Kolkata: A video clip featuring an interview of Martin Scorsese on Jean Renoir’s film ‘The River’ has gone viral among film enthusiasts in the city. In the clip, Scorsese discusses the profound impact the film set in Kolkata had on him, describing it as a “formative movie experience”. Jean Renoir’s film, shot along the banks…
Main accused Sandeep Gawli allegedly suspected that Om was in a relationship with his brother’s daughter Thane: A 19-year-old youth who was allegedly assaulted by a group of men over a suspected relationship died during treatment at Mumbai’s KEM Hospital on Wednesday night, triggering protests, vandalism and fresh arrests in Ambernath.The deceased, identified as Om…
New Delhi: The special cell of Delhi Police has busted another ISI-backed terror-espionage cell and arrested four alleged operatives of Pak-based gangster-turned-terrorist Shehzad Bhatti. One of the accused had conducted the reconnaissance of police establishments in Delhi.According to police, the accused were found using foreign mobile phone numbers to operate their WhatsApp accounts, making it…
Chennai’s ambitious Pondy Bazaar pedestrian plaza, envisioned as a people-first haven, has devolved into a chaotic, unsafe space. It was supposed to be Chennai’s Times Square. When planners proposed a pedestrian plaza along Pondy Bazaar in T Nagar, they envisioned a peoplefirst corridor through the city’s most busiest shopping district. The concept took years: designed…
CM Samrat Choudhary and his deputy Vijay Kumar Chaudhary take the pledge during the ‘Vigilance Awareness Day’ programme in Patna on Thursday Patna: The state govt will set up special vigilance courts at the headquarters of all nine divisions to ensure speedy disposal of corruption cases, CM Samrat Choudhary announced on Thursday while unveiling a…
Karnataka CM DK Shivakumar along with his wife Usha Shivakumar during a meeting with former chief minister Siddaramaiah, at the former CM’s official residence, in Bengaluru. (@DKShivakumar/X) NEW DELHI: Karnataka chief minister DK Shivakumar on Friday met his predecessor Siddaramaiah at his official residence, Cauvery, as he completed one month in office, describing the visit…
Kolkata: In a first for West Bengal, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Thursday deployed three advanced Truck Mounted Attenuators (TMAs) on the accident-prone Dhankuni-Kharagpur stretch of NH-16, introducing globally used crash-protection technology to improve the safety of highway workers and motorists.The TMAs were inaugurated on the high-speed corridor, one of eastern India’s…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Thursday directed its registry to place two reports in a sealed cover submitted by Mumbai Police and also the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) with respect to the probe and protection following threats to former judge, Justice Gautam Patel, to maintain confidentiality.“In order to ensure that steps being taken…
Stills from Belly Of The Beast Adapted from Kalki Koechlin’s book, The Elephant in the Womb, Belly of the Beast overturns conventional notions of gentle motherhood from the outset. Take the title, for instance. Drawn from the biblical story of Jonah being swallowed by a giant fish in the Book of Jonah, the phrase evokes…
DMK’s Anitha R. Radhakrishnan arrested (File Photo). CHENNAI: Former DMK minister and MLA Anitha R. Radhakrishnan was arrested by the police on Friday after the Madras High Court dismissed his anticipatory bail petition in connection with a case registered over his remarks against TVK president and Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay.According to the police, the…
