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Gautam Adani will start in February to collect the data and biometrics of up to 1 million poor residents as part of the redevelopment of a slum in Mumbai that is considered one of Asia's largest. The survey will be crucial in deciding who among the residents of the Dharavi slum will be eligible to receive a free home in the area that is being redeveloped. However, authorities have struggled for decades to fix up the area, which covers 640 acres (260 hectares), with Adani Group finally winning the bid to redevelop the area together with the state of Maharashtra, though legal disputes over the awarding of the contract are outstanding.

Veteran actor Chiranjeevi says he is «humbled and grateful» to be honoured to be with Padma Vibushan, an award that he owes to his fans. The 68-year-old actor's name was announced among the Padma awardees on the eve of the Republic Day. He has been bestowed with the Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian honour awarded for exceptional and distinguished service, along with Indian cinema icon Vyjayantimala.

Oscar nominations rarely make anyone sit up the way this year’s have. Was it a classic preference for serious cinema or an old gender bias that swayed Hollywood’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences? Of last summer’s two most hotly raved-about movies, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, the award contenders picked for 2024 display a clear tilt towards the biopic of a scientist credited with the world’s first nuclear weapon. It was nominated this week for awards in 13 categories, including for Best Picture and Best Director, the two big ones, while the feminist remake of an iconic doll’s legend got eight call-outs, with Gerwig left out of the contest as an award-worthy director.

75th Republic Day, with six individuals receiving Padma Shri awards and one foreigner being honoured with a Padma Bhushan award. However, the list also featured recipients from non-resident Indian (NRI), person of Indian origin (PIO), and overseas citizenship of India categories. One foreign recipient was honoured with the Padma Vibhushan, while three foreigners, all of Indian origin, were bestowed with the Padma Bhushan.

SJVN Ltd on Thursday said it has bagged a 100 MW solar project under an e-reverse auction conducted by Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd (GUVNL). SJVN bagged the 100 MW solar project at the rate of Rs 2.54/unit on a build-own and operate basis through a tariff-based competitive bidding process of GUVNL Phase XXI, a company statement said.

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Mamata Banerjee on Thursday announced that a special desk will be created to offer government jobs to sportspersons who have brought accolades to the state and were awarded by the state government. The state government also announced monthly Rs 1,000 to retired sportspersons. Sportspersons, who got awarded today, will submit their curriculum vitae at the desk and they will be provided jobs by the state government," Mamata Banerjee said, adding that necessary laws will be passed to facilitate these awarded sportspersons.

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Nitin Gadkari said. “Ministry of roads will soon be adopting qualitative tendering process instead of the least cost bidding process to bring in quality and road safety in various projects,” Gadkari said at the International Road Federations’ event on Vision Zero – Targeting road safety by 5E’s, jointly organised by the ministry of road transport and highways and Maruti Suzuki. “Qualitative tendering will help incorporate safer road safety features in designs keeping in mind the behavior of the road users,” he added. According to Gadkari, there have been several cases where officers in the ministry have done away with safety features in highway projects to bring down costs and in the name of making them financially viable. “Road engineering is the biggest culprit for increasing road accidents in the country.

Barbie’, the highest grossing movie worldwide with a worldwide Box Office collection of $1,441,820,453 was produced on a budget of $145 million. It became the first movie from a solo female director to cross $1 billion at the Box Office.

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Bharat Ratna for Karpoori Thakur will "send a positive message among deprived sections of the society". Nitish Kumar, who visits the late leader's ancestral village on his every birth anniversary even slammed BJP and PM Modi for attempting to take “full credit" for it. "I was told by Ramnath Thakur, my party colleague, and the late leader’s son, that the prime minister had called him up after the announcement.

exceeding 150. He is currently recuperating from a groin surgery that he underwent in Germany earlier this month. He is expected to be back in action in the IPL for the Mumbai Indians in March.

Shiv Sena (UBT) on Wednesday attacked the BJP-led Centre for not conferring Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian award, on Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar. Addressing a news conference, Sena (UBT) leader and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut called the Centre's decision to honour former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur with the award posthumously a political move. Since the Narendra Modi government took charge in Delhi (in 2014), 11 people have been conferred the highest civilian award, but Savarkar has not found a place on the list, said Raut.

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Congress on Wednesday welcomed the decision to confer Bharat Ratna to former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur and said it reflects the Narendra Modi government's desperation and hypocrisy. Thakur was a champion of social justice and conducting a nationwide caste census would be an appropriate tribute to him, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said.

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To Kill a Tiger', set in a small Indian village, was on Tuesday nominated for the best documentary feature at the 2024 Academy Awards. A Canadian production, 'To Kill a Tiger' is directed by Delhi-born Nisha Pahuja, an Emmy-nominated filmmaker based in Toronto. It had its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival 2022 where it won the Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Feature Film.

Bihar Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur, who has been chosen for the country's highest civilian award "Bharat Ratna", is remembered as «a stalwart of social justice and an inspiring figure in Indian politics». Hailing from the extremely backward class «Nai» (barber), Thakur was born in an impoverished family in Samastipur district but went on to make giant strides in politics that earned him the epithet "Jannayak" (people's leader).