Bollywood thriller about a joke that spirals out of control. Ajay (Rishi Kapoor), is an honest & straightforward college boy who becomes friends with Nisha (Neetu Singh) & Vikram (Rakesh Roshan). In jest, the three decide to play a practical joke on a local jeweller, writing a letter demanding money & signed ' The Black Cobra'. The jeweller, thinking the demand is for real, pays the money
- & is murdered the very next day. The three students find themselves way out of their depth as they become the subject of scrutiny not only for the police, but for the real Black Cobra gang, who turn out not to be merely a figment of their imagination.
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The Khmer Empire of Cambodia flourished from the 9th to the 15th century, & was at its peak during the reigns of Suryavarman II & the Buddhist King Jayavarman VII. This is an account of that empire, which gave birth to some of the world's richest works of art & architecture. ...

Considers politics, economics & the process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. This book examines the complexity of government, including central government, individual ministries, regional leaders, separate institutions such as the military, & the lower levels of the Communist Party. ...

Based on original sources as diverse as actual sunken ships, archeological excavations on l&, temple inscriptions, h&-painted scrolls, woodblock prints, & historical & literary records from China, Japan & Vietnam, this work tells the tale of the Mongol's maritime forays. ...

Constitutes the proceedings of the 31st Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2008, held in Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 2008. This book presents papers that cover important areas such as pattern recognition, multi-agent systems, machine learning, natural language processing, constraint reasoning, & temporal reasoning. ...