Slumdog Millionaire: Best Film

Hit British film Slumdog Millionaire has won the top prize at the Academy Awards, winning Eight Oscars including best director and best picture, two of them by A.R.Rahman and one by Resul Pookutty. Slumdog Millionaire won Oscar in following classes:

Best Film

Best Director: Danny Boyle

Best Original Music Score: A R Rahman

Best Original Song: Jai Ho (Music: A R Rahman, Lyrics: Gulzar)

Best Sound Mixing: Resul Pookutty

Best Editing: Chris Dickens

Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy

Best Cinematography: Anthony Dod Mantle

81st annual Oscars: Winners

Motion Picture: "Slumdog Millionaire."

Actor: Sean Penn, "Milk."

Actress: Kate Winslet, "The Reader."

Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight."

Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."

Director: Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire."

Foreign Film: "Departures," Japan.

Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, "Slumdog Millionaire."

Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black, "Milk."

Animated Feature Film: "WALL-E."

Art Direction: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

Cinematography: "Slumdog Millionaire."

Sound Mixing: "Slumdog Millionaire."

Sound Editing: "The Dark Knight."

Original Score: "Slumdog Millionaire," A.R. Rahman.

Original Song: "Jai Ho" from "Slumdog Millionaire," A.R. Rahman and Gulzar.

Costume: "The Duchess."

Documentary Feature: "Man on Wire."

Documentary (short subject): "Smile Pinki."

Film Editing: "Slumdog Millionaire."

Makeup: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

Animated Short Film: "La Maison en Petits Cubes."

Live Action Short Film: "Spielzeugland (Toyland)."

Visual Effects: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

26/11 terrorists took the sea route: Maria

MUMBAI: Rejecting Pakistani navy chief Admiral Noman Bashir's claim that the 10 terrorists did not use the sea route to reach Mumbai, city crime branch said that the four Global Positioning Systems (GPS) devices recovered from the terrorists revealed that they did come by the sea.

"The GPS was switched on in the Pakistani waters and the devices showed locations near Karachi,'' said crime branch chief Rakesh Maria. To add more to it, Maria said, "The GPS was switched on along at least 50 positions in Pakistan. The terrorists were trained to use GPS.''

According to the Mumbai police, the terrorists had sailed in a Pakistani ship, Al-Husseini, before they took over a fishing trawler, M V Kuber to reach the city.

On February 13, Pakistan's interiror minister, Rehman Malik, admitted that the terrorists belonged to Pakistan and had sailed through Pakistani waters. However, Bashir's claim contradicts his own minister's official statement.

Crime branch officers said they had seized logbooks from Kuber, which was maintained by the terrorists to continue their "guard'' duty on the fishing trawler. The logbook, made for a 24-hour journey, registered the names of nine out of 10 terrorists and their duties on a two-hour rotation. While nine terrorists were killed during the carnage, the youngest, 21-year-old Ajmal Kasab, was captured alive.

The terrorists had also killed four crew members of Kuber before they did away with the navigator. The police had recovered a satellite phone and at least 16 Pakistani items from fishing trawler. Maria added that the terrorists, who went to Nariman House, also used another GPS.

According to Maria, Major General Saab, who is among the 35 wanted accused named in the 11,202-page charge sheet on 26/11, was responsible for "motivational and operational'' functions during the gun battle. "It was he who instructed the terrorists how to take position and fire. It was he who instructed to set fire,'' said the officer.

At least 30 witnesses have identified Kasab while 29 other witnesses had identified the dead bodies. "Two bodies could not be identified since they were completely charred,'' said Maria. Four persons have identified the local conspirators, Faheem Ansari and Sabahuddin Ahmed. He added that four SIM cards, one purchased in Delhi, one in Kolkata and two in Kashmir, were seized from the terrorists.
Times of India

Bulb extracted from girl's lung

KOLKATA: Doctors at SSKM Hospital on Thursday operated on a child who had swallowed a tiny electric bulb last week. The bulb was stuck in the left lung of Pratima Alemajar (4) and she was having severe breathing trouble when she was brought to the hospital.

Pratima was first taken to Sonarpur Rural Hospital after she swallowed the 2 mm X 1 mm bulb at her Sonarpur home. There, doctors gave her medicines to make the bulb pass out through her stool. When that did not work, her family brought her to a private hospital in Kolkata. But the bulb could not be extracted there, either.

The child had developed a severe breathing problem and cough by then. "The bulb had got stuck in her left lung. Her condition was deteriorating fast and only surgery could save her. We had to make sure that the bulb did not break. We managed to pull it out by its filament," said Arunava Sengupta, who led the team of surgeons. Pratima has been kept under observation.