Naseeruddin Shah criticised Bollywood’s silence on the Cockroach Janta Party protests, comparing silent actors to “a dog with a bone” that can’t bark. He shared a video supporting protesting students, saying “sab yaad rakha jayega.” While many actors stayed quiet, Shabana Azmi and Ritesh Deshmukh voiced their support for the protests. Naseeruddin Shah has raised…
The event was scheduled for August 10 from 3 pm to 6 pm at the School of Social Sciences-I auditorium. NEW DELHI: The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has cancelled a student-organised discussion on a book authored by former student Umar Khalid, scheduled on campus on Monday, citing “non-disclosure of the full facts” about the programme.The…
Proverb of the day: ‘No one becomes a bishop unbeaten’ Proverb of the day: There is no easy way to success, and it only comes through heat and sweat. We are familiar with this saying, which does not need much explanation, as similar proverbs exist in all countries, languages, and cultures. But the Icelandic one…
Kolkata: “There was no need to fire bullets to control the crowd located far away from Writers’ Buildings,” CM Suvendu Adhikari read out from the Sushanta Chatterjee Commission’s report on the police firing on a Mamata Banerjee-led Youth Congress rally on July 21, 1993, that led to the death of 12 activists (a 13th person…
Potholes surface on the newly constructed service road of NH-48 Pune: Residents of Punawale, Tathawade and nearby areas have raised concerns about the quality of a newly constructed service road along Mumbai-Bengaluru Highway (NH-48), alleging that potholes have appeared within a month of the stretch being opened to traffic.The service road, which was being widened…
When planning to shift to the Moon, where would humans live? Prior to the move, one would have to carry all the cement, water and building materials from Earth and build homes first. The entire idea seems practically impossible and this is why a recent study has provided an interesting alternative to all this hard…
KOLKATA: Malda has become the first district in Bengal to adopt Village Action Plans (VAPs) for villages along the India-Bangladesh border, with the district administration launching an inclusive development initiative aimed at ensuring that every eligible household receives the benefits of government welfare schemes at its doorstep.The initiative, “Amar Gram Amar Kalpana”, has been conceived…
India’s foreign exchange reserves rose by $963 million to $672.587 billion in the week ended June 19, reversing the previous week’s sharp decline, as a surge in gold reserves more than offset a fall in foreign currency assets, according to RBI data released on Friday, PTI reported.The country’s forex reserves had declined by $9.985 billion…
Representational AI photo For millions of children, lunchtime is one of the most anticipated parts of the school day. But what ends up on their plate or inside their lunchbox depends almost entirely on where they live. While some students carry homemade tiffins packed by their parents every morning, others queue up in school cafeterias…
Versova is rapidly transforming from a quiet village into a luxury skyscraper enclave. MUMBAI: Once a quiet fishing village of shorefront bungalows, Versova, with its low-rise, middle-class housing societies that rose in the 1980s and 1990s, is now becoming a skyscraper enclave for the ultra-rich.Along a 2km stretch from JP Road, running from Seven Bungalows…
