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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
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Topic: Film City

Now a step closer to reality, what’s in store at Yogi’s ambitious, delayed International Film City

Foundation stone for project is likely to be laid before 30 June. First phase will involve development on 230 acres in Sector 21 along Yamuna Motorway, it is learnt.

‘Multifaceted luminary whose brilliance had no parallel’: Modi pens tribute to Ramoji Rao Garu

The PM in his new blog post 'Ramoji Rao Garu - a multifaceted persona', wrote that Rao 'revolutionised the media space' & 'set new standards for integrity, innovation and excellence'.

Ramoji Rao, media baron & founder of Ramoji Film City, passes away at 87

Chairman of the Eenadu media group, Rao was undergoing treatment at the Star Hospital in Hyderabad.

Script ready but stuck in production? Rajinikanth ‘in talks’, but Yogi’s ‘Film City’ has no takers yet

After delays, YEIDA had extended deadline for developers or companies to apply for project to 31 March, failing which, a meeting will be held on 4 April to discuss the road ahead.

Indian govt’s Covid vaccine ‘jugaad’, and Rajnikanth says ‘lights, camera, election’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Yogi Adityanath’s red carpet to Bollywood alone won’t make UP a hit among investors

Yogi must realise touting UP as the ‘central point of culture’ does not make it an attractive investment destination.

Hollywood-themed park, Bollywood museum — Mumbai’s Film City set to get a makeover

Project initiated six years ago, now Maharashtra govt has taken steps to turn the film studio complex into a major tourist attraction.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.