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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
TopicOscars 2025

Topic: oscars 2025

Diplomatic acrobatics & the Oscar goes to…who?

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

‘Anora’, story of a New York sex worker, sweeps Oscars with 5 awards including best picture

Anora was made for $6 mn, a tiny sum by Hollywood standards. It won against papal thriller 'Conclave', Jewish immigrant story 'The Brutalist', and blockbuster musical 'Wicked'.

How did Kanguva become an Oscars Best Picture contender? Paid a fee, filled an application

‘Unlike Laapata Ladies, which was India’s official selection, Kanguva has paid a fee to make it to the list of Best Picture,’ said film critic Ramesh Bala.

Hindi film Santosh earns spot in Oscars 2025 Best International Feature Film category

The UK sent the film as their official submission for the Academy Awards 2025. The movie also premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May 2024.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

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.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

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.