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How a Tamil folk performer is taking the art form beyond epics, highlighting climate change, health
13+ hour, 58+ min ago (814+ words) But for National Award-winning Kattaikkuttu artist P Thilagavathy, 36, the stage is no longer reserved only for mythological battles. With her, the centuries-old Tamil folk theatre form is confronting real-time problems such as climate change, gender equality in the workplace, menstrual…...
West Bengal Census: Fearing welfare cuts, households undercount assets
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (1115+ words) West Bengal’s ongoing census exercise has run into an unusual problem, with many households allegedly understating their assets, income and living conditions amid fears that disclosure could affect access to welfare schemes. The curious trend appears to stem from misgivings…...
Cauvery water release order: Karnataka to move SC on Sept 10, says minister
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (400+ words) Karnataka Water Resources Minister N Chaluvarayaswamy on Wednesday (September 9) said that the state government will move the Supreme Court on Thursday challenging the orders directing the state to release 6,000 cusecs of Cauvery water daily to Tamil Nadu. On Tuesday, the…...
Karnataka mulls moving SC against Cauvery water release order
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (296+ words) Bengaluru, Sep 8 (PTI) The Karnataka government is seriously considering approaching the Supreme Court against the CWRC direction to release 6,000 cusecs of Cauvery river water daily to Tamil Nadu, the state's Water Resources Minister N Chaluvarayaswamy said on Tuesday. Describing the…...
Y-shaped ramp, online registration, ‘naraz fufa’ dig: PM Modi’s Vadodara Gen Z outreach
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (601+ words) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest outreach to the youth took a distinctly Gen Z turn on Tuesday (September 8) as he attended the ‘NaMo for Viksit Bharat’ programme at Maharaja Sayajirao University in Vadodara, Gujarat. The Gen Z touch in the…...
WATCH: SC junks 129 FIRs against student protesters; who got the upper hand?
6+ day, 11+ hour ago (171+ words) The Federal A total of 129 FIRs lodged against agitators who took part in the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)-led protests across Bihar, Maharashtra, West Bengal, and Assam were quashed by the Supreme Court, invoking its extraordinary powers under Article 142 when…...
India buys Russian oil for its own needs, not to help Moscow: Envoy
6+ day, 16+ hour ago (425+ words) The Russian envoy took a dig at the US and the West, asking what was stopping those countries from offering a better oil deal than Russia. Screengrab: ANI Amid tightening Western and US sanctions over Moscow’s oil trade, which Washington…...
Uttam Kumar at 100: The man behind the ‘hero’ who put super in stardom for the Bengali audience
1+ week, 3+ day ago (643+ words) Uttam Kumar and Sharmila Tagore in Satyajit Ray's Nayak. This is where Nayak becomes mischievously meta. Ray didn’t have to invent a movie star for Arindam. He had Uttam Kumar. By 1966, Kumar had been West Bengal’s biggest male star for…...
CBCID cracks down on CM Vijay deepfakes offering ‘financial help’
1+ week, 4+ day ago (585+ words) Tamil Nadu’s Crime Branch CID has registered a cybercrime case after its patrol team found a computer-generated fake video of Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay circulating on Facebook. In the deepfake clip, a face and voice made to look and…...
Karnataka pushes for faster CWC clearance of Mekedatu project
1+ week, 4+ day ago (382+ words) New Delhi/Bengaluru, Sep 2 (PTI) Karnataka has stepped up its efforts to advance the Mekedatu Balancing Reservoir Project across Cauvery river, with Water Resources Minister N Chaluvarayswamy holding a high-level meeting with CWC Chairman Anupam Prasad in New Delhi on…...