicting a message on Ebola on a beach at Puri in Odisha

By Sharon Begley and Toni Clarke NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. health officials have asked three advanced biology laboratories to submit plans for producing the experimental Ebola drug ZMapp, which ran out after it was given to a handful of medical workers who contracted the disease in West Africa, government and lab officials said on Friday. Under the “task order” issued on Thursday by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a state-of-the-art manufacturing center in Texas will submit plans for manufacturing ZMapp, said Dr. …

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Musical ‘On The Town’ sails back to Broadway

October 17, 2014 0

By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) – “On The Town” is back on Broadway, 70 years after its debut, in a revival that critics hail as “fizzy and frisky” and a “helluva show.” The musical, with opened on Thursday complete with a 28-piece orchestra, follows three sailors looking for love and excitement during a 24-hour leave in wartime 1940’s New York. “Three footloose sailors aren’t the only ones who get lucky in ‘On the Town.’ The audience at the Lyric Theatre does, too,” said the New York Daily News. …