The Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray on Tuesday fielded Milind Narvekar, a close aide of party chief Uddhav Thackeray, in the biennial elections to 11 seats from the legislative council, taking the number of candidates in the fray to 12.
Here's your lowdown on what's going on in the world of Malayalam film industry.
Sukanya Verma gives you some great options to choose from.
The BJP won 74 seats in the 147-member Odisha assembly and was leading in four more seats, the Election Commission of India.
Officials probing a blast that occurred near the Israeli embassy in New Delhi suspect it was a well-orchestrated plan, knowing that no CCTV camera was installed on Prithviraj Road, police sources said on Wednesday.
Unnecessary victimisation may "reflect in the bilateral relations", the Bombay high court said on Thursday while ordering the authorities to issue exit permit to a Chinese woman who was acquitted in a gold smuggling case yet could not leave India.
Forget comic chops, you'll not find an ounce of camaraderie between Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff as they go about firing ammo and flexing abs at a zombie-like army for nearly three excruciating hours of this noisy drivel, observes Sukanya Verma.
'These allegations need to be treated with utmost seriousness.'
After three days of investigation into the blast near the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi, the Delhi Police is planning to register a first information report (FIR) as they have found 'crucial evidence' pointing to a conspiracy to threaten the envoy, sources said on Friday.
The fallout from the Justice K Hema Committee report on harassment and abuse in the Malayalam film industry intensified on Monday as a case was filed against well-known filmmaker Ranjith, and several female actors stepped forward with disturbing accounts of the mistreatment they faced at the hands of their various male counterparts.
"If Ajit Pawar was unhappy in the Congress-NCP government, he should have left that time itself," Patole told reporters.
'Life had its own plans and now I have learnt to go with the flow.'
A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Prithviraj Chavan will take up the matter for hearing on Thursday.
However, induction in the NCP-SP will come with riders, asserted the former Union minister.
'There is some deep rot that has set in the Congress party. This requires an organisational surgery.'
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
The Bombay high court has said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has a legitimate right for an expeditious decision on merits over a 2014 defamation complaint for his alleged remarks against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
Nothing is going to change in a hurry unless attitudes change and punishments are speedy and fair, notes Ramesh Menon.
The police have questioned multiple autorickshaw drivers, including the one who brought the suspect to the spot before the blast took place.
Chavan's aide also said police security has been increased for the senior Congress leader.
Rakul Singh and Jackky Bhagnani confirmed their relationship in October 2021.
Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray chief Uddhav Thackeray and Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar supremo Sharad Pawar on Saturday said there was no question of taking back those leaders who had deserted the two parties.
'These betrayers don't realise that their exit opens up vast new opportunities to those whose growth they have always stunted'
The national shooting federation NRAI chose current form over pedigree to pick the squad for the mega event and it will be hoping they hit the bullseye at the National Shooting Centre in Chateauroux.
'You have to be good in your project that's releasing today for you to be working on something tomorrow. That will always be the case.'
'Unlike in the sporting arena, where sports federations moved from partisan to impartial referees, in Indian democracy's biggest festival, it appears we are moving backward from unbiased and objective to one-sided and partisan,' observes Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay.
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A look at how India's athletes fared on Day 3, Monday, July 29, 2024:
Earlier attempts by the state governments to introduce the reservation for Marathas have been struck down by courts.
Quite a few film folk attended the pran pratishtha ceremony at the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
The latest updates from Malayalam film industry.
Suryavanshi said the personal mobile phone of one Dinesh Gurav, the data entry operator of Jogeshwari assembly constituency, was found in the hands of an unauthorised person and action is being taken in this regard.
'The maximum struggle that I have gone through in this industry was to try to get a film made which had a female action star.' 'And that film never got made, despite reaching out to some of the biggest actresses.'
The first Friday of 2024 had no new movie releases, so the box office saw only Rs 25 crore (Rs 250 million) come in from current Hindi movies.
Monsters, sharks, psychopaths, jedis, hybrids, undercover cops, special agents, brace yourself for tons of action on OTT this week.
Pictures from the glittering IIFA Utsavam awards.
In the coming assembly election, negotiations over seat-sharing will be as important as actual outreach to voters.
If there's one thing the full-of-beans star knows, it's how to stay happy, observes Dinesh Raheja.
There is quiet a bit of history behind NCP chief Sharad Pawar's recent outburst about the Maharashtra chief minister, says Neeta Kolhatkar
'It was not a love affair, it was much more.'
