New Delhi: The cabinet Thursday cleared a proposal to set up a national academy which will focus on research and impart training in frontier areas of science and technology.
A bill to set up the "Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research" will be introduced in the ensuing monsoon session of parliament, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said
after a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
"The academy will focus on research and teaching and utilizing existing resources for awarding degrees that will be internationally recognized," said Soni.
She said the curricula, pedagogy and evaluation of the academy will be innovative and directed towards creating highest quality personnel in inter-disciplinary areas.
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has mooted the idea of setting up the academy as there is a shortage of such institutions in the country.
The academy will have campuses spread across the country in the 37 CSIR laboratories linked through the National Knowledge Network.
Soni said the academy will operate on a self-sustaining mode while utilising the existing resources and facilities of CSIR. The recurring expenses will be Rs.19.10 crore in the 11th Plan and Rs.61.79 crore in the 12th Plan.
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Bangalore: It is observed that a CIO can have all the good intentions in the world. But they aren't worth a plugged drachma if the CIO is detached from revenue drivers, from process optimization, from innovation as a competitive weapon, and from the core themes that bind all other C-level executives to the wheel of business. A lot of CIOs are going to lose their jobs in the second half of 2010 - not because they don't work hard,Rather, they'll lose their jobs primarily because they have continued to resist change rather than embracing it as a strategic weapon, reports Bob Evans from The Information Week.
The CIO's have to recognize in more than three of these 10 points below, to get fired
Failure to attack 80/20: Several years ago, CIOs simply didn't have the tools to begin flipping this ratio between maintenance and innovation. The tools are now available -the at-risk component is the will of the CIO to fight a long and grueling battle.
Failure to embrace mobility: In just the past few weeks, two of the world's most influential IT vendors Hewlett-Packard and SAP have stated very publicly that mobile will unequivocally become the primary enterprise computing output device in very short order. They're not saying that to try flog they own mobile products,right now, each company generates more than 95 percent and probably more than 99 percent of its revenue from traditional computing platforms. But that's changing rapidly, and the customers of HP and of SAP are clearly telling them that mobility must be #1.
A failure to lead: Successful CIOs surround themselves with superb technologists, and focus instead on leadership, particularly in leading the synchronization of IT operations and capabilities with business opportunities and customers. If you want to run infrastructure, that's great - but first, demand that your title be changed to IT director and your compensation be cut by 40 percent.
Misplaced priorities: UPS CIO Dave Barnes said it's hard for him and his team to stray into unproductive areas because, as he put it, "I can give you our IT strategy in two words: it's our business strategy." Are you clear - perfectly, unmistakably, unwaveringly clear - on your company's business strategy and your team's IT strategy? Can you prove with precision that all of your team's time and energy and focus are being applied to what is most vital to the company overall?
Revenue involvement: I'm always astonished when CIOs deflect this concept and say that "it's not my job to sell"if that's indeed the case, then why keep you around at all? Why not just ship the whole danged IT operation off to a lower-cost IT-services provider? Can you really expect to survive as a cost center that's detached from the revenue that keeps your company alive?
Revenue enhancement: How often do you meet with your C-level peers and LOB heads to ask how technology and enhanced processes and new capabilities can help them increase revenue and profits? If the CEO popped into your office right now and said, "Show me your list of ideas for using all this stuff to drive more sales," what would your list look like - a few ideas from a strategy meeting in 2007? Some random doodling done at a conference you recently attended? Or could you show clearly that you know your primary job is to help the company grow and succeed rather than to run infrastructure?
Customer engagement: Do you have a "Enhancing Customer Engagement" plan? If so, have you pushed it beyond plan to reality? If not, why not will you try to make your case to the CEO that in the age of Amazon and iTunes and Twitter and apps for everything, you don't feel the IT organization can be bothered with enhancing customer intimacy?
Cloudy on the cloud: CIOs must by now have a forceful and vigorous plan for how the cloud does or does not fit into their plans. If you think it's a fad, great make that case, show all the question marks, point to the various pockets of uncertainty, and be sure to explain away why so many companies have begun to embrace the strategy as a vital game-changer. If you think it's real, have an aggressive deployment plan with risk-management analyses, cost comparisons, and most of all business-value analyses.
Real-time awareness: Lots of companies have said lots of things about real-time business in the past few years, but the reality of it is upon us. Beyond the technologies involved beyond the debates of whether in-memory databases are a new or old idea what are the implications? How would the ability to do real-time analytics feeding real-time decisions change how your business operates? How could it help you engage more deeply with customers and generate more revenue and manage inventory more productively and reach more buyers at the precise point when they're ready to buy?
The power of transformation: Everyone's talking about it, everyone's using the term - but what, really, does it mean to your company? To your IT organization? To your customers? If CIOs let themselves be the wagging tail on this, well, then they deserve the general view and environment that's provided by the tail and its proximate parts. Instead, CIOs need to take all of the positive aspects of all of the elements on this list and roll them into an active and forward-looking vision for how IT can become a profound engine for helping the CEO and the entire company create the future rather than merely replicating the past.
The CIO's have to recognize in more than three of these 10 points below, to get fired
Failure to attack 80/20: Several years ago, CIOs simply didn't have the tools to begin flipping this ratio between maintenance and innovation. The tools are now available -the at-risk component is the will of the CIO to fight a long and grueling battle.
Failure to embrace mobility: In just the past few weeks, two of the world's most influential IT vendors Hewlett-Packard and SAP have stated very publicly that mobile will unequivocally become the primary enterprise computing output device in very short order. They're not saying that to try flog they own mobile products,right now, each company generates more than 95 percent and probably more than 99 percent of its revenue from traditional computing platforms. But that's changing rapidly, and the customers of HP and of SAP are clearly telling them that mobility must be #1.
A failure to lead: Successful CIOs surround themselves with superb technologists, and focus instead on leadership, particularly in leading the synchronization of IT operations and capabilities with business opportunities and customers. If you want to run infrastructure, that's great - but first, demand that your title be changed to IT director and your compensation be cut by 40 percent.
Misplaced priorities: UPS CIO Dave Barnes said it's hard for him and his team to stray into unproductive areas because, as he put it, "I can give you our IT strategy in two words: it's our business strategy." Are you clear - perfectly, unmistakably, unwaveringly clear - on your company's business strategy and your team's IT strategy? Can you prove with precision that all of your team's time and energy and focus are being applied to what is most vital to the company overall?
Revenue involvement: I'm always astonished when CIOs deflect this concept and say that "it's not my job to sell"if that's indeed the case, then why keep you around at all? Why not just ship the whole danged IT operation off to a lower-cost IT-services provider? Can you really expect to survive as a cost center that's detached from the revenue that keeps your company alive?
Revenue enhancement: How often do you meet with your C-level peers and LOB heads to ask how technology and enhanced processes and new capabilities can help them increase revenue and profits? If the CEO popped into your office right now and said, "Show me your list of ideas for using all this stuff to drive more sales," what would your list look like - a few ideas from a strategy meeting in 2007? Some random doodling done at a conference you recently attended? Or could you show clearly that you know your primary job is to help the company grow and succeed rather than to run infrastructure?
Customer engagement: Do you have a "Enhancing Customer Engagement" plan? If so, have you pushed it beyond plan to reality? If not, why not will you try to make your case to the CEO that in the age of Amazon and iTunes and Twitter and apps for everything, you don't feel the IT organization can be bothered with enhancing customer intimacy?
Cloudy on the cloud: CIOs must by now have a forceful and vigorous plan for how the cloud does or does not fit into their plans. If you think it's a fad, great make that case, show all the question marks, point to the various pockets of uncertainty, and be sure to explain away why so many companies have begun to embrace the strategy as a vital game-changer. If you think it's real, have an aggressive deployment plan with risk-management analyses, cost comparisons, and most of all business-value analyses.
Real-time awareness: Lots of companies have said lots of things about real-time business in the past few years, but the reality of it is upon us. Beyond the technologies involved beyond the debates of whether in-memory databases are a new or old idea what are the implications? How would the ability to do real-time analytics feeding real-time decisions change how your business operates? How could it help you engage more deeply with customers and generate more revenue and manage inventory more productively and reach more buyers at the precise point when they're ready to buy?
The power of transformation: Everyone's talking about it, everyone's using the term - but what, really, does it mean to your company? To your IT organization? To your customers? If CIOs let themselves be the wagging tail on this, well, then they deserve the general view and environment that's provided by the tail and its proximate parts. Instead, CIOs need to take all of the positive aspects of all of the elements on this list and roll them into an active and forward-looking vision for how IT can become a profound engine for helping the CEO and the entire company create the future rather than merely replicating the past.
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Kolkata: Corporate India doesn't require dummies at work. Companies have learnt the lesson for slowdown and realized the need for people who can handle shocks and manage teams in a crisis on the board, reports Writankar Mukherjee from The Economic Times.
In psychological terms, what the company was doing was measure Bose's emotional intelligence, or his responses to various situations.Post-slowdown, many corporate have begun to use psychometric and personality tests, case study sessions, simulation exercises and behavioural-intensive interviews to evaluate potential recruits at middle-and senior-management levels.
"Companies are now looking at hiring talent with a long-term view, necessitating their looking at more than functional competence," says Ernst & Young head (human capital advisory) NS Rajan.
The 'qualitative data' these tests throw up, he explains, give a fair idea of how an employee handles himself, his confidence and interest levels, his ability to work with teams and his functioning during a crisis. Nearly 40 of its Indian clients, including state-owned companies, use a behavioral evaluation process.
To measure emotional intelligence, companies use specialized tests and modules developed by external agencies. MeritTrac, for instance, has an 'interest inventory' model that its clients in sectors like retail, banking, financial services and insurance have started to use.
The model is based on the principle that if an employee inherently likes something, he will probably enjoy his work and deliver his best.
"Before the economy took a beating, there was a mad rush for recruits. But with the slowdown, several companies realized that recruits are not as versatile as they were expected to be. Hence, understanding their behavioral mechanism before recruitment helps," says Madan Padaki, CEO at MeritTrac, an employee assessment firm.
Auto major Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) has started using psychological instruments and behavioral interviews in its recruitment process. The company is also using them during senior employees' appraisal.
"A person with the right attitude can connect more with an organization's culture and people," says M&M executive VP (human capital - automotive & farm division) Augustin Prince. Advertising and communication major Rediffusion Y&R has been going a step further, using interviews to delve into into the person's past behavior.
Using specialized techniques is not restricted to senior-level recruitments. "We plan to use it even in campus recruitment since we have already experienced significant benefits of using such techniques,"says FMCG major Dabur's HR head A Sudhakar.
Most companies, however, are not taking the next logical step, which is to work on existing employees coping skills or adaptability.
In psychological terms, what the company was doing was measure Bose's emotional intelligence, or his responses to various situations.Post-slowdown, many corporate have begun to use psychometric and personality tests, case study sessions, simulation exercises and behavioural-intensive interviews to evaluate potential recruits at middle-and senior-management levels.
"Companies are now looking at hiring talent with a long-term view, necessitating their looking at more than functional competence," says Ernst & Young head (human capital advisory) NS Rajan.
The 'qualitative data' these tests throw up, he explains, give a fair idea of how an employee handles himself, his confidence and interest levels, his ability to work with teams and his functioning during a crisis. Nearly 40 of its Indian clients, including state-owned companies, use a behavioral evaluation process.
To measure emotional intelligence, companies use specialized tests and modules developed by external agencies. MeritTrac, for instance, has an 'interest inventory' model that its clients in sectors like retail, banking, financial services and insurance have started to use.
The model is based on the principle that if an employee inherently likes something, he will probably enjoy his work and deliver his best.
"Before the economy took a beating, there was a mad rush for recruits. But with the slowdown, several companies realized that recruits are not as versatile as they were expected to be. Hence, understanding their behavioral mechanism before recruitment helps," says Madan Padaki, CEO at MeritTrac, an employee assessment firm.
Auto major Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) has started using psychological instruments and behavioral interviews in its recruitment process. The company is also using them during senior employees' appraisal.
"A person with the right attitude can connect more with an organization's culture and people," says M&M executive VP (human capital - automotive & farm division) Augustin Prince. Advertising and communication major Rediffusion Y&R has been going a step further, using interviews to delve into into the person's past behavior.
Using specialized techniques is not restricted to senior-level recruitments. "We plan to use it even in campus recruitment since we have already experienced significant benefits of using such techniques,"says FMCG major Dabur's HR head A Sudhakar.
Most companies, however, are not taking the next logical step, which is to work on existing employees coping skills or adaptability.
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Balasore: India successfully test-fired an indigenously developed, nuclear-capable, short range ballistic missile, the Prithvi-II, from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, off the Orissa coast on Friday. The missile blasted off from a mobile launcher at launch complex-3 in the ITR at around 6:50am, defence sources said.
"The trial of Prithvi-II, conducted by the Army, has gone through nicely," ITR director SP Dash said.
With a maximum striking range of 350 km, Prithvi-II is capable of carrying a pay-load of 500 kg.
The test was a user trial by the Army's specialised group "strategic force command" (SFC), sources said. The surface-to-surface missile has already been inducted into Indian armed forces and is part of the inventory of all three services. The Indian Navy fields a version that goes under the designation Dhanush.The entire trajectory of the missile was tracked by a battery of sophisticated radars and electro-optic sensors positioned in different locations with data fed to telemetry stations for post-launch analysis, sources said.
The trial was conducted in the presence of Army officials and scientists as part of an exercise to well acquaint the personnel with various aspects of the sophisticated missile, it was informed.
"The trial of Prithvi-II, conducted by the Army, has gone through nicely," ITR director SP Dash said.
With a maximum striking range of 350 km, Prithvi-II is capable of carrying a pay-load of 500 kg.
The test was a user trial by the Army's specialised group "strategic force command" (SFC), sources said. The surface-to-surface missile has already been inducted into Indian armed forces and is part of the inventory of all three services. The Indian Navy fields a version that goes under the designation Dhanush.The entire trajectory of the missile was tracked by a battery of sophisticated radars and electro-optic sensors positioned in different locations with data fed to telemetry stations for post-launch analysis, sources said.
The trial was conducted in the presence of Army officials and scientists as part of an exercise to well acquaint the personnel with various aspects of the sophisticated missile, it was informed.
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NASA scientists said they might have identified the first specks of interstellar dust in materials collected by the agency's Stardust spacecraft.
The interstellar dust is comprised of tiny particles that take part in making stars and planets. The Stardust spacecraft's primary job was to catch dust streaming from Comet Wild 2 and return it to Earth for analysis. However, scientists also hoped to collect particles of interstellar dust.
The material was collected in a 2.9 billion mile journey during the Stardust probe's seven-year mission. The spacecraft used a retractable device containing cells filled with a material called aerogel, a porous substance that is designed to trap dust molecules. The capsule that contained the samples landed back on Earth in January 2006.
Team members now say that there might be two contemporary interstellar dust grains in the Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector (SIDC) deployed during the mission.
Dr. Andrew Westphal of the University of California announced the discovery at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in The Woodlands, Texas.
"There are two particles, but they are in the same track. So when they hit the aerogel, they were together - they are two components of the same particle," Westphal told BBC News. "But they are very different from each other. That in itself is interesting, because if this does turn out to be interstellar dust, then it is a bit more heterogeneous than people thought."
Bruce Hudson found the first speck. After discovering he named the particle "Orion."A group of scientists later discovered another grain, which Hudson donned "Sirius."
However, Westphal said that the find "could be a false alarm."
"The right way to say it is we're cautiously excited," he said. "We have very limited data on it so far and the reason is deliberate. The analyses we are doing have the potential to do some minor damage to the particles. We don't think it will and we'll be careful to limit our analyses."
"So far this particle is unique... if we drop it on the floor, it will cost $300m to get another one."
Scientists said they have found 28 definite impact "tracks" in the interstellar dust collector. However, most of these are from angles that show little particles of debris from impacts with Stardust's solar panels.
Interstellar dust is formed by gas ejecting from stars and then condensing to form grains. The grains were gathered as Stardust traveled throughout the interstellar dust stream, which passes through our Solar System.
Dr. Don Brownlee, the spacecraft's chief scientists, told BBC News, "All the heavy atoms in this room were in interstellar dust...so we want to know what this stuff is." He added: "This dust, once it's formed, and once it's heated or changed [initially] it is set for billions of years.
Westphal told BBC News: "It is very fine-grained material, which is what you'd expect for interstellar dust. It has an elemental composition which is consistent with what you would expect for interstellar dust. And it has a composition for other elements which are not inconsistent, but a bit surprising."
So far, the researchers have analyzed magnesium, aluminum, iron, chromium, manganese, nickel, copper and gallium from the particles.
Interstellar dust can be a nuisance in optical astronomy because it can obscure objects in regions of the sky targeted for observation.
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- వివాదాలకు మిలియన్ 'డాలర్ శేష' ప్రశ్నలు
- గాయపడుతున్న భక్తుల మనోభావాలు
టిటిడి బోర్డు ఛైర్మన్గా వుంటూ అనేక నూతన పథకాలకు నాందీ వాచకం పలికిన భూమన కరుణాకర రెడ్డికి మాజీ ఓఎస్డి, వివాదాలు ఆది భూతుడు అయిన డాలర్ శేషాద్రికి, ఇప్పటి టిటిడి ఓఎస్డి ధర్మారెడ్డి ఇరువరూ అత్యంత సన్నిహితులు. వీరివురూ పదవిలో వున్నన్ని రోజులు మాట మాత్రమైన ప్రధాన అర్చకుడైన రమణ దీక్షితులును కానీ మరి కొంతందిని శ్రీవారి వారి సేవకులకు, ఇతర కార్యక్రమాలకు దూరంగా వుంచి డాలర్ శేషాద్రి చక్రం తిప్పాడు. అటువంటి వ్యక్తిని గడువు ముగిసిన కారణంతో టిటిడి నుండి బయటకు సాగనంపడంతో ప్రధాన అర్చకునికి కొంత వూపిరి వచ్చినట్లు అయింది. అంతే గాకుండా ఛైర్మన్ కూడా మారడం ఒకరకంగా కలిసి వచ్చింది.
అయితే వచ్చిన చిక్కల్లా ధర్మారెడ్డికి డాలర్ శేషాద్రికి ఉన్న సాన్నిహిత్యం రమణ మూర్తికి ఏమాత్రం నచ్చడం లేదని, తద్వారా శేషాద్రే తమపై వుసిగొలిపి ఓఎస్డి ద్వారా తమకు ఆంక్షలు విధించే ప్రయత్నానికి పూనుకున్నట్లు ప్రధాన అర్చకుని వాదనగా వినిపిస్తున్నది. ఈ నేపథ్యంలో కమిటీ ఛైర్మన్గా భూమన నిష్క్రమించినా ఒక సాధారణ అదికారి అయిన ధర్మారెడ్డి తమపై పెత్తనం చెలాయించటం ఏమిటని వీరు ప్రశ్నించుకుంటున్నారు. వందల సంవత్సరాలుగా వంశపారంపర్య సేవల హక్కు కలిగిన మాపైనే ఒక అధికారి ధిక్కార ధోరణిని వీరు ఏమాత్రం జీర్ణించుకోలేక శ్రీవారి ప్రధాన అర్చకులైన రమణ దీక్షితులు.
కొసమెరుపు ఃొ భిన్న మనస్తత్వాలు, సాధారణ కోపావేశాలు కలిగిన వ్యక్తులను కొండనుండి సాగనంపి కోట్లాది మంది భక్తుల స్వఛ్ఛమైన కొంగుబంగారమైన శ్రీనివాసునికి మచ్చ లేకుండా చూడాలని సాధారణ భక్త కోటి వేడుకుంటున్నది.
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కదిరి (కె.ఎన్.ఎన్): నాకాబందిలో భాగంగా అనంతపురం జిల్లా కదిరి పోలీసులు స్వాధీనం చేసుకున్న రూ.7కోట్లపై సందేహాలు తొలగినట్లే. రెండు వాహనాలలో తరలిస్తున్న రూ.7కోట్లతోపాటు, వాహనాలను, తిరుపతికి చెందిన పేరం రామకృష్ణనాయుడు,సోంపల్లి వెంకటరమణ,డ్రైవర్లు బొల్లిపల్లి వెంకటేశ్వర్లు,జి.రామయ్యలను కదిరి పోలీసులు అదుపులోకి తీసుకొన్నారు. నగదును తరలిస్తున్న రెండు వాహనాలలో ఒక స్కార్పియో వాహనం తిరుపతికి చెందిన తెలుగుదేశం నాయకుడు పేరం హరిబాబుదిగా గుర్తించినట్లు పోలీసులు చెప్తుండగా స్థానిక డిఎస్పీ సుబ్బరాయుడు,టౌన్ సి.ఐ ఆంజనేయులు,నల్లమాడ సి.ఐ అశోక్కుమార్లు అదుపులోకి తీసుకొన్న వ్యక్తులను ప్రశ్నించడంతో నగదును కర్నాటక రాష్ట్రం హొస్పేట నుంచితిరుపతి తీసుకువెళ్తున్నట్లు తెలిపారు. బుధవారం అర్థరాత్రి పోలీసులు స్థానిక తహశీల్దార్ మోహన్ సమక్షంలో నగదు, వాహనాలను, నగదు తరలిస్తున్న వ్యక్తులను కోర్టులో హాజరుపరిచారు. పోలీసులు స్వాధీనం చేసుకొన్న వాహనాలలో 5వాకిటాకీలతోపాటు,5నంబర్ ప్లేట్లను పోలీసులు గుర్తించారు. గురువారం ఉదయం పోలీసులు వీరిని కోర్టులో హాజరుపరచగా నగదు పట్టుబడిన విషయంలో కేసునమోదు చేయడానికి పోలీసులు చెబుతున్న కారణాలు, చూపుతున్న ఆధారాలు పొంతనలేనివిగా వున్నాయంటూ న్యాయమూర్తి కేశవ్ తిరస్కరించారు. మరోవైపు వాహనాలలో తరలిస్తున్న నగదు పేరం హరిబాబుదిగా వ్యాఖ్యానాలు వినిపించగా ఆయన స్థానిక పోలీసు స్టేషన్కు చేరుకున్నారు. పోలీసుల అభియోగాలతో రిమాండ్కు పంపలేమని న్యాయమూర్తి తేల్చిచెప్పారు. గురువారం ఉదయమే టిడిపి నాయకుడు హరిబాబు నగదు తనది కాదని తన స్నేహితులు ప్రకాష్,బస్వరాజులు హొస్పేట నుంచి తిరుపతికి టిప్పర్ల కొనుగోలుకు ఇతర యంత్రాల కొనుగోలు నిమిత్తం తరలిస్తున్నట్లు ప్రకటించగా ఆయన స్నేహితులు హొస్పేట బ్యాంకు నుంచిడ్రాచేసిన వివరాలను కోర్టుకు సమర్పించడంతో రిమాండ్కు పంపాల్సిన అవసరంలేదని న్యాయమూర్తి తేల్చిచెప్పారు. ఈ విషయయమై తెలుగుదేశం నాయకుడు హరిబాబు కోర్టు ఆవరణలో విలేఖరులతో మాట్లాడుతూ నగదు తరలింపుపై కొందరు రాజకీయంగా బురదచల్లే ప్రయత్నం చేస్తున్నారని ఆరోపించారు. తన స్నేహితులు తన కారును వాడుకున్నారు తప్ప, నగదుకు తనకు సంబంధం లేదన్నారు. ఒక టివి చానల్ పనిగట్టుకొని ప్రచారం చేసినట్లు ఆరోపించారు. వాహనాలలో పట్టుబడిన నంబర్ ప్లేట్లు గతంలో చంద్రబాబుకు పెట్టిన కాన్వాయ్లోని నంబర్లుగా ఆయన పేర్కొంటూ వి.ఐ.పిల భద్రత విషయంలో నంబర్ ప్లేట్లను మార్చడం సాధారణ విషయంగానే ఆయన పేర్కొన్నారు.
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Review: Mani Ratnam’s “Villain”
VILLAIN is masterpiece as a adaptation of an epic, its disaster. Go for vikram,visuals
review: 5/10
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