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‘Make your own film’: Ram Gopal Varma has a stern rebuke for those calling Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar 2 ‘propaganda’

‘Make your own film’: Ram Gopal Varma has a stern rebuke for those calling Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar 2 ‘propaganda’

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Aditya Dhar has found himself a steady cheerleader in veteran filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma. The Satya director has praised the Dhurandhar films profusely over the last three months, saying Aditya has ‘showed a new way of Indian cinema’. Now, he has targeted the film’s critics, particularly those who call Dhurandhar The Revenge propaganda. Ram Gopal Varma has defended Ranveer Singh-starrer Dhurandhar 2. In a recent interview with news agency ANI, RGV again praised Ranveer Singh-starrer Dhurandhar 2, which released in theatres on March 19 and has been a massive commercial success. “Calling Dhurandhar just a ‘film’ doesn’t feel right, because maybe in the last 20-30 years, no film has come like this, its scale, its twists, and even without relying heavily on story twists, its structure itself. Aditya has transformed that structure, especially the climax, what do you call it? Even the item songs, though unrealistic, gravity-defying fight scenes, he has packaged everything together in a complete, massive way,” RGV said. Dhurandhar released in December 2025 and became the second-highest-grossing Hindi film ever, grossing ₹1300 …

Amateur with AI-drafted plea gets Supreme Court rebuke| India News

Amateur with AI-drafted plea gets Supreme Court rebuke| India News

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday witnessed an unusual courtroom exchange when Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant questioned a petitioner over a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that the court suspected was not drafted by him but filed on behalf of someone else. The court expressed doubts about whether the petitioner had actually drafted the plea himself. (ANI) The petition, relating to the PM CARES Fund, came up before a bench comprising the CJI and justices R Mahadevan and Joymalya Bagchi. Within minutes of the hearing beginning, the court began probing whether the petitioner — a hosiery trader from Ludhiana who said he had studied only up to Class 12 — had actually authored the legal document placed before the court. At the outset, CJI Kant asked Rajnish Sidhu about his educational qualifications and profession. Sidhu said he was a 12th passout and worked as a trader, dealing in hosiery goods. The court then asked about his income and tax payments, to which he responded that he had paid around ₹5.25 lakh in income tax …

Express view: In Akal Takht’s rebuke to SAD, atonement meets public spectacle

Express view: In Akal Takht’s rebuke to SAD, atonement meets public spectacle

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Dec 4, 2024 05:30 IST First published on: Dec 4, 2024 at 05:30 IST Share The spectacle of Shiromani Akali Dal leaders, heads bowed and hands folded, submitting to an inquisition at the Akal Takht, the highest spiritual and temporal authority of the Sikhs, may have seemed to many a deserved comeuppance. For a party that has been marginalised in every election since 2017, this was both a reminder of its steep fall, and a moment of reckoning. Once a powerful political player that made history by winning two consecutive elections in 2007 and 2012 in alliance with the BJP, the Akali Dal’s decline was swift, fuelled by its failures to address Punjab’s deepening crises. It was also due to its presiding over a spate of sacrilege incidents and unabated drug trafficking that is taking a mounting toll on the state’s young. The three farm laws enacted by its alliance partner in 2020 dealt another crippling blow to the party. The laws that were later repealed not only ended its over two-decade-long alliance with the …

‘Details from WhatsApp University’: In JPC Meeting on Waqf Bill, Opposition MPs Rebuke Govt Officials

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Last Updated: September 06, 2024, 22:59 IST The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on August 8. (Representational image/Getty) The ASI in its presentation spoke about close to 130 monuments and properties that were disputed over the past several decades. However, lawmakers from both the opposition and ruling sides questioned these claims As the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill met again on Friday, several officials from the Ministry of Culture and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) appeared before it. The ASI in its presentation spoke about close to 130 monuments and properties that were disputed over the past several decades. However, lawmakers from both the opposition and ruling sides questioned these claims. A senior Member of Parliament from the ruling National Democratic Alliance asked that if these properties were disputed over several decades, what was being done about it, and why was there no attempt to go to court? Why was it that the disputes could only be solved once this bill was passed, the MP asked. …

Revanth Reddy regrets comments on BRS leader Kavitha’s bail day after SC rebuke | Latest News India

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Facing scrutiny from the Supreme Court for his comments casting aspersions on the judiciary, Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy expressed regret in a statement issued on Friday. The statement posted on X came a day after the Supreme Court criticised him during a hearing on a petition seeking the transfer of the trial related to a 2015 cash-for-vote case outside Telangana. Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy. (X) “I have the highest regard and full faith in the Indian Judiciary. I understand that certain press reports dated 29th August, 2024 containing comments attributed to me have given the impression that I am questioning the judicial wisdom of the Hon’ble Court. I reiterate that I am a firm believer of the judicial process. I unconditionally express my regret for the statements reflected in the press reports,“ Reddy said. He said the remarks attributed to him were taken out of context. “I have unconditional respect & highest regard for the Judiciary & its independence. As a firm believer in the Constitution of India and its ethos, I have …

After Tamil Nadu Governor’s Gandhi Remarks, Sharp Rebuke From MK Stalin

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Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has criticised Governor RN Ravi’s recent comments on Mahatma Gandhi, asserting that the statements were an attempt to tarnish the legacy of the Father of the Nation. This has set off another face-off between the two. RN Ravi had suggested that Gandhi became a non-event after 1942, but later backtracked, blaming the media for selective reporting. “I did not mean any disrespect to Mahatma Gandhi whose teachings have been the guiding light of my life,” a Raj Bhavan communique quoting Mr Ravi said Saturday referring to his speech at the 127th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on January 23. Some media “did cherry-pick” from the speech and “gave it a twist,” the Governor added. Mr Stalin emphasised Gandhi’s stance against religious nationalism, stating that the leader had sacrificed his life opposing religious fanaticism. He accused the Governor and others of trying to distort history by undermining Gandhi’s pivotal role in India’s freedom struggle. “The right wing vilifies the Father of the Nation with lies. Their destruction …

Jaishankar’s Sharp Rebuke as Pakistan Raises Kashmir at UN

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India on Wednesday strongly hit back at Pakistan in the UN Security Council after it raised the Kashmir issue by saying that a country that hosted slain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and attacked a neighbouring Parliament does not have the credentials to “sermonize” in the power UN organ. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said the credibility of the UN depends on its effective response to the key challenges of our times, be it pandemics, climate change, conflicts or terrorism. “We are obviously focused today on the urgency of reforming multilateralism. We will naturally have our particular views, but there is a growing convergence at least that this cannot be delayed any further,” said Jaishankar, who is chairing India’s signature event on reformed multilateralism. “The credibility of the UN depends on its effective response to the key challenges of our times, be it pandemics, climate change, conflicts or terrorism. While we search for the best solutions, what our discourse must never accept is the normalisation of such threats,” Jaishankar said. “The question of justifying what …