Haryana makes historic debut at IFFI-2025 with grand showcase of culture and cinema
The prestigious nine-day festival, being held from November 20 to 28, 2025, features a variety of events, including the Film Bazaar and several special programmes.
The prestigious nine-day festival, being held from November 20 to 28, 2025, features a variety of events, including the Film Bazaar and several special programmes.
The tableau of Madhya Pradesh has again been chosen, for the second year in a row, to be part of the National Republic Day Parade in New Delhi on 26 January, and this year the state’s theme is ‘Cheetah’, the world’s fastest land animals that are present only in the state and nowhere else in the entire country.
The tableau of the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways (MoPSW) highlighted its commitment to gender inclusivity.
CM Mann said the rejection of the Punjab tableau for the R-Day parade in effect was a rejection of the sacrifices of martyrs of the state.
his is the fourth time in recent years that West Bengal’s tableau has been rejected. In 2020, the state had given three proposals for the state tableaux for the January 26 parade ~ 1. Kanyashree, 2. Save Green, stay clean, 3. Jol Dhoro Jol Bhoro. But all proposals were rejected. In 2017, the state had sent its tableau proposal for Unity in Harmony but it was rejected and chief minister Mamata Banerjee herself had said that it was cancelled deliberately and due to political reasons.
West Bengal Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Tapas Roy said that the BJP would get a 'befitting reply' for the move in the near future.
The tableau proposal made by the state was rejected for the Republic Day Parade this year after the expert committee made a few objections.
A tableau glorifying and supporting Shambhu Lal Raigar, who in in jail on the charge of killing and burning a…