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The accused sent a threat message telling the pharma trader — Suchain Kumar, a resident of Bhartiya Nagar — about a raid to be carried out at his outlet by the Saharsa DIG for keeping illegal items in his shop.They also sent the copy of the ‘notice’ on his WhatsApp number.Suchain, however, did not panic and lodged a complaint with the cyber cell.This was an incident which reflects how cyber criminals are duping the common people of Bihar and other states.On August 9, Nalanda police had arrested eight cyber criminals who duped common people of lakhs of rupees using the…

However, no one came closer to NTR, who dominated the state politics till his demise in 1996. Worshipped as a demigod by people in the then undivided Andhra Pradesh, the thespian became the chief minister for three terms.Andhra Pradesh, which contributes almost the entire cream of the Telugu film industry, is a film crazy state. However, Telangana, which was carved out of Andhra Pradesh as a separate state in 2014, presents a different picture.After NTR his two actor sons tried their luck in politics to carry forward his legacy and other famous Tollywood family of superstar Chiranjeevi also forayed into…

In this book extract from ‘Sridevi: The South Years’, published by Rupa, ad world personality and National Award-winning author Amborish Roychoudhury disputes the popular theory on Sridevi’s debut film, and looks back at her entry into cinema (and a career that spanned 300 films) as a child artiste playing Lord Murugan in Sandow Chinnappa Thevar’s Tamil devotional movie, ‘Thunaivan’, starring A.V.M. Rajan and Sowcar Janaki.Decades before she became a film goddess, Sridevi was playing a god on-screen and the south Indian moviegoing audience was eating out of her hands. I do not use the term ‘south Indian’ loosely like we…

‘Sthal’ (‘A Match’), his debut Marathi feature as a writer-director is now set to have its world premiere at the 48th Toronto International Film Festival as the only Indian film in the Discovery section.”Of course, it feels great, I am honoured. It is a very personal film on many levels considering it has been shot in my village and with my own people,” he tells IANS.The movie explores the tradition of arranged marriages in rural India, where the relentless pursuit of a girl’s marriage overshadows the very sustenance of life and is narrated from the perspective of a young girl,…

This is the first time that schools will remain open on a Sunday as per the directives of the state government.As per the orders, special mid-day meals will also be provided to all students.The state government has fixed the date-wise outline of the two programmes in schools.According to it, poetry recitation will be organised for students in all schools on August 13.Due to the day being a public holiday, the government has given instructions to ensure special mid-day meal arrangements for all the children of the schools.Director General, School Education, and Director, Mid-Day Meal Authority, Vijay Kiran Anand, has issued…

ATS officials said Raza confessed his plan during the 14-day custody remand, that will continue till August 19.The officials said they were still verifying details of the terror plan and added that Raza will be taken to a few places in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag and Srinagar where he had taken up firearms training in secret terror camps.Uttar Pradesh ATS also shared a detailed press note in which its officials shared that on the direction of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed terror operative Waleed, Raza had even purchased a US-made automatic pistol.The ATS officials said a .32 bore US-made pistol along with magazine…

The doctors temporarily induced a state of ‘death’ for six minutes during a complex surgery with a technique, known as deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (DHCA), that involves cooling the body to a low temperature, stopping blood flow to all organs and inducing a controlled ‘clinically dead’.For the first time, such a surgery was performed at a government institution in Uttar Pradesh.This patient had an issue with her aorta, a major blood vessel responsible for carrying blood from the heart to the body. The problem manifested with a bulge in the vessel’s wall, termed as an aortic pseudoaneurysm.The patient Vineeta from…

The President has given the approval in terms of Article 224(1A) of the Constitution of Pakistan, according to the statement on Saturday.Earlier, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, after detailed consultations with the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, or the lower house of the Parliament, Raja Riaz, forwarded a summary to this effect to the President for approval, according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office said as quoted by Xinhua news agency report.Kakar has been a member of the Senate of Pakistan since March 2018. He was elected to the Senate of Pakistan as an independent…

Ukraine on Saturday launched two S-200 missiles to strike the Crimean Bridge, but they “were detected in a timely manner and were intercepted in the air by Russian air defence systems,” Russia’s Tass news agency reported on Saturday, citing the country’s Defence Ministry.The failed attack caused no damage or casualties, said the Ministry.However, the Ukrainian government-run Ukrinform news agency said that two explosions were heard on Saturday near the bridge, citing Ukraine’s Centre of National Resistance, Xinhua news agency reported.The 19-km Crimean Bridge that links Crimea to Russia consists of two parallel routes for automobiles and trains over the Kerch…

The IS militants attacked the bus in the desert region of al-Mayadeen city in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour before daybreak on Friday, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Saturday.The UK-based watchdog group added the IS militants planned the ambush and opened fire on the bus with light and medium-sized weapons, Xinhua news agency reported.The Syrian army was on alert in the desert region, searching for soldiers who had gone missing, while the attackers disappeared into the desert, as reported by the observatory.Meanwhile, video footage believed to have been shot by one of the killed soldiers’ mobile…