K Bhagyaraj with his mentor When people speak about Bharathiraja’s legacy, the conversation often begins with the actors he introduced and the heroines he transformed into stars. But perhaps, his greatest contribution to Tamil cinema lies behind the camera.For nearly five decades, Bharathiraja’s sets functioned as an informal film institute, producing a generation of assistant…
Patna: Former CM and JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar congratulated PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday while BJP ministers, legislators and workers in Bihar organised various religious events to mark the completion of 12 years of the Modi govt at the Centre.Special prayers were offered for PM Modi at different places. Bihar BJP said the people of…
Ranchi: Over 14,000 residents of Baliapur block in Dhanbad are facing a severe health crisis. A study has revealed that over a third of the drinking water sources in Gharbar panchayat are contaminated with fluoride, some up to 10 times above the permissible limit.The School of Environmental Studies (SOES) at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, along with…
Times News NetworkChatra: Tension gripped Simaria village after a youth died in a road accident near Jabda check naka late Tuesday night, triggering a prolonged road blockade by residents. The deceased, Pradeep Bakhla, a resident of Sandhali village under Jabda panchayat, was returning home from Lohardaga on his motorcycle when a coal-laden vehicle allegedly hit…
SRINAGAR: Two soldiers attached to a unit deployed in J&K’s Uri sector, close to the LoC and about 100km north of Srinagar, were fatally wounded Tuesday afternoon in what the Army described as “an accidental blast”.Arjun Jadhav and Vikram Balakrishna, both from Maharashtra, were taken to the Army’s 92 Base Hospital in Srinagar but couldn’t…
Kolkata: A govt employee, Hafijur Rahaman (32), was allegedly assaulted and wrongfully restrained by a group of men inside an Entally office while performing official duties on Tuesday afternoon. Police have arrested the prime accused, Avijit Das (36), and launched a search for his aides.Rahaman, a resident of Bechulal Road, was on duty at an…
Mumbai: Beekeepers, researchers, nonprofits and govt officials convened in Ahmedabad on Tuesday for a Western India Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue that spotlighted the vital role of bees in advancing sustainable agriculture, strengthening food and income security and building climate resilience.Organised by the nonprofit Under The Mango Tree Society (UTMT Society), in collaboration with the Australian Consulate General,…
New Delhi: A court has convicted a man of attempting to rape a differently abled woman, relying on the testimony of her mother and a psychiatric assessment that said the survivor had a social age of “one year and two months” and suffered from “profound social intellectual impairment”.Social age is a measure of a person’s…
Bharathiraja with Revathy Chennai: “Bring anyone from the street, and I can make her a heroine,” Bharathiraja is known to have said. It may have sounded like arrogance. Not to those who knew him.When Tamil cinema was obsessed with glamour and established faces in the late 1970s, Bharathiraja scoured the land for ‘ordinary women’, whom…
Patna: The Patna high court ruled that district-level special excise courts, constituted to hear cases under Bihar’s liquor prohibition law, have the jurisdiction to decide release applications pertaining to non-alcoholic and non-contraband goods or consignments seized along with vehicles, allegedly carrying liquor bottles.The provisions of liquor prohibition laws in Bihar permit the special excise courts…
