His cinema of compassion inspired me, gave me tools to develop empathy for others. But it also made me understand that serious, socially committed cinema with deeply engaging narratives and great performances is an art form to admire, appreciate and explore. Aseem Chhabra remembers Shyam Benegal, who passed into the ages on Monday evening.
Keeping up his tradition of celebrating the festival with soldiers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Sir Creek near the Indo-Pak border in Gujarat's Kutch district and offered sweets to jawans.
The alleged incident occurred on Friday in Nacho area of the district, their families said.
Arfath's father Mohammed Saleem had said that Arfath last spoke to him on March 7, and since then he has not been in touch with his family.
The 33-year-old grandson of JD-S supremo H D Deve Gowda is expected to land in Bengaluru in the small hours of May 31.
According to the complaint, Awami League leaders and activists attacked the protesters and hacked Hossain to death with sharp weapons.
Actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi has landed in trouble over an inter-caste marriage as the police have registered a case of kidnapping against him, based on the complaint of the bride's parents. But the bride Nalini, an engineering graduate, has denied the charge and said that she had married the boy on her own accord. Chiranjeevi, who launched his Praja Rajyam party less than a fortnight ago, had attended the wedding at the invitation of Rao, who is a member of his party.
I will help, 100 per cent. Come (to me) with your parents, the MLA said.
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'Kamal has surfed and navigated a lot of tidal waves, manoeuvring the peaks and troughs, combining rare intelligence and commonly available intuitions to overcome unimaginable crises all his life.' 'There is no looking back at the past, for his only motto has been 'Tomorrow belongs to us'!'
Unidentified miscreants kidnapped three youths, including the youngest son of former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Gegong Apang, when they were returning from a music school near the Public Service Commission office in Itanagar on Wednesday night. Family members of those kidnapped informed the police this morning about the kidnapping.
Four Indian oil workers were kidnapped in southern Sudan on Thursday, according to diplomatic sources. Deepak Vohra, Indian ambassador in Khartoum, confirmed the news. He said that every effort is being made to secure the release of the four Indians. Darfur rebels, who have been fighting a civilian war for five years in the region, denied any role in the abduction of the workers.
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan on Saturday claimed responsibility for kidnapping a group of over 30 boys, who had strayed into Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province as reports said some of them had escaped and reached back to their homes.
A group of armed men kidnapped senior journalist Rahmatullah Darpakhel in the restive North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan, local residents said on Friday.
An Indian national, who was kidnapped by militants in Afghanistan nearly a month ago, was freed on Sunday following an operation by the security forces in that country. Muhammad Naeem, 40, who was kidnapped along with a Nepalese citizen on April 21, was in good condition. The men, contracted to supply logistics to Afghan police training camps, were kidnapped by unknown militants, while they were traveling in western Adraskan district bordering Iran.
he Maoists released the boy after four hours after making him walk in the jungles.
Bhatt, president (Manufacturing) of the Company's Pithampur plant, reached Indore on Sunday morning after being rescued from a makeshift mud hut from Natua Ka Pura ravines of Chambal area in Morena district on Satuday night. He was abducted by armed persons when he was returning home to Indore from Gwalior, in his Toyota Corolla, on January 18.
Yunus in his 26-minute speech did not give any deadline for the tenure of his interim government but acknowledged that "everyone is interested to know when our government will leave".
Speaking from his hotel room in Chennai, he told TV9 news channel that he had come to Chennai on his own on Tuesday, disputing his estranged wife Susheela's complaint to the police that he was kidnapped from a hotel room in Chitoor town.
Sector 36 goes for the gruesomeness and shock; watching it needs a tough heart or a quick averting of the eyes, warns Deepa Gahlot.
'The purpose is not to jail him for kidnapping,' a Pakistani security official told Rediff.com, 'But we cannot let him go. We have to keep him behind bars one way or another.'
Nayan Kachrolia was kidnapped for ransom by two persons near his school on Thursday.
Former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani's son Ali Haider, kidnapped by gunmen while campaigning for Pakistan's landmark elections, had received threats from the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Sipah-e-Sahaba.
Reports said that security forces intervened just in time to save seven other Indians in the compound.
Ravi Kant, a student of Class IX in DAV Public School in Biharsharif town in Nalanda district, was kidnapped when he was going to board the school bus on Monday.
Mexican footballer Alan Pulido has been rescued by authorities and is home, Mexican officials have said.
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The girl has been caught while the groom is still missing
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Padma Shri awardee and well known choreographer Astad Deboo speaks on shooting with Aishwarya and Abhishek for Raavan.
The director of a cricket bat manufacturing firm has been kidnapped from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, the police said on Wednesday. Sudhir Mahajan, 55, the director of BDM company, was kidnapped on Thursday night when he was returning to his residence in his car from his factory, located on Delhi road.
The 43-year-old mogul was walking into the Colosseum Hotel and Fitness Club in Oyster Bay, Dar es Salaam for his routine gym session during the early hours of Thursday morning when two white men and an unknown number of accomplices in two cars waylaid him and quickly drove away.
The police are investigating the possible involvement of the Taliban in the kidnapping of a five-year-old British boy of Pakistani origin, who was kidnapped while visiting relatives in Punjab province.
A three-member committee conducting inquiry into alleged manipulation of the blood samples of the juvenile driver involved in the Porsche car crash on Tuesday visited the Sassoon General Hospital in Pune, and also met the police officials who are probing the case.
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A senior Kolkata police officer said no ransom was paid for her release.
The abductors gave Tokyo three days to declare a pullout, failing which the three Japanese--two journalists and a woman aid worker-would be executed.
Brijesh, Rajan Choudhary and Rajesh were arrested in the Saket area of South Delhi for allegedly harbouring Vijay Thakur, the main accused in the case.
According to a police official of Wankaner taluka police station, a case of rape, kidnapping and illegal confinement was registered against 19-year-old Naresh Solanki, while seven others belonging to his family were booked under charges of kidnapping and illegal confinement.
