Karan Johar gives a big thumbs up to ‘Mirzapur: The Movie’: ‘Kadak, masaledar ride’ Filmmaker Karan Johar has become the latest big name to cheer for ‘Mirzapur: The Movie’, adding his voice to the wave of celebrity appreciation as the popular franchise makes its long-awaited jump from streaming to theatres. Here’s what the director posted…
New Delhi: Two hydrogen-powered shuttle buses recently became operational in Central Vista area, making it the first such service for the city. Each hydrogen bus is equipped with four cylinders mounted on the roof, taking the total capacity to about 30 kg.On a single refill, a hydrogen bus can travel nearly 250 km. Currently, the…
For nearly five decades, Cinderella has continued to captivate audiences across generations, earning its place as the longest-running musical dance drama in Kannada theatre. Originally premiered in 1978, the production has been staged more than 1,000 times, blending fantasy, music, dance and theatrical spectacle. According to director Harish Prabhath, one reason the show has endured…
Kolkata: A day after a review meeting on vector borne diseases, the state health department is all set to deploy Asha workers to intensify dengue surveillance. These community workers have been told to identify fever cases in every household and encourage them to go for testing.They have been also asked to facilitate ELISA testing in…
For more than a millennium, a stone pyramid stood watch over the ancient settlement of Ihuatzio in western Mexico. Built by the Purépecha civilisation, one of the few Mesoamerican powers that successfully resisted Aztec expansion, the monument survived centuries of conflict, weather and human change. Yet in a matter of hours, part of this remarkable…
A pile of discarded cashew shells would normally have little to do with international shipping. In Maharashtra agricultural leftovers are being fed into reactors that can turn them into usable fuel, gases and biochar. The technology comes from an unusual India-Denmark partnership built around the Viking biomass gasifier developed at the Technical University of Denmark….
Lucknow: Gomti Nagar Extension police have registered an FIR against a couple after their daughter alleged that her stepfather sexually abused her for years and her mother forced her to undergo an abortion without her consent.In her complaint, the woman alleged her stepfather began sexually abusing her while she was a minor and continued for…
Noida: A suspected short circuit in an air-conditioner triggered yet another highrise fire in NCR on Monday morning, gutting a 21st-floor flat in the city and forcing residents to flee through smoke-filled corridors.The fire at Aranya society in Sector 119 came weeks after the devastating Hauz Rani blaze in Delhi that killed 23 people, and…
NEW DELHI: Pointing out that a salaried person has a fixed income while the earnings of a self-employed individual keep fluctuating, Supreme Court Wednesday said different methods should be adopted to calculate grant of compensation in road accident cases.A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and N K Singh ruled that the income of a salaried…
Kolkata: A man, accused of sexually assaulting and murdering his live-in partner’s 3-year-old daughter near Maidan on March 21, has been arrested from Babughat on Friday morning. He had initially fled to Ayodhya to evade arrest.Police said the child’s mother was in a relationship with the man from Rabindranagar. Investigators alleged that both were addicted…
