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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, …

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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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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …