Cast: Irrfan Khan, Rahul Bose, Soha Ali Khan

Director: Anil Senior

Rating: **

The latest entry to the cinema halls, Dil Kabaddi, directed by Anil Senior, did not fetch as well as expected. It is inspired by, or rather copied from Woody Allen’s classic, Husbands and Wives, which had won the hearts of millions by its humorous theme.

The counting of votes of five states, which went to poll in Nov and Dec would be taken up on Monday.

Elations were held in Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan, Chhatisgarh and Mizoram. 

The elections were held in the midst of economic meltdown and the Mumbai terror strikes, making the campaign a lackluster affair. 

The Rajasthan poll outcome would be a test for Chief Minister Vasudhanra Raje government's performance in the state. 

Besides Raje, AICC general secretary Ashok Gehlot and PCC president C P Joshi are among the prominent leaders who entered the fray. Elections to the 200-member assembly saw a 68 per cent turnout. 

The four jawans of Orissa State Armed Police (OSAP) who were abducted by a group of armed Maoists in Malkangiri on Friday were released on Saturday afternoon. 

The four returned to their camp at Janbai safely at around noon, Malkangiri district Superintendent of Police Satyabrata Bhoi said. 

The jawans were returning from Chitrakonda market to their camp at Janbai under Papermetla police station area, about 80 km from district head quarter, on Friday evening when the Maoists abducted them, Bhoi, said. 

Following the incident, combing operation and patrolling by security forces have been intensified in the entire area, which border Andhra Pradesh, to track down the ultras, police said. 

London, Dec 7 : After watching English politician Tony Blair win the IOC votes for the London Olympics, Chicago is now hopeful that President-elect Barack Obama will be able to swing the 2016 Games their way.

Chicago, which is Obama’s adopted city, has won his favour, and he has committed to a visit to Copenhagen in October next year, when the IOC will vote.

“I can think of no better place to hold the 2016 Games than in this most American of America’s cities,” Times Online quoted Obama as saying.

Bangkok, Dec. 7 : Thailand''s main opposition Democratic Party has said that it can form a government with members of the ruling coalition that collapsed this week.

The move could end up freezing out allies of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, reports The Telegraph.

The surprise development came just days after a court stripped Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat of his position and disbanded the pro-Thaksin People Power Party in connection with a vote fraud case.

"We have agreed to form a government to revive the country''s economy and confidence," Sungthep Tuagsuban, secretary general of the main opposition Democrat Party, told reporters after meetings with the PPP''s former allies.

Mercedes-Benz cars, owned by the German automaker, Daimler, has shown a drop of 25% in sales in November. Sales in the units, which include the Mercedes-Benz, AMG, Smart and Maybach brands, fell from 113,000 cars worldwide in November 2007, to 84,500 vehicles.