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It Happens : Jaipur set to welcome authors, publishers for literature festival

Jaipur, Jan 23 (ANI): India’s pink city Jaipur will welcome authors, writers, speakers at Asia’s largest literary festival which begins on Wednesday. Regional language novelists and writers will rub shoulders with Man Booker prize winners and Nobel laureates at the 8th edition of Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), which will be held in Diggi Palace in Jaipur. The writers will converge in the city for five days of readings, debates and discussions. JLF, which began in 2006, is now regarded as a cultural catalyst within India and around the world, exposing audiences to a constant flow of ideas. Featuring live music sessions and interactive workshops, the festival provides a space to dare, dream and imagine. Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Vasundhara Raje, is scheduled to inaugurate the festival, where over 200,000 visitors are expected. Venue host of the festival, Ram Pratap Singh, informed that the festival would look at gender equity in India. He added that adequate security arrangements were being made and the government had also provided a special security cover for the festival apart from their inbuilt arrangements. The event is seen as an agenda-setter on key issues from the global economic crisis to the rise of e-books, the current state of politics in the Middle East to the inc Jan 23, 2015

Madrid presents newly signed teen wizard Odegaard

Norwegian teenage prodigy Martin Odegaard described his move to European champions Real Madrid as a "dream come true" as he was officially presented in the Spanish capital. Duration: 00:44 Jan 23, 2015
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Lindsay Lohan becomes car insurance salesperson

New Delhi, Jan 19 (ANI): Lindsay Lohan car crashing experience is coming in handy as the starlet would now be a TV pitchwoman for car insurance. She has landed a new gig and is shooting a commercial in Long Beach for Esurance, a subsidiary of Allstate, which provides online or telephonic rate quotes, a web portal reported. She has plenty of knowledge about insurance, as she was arrested for DUI, and again after a wild ride on PCH where she allegedly took several dudes hostage back in 2007, and had hit a baby stroller in West Hollywood in 2010. She had also hit a car outside a club in 2012, and later that year had slammed into an 18 wheeler on PCH, holding brakes responsible. As if this didn't do it the year, she had also struck a man outside the Dream hotel in NYC the very same year. Jan 19, 2015