MUMBAI: The passing of Shyam Benegal, the torchbearer of New Wave cinema, evoked a lament of loss across the film fraternity Monday night. It was Shyam Babu who discovered and mentored an entire generation of the finest natural actors including Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil and Om Puri, having fathered the parallel cinema movement…
NEW DELHI: In a first action of its kind, the pharma department has pulled up multinational AbbVie Healthcare for violating the Uniform Code for Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices by taking 30 doctors to Paris and Monaco to improve their “knowledge” on popular anti-aging products Botox and Juvederm, and asked tax authorities to assess the liability of…
CHINSURAH (HOOGHLY): Rescued after he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists, Pramathes Ghosal, a 42-year-old private tutor from Dhaniakhali in Chinsurah subdivision of Bengal’s Hooghly district, was on Monday sentenced to death for brutally killing his elderly father, mother and married sister on Nov 8, 2021.Chinsurah trial judge Sanjay Kumar Sharma termed the…
KOCHI: At St Francis Church in Fort Kochi, history seems to have been dead, buried and forgotten. There is just a nondescript blue board at the church that reads, “Remembering Vasco da Gama, Portuguese navigator; he arrived in Cochin …where he died and was first buried”.On Tuesday, it will be 500 years since the man…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Monday said his govt had provided permanent govt jobs to nearly 10 lakh youth in the last one-and-a-half years alone, highlighting the Centre’s priority to maximise the potential of India’s youth.Speaking at a ‘Rozgar Mela‘ where he distributed over 71,000 appointment letters to new govt employees via videoconferencing, the…
PILIBHIT/GURDASPUR: Photographs of Gurvinder Singh, Jasanpreet Singh, and Varinder Singh – alleged operatives of the Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF) gunned down in UP on Monday – released by Punjab police, along with the images of their bodies after the encounter in Pilibhit, have raised questions about the sequence of events. The three men were killed…
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has taken possession of a flat in Thane that was registered in the name of a close associate of Iqbal Kaskar. This action is part of their ongoing money laundering investigation against him and his brother, Dawood Ibrahim.The ED alleged that Kaskar and his associates compelled a Thane builder to…
NEW DELHI: Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF), to which the three pro-Khalistan terrorists killed in UP are being linked, is a radical Sikh outfit founded in 1993 by Ranjeet Singh @ Neeta, hailing from Simbal camp in Jammu, but currently ensconced in Pakistan. The outfit’s aim is to establish a sovereign Khalistan state. It mostly drew…
Image credit: Bhabha Atomic Research Centre MUMBAI: A little-known incident in the history of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme is a purported attempt made by the country in the early ’70s to copy the design of India’s Cirus reactor — a 40 MW thermal neutron research facility, which first achieved criticality at the Bhabha Atomic Research…
NEW DELHI: Telangana police has summoned actor Allu Arjun for questioning on Tuesday in the stampede case that claimed the life of a woman and critically injured her 13-year-old son after a massive crowd gathered at Sandhya Theatre in Hyderabad during the premiere of his movie, Pushpa 2.Following the incident, the actor was earlier taken…
