[ad_1] No Sri Ramanavami is complete without melody in Karnataka. Nearly four-dozen mandalis and samithis come together with a pooja and discourse followed by melody. The tradition was followed even during the pandemic years, in a virtual avatar. “Nothing can defeat the human spirit,” says SN Varadaraj, General Secretary of the Sree Ramaseva Mandali in […]
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[ad_1] Watch | Behind the scenes of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio at MoMA, New York The worlds he has created over the years are testament to his penchant for marrying the gothic and fantastical to the mundane everyday or emotions as universal as love — be it the 1960s lab housing an amphibious creature in Shape of […]
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[ad_1] Action, like many simple words, has an array of definitions with the most common ones being movement, an act of will, an engagement between two factions and the bringing about of an alteration by force. Incidentally, all those definitions also sound completely felicitous to mean fight, and in this context, action in films — […]
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[ad_1] A street vendor arranging ready made clothes for sale at Chittur in Palakkad. | Photo Credit: MUSTAFAH KK The story so far: Quality Control Orders (QCO) have been issued for fibres — cotton, polyester and viscose — that constitute the basic raw materials for majority of the Indian textile and clothing industry. While the […]
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[ad_1] A giant sign is seen displayed outside Manhattan Criminal Court after former U.S. President Donald Trump’s indictment by a Manhattan grand jury following a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, in New York City, U.S. onMarch 30, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Donald Trump indicted; 1st ex-President charged with crime […]
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[ad_1] Holy grail: The representatives of the various franchises pose in front of the IPL Trophy. | Photo Credit: IPL Things come thick and fast in Indian sport these days. In the 89 days since the turn of the year, the nation has played host to a stunning array of top-draw sporting events. There were […]
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[ad_1] Fresh from the oven: All time favourite pepperoni pizza | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Whenever I have a pepperoni pizza, I am reminded of author R.K. Narayan. There is a wonderful little anecdote about Narayan in Rukmini Srinivas’s engaging book Tiffin. Narayan, who often visited Rukmini and her husband, the sociologist M.N. Srinivas, in […]
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[ad_1] American runner Lashinda Demus has officially become an Olympic champion at the age of 40 and more than a decade after the 2012 London Games. The International Olympic Committee has formally reallocated Demus the gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles. The original winner was Natalya Antyukh of Russia who was later implicated in doping. […]
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[ad_1] Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on Thursday named Rajasthan pacer Akash Singh as replacement for Mukesh Choudhary, who has been ruled out of the 2023 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 due to a stress fracture. “Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on Thursday named Akash Singh as a replacement for injured Mukesh Choudhary. Mukesh, […]
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[ad_1] The GST Investigation wing of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs deals with policy issues relating to enforcement actions such as search, seizure, prosecution and arrest. Photo: Twitter/@cbic_india With Parliament clearing the decks for the establishment of Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal to resolve rising disputes under the nearly six-year-old indirect […]
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