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Aparna Sen’s ‘The Rapist’ wins top award at Busan film fest

Aparna Sen’s hard-hitting social drama, ‘The Rapist’, was declared the joint winner of the Kim Jiseok Award at the 26th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), which concluded here on Friday. The film, starring Konkona Sen Sharma, had been premiered at the festival’s ‘A Window on Asian Cinema’ section on October 7.

Extension of BSF’s jurisdiction evokes mixed response

Slamming the Centre for amending Section 139 of the BSF Act to give the force wider jurisdiction and terming it as tantamount to an attack on federalism, Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Randhawa on Wednesday asked Home Minister Amit Shah to withdraw the decision.

India sets the ball rolling for large-scale Battery Energy Storage System

Going forward, India plans to use energy storage systems under the following business cases: Renewable energy along with energy storage system; Energy storage system as grid element to maximise the use of transmission system and strengthen grid stability, and also to save investment in the augmentation of transmission infrastructure; storage as an asset for balancing services and flexible operation.

India’s September wholesale price inflation eases to 10.66%

“The high rate of inflation in September 2021 is primarily due to rise in prices of mineral oils, basic metals, non-food articles, food products, crude petroleum and natural gas, chemicals and chemical products etc, as compared to the corresponding month of the previous year,”

Two held for kidnapping, murdering 9-year-old boy in Delhi

According to the police, a complaint was registered on October 11 at the Uttam Nagar police station regarding a boy who went missing while playing in a park in front of the house. A case under section 363 (kidnapping) of the IPC was initially registered and the investigation was taken up.

Murder accused absconding for six years nabbed in Himachal

The victim’s wife had lodged a case at Delhi’s Vivek Vihar police station that on January 26, 2015, her husband had received a call from Vijay Sahni, who promised to return Rs 3.5 lakh he had borrowed and called him to Haryana’s Panipat for this.