Mumbai, Aug 6 (IANS) Music composer Tanishk Bagchi has given a generational song to the nation with ‘Saiyaara’ title track. The composer has spoken up on his musical influences that have shaped the artist in him since childhood. Tanishk grew up in Kolkata, the Indian city known for its rich confluence of cultures and music. Tanishk recently spoke with IANS celebrating the success of ‘Saiyaara’, and said, “I have grown up listening to a lot of kinds of music. My dad was a guitarist. And…

Mumbai, Aug 6 (IANS) It’s been 15 years since the release of the film Aisha in Hindi cinema. Actress and fashionista Sonam Kapoor shared that during the making of the film, she and her sister Rhea Kapoor knew they wanted to experiment with fashion and make it both cool and accessible to people. Aisha marked Rhea Kapoor’s debut as a producer and starred Sonam Kapoor, Amrita Puri and Ira Dubey, with Rajshree Ojha in the director’s seat.Revisiting the film, the actress said: “While making Aisha, …

Chennai, Aug 6 (IANS) Sameer Nair, one of the producers of ace director Mari Selvaraj’s eagerly-awaited sports drama ‘Bison Kaalamaadan’, featuring actor Dhruv Vikram in the lead, has now praised the film after watching the director’s cut, saying that his production house was “so so proud to be producing this bold and brilliant film.” Sameer Nair’s production house Applause Entertainment recently took to its social media timelines to share the news that the producers had watched the director’s c…

Mumbai, Aug 6 (IANS) The RBI on Wednesday retained its forecast for India’s GDP growth at 6.5 per cent for FY 2025-26, despite global uncertainties, as it expects strong rural demand on the back of a good monsoon and robust government expenditure on big ticket infrastructure projects to propel growth.RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra said, “The above normal southwest monsoon, lower inflation, rising capacity utilization and congenial financial conditions continue to support domestic economic acti…

Mumbai, Aug 6 (IANS) Following the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) decision on Wednesday to maintain the repo rate at 5.50 per cent, the benchmark index Nifty 50 experienced a slight decline, falling below the 24,600 resistance level.The Nifty 50 was trading at 24,569 as of 10.54 am, after an intraday decline of 0.33 per cent, while the Sensex stood at 80,473, down 0.29 per cent. Prior to the Monetary Policy Committee’s decision, Nifty and Sensex were down 0.08 per cent and 0.07 per cent, respecti…

Moscow, Aug 6 (IANS) Moscow on Wednesday said that it is not surprised by the record-long absence of a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Donald Trump, given the “unprecedented deterioration” of Russia-US relations during the tenure of former US President Joe Biden. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the remarks on an assessment, which noted that for the first time in the modern history of Russia, the US-Russian summit had not been held even after mor…

Mumbai, Aug 6 (IANS) Shiv Sena(UBT) on Wednesday came out in support of Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, and raised questions about the Supreme Court’s observations, terming them “wrong in every manner”.”What has the Supreme Court achieved by making its observation that a ‘true Indian’ would not make a remark like China had occupied 2,000 square kilometres of Indian territory and Chinese troops were thrashing Indian soldiers in Aunachal Pradesh,” the Uddhav Thackeray ca…

Chennai, Aug 6 (IANS) Tamil Nadu has achieved a landmark economic growth of 11.9 per cent in real terms for the fiscal year 2024-25, marking the first instance of double-digit growth in over a decade. Celebrating the feat, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Wednesday said that the state’s goal of becoming a US$1 trillion economy by 2030 is now well within reach.The impressive growth figures were released by the Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), placing Tamil Nadu at…

New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday conducted raids at 11 locations in the national capital and three states in connection with a global cyber fraud case involving Rs 260 crore. The ED conducted the raids under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act based on FIRs registered by the Delhi Police and the Central Bureau of Investigation.The raids were taking place in Noida (Uttar Pradesh), Gurugram (Haryana), Dehradun (Uttarakhand), and DelhiThe fraudsters cheated f…

Kolkata, Aug 6 (IANS) The BJP MPs from West Bengal are all set to raise the issue of the attack on the convoy of the leader of the opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, at Cooch Behar in West Bengal. “One of our members will raise this issue on the floor of the Parliament and will seek discussions on the issue,” confirmed a BJP Lok Sabha member from West Bengal.According to him, while the Trinamool Congress is so vocal about creating a “false narrative” on alleged harassment …