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Kangana's Emergency is stalled, but Netflix streaming the misleading IC814 series without check: Activist raises concerns
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Kangana's Emergency is stalled, but Netflix streaming the misleading IC814 series without check: Activist raises concerns

Op India  

Actress-turned-MP Kangana Ranaut’s film ‘Emergency’ which is based on the controversial period of the Emergency in India, has been postponed as the Censor Board of Film Certification has not provided it with the required certification for the release that was scheduled on 6th September. Activists including Uday Mahurkar, founder of Save Culture Save Bharat Foundation and former Central Information Commissioner, …

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Conservative foundation demands ban on Netflix, social media platform ‘X’ for broadcasting sexually explicit content
6 months ago

Conservative foundation demands ban on Netflix, social media platform ‘X’ for broadcasting sexually explicit content

The Hindu  

The ‘Save Culture Save Bharat’ Foundation, headed by former Information Commissioner Uday Mahurkar on June 18 called for the immediate ban of both X and Netflix for broadcasting what he described as pornographic and sexually explicit content that the foundation says are “blatant unlawful acts threatening to tear apart India’s character and cultural heritage.” The foundation compiled a dossier of …

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Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ sparks social media controversy over sex scene featuring Sanskrit scripture
1 year, 5 months ago

Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ sparks social media controversy over sex scene featuring Sanskrit scripture

The Hindu  

A scene in Oppenheimer, in which the titular character appears to have sex as he reads out verses from an ancient Sanskrit scripture, has irked a section of social media users, who claimed the lines are from the Bhagavad Gita and demanded the removal of the sequence from Christopher Nolan's latest film. Uday Mahurkar, Information Commissioner, Government of India, wrote …

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Opinion: Of OTT, rapes and the cultural warriors
1 year, 5 months ago

Opinion: Of OTT, rapes and the cultural warriors

India Today  

On the 48th anniversary of the Emergency, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath honoured nine individuals deemed as "cultural warriors". Former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan built upon initiatives launched by the Central Information Commissioner, Uday Mahurkar, last Christmas. Uday Mahurkar, notable for his high volume of Right to Information appeals, established the Save Culture Save India Foundation. Now, committed …

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SC-Lawyer Seeks AG's Consent For Contempt Action Against Info. Commissioner For 'Lowering' Supreme Court's Authority In His Order
2 years ago

SC-Lawyer Seeks AG's Consent For Contempt Action Against Info. Commissioner For 'Lowering' Supreme Court's Authority In His Order

Live Law  

A Supreme Court Advocate-On-Record has written a letter to the Attorney General for India, R. Venkataramani, seeking his consent for the initiation of criminal contempt proceedings against the Information Commissioner, CIC-Uday Mahurkar claiming that he lowered the authority of the Supreme Court of India in his Order. Essentially, in an order dated 25-11-2022, the Information Commissioner, Uday Mahurkar had observed …

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Supreme Court's 1993 Order On Salaries To Imams Violated Constitution Of India, Set A Wrong Precedent: CIC
2 years ago

Supreme Court's 1993 Order On Salaries To Imams Violated Constitution Of India, Set A Wrong Precedent: CIC

Live Law  

The Central Information Commission has observed that the Supreme Court's Judgment in All India Imam Organisation and v.Union of India and ors. The Information Commissioner Uday Mahurkar made this observation on Friday while hearing an RTI application filed by an RTI activist Subhash Agrawal seeking details of salaries being paid to imams by the Delhi government and the Delhi Waqf …

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IPL 2022: Who is Mukesh Choudhary, CSK's latest pace sensation?
2 years, 7 months ago

IPL 2022: Who is Mukesh Choudhary, CSK's latest pace sensation?

The Hindu  

Ruturaj Gaikwad enthralling his home crowd was anticipated by acapacity crowd at the Maharashtra Cricket Association stadium onSunday. But the Maharashtra cricket connoisseurs were also looking forward to another intra-Maharashtra mini-battle later on during Chennai Super Kings’ face-off versus Sunrisers Hyderabad. After all, the Maharashtra batter has been one of the staunchest supporters of Choudhary ever since he faced him …

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'Hindutva is one and would remain the same till the end': Mohan Bhagwat at Veer Savarkar book launch
3 years, 2 months ago

'Hindutva is one and would remain the same till the end': Mohan Bhagwat at Veer Savarkar book launch

India TV News  

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday said Hindutva is one and it would the same till the end. Lamenting on the fact that there is a lack of correct information about Veer Savarkar in today's India, Bhagwat explained that a campaign to defame the activist and writer is also prevalent. While speaking at the book launch — ‘Veer Savarkar: The …

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J-K Accession Files: Disclosure of Bucher Papers in 'National Interest', CIC Observes
3 years, 2 months ago

J-K Accession Files: Disclosure of Bucher Papers in 'National Interest', CIC Observes

News 18  

The disclosure of files provided by India’s second army chief General Sir Roy Bucher to Nehru Memorial Museum and Library about Jammu and Kashmir related to the period of 1947-49, which may throw light on Accession, is in “national interest”, the Central Information Commission has observed in an order. Information Commissioner Uday Mahurkar has instead asked the NMML’s Central Public …

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'Veer Savarkar: The Man Who Could Have Prevented Partition' book underlines his relevance even after all these years
3 years, 3 months ago

'Veer Savarkar: The Man Who Could Have Prevented Partition' book underlines his relevance even after all these years

Op India  

Veteran journalist and political analyst Uday Mahurkar along with co-author Chirayu Pandit in their book Veer Savarkar: The Man Who Could Have Prevented Partition write about the visionary that Savarkar was and how he had envisioned the national security problems India is facing today. Speaking to OpIndia, Mahurkar said that Savarkar was the visionary of India’s national security and diplomacy. …

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