This Independence Day, a 45-minute 2D animation film on Mahatma Gandhi will be released in India. Titled My Dear Bapuji, the film details the life of Gandhi and has been made in association with the Mahatma Gandhi National Foundation.

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Three years after the success of Partner, actor Salman Khan says he is once again set to work with director David Dhawan for the second instalment of the comic caper.

"We are going to do Partner 2 now. We have decided the script. We have decided everything about the film," Salman told IANS.

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Hollywood star Julia Roberts feels pity for all the young actresses in the film industry because of the "surgical" focus on their dressing and style, which can leave them "insecure".

Roberts, who shot to international fame in 1988 teen film Mystic Pizza, says the industry was far
less ruthless 20 years ago, reports contactmusic.com.

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A top US General has said Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, is probably hiding in the remote mountainous regions of Pakistan, even though no one known where he actually is. "I think he remains an iconic figure, and I think capturing or killing Osama bin Laden is still a very, very important task for all of those who are engaged in counter terrorism around the world," General David Petraeus Commander of US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan told NBC television's "Meet the Press" when asked about the Al Qaeda leader's whereabouts.

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Oscar winner A.R. Rahman is ready with the Commonwealth Games theme song but the Group of Ministers (GoM) on the Games has asked the composer to tweak it before the opening ceremony. "I presented the theme song before the GoM and it was approved. I have been asked to tweak it and it will be released within next 10 days," Rahman told reporters here at a function organised to launch the theme song.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reached out to the agitating youth of the Kashmir Valley and to the Naxalites in his Independence Day address on Sunday morning, emphasising once again his government's keenness for a dialogue with them. In a 35-minute speech delivered from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Singh said: "Discussion and dialogue are the only options to resolve complex issues. As far as the central government is concerned, we are ready to take forward every process of talks which can lead to progress in resolution of problems."

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The nearly 50-hour-long encounter between militants and security forces in Rajouri district ended on Monday in which a Lashkar-e-Taiba militant and an Army jawan were killed and three others, including a major, injured. A total of three LeT militants, believed to be involved in the attack on a bus
in Rajouri last week, have been killed in the encounter which started when security forces launched a search operation in Shara Wali forest belt in the district on Saturday, Senior Superintendent of Police, Rajouri, R K Jalla said.

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Patriotic fervour gripped Indians across the world on Sunday as they enthusiastically celebrated the country's 64th Independence Day by unfurling the tricolour and organising a series of cultural events and festivities. In Beijing, Indian Ambassador S Jaishankar hoisted the tricolour at the Indian embassy premises in the presence of a large number of community members, including businessmen and professionals. He also read out President Pratibha Patil's address to the nation.

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Imagine a car running without fuel – just on human power of muscle. Well, you don’t have to imagine any more, thanks to a new car that you and your family can ‘row’ at 30mph uphill. HumanCar Imagine PS (PS stands for power station) is the brainchild of Charles Samuel Greenwood. According to Autoblog Green, the car is street legal, and can be run on human power alone, reports Discovery News.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday called Maoist guerrillas for peace talks and said his government was also ready for a dialogue with any group in Jammu and Kashmir that abjures violence. Admitting that Maoist-affected areas in east and central India have seen poor development, Manmohan Singh, in his address to the nation on Independence Day, urged the guerrillas to shun violence and come for peace talks in a bid to jointly accelerate the social and economic progress of the region.

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