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COVID-19: Kochi's flower vendors experience hardships during Onam festival
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], August 16 (ANI): Flower sellers in Kochi are facing hardships during an otherwise profitable Onam festival season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Women Self Help Groups in Odisha make eco-friendly rakhis
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], August 16 (ANI): As the festival of Rakshabandhan getting closer, members of women Self Help Groups (SHG) from rural Odisha are selling eco-friendly 'rakhis'.
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Chinese authorities detain over 100 Tibetans in Nagchu for sharing 'sensit
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Lhasa [Tibet], August 15 (ANI): At least 110 Tibetans in Janglam village Nyanrong County in Nagchu Prefecture were detained on suspicion of sharing videos of preparations for a local horse racing festival.
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Ram Alladi bags best director award at the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Fi
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 14 (ANI/PNN): Ram Alladi's film Ra's Metanoia has won significant critical acclaim and awards for Gandhi's life. Shot entirely in New York and New Jersey, 'Ra's Metanoia' combines vintage film styling with state of the art computer-generated sets to creat
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Late cinema titan Satyajit Ray to get special tribute at Indian Film Festi
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 14 (ANI): Late Oscar-winning cinema titan Satyajit Ray will receive a special tribute at the latest edition of the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne.
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This Onam, Alappuzha police station spreads joy, gives out flowers for mak
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Alappuzha (Kerala) [India], August 14 (ANI): For Keralites, Onam is incomplete without Pookkalam, the floral rangoli, which is made and laid out in front of homes, offices and other establishments every day for the period of the 10-day long festival.
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Independence Day hoardings ignite spirit of patriotism in Srinagar
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], August 13 (ANI): To emphasize the importance of the national festival and to convey the message of maintaining peace and harmony to the general public, the Srinagar district police has decorated the city's roads with hoardings ahead of Independence day c
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Riz Ahmed announced as Jury Head for Platform Competition at Toronto Inter
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 12 (ANI): The Toronto International Film Festival has recently set the competition lineup for its Platforms program, naming actor-rapper Riz Ahmed as its head of the jury.
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Special Food squads inspect retail shops in Kerala ahead of Onam
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], August 12 (ANI): Ahead of the Onam festival, special food squads inspected retail shops in the Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday.
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Johnny Depp's San Sebastian Film Festival Award gets denounced by female S
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 11 (ANI):Spanish women filmmakers have slammed the San Sebastian film festival's decision to award its highest honour to Hollywood actor Johnny Depp who had lost a libel case last year over an article that called him a 'wife-beater'. The filmmakers have condemned the
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Cycle Pure announces an online Pookalam Competition to celebrate Onam
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], August 11 (ANI/News Voir): Cycle Pure Agarbathi, India's most preferred home worship brand, is organising an online Pookalam competition on the occasion of Onam 2021. Aiming to bring the celebrations to people's doorsteps, the brand urges everyone to celebrate
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Kerala to enforce new COVID-19 guidelines from today
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], August 11 (ANI): Amid a rise in COVID-19 cases and in view of approaching festivals, Kerala has decided to implement new guidelines from Wednesday and enforce "special intensified stringent" lockdown restrictions in the panchayats or urban wards wherei
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