National Film Awards 2023: Alia Bhatt, Kriti Sanon, Allu Arjun receive top honours
The 69th National Film Awards ceremony, honouring the best that Indian cinema had to offer in the year 2021, is being held at the Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. The winners, whose names were announced earlier in September, will be honoured by the President of India, Droupadi Murmu. The Press Information Bureau live-streamed the ceremony on its social media channels.
The National Awards are running a year behind schedule because of pandemic-related delays. Among the winners are actors Allu Arjun, who won the Best Actor award for the film Pushpa: The Rise, Alia Bhatt and Kriti Sanon, who shared the award for Best Actress for their films, Gangubai Kathiawadi and Mimi respectively. Rocketry: The Nambi Effect won the award for Best Feature Film. The Kashmir Files won the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Film on National Integration at the 69th National Film Awards.
Shoojit Sircar’s historical drama Sardar Udham also won several awards. Apart from being named the Best Hindi Film, it also bagged Best Cinematography (Avik Mukhopadhyay), Best Audiography (Sinoy Joseph), Best Production Design (Dmitrii Malich and Mansi Dhruv Mehta) and Best Costume Design (Veera Kapur Ee) awards.
1. President Smt Droupadi Murmu will be on a three-day visit to Bihar from Wednesday. She will launch the fourth Krishi Road Map (2023-2028) of Bihar at Patna.
2. PM reviews progress of Gaganyaan Mission; Calls upon scientists to aim for Indian Space Station (Bharatiya Antariksha Station) by 2035 and sending astronauts to Moon by 2040.
3. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up for a significant milestone in the Gaganyaan mission as the Flight Test Vehicle Abort Mission-1 (TV-D1) is set to launch on October 21. This two-hour test flight will be conducted between 7 am and 9 am from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
4. PM Modi is scheduled to virtually open the third edition of Global Maritime India Summit (GMIS) 2023, taking place from October 17th to 19th at the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) Grounds in Mumbai.
5. Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched the India Skills 2023 competition in New Delhi on Tuesday.
6. Agra’s Taj Carnival to begin on Oct 17 in Agra, the central attraction of this celebration will be a spectacular hot air balloon ride. It will continue till 10 Nov.
7. The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has launched a special cleanliness campaign, ‘Swachch Tyohar, Swasth Tyohar’ (Clean Festival, Healthy Festival), with a focus on maintaining cleanliness in and around temples during Navratri, Dussehra, and Diwali festivals.
8. Jharkhand is making history by becoming the first state in India to take steps towards including gig workers, such as Swiggy, Zomato, Ola, Uber, and Rapido employees, under the ambit of minimum wages.
9. Department of Land Resources, DOLR and National Remote Sensing Centre, NRSC signed an MoU for monitoring of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana – Watershed Development Component, WDC 2.O on Tuesday. It aims to restore the ecological balance by harnessing, conserving, and developing degraded natural resources such as soil and water.
10. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has approved a proposal to dismiss the chairperson of Child Welfare Committee-IX following allegations of “negligence” and “misuse of powers”.
11. J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha addressed an event on Disaster Risk Reduction organized by J&K Disaster Management Authority at University of Kashmir in Srinagar on Tuesday.
12. Jammu and Kashmir, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has completed another viaduct at Sher Bibi area, a critical section of Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, between Ramban and Banihal section. The 224-meter viaduct (two-lane) has been completed with an estimated cost of 12 crore rupees.
13. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi are set to visit Telangana as part of their vijayabheri yatra on October 18th in the state.
LEGAL REPORT
#Chief Justice of India:
Shri Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
#Minister Of Law & Justice : Arjun Ram Meghwal
#International Court Of Justice Prz. : Joan Donoghue
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1. A five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to grant legal recognition to same-sex marriages.
2. The Supreme Court has said that queer people have the right to choose their partners like heterosexual ones but added that the right to marry cannot be regarded as a fundamental right. On Adoption Rights For Queer Couples, 3 Of 5 Supreme Court Judges Say ‘No’.
3. DMK minister Udhayanidhi Stalin has filed a counter affidavit in the Madras High Court challenging the quo warrant to writ petition filed against him by Hindu Munnani office bearers, over his controversial remarks on Sanatana Dharma.
4. The Income Tax Department on Tuesday conducted searches at multiple locations in Punjab and Madhya Pradesh as part of a tax evasion probe against a business group engaged in textile, paper products, chemicals and energy.
5. Former Congress MLA and DCC president Kulbir Singh Zira was arrested by the police from his residence in Zira on Tuesday. Accusing the leader and his supporters of obstructing him and other staff in performing their duties during a protest a few days ago.
6. In Jammu and Kashmir, the Enforcement Directorate conducted raids and searches in Jammu and adjoining areas as part of a money laundering probe against an educational trust run by ex-minister Lal Singh’s wife and a former government official in connection with alleged irregularities in land purchase to set up the trust.
“”””””””””” MISHAPS “”””””””””
Tamil Nadu: 11 killed in explosions at two firecracker factories in Sivakasi.
(a) One person was killed in another blast at Sikkanaickanpatti .
(b) Ten people were killed and two injured in a cracker factory blast in Rangampalayam.
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#Commerce & Industry : Piyush Goyal
#RBI Gvrnr: Shaktikanta Das
#President of the World Bank :
Ajay Banga
#IMF MD:
Kristalina Georgieva
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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
#Information and Broadcasting Minister: Shri Anurag Singh Thakur
#Chairman of The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) :
R Madhavan
#Chairman of Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC): Prasoon Joshi
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Entertainment News.
1. The National Film Awards 2023 was held on Tuesday at Vigyan Bhavan in Delhi. President Droupadi Murmu conferred the awards to the winners.
(a) Waheeda Rehman received Dadasaheb Phalke Award
(b) RRR got six awards including Best Film For Wholesome Entertainment. The film’s director SS Rajamouli received the award.
(c) Rocketry: The Nambi Effect actor and director R Madhavan received the National award.
Allu Arjun won the Best Actor award for Pushpa: The Rule.
(d) Alia Bhatt receives the Best Actress award for her film Gangubai Kathiawadi.
(e) Kriti Sanon, who played a surrogate mother in Mimi, won the Best Actress award.
(f) Pallavi Joshi and Pankaj Tripathi won Best Supporting Actress and Actor award for The Kashmir Files and Mimi.
2. A biopic featuring Nitin Gadkari, Road Transport and Highways Minister, is scheduled to premiere on October 27th. Titled ‘Gadkari,’ actor Rahul Chopda is portraying the role of Nitin Gadkari.
DEFENCE
#Supreme Commander of Armed Forces: The President
#Def Minister: Rajnath Singh
#Def Minister of State :
Ajay Bhatt
#Union Home : Amit Shah
#National Security Advisor : Ajit Doval
#Chief of Defence Staff:
Gen Anil Chauhan, PVSM UYSM AVSM SM VSM
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1. Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh announced the cash prizes to Armed Forces personnel for winning medals at the 19th Asian Games on Tuesday. He said that an amount of 25 lakh rupees would be given to the Gold medal winners and Silver medal winners would get rupees 15 lakh. 10 lakh rupees would be awarded to the Bronze medal winners.
2. The Ministry of Defence signed a contract on October 16, 2023, in New Delhi for the Mid-Life Upgrade and Re-Powering of the INS Beas. The contract, valued at Rs. 313.42 crore, will make Beas the first of the Brahmaputra Class Frigates to undergo this transformation.
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