Still from ‘Red Rose’, a remake of ‘Sigappu Rojakkal’ For most filmmakers, success in Tamil cinema is enough. For Bharathiraja, Bollywood represented a new frontier.In 1979, just two years after ‘16 Vayathinile’, Bharathiraja crossed the Vindhyas. ‘Solva Sawan’ (meaning ‘Sixteenth Spring’) was his Hindi romantic drama starring Amol Palekar and Sridevi. It marked 15-year-old Sridevi’s…
Hyderabad: Telangana’s pre-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) voter-mapping exercise has thrown up a major challenge. The chief electoral officer (CEO) has flagged more than 88 lakh (88,13,207) electors with anomalies across the state. The highest rate has been recorded in Quthbullapur assembly constituency, where 78.% of mapped electors have been marked for verification, far above the…
This is a graphic made with AI Gurgaon: A 12-year-old boy sustained a serious head injury after being hit by an SUV near Sector 14.Prayansh Narang was returning home after playing at a tennis academy when the accident occurred around 7pm on Monday. According to the complaint filed by his maternal uncle, Deepak Chawala, the…
Malda: Another holding centre for illegal Bangladeshi immigrants opened in Malda on Wednesday, the third in the district, reports Subhro Maitra.The new centre has come up in Bamangola. The first holding centre in Malda opened at English Bazar while the second at Old Malda. Malda SP Anupam Singh said with the new centre, the three…
Activists have flagged rampant groundwater extraction at construction sites in sectors 145 and 153 Noida: National Green Tribunal has directed the state groundwater department to investigate complaints of illegal groundwater extraction by real estate companies in Noida and Greater Noida, and take remedial and punitive action where violations are found. The order came on a…
Panaji: Mopa police has filed a first information report against an unidentified person for cheating a man from Pernem of his gold ornaments by posing as a Naga sadhu.Complainant Suryakant Mukund Vir, 59, from Torxem, Pernem, said that on June 8 at around 9am, an unidentified person drove towards him and posed as a Naga…
Varanasi: In a clash with his younger brother, Jagdish Vishwakarma (70), resident of Karsada village under Mehnajpur police station in Azamgarh district killed his younger brother Omprakash (65) by hitting his head with a stick.After inspecting the incident site, Azamgarh (Lalganj) CO Bhupesh Pandey on Wednesday said Jagdish was arrested near Gangwal Panchayat building on…
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has refused to grant bail to a 32-year-old Gujarati filmmaker accused of sexually exploiting a minor aspiring actor in an alleged casting couch case. The complainant alleged that she was lured with the promise of a film role and abused over a period of two years.The case stems from an…
Ludhiana: Police suspect an insider ring helped a former digital marketing executive embezzle 632 bicycles worth ₹29 lakh from a manufacturing giant.The Sahnewal police filed a first-information report (FIR) against Rajan Pandey of Giaspura after an internal corporate audit revealed that hundreds of bicycles marked as online customer returns had never arrived back at the…
The nearly 150 MW spike within nine days highlights the direct impact of rising temperatures on electricity consumption. Chandigarh: The city’s power demand surged to a season-high 421 MW on Wednesday as soaring temperatures drove heavy use of air-conditioners, coolers and other appliances.The latest peak exceeds the previous summer high of around 415 MW recorded…
