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Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) president and Rajouri Garden MLA Manjinder Singh Sirsa in a tweet said that the book illustrated Sikhs’ beard/turban tying comparing the Pagg (turban) with a Pug (dog). “There is no humour or art in this; rather only humiliation & mockery made of Sikh turban ritual,” Sirsa tweeted.

The PIL has been moved by the student under the title, ‘We, the People of India’, stating that he has used this title because he does not want any fame, gain or money. The matter has been listed on April 22 before a bench led by Acting Chief Justice Manmohan.

Director Payal Kapadia’s groundbreaking Grand Prix win at Cannes 2024 for her women-led debut feature All We Imagine As Light — a recognition India has been bestowed upon after 30 years — has taken social media by storm. From filmmakers to actors, Indians have congratulated her for this monumental win at the 77th edition of the prestigious film festival. However, a congratulatory message from her alma mater, the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), which once took disciplinary action against her while she was still a student, on X (formerly Twitter), has raised many eyebrows. Actor Ali Fazal and sound designer Resul Pookutty took to social media to question FTII’s role in Payal’s success, calling the institute’s message a ‘hypocrisy.’ When FTII’s tweet described her win as a ‘moment of pride,’ Ali reposted the message with the sarcastic caption, ‘Uhhh… please don’t. Just don’t (sic).”

The health department of Karnataka and the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) have partnered with ARTPARK to develop predictive analytics to assist policy makers and public health officials in managing disease control activities. The disease surveillance dashboard provides a map of outbreaks at the district and sub-district levels across Karnataka and provides case trends over the years.

The women-centric thriller is said to be set in Western Ghats, where the protagonist loses her way. The initial posters featuring Amala Paul on a RX100 bike had created quite a buzz for the project on social media.

Louise Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest set a new standard for screen villains and won her an Academy Award, has died at age 88.

Filming for the as-yet untitled Formula One movie starring Brad Pitt is continuing at this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix despite a Hollywood actors’ strike.

Elon Musk acquiring Twitter prompted many users to look for alternatives to the microblogging platform and one, in particular, has received a lot of attention: Mastodon. In the week succeeding the announcement of the acquisition, the ‘alternative social media platform’ reportedly got over 176,000 new users. Dubbed as an open-source and distributed or federated social network, Mastodon allows users to create their own networks or ‘instances’, essentially handing control and ownership of data back to the user. Each instance has its own policies related to content moderation, code of conduct, terms of service and privacy etc.