Bengal’s 700 single-screen halls have dwindled to 130 but south Kolkata’s Priya Cinema is still drawing housefulls. ‘We have marketed and positioned ourselves for decades.’
The Raizada family has been keeping single-screen moviegoing alive in Old Delhi since the Nehru era. Cash registers are still ringing at Delite Cinema.
Amitabh Bachchan and Raj Kapoor to Vicky Kaushal have all waved from the balcony of Rajmandir Cinema. While peers like Minerva and Golcha have shut down, it keeps small-screen culture alive.
Why should the US care? Because in the end, as its wrangle with Britain this week should have reminded them, America still needs bases, friendly ports, & overfly rights.
Multiple companies have invoked the principle of ‘force majeure’, which lets a party off the hook in case of unforeseen ‘acts of God’, to avoid penalties.
IRIS Lavan was in the region for the International Fleet Review held last month and ‘sought urgent docking in Kochi citing technical issues,’ it is learnt.
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.
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