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Saturday, July 19, 2025
TopicBengali film industry

Topic: Bengali film industry

The bandit is back in movies. After Telugu’s Daaku Maharaaj, it’s Bengali Raghu Dakat

The announcement of Raghu Dakat came during Golper Parbon 1432, an event celebrating SVF’s 30-year journey in Bengali-language entertainment held in Kolkata on 28 February.

Bengal’s shape-shifters are banking on Bohurupi. ‘Give us a stage, we’ll enthrall a city’

Kolkata: Nanichora Das Baul becomes someone new every day—Shiva or Parvati, Durga or the demon king, even a skeleton sometimes. As one of Bengal’s few remaining bohurupis—quick-change artists who...

‘Traumas have resurfaced’ in Bengali film industry after Kerala MeToo report & RG Kar case

Women actors wrote to the West Bengal Tele Academy, demanding a safer work environment. The state govt has also reportedly formed an 'unbiased committee' to probe allegations.

On Camera

Fauja Singh’s death shows Indian roads remain a national emergency—474 lives lost every day

Fauja Singh, 114, died after being hit by a speeding car. His death renews questions about India’s deadly roads, rising accidents, and poor traffic discipline.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Joys of Trumplomacy: India & the world are learning US President’s 99 moods and 1 goal

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.