Author: Rahul M

Music director M.M. Keeravani, known for Baahubali and RRR, has sung a Kannada song after many years in the upcoming film Maggipustaka. The film is being made under the Chinnaswamy banner and is written and directed by Harivarasanam, who has handled the story, screenplay, and dialogues. Chinnaswamy Yatiraj is producing the film. Maggipustaka is positioned as a message-driven film aimed at general audiences, including children. Yashas Nachappa is the music director. Alongside Keeravani, 18 singers have contributed to the songs, including Rajesh Krishnan, Vijay Prakash, Gururaj Hosakote, Naveen Sajju, Saindhavi, Vaikom Vijayalakshmi, and Ravindra Suragavi. The film has been shot…

Ace cameraman of the yesteryears, B. S. Basavaraj, now 84 years old, was found at his Basaveshwaranagara residence, working on a documentary about Sundarnath Nadkarni. He spoke at length about the late doyen actress Dr. Saroja Devi and saluted her for her discipline and dedication to work. “Dr. Saroja Devi truly deserved the Dadasaheb Phalke Award. She was a genuine actress held in the highest esteem within the profession. I don’t know how such a legendary actress was overlooked,” says Basavaraj, who worked as a cinematographer on two assignments with Dr. Saroja Devi. The first was the superhit Kannada film…

Despite extensive criticism from several corners, Bengaluru Smart Infrastructure Limited (B-SMILE) has invited international competitive bids for the construction of a three-lane underground twin tunnel road from Hebbal Esteem Mall Junction to Silk Board KSRP Junction, aiming to transform urban mobility along the city’s busy north-south corridor. The massive infrastructure initiative, with an estimated cost of Rs 17,698 crore (excluding GST), will be implemented under the modified build-own-operate-transfer (BOOT) model and includes operation and maintenance responsibilities. The project is split into two packages—Hebbal to Seshadri Road and Seshadri Road to Silk Board—with estimated costs of Rs 8,770 crore and Rs…

The film Raja Drohi is filled with many specialties. After a long gap, Anant Nag, Lakshmi, Sharan, and his parents have acted in the movie. Also, it is said to be the 685th film promoted by senior publicist Vijay Kumar. The film is produced by Mahadevayya under the banner of Dhanush Combines, with Samarthraj writing the story, screenplay, dialogues, lyrics, and directing the film. Speaking about the movie — it shows how people face the problems that come in front of them. Even with father and mother right in front of their eyes, the children are in such a situation…

The film produced by Ajaneesh Loknath, directed by C.R. Bobby and starring Shine Shetty and Ankita Amar will hit the screens soon. Ajaneesh Loknath, the music director of a globally renowned film like “Kantara,” has now turned producer through “Just Married.” Under the banner of abbs studios, Ajaneesh Loknath and C.R. Bobby have jointly produced this love story. C.R. Bobby, who had made a name in the music field, is making her directorial debut with this film. The much-anticipated “Just Married,” featuring Bigg Boss fame Shine Shetty and Ankita Amar in lead roles, is now ready for release. Recently, the…

The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) recently exposed a Rs 100 crore Islamic conversion racket run by Jamaluddin alias Chhangur Baba in Balrampur. This jihadist racket luring non-Muslims, especially Hindu girls, into conversion through romantic relationships, force or allurement, however, is not the first such case; rather, it is yet another player executing a sinister playbook of love trap, sexual coercion, blackmail, and foreign funding targeting and converting Hindus to Islam. Even as the Islamo-leftist ecosystem is hell bent on establishing the narrative that Love Jihad is a BJP-orchestrated conspiracy theory, hoax and yet another form of ‘Islamophobia’, a systematic…

In a fresh development in the case of secret burials in Dharmasthala, a 60-year-old Bengaluru woman on Tuesday submitted a petition requesting the police to find the “skeletal remains” of her daughter who has been missing since 2003, when she allegedly went to the temple town in Karnataka with her friends. The complainant submitted the petition to the Dakshina Kannada SP and the Dharmasthala station house officer, blaming influential people for the disappearance of her daughter, who she said was a first-year MBBS student at Manipal Medical College then. The petition stated that a classmate reported by calling her landline…

Hyderabad/New Delhi: Amid the Opposition bloc’s objections to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), a key NDA partner, has highlighted several considerations for the Election Commission (EC) in conducting the exercise. Many of these suggestions echo the Opposition’s concerns.   In a four-page submission to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in New Delhi Tuesday, the Chandrababu Naidu-led party has red-flagged some contentious matters like the timing and verification linked to citizenship. While recognising the SIR as “a valuable opportunity to ensure that the electoral rolls are updated in a fair, inclusive,…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s prime minister announced his resignation Tuesday in the first formal step of what is expected to be a significant reshuffle of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government, which could also see the country’s ambassador to Washington replaced.“I am tendering my resignation from the post of the Prime Minister of Ukraine,” Denys Shmyhal wrote in a letter posted on his Telegram page.Zelenskyy said Monday that he has offered Shmyhal’s job to 39-year-old Yuliia Svyrydenko, who is currently deputy prime minister and the country’s first female economy minister.Svyrydenko played a key role in negotiating a U.S.–Ukraine mineral agreement. She…

New Delhi: Successive coalition governments in India, which lasted for over two decades until 2014, were able to produce “better results” than the preceding majority governments, largely due to the economic reforms introduced by P.V. Narasimha Rao as Prime Minister, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said Tuesday.   But the rise of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister marked a “turning point,” restoring not just political stability, but also a “renewed sense of national pride,” he added, delivering a lecture on the life and legacy of Rao at the Prime Minister’s Museum and Library (PMML).  “India witnessed coalition governments from…