“Stree 2,” the most successful Bollywood film of the year and India’s second-highest-grossing film of 2024, is set to be joined by one or more sequels, the film’s director Amar Kaushik said on Wednesday. Kaushik was speaking at the Knowledge Series seminar that is part of the Film Bazaar Project Market located next to the … Read more
NEW YORK: Gautam Adani, the billionaire chairman of India’s Adani Group and one of the world’s richest people, has been indicted in New York for his role in an alleged multi-billion-dollar bribery and fraud scheme, US prosecutors said on Wednesday. Authorities said Adani and seven other defendants, including his nephew Sagar Adani, agreed to pay … Read more
It’s been 10 months since “Sugarcane” premiered at Sundance, where it won the US Documentary Directing Award. Since then, directors Emily Casey and Julien Brave Noise Cut have inked a global distribution deal with National Geographic Documentary Films and traveled the world with their film, now making a stop at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film … Read more
The Indian Middle East: a new history By Avinash PaliwalHurst, 2024 The sudden collapse of Sheikh Hasina’s government in Bangladesh on August 5 aroused mixed emotions of surprise, anger and concern in India. However, what is missing from the speech is a sense of introspection on India’s neighborhood policy, particularly on its troubled eastern flank. … Read more
Muzaffarabad: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has urged the international community and the United Nations to help end the “cruel, inhuman and degrading” treatment of the people of Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir by the occupying forces. He said in a video message issued on the occasion of the International Day in … Read more
Former Indian minister and member of the Ajit Pawar faction of the NCP Baba Siddique. — Facebook/Baba Siddique/File Former Indian minister and member of the NCP’s Ajit Pawar faction, Baba Siddique, was shot dead in his son’s office in Mumbai, Indian media reported on Saturday evening. The incident took place around 9:30 p.m. local time … Read more
A shocking incident took place in Madhya Pradesh, India, where a man raped a woman in broad daylight on a busy footpath in Ujjain district, while passersby only watched and filmed the attack. The gruesome crime took place last week at Koyla Phatak, one of the busiest intersections in Ujjain. According to The Indian Expressthe … Read more