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By Vishnu Makhijani
New Delhi– Subroto Bandopadhyay was all of 10 when the 1971 India-Pakistan war inspired him to join the Indian Air Force (IAF). Commissioned in 1982, he served for 26 years, rising to the rank of Group Captain, and in 2003 played a key role in circumnavigating a huge Il-76 aircraft around the globe to a multinational exercise in Alaska. Thereafter, he navigated the Il-76 from the Eielson Air Force base in Alaska to the True North Pole and back, a flight that finds a mention in the Limca Book of Records.
At age 58, a few years after hanging up his uniform after taking premature retirement, he plunged into a second career writing short stories inspired as he was by R.K. Narayan’s “Malgudi Days”, choosing the genre as it is “not getting its due” and hoping to change “this mindset of our present-day readers”, Bandopadhyay told IANS in an interview as his debut book, “The Bangkok Fiasco and other Stories” (
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In Bengaluru, an online home chef-sourced snack brand is packaging its offerings with thematic cartoons
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In Bengaluru, an online home chef-sourced snack brand is packaging its offerings with thematic cartoons
Packaged junk food and snacks flew off the shelves of supermarkets in the beginning of lockdown. Then, snackers began to look inwards. Gradually, families began to congregate in the kitchen, leading to a revival of sorts, of homemade, traditional South Indian savouries and sweets. This motivated Sairam Gopalan to launch an online snack store in January, the groundwork for which he started in July 2020.
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Railway Minister points to 400 % increase in seven years
Union Minister for Railways Piyush Goyal has said the Central government in its budget allocated nearly ₹4,000 crore for the railway works in Karnataka and that is four times more than what was allocated for the State in 2014.
He addressed people of Shivamogga through a video-link in a programme to lay the foundation stone for construction of three Road overbridges (RoBs) on Monday.
Mr. Piyush Goyal said in 2014, the State had got works worth only ₹1,000 crore. The funds had gone up by 400 per cent in seven years. The Railway Ministry had taken up the suburban railway project in Bengaluru as a joint venture with the State government. Bengaluru city deserved better transport facility. The suburban project should be completed on a mission mode, Mr. Goyal said.
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04 Feb, 2021 - 08:15 AM IST | By Shikha Singh
MUMBAI: There was a time when the entire family used to sit in front of the TV set for their daily dose of entertainment in the form of TV soaps. Like clockwork, a show would come on during its affixed time slot and the theme music would play, alerting those who’re not yet glued to the idiot box to tune in. Viewers, both casual and hardcore, still remember the romantic, bittersweet opening theme and the accompanying visuals of a bright red dupatta flying in the wind when they think of