CRY – Child Rights and You, India’s leading child rights organisation along with its partners CRY America and CRY UK (in the US and UK respectively) launches a series of web-based games targeted worldwide at the rapidly growing global online community in a novel way to garner interest and motivate people to act for Child Rights.

Using a fun element, the site www.playforcry.org, tackles the serious and urgent issue of violation of child rights through a series of three extremely popular games — Crossword, Sudoku and Hangman. At various points in the game, different messages about child rights and a variety of children’s issues will be featured. These messages involve the audience and induce them to forward it to friends.

Each game will run for two weeks, making the entire period a total of six weeks in all. The main page will have three geographical options to choose from — the US, UK and India/ Rest of the World.

Apart from facts that inform and motivate, the www.playforcry.org site offers an opportunity to do something for a better today and tomorrow for our children. It is a novel mode to garner support that will enable CRY to continue to work so that children can have a childhood they are entitled to. Playing each game gives points – for donations and invitations to friends. source - Indian express

Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto, who’s riding high on the Oscar success of the film, has been roped in to star in Woody Allen’s new flick.

In an interview to U.S. morning news programme ‘Today’, the 24-year-old star credited director Danny Boyle for landing a role in three-time Oscar winner Allen’s new venture.

“Yes, it’s up (begins) in July (09). So thank you, Danny Boyle, for helping me take off,” the ‘Daily Express’ quoted her as saying.

Slumdog Millionaire swept the Oscar by winning 8 awards including the Best Film.

Composer AR Rahman walked away with two awards for Best Original Score, while shared the Best Original Song gong with renowned lyricist Gulzar.

The US President, Barack Obama, wants to watch ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, the White House has said.

‘Slumdog Millionaire’, the exhilarating rags-to-riches fairy tale set in Mumbai, swept the Oscars with eight awards including the best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay; with A R Rahman becoming the only Indian to bag two Oscars for the best score and original song.

“I don’t know if he has seen ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. I know he wants to,” White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs, told reporters during the course of his daily press briefing.