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Tuesday, March 17, 2026
TopicShaktimaan

Topic: Shaktimaan

‘Shaktimaan’ comeback divides Indian fans. They don’t want childhood memories ‘ruined’

Mukesh Khanna is retired and not too relevant. Producers might have to rely on de-ageing, good VFX and CGI, film critic Ramesh Bala told ThePrint.

Reruns of 1980-90s classics Ramayan, Shaktimaan, Byomkesh make DD most-watched channel

The jump in the week of 28 March-3 April is significant as DD National was not even among the top 10 channels in the Hindi GEC category the previous week.

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Why India has friends everywhere, but leverage nowhere

India is too close to Israel for Iran’s trust, yet still blindsided. It risks losing assets like Chabahar port and export markets, while key partners don’t factor in its concerns.

Free gas to waivers, govt-owned gas firms roll out incentives to push households from LPG to PNG

IGL, MGL & other city gas distributors announce benefits to encourage LPG users to shift to piped natural gas as Centre flags concerns over LPG supply in the wake of Iran conflict.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.