Malick returns on a Thin Red Line
On Christmas Day in America, 20th Century-Fox opened the most eagerly anticipated film of 1998, The Thin Red Line. Its director Terrence Malick, the celebrated director of Badlands and Days of Heaven, has made a comeback after a gap of 20-years.

Once a curing centre for asthma, now it's the "cause"
This piece of information could well be featured in "Ripley's Believe It or Not". Bellary was preferred by the British for its "healthy warm climate"; in fact, the latter found the climate so pleasant that a sanatorium to treat the personnel of Armed Forces and Police for asthma and tuberculosis, was built here.

A bastion for endangered crocodiles
Orissa is known for crocodile breeding where the endangered species are multiplied in the sanctuary. Not long ago, sceptics tended to believe that the days of the saltwater crocodiles were numbered.