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1 week, 1 day ago

Meenakshi Choudhury Joins Growing Trend of Women Cop Roles

After playing lover girl roles, young actress Meenakshi Choudhury essays the role of a cop in her upcoming film ‘Sankranthiki Vasthunam" and she invariably joins Kajal Agarwal, Tammanah and Keerthy Suresh who showcased their fiery side in films ‘Satyabhama’, ‘Akhri Sach’ and ‘Siren’ respectively. “Cop roles indeed beckon me,” she says and adds, “I chewed a paan and delivered cuss …

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2 weeks ago

[PMLA] Liberty Is Intrinsic To Rule Of Law, Court Cannot Be Restrained From Granting Bail On Account Of Restrictive Statute: Calcutta HC

Live Law

The Calcutta High Court has granted bail to a man being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate under the PMLA for allegedly running a fake call centre and promising services to victims in exchange for money, which were never delivered. Seeking release of the petitioner on bail, learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that by virtue of a leave and licence …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

Indian sports wrap, November 29:

The Hindu

GOLF Pranavi Urs fired a bogey-free round of six-under 66 to be T-2 after the opening round of the Andalucía Costa del Sol Open de Espana in Malaga. -Kamesh Srinivasan PSPB inter-unit tournament: Bopanna-Sharan duo beats Vishnu and Yuki Asian Games gold medallists Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan had to be at their competitive best to beat Vishnu Vardhan and …

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1 month ago

Assam Bypoll Results Live: Counting for five Assembly seats today, Himanta's leadership to be tested

India TV News

The counting of votes for the bypolls to five Assembly seats in Assam is scheduled to begin on November 23 at 8 am. Notable transitions included BJP leaders Parimal Suklabaidya and Ranjit Dutta, who secured the Cachar and Tezpur Lok Sabha seats; AGP's Phani Bhushan Choudhury winning in Barpeta; and UPPL’s Joyanta Basumatary claiming the Kokrajhar seat. Dholai - In …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Book Box | Booker Prize-winning and other longlisted tales of the sea and sky

Hindustan Times

Autumn is turning into winter. Orbital by Samantha Harvey Reading the Booker Prize shortlisted quietly contemplative Stone Yard Devotional, I am comforted to find author Charlotte Wood objecting to these supermarket sachets. In Orbital, I am in outer space with four astronauts and two cosmonauts watching “the continents and oceans fall away beneath — the lavender Arctic, the eastern tip …

Russia Booker Prize Book Sea Playground Orbital Sonya Dutta Choudhury

1 month, 1 week ago

Assam by-polls outcome a test for three political bigwigs

Hindustan Times

The results of the by-elections to five assembly seats in Assam, held on Wednesday, will be a test for three political leaders active in the northeastern state. The Congress’ Gaurav Gogoi and Rakibul Hussain and Asom Gana Parishad’s Phani Bhushan Choudhury were not among the 34 candidates who fought in the polls but when the counting’s over on November 23, …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Wife Not Reporting About Missing Of Husband & Staying With Paramour Not Criminal Conspiracy U/S 120-B IPC: Orissa High Court

Live Law

The Orissa High Court on Thursday held that a wife not reporting the police about missing status of husband, not trying to trace him out and living passively with another man will not amount to criminal conspiracy. While acquitting the appellant-wife of the charge of criminal conspiracy, the Division Bench of Justice Sangam Kumar Sahoo and Justice Chittaranjan Dash observed …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Book Box | Fast-paced feel-good books

Hindustan Times

These last few days, on trips from the market, my backpack has been bursting — butter and baking powder for apple crumble, bread, eggs, lettuce and tomatoes for sandwiches. Starter Villain Book 1 of 4: Starter Villain by John Scalzi: PG Wodehouse meets Douglas Adams in this snarky sci-fi story set in a start-up world where villains rule the world. …

Book True Sonya Dutta Choudhury

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Dynastic politics in focus with kin of MPs in fray in Assam bypolls

Deccan Chronicle

Guwahati: The issue of 'dynastic politics' has taken the centre-stage in Assam by-elections with both the ruling alliance and the main opposition party fielding candidates from political families, and the parties engaging in a sparring match targeting each other over it. If it is Barpeta MP Phani Bhusan Choudhury's wife Diptimayee contesting as ruling alliance candidate on an Asom Gana …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Bonedi bari pujas; the ones who reined in the celebration of Durga for Kolkata people

The Hindu

Kolkata Bonedi bari pujas or the Durga Pujas performed at the yesteryear aristocratic households of Kolkata are some of the oldest puja celebrations in the city. The pujas happen in the same courtyard where the deed to lease Kalikata, Sutanuti, and Gobindapur to the East India Company was signed from where the British era started in India.” The tale of …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Swallowtail butterflies in key Assam habitat face a citrus worry

The Hindu

The overexploitation of 25 species of host plants valued for their medicinal properties threatens the swallowtail butterflies in the forest habitats of a part of Assam often referred to as the “citrus belt of the world”, a new study has found. The butterflies Dr. Choudhury studied in the Region’s Manas Biosphere Reserve were found to count 25 plant species from …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Book Box | How to be alone

Hindustan Times

I wake up alone to leaden skies. There’s Of Mountains and Men, Himalayan Circuit and Stern Reckoning, a book of Partition stories, The Last Mughal and also my favourite — his quaintly titled memoir Memory’s Gay Chariot. There are the books I read as a teenager during my summer holidays, here in Manali — The Dam Busters, a World War …

Book Read Sonya Dutta Choudhury May Sarton Book Box

4 months ago

Why communities should retain their heirloom seeds and knowledge systems

The Hindu

Kunuji Kulusika crouches over a silver plate on which numerous little piles of seeds are arranged and reels off their names. “It is often justified in the name of development of the nation,” says Choudhury, pointing out that these indigenous communities were often denigrated and seen as being backward in mainstream policy and media narratives “because, how else do you …

Festival Film Odisha Landscape Seeds Cotton Choudhury

4 months ago

Book Review | The 15 women who drafted the Indian Constitution

Deccan Chronicle

All of them battled systemic misogyny. Sarojini Naidu, Hansa Mehta, Malati Choudhury, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Purnima Banerji and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit followed Gandhian non-violence. For example, did you know that Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, born Swarup Kumari Nehru, was first married to journalist Syud Hossain but was forced by Motilal Nehru to divorce him? Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit became the only Indian …

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4 months, 1 week ago

No Clarity Yet On Who Opened RG Kar Seminar Hall's Locked Door Before Kolkata Doctor's Rape-Murder: Report

News 18

A section of protesters at Kolkata’s prestigious RG Kar Medical College And Hospital, where a trainee doctor was raped and murdered last week, says there is no clarity on who had opened the locked doors of the fourth-floor seminar hall on the night of the incident, a report on the website of a prominent Bengali daily has said. The head …

Kolkata Bjp Choudhury Seminar

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Construction works on wildlife corridor in Kaziranga create hurdles for wildlife

Hindustan Times

Construction work along the Haldhibari wildlife corridor of Kaziranga National Park is putting wildlife at risk, environmentalists have flagged. Construction activities are not allowed in wildlife corridors during monsoon months between June to September according to conditions specified by the Standing Committee of the National Board for Wildlife. In a letter to union environment minister, Bhupender Yadav on June 14, …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Kaziranga infra work affecting movement of wildlife: Green activists

Hindustan Times

New Delhi: Developmental work undertaken in various designated wildlife corridors of Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve is likely disrupting movement of wildlife, environmentalists warned. These include solar floodlights at various points on NH 37 cutting through the Kaziranga-Karbi Anglong landscape in Assam; concrete and metal posts along the roadsides for the purpose of affixing cable fencing; and fender-barriers put …

Wildlife National Work Choudhury Park Kaziranga Corridors

6 months, 1 week ago

Assam: Congress alleges discrepancy in EVM votes in Karimganj; inquiry ordered

Hindustan Times

The opposition Congress in Assam has alleged that there was discrepancy in counting of votes in electronic voting machines at Karimganj Lok Sabha seat of the state, the results of which were declared on June 4 along with the seats in the rest of the country. The chief electoral officer Assam said the returning officer and DC Karimganj has been …

Assam Votes Bjp Officer Seat Choudhury Discrepancy

7 months ago

Book Box | My emotional reading journey through the Women's Prize shortlist

Hindustan Times

When I look at a literary shortlist, I want to read all the books on it. The books are set in different countries and times — River East, River West in China, Enter Ghost in Israel-Palestine, Brotherless Night in Sri Lanka, Restless Dolly Maunder in nineteenth-century Australia, The Wren, The Wren and Soldier Sailor in Ireland. I head for my …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Didi Accuses Congress of Colluding with BJP

Deccan Chronicle

Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the Congress of teaming up with BJP to ask the voters not to support her party in the Lok Sabha Election in the state. Addressing a poll campaign rally for TMC candidate Mahua Moitra, Ms Banerjee said at Tehatta in Nadia, “I salute the Election Commission member who resigned for …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Rosie O’Donnell joins ‘And Just Like That’ for Season 3, and there’s no sign of Sara Ramirez

LA Times

Rosie O’Donnell, left, has joined the cast of “And Just Like That,” and there’s been no sign of Sara Ramirez for Season 3. Max also declined to comment on Ramirez’s status on “And Just Like That,” but Parker’s post appeared to confirm a cast change that has been rumored for months. Sara Ramirez as Che Diaz in Max’s “And Just …

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10 months ago

Why call lions Akbar, Sita? Court questions choice of big cat names

Hindustan Times

Kolkata: The curious case of a lion named Akbar, a lioness called Sita, and petitioners upset at such nomenclature for reasons related to faith took an interesting turn on Thursday with Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya of the Calcutta high court’s Jalpaiguri circuit bench saying his conscience doesn’t support such naming even as the state government told him that zoo authorities were …

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10 months ago

Live action shorts: Stories of life, death and the quirkiest of in-betweens

LA Times

With the live-action short film “Knight of Fortune,” Danish filmmaker Lasse Lyskjær Noer aims to create a nuanced portrayal of grief, balancing the sterility of death with the warmth of human connection. I think what makes us laugh in ‘Knight of Fortune’ is incongruence.. You expect something, but then something else happens.” Noer was inspired to make “Knight of Fortune” …

Film Life This Film Blue Human Choudhury Short

11 months, 3 weeks ago

Missile specialist to navigation expert: The crew of INS Imphal

Hindustan Times

The spanking new and highly capable guided missile destroyer INS Imphal will enable the Indian Navy to confront challenges in distant seas, including China’s carefully calculated power play for influence in the Indo-Pacific, defending the rules-based international order, the Arabian Sea emerging as a new front with Red Sea tensions escalating and counterpiracy in the Gulf of Aden, officials aware …

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Meenakshi Choudhury Joins Growing Trend of Women Cop Roles

[PMLA] Liberty Is Intrinsic To Rule Of Law, Court Cannot Be Restrained From Granting Bail On Account Of Restrictive Statute: Calcutta HC

Indian sports wrap, November 29:

Assam Bypoll Results Live: Counting for five Assembly seats today, Himanta's leadership to be tested

Book Box | Booker Prize-winning and other longlisted tales of the sea and sky

Assam by-polls outcome a test for three political bigwigs

Wife Not Reporting About Missing Of Husband & Staying With Paramour Not Criminal Conspiracy U/S 120-B IPC: Orissa High Court

Book Box | Fast-paced feel-good books

Dynastic politics in focus with kin of MPs in fray in Assam bypolls

Bonedi bari pujas; the ones who reined in the celebration of Durga for Kolkata people

Swallowtail butterflies in key Assam habitat face a citrus worry

Book Box | How to be alone

Why communities should retain their heirloom seeds and knowledge systems

Book Review | The 15 women who drafted the Indian Constitution

No Clarity Yet On Who Opened RG Kar Seminar Hall's Locked Door Before Kolkata Doctor's Rape-Murder: Report

Construction works on wildlife corridor in Kaziranga create hurdles for wildlife

Kaziranga infra work affecting movement of wildlife: Green activists

Assam: Congress alleges discrepancy in EVM votes in Karimganj; inquiry ordered

Book Box | My emotional reading journey through the Women's Prize shortlist

Didi Accuses Congress of Colluding with BJP

Rosie O’Donnell joins ‘And Just Like That’ for Season 3, and there’s no sign of Sara Ramirez

Why call lions Akbar, Sita? Court questions choice of big cat names

Live action shorts: Stories of life, death and the quirkiest of in-betweens

Missile specialist to navigation expert: The crew of INS Imphal