“Airlift” writer-director Raja Krishna Menon will make his digital debut with a dark-comedy series for streaming giant Netflix. Menon said they were all set to begin from May 1 but everything has been pushed due to the pandemic. “The series is a dark-comedy. I did a film titled Barah Aana’ in 2009, which was also a dark-comedy, I like this space. Our story is different, it is funny and has little uncomfortable humour. It is completely different from what we have seen so far, Menon told PTI. Other than the show, Menon is developing two movie scripts. “There are two…
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An entrepreneur in Chhattisgarh has developed in association with a women’s Self Help Group (SHG) a hand sanitizer liquid with alcohol distilled from Mahua flowers as its main ingredient. Hand sanitizers are currently in great demand as their use to clean hands helps keep COVID-19 at bay. Yellow coloured Mahua flowers are one of the major forest products during summer. They are also believed to have medicinal properties. “The idea to develop hand sanitizer from Mahua spirit came to me when I could not obtain enough hand sanitizer liquid for the employees at my petrol pump,” said Samarth Jain, who…
Actress Raveena Tandon has appealed all to extend help to the family of deceased Palghar lynching victim Nilesh Telwade. Sharinig a website where one can donate, Raveena Tandon tweeted: “A fund raiser for the 29 yr old driver who was lynched along with hindu sadhus. He leaves behind two little girls, please do your bit and help this family.” Twentynine-year-old Nilesh, a driver by profession, was lynched along with two sadhus by a mob of over 200 people in Maharashtra’s Palghar last week. The brutal incident occurred while they were traveling from Nashik to Surat with some relief materials. Suspecting…
BJP responded to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s accusing remarks accusing of “spreading the virus of communal hatred” at a time it should be fighting coronavirus, the ruling BJP today said the Congress president should not do “cheap politics”. “We are not creating communal divisions. We are unitedly fighting COVID-19. We request them to not do cheap politics. They must not indulge in small politics,” Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said, shortly after Sonia Gandhi took on the ruling party at a Congress leadership meet. In her opening remarks at a Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, Sonia Gandhi said the BJP was…
The crime branch of Thane police on Thursday arrested 25 persons including 21 foreign nationals who had allegedly attended a gathering of the Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi in March. They were arrested after their quarantine period was over. A court later granted them bail, an official said. The congregation in Delhi’s Nizamuddin area turned out be a major coronavirus hotspot, following which police in every state began to track down those who had attended it. Senior inspector Nitin Thakre said those arrested included 13 Bangladeshis and eight Malaysian nationals while four persons are local residents. The foreign nationals violated the…
Eleven juveniles escaped from a correctional home in Central Delhi after allegedly injuring its security in-charge and three police personnel, amid the ongoing lockdown to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. All of them are in the age group of 16 to 18 years and they escaped from the correctional home near Delhi Gate on Wednesday evening, police said. While escaping, they attacked its security in-charge and in an ensuing fight, the three police personnel were injured, a senior police officer said on Thursday. They broke the lock of the main gate and escaped, he said, adding that police…
A farmhouse suspected to be linked to Maulana Saad, Head of Tablighi Jamaat was raided by a six-member Crime Branch team of Delhi Police on Thursday at Kandhala, Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh. The Crime Branch team was in the farmhouse till reports last came in. Shamli Superintendent of Police Vinit Jaiswal confirmed the raid to IANS. “A Delhi Police team consisting of five officers and a driver arrived in Kandhala in a vehicle around 10 a.m. The Crime Branch team registered its presence in the police diary,” Singh said. Sources in Crime Branch in Delhi too acknowledged that its…
NASA has published that Air pollution over northern India has plummeted to a 20-year-low for this time of the year. The US space agency’s satellite sensors observed aerosol levels at a 20-year low post the countrywide lockdown, implemented to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. “We knew we would see changes in atmospheric composition in many places during the lockdown,” said Pawan Gupta, a Universities Space Research Association (USRA) scientist at NASA”s Marshall Space Flight Center. “But I have never seen aerosol values so low in the Indo-Gangetic Plain at this time of year,” added Mr Gupta. Acting Assistant…
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday directed officials to extend all possible help to the family of the 38-year-old labourer who died in Delhi and was symbolically cremated in Gorakhpur, his native place. The dummy of Sunil, a migrant labourer, was cremated on April 17. The family had to take this step as they were unable to bear the cost of bringing back the body which was Rs 25,000 then. The Chief Minister has asked the nodal officer in Delhi to make arrangements to send the body from Delhi. District Magistrate Vijyendra Pandiyan visited the grieving family on Wednesday evening…