Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award

The 52nd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) is going to held in Goa from November 20 to November 28, 2021 in which Hungarian filmmaker Istvan Szabo and Hollywood icon Martin Scorsese will be honoured with “Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement ..

Tags: International Film Festival of India • Satyajit Ray

Month: Current Affairs - October, 2021

Bimal Julka Committee on Rationalization of Film Media units

On June 2, 2020, the Bimal Julka Committee on Rationalization of Film Media operating under Ministry of Information and Broadcasting submitted its report to the ministry. Key Findings of the report The Committee recommended roadmaps for the development of National ..

Tags: Committee • Film • Ministry of Information and Broadcasting • National Film Development Corporation • Satyajit Ray

Month: Current Affairs - June, 2020

Feluda: COVID-19 test developed by CSIR-IGIB scientists

The IGIB (Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology) operating under CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) have come up with a COVID-19 test called “Feluda”. Highlights The test has been named after a detective character in the stories of ..

Tags: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) • CRISPR-Cas9 • CSIR-IGIB • DNA • feluda

Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020

Sahitya Akademi Award 2019

The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour, which is conferred by India’s National Academy of Letters, Sahitya Akademi annually to writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 24 listed languages(22 languages as ..

Tags: Eighth Schedule • Indian Constitution • Satyajit Ray • Shashi Tharoor

BHayanakam wins best cinematography at 2019 Beijing International Film Festival

Malayalam film Bhayanakam (Fear) directed by Jayaraj has won the best cinematography award at the 2019 Beijing International Film Festival (BIFF). The cinematography was done by Nikihil S Praveen. The film had also won the best cinematography award at the ..

Tags: Aparajito • Bhayanakam • Cinema of India • Film festival • Indian culture

Amar Paul, legendary Bengali folk singer, passes away

Amar Paul (97), the legendary Bengali folk singer, has passed away in Kolkata on April 20, 2019. Born on May 19, 1922, at Brahmanbaria in undivided Bengal in an area now in Bangladesh, Paul had started taking music lessons from ..

Tags: Amar Pal • Anup Ghoshal • Brahmos • Chakraborty • Cinema of India