Film Heritage Foundation (FHF), which restored the 1976 classic film for its premiere in the Cannes Classic section at the Cannes Film Festival earlier in 2024, shared the update on its official X page. According to FHF, Manthan will be broadcast on Doordarshan on 1 January 2025 at 8pm.
Author: Press Trust of India
Over 30 Indian-origin ‘unsung heroes’ on King Charles’ 2025 New Year Honours List
More than 1,200 recipients are named on the 2025 honours list across all sectors, with particular commendation to role models in sport, healthcare, academia and voluntary service.
Estrogen-driven brain activity boosts binge drinking in females: Study
Researchers, led by those at Weill Cornell Medicine, US, previously showed that neurons in a brain region called ‘bed nucleus of the stria terminalis’, or BNST, were more excitable in female mice, compared to male ones.
ISRO begins countdown for Space Docking Experiment onboard PSLV-C60 rocket
A cost-effective technology demonstrator mission for in-space docking, it would make India join an elite list featuring China, Russia and the US.
Jimmy Carter, longest-lived US President, dies at 100
Carter died on Sunday, December 29, aged 100. He was the longest-lived President in US history.
Indian mission in Singapore to open condolence book for residents to pay tribute to Manmohan Singh
Singh, who was India’s prime minister for 10 years from 2004 to 2014, died in New Delhi on Thursday night. He was 92.
China approves Brahmaputra dam in Tibet, on a scale to surpass Three Gorges Dam, with security concerns for India
The dam is to be built at a huge gorge in the Himalayan reaches where the Brahmaputra river makes a huge U-turn to flow into Arunachal Pradesh in India and then to Bangladesh.
The total investment in the dam could exceed 1 trillion yuan (USD 137 billion), which would dwarf any other single infrastructure project on the planet, including China’s own Three Gorges Dam, regarded as the largest in the world, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported.
Renowned Pakistani author Bapsi Sidhwa passes away at 86 in the US
Her novel Ice Candy Man — later adapted into the critically acclaimed film Earth by Indian-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta — captured the horrors of the 1947 partition, a period Sidhwa personally witnessed as a child.
Indian rupee falls 10 paise, hit record low of 85.25 against USD in early trade
At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened weak at 85.23 and slipped further to hit a life-time low of 85.25 against the greenback in initial deals, registering a loss of 10 paise against its previous closing level.
Legendary Indian litterateur M T Vasudevan Nair dies at 91
Popularly known as M T, he had been undergoing treatment for over a month due to illness. The writer was admitted to the hospital in the early morning of December 16, following respiratory complications.
