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CWG 2018: Tejaswini Sawant strikes gold, Anjum Moudgil bags silver as India dominate in shooting

  • Tejaswini Sawant on Friday added another gold medal to her decorated Commonwealth Games resume en route to shattering the games record in the women's 50m rifle 3 positions event while putting in the shade silver winner Anjum Moudgil's remarkable resilience.

  • Tejaswini held the lead from the first shot in the finals and broke the CWG record with 457.9.


65th National Film Awards: Full winners list

Here a look at all the 65th National Film Awards winners:

Best Film: Assamese film Village Rockstars

Best Direction: Jayaraj, Bhayanakam

Best Actor (Male): Riddhi Sen, Nagarkirtan

Best Actor (Female): Sridevi, MOM

Best Supporting Actor (Male): Fahad Fazil, Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum

Best Supporting Actor (Female): Divya Dutta, Irada

Dadasaheb Phalke Award: Vinod Khanna

Best Original Screenplay: Sajeev Pazhoor, Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum.

Best Adapted Screenplay: Jayaraj, Bhayanakam

Best Hindi Film: Newton

Best Malayalam film: Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum

Best Marathi film: Kaccha Limbu

Best Kannada film: Hebbettu Ramakka

Best Oriya film: Hello Aarsi

Best Jasari film: Sinjar

Best Ladkhi film: Walking With The Wind

Best Tulu film: Paddayi

Best Bengali Film: Mayurakshi

Best Telugu film: Ghazi

Best Assamese Film: Ishu

Best Tamil film: To Let

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Best Gujarati Film: DHH

Nargis Dutt Award for Best Film on National Integration: Dhappa

Best Popular Film providing wholesome entertainment: Baahubali: The Conclusion

Best Non-Feature Film: Water Baby

Best Educational Film: The Girls We Were and The Women We Are

Best Animation Film: The Fish Curry and Tokri: The Basket

Best Film on Art and Culture: Girija: A life of music

Best Film on Social Issues: I am Bonnie and Veil Done

Best Short Film (Fiction): Mayyat

Best Music Direction: A R Rahman, Kaatru Veliyidai

Best Background Score: A R Rahman, MOM

Best Male Playback Singer: K J Yesudas, “Poy Maranja Kalam” in Viswasapoorvam Mansoor

Best Female Playback Singer: Shashaa Tirupati, “Vaan” in Kaatru Veliyidai

Best Lyrics: Prahlad, Muthu Ratnada Pyate

Best Audiography: Avinash Sonawane, Pavasacha Nibandha

Best Cinematography: Nikhil S Praveen, Bhayanakam

Special Jury Award: A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings.

Special Mention Awards: Marathi film Morkiya, Oriya film Hella Aarsi and Malayalam film Take Off

Newton Newton was declared the Best Hindi Film at the 65th National Film Awards.

Assamese film Village Rockstars won big at the 65th National Film Awards.


Best Action Direction: S. S. Rajamouli’s Baahubali: The Conclusion

Best Choreography: Ganesh Acharya, Toilet Ek Prem Katha’s song “Gori Tu Latth Maar”.

Best Special Effects: Baahubali: The Conclusion

Best Makeup artist: Ram Rajjak, Nagarkirtan.

Best Production Design: Santhosh Raman, Take Off

Best Sound Design and Best Recordist: Walking with the Wind


Best Child Artist: Banita Das, Village Rockstars

Best Children’s Film: Mhorkya, Amar Bharat Deokar

Best Non-Feature Films Director: Nagraj Manjule

Best Debut Film of a director: Pampally, Sinjar



CWG 2018: Gold for Sushil Kumar, Rahul Aware and silver for Babita Kumari as wrestlers dominate

  • This is Sushil’s third CWG gold following gold medals in the 66kg event in 2010 and 74kg event in 2014

  • This is the first CWG medal for Aware, 26, who in 2011 won gold at the Commonwealth Championships

  • Kiran outplayed Pariadhaven 10-0 to win bronze in the women's 76kg freestyle category


Bangladesh Ends Reservation in Govt Jobs as PM Sheikh Hasina Gives in to Protesting Students

  • Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said she has decided to scrap the quota system in government services after thousands of students marched across the country in protest against a controversial policy of setting aside jobs for special groups.

  • In Dhaka, mobs of students blockaded major roads, bringing traffic to a standstill. Police were deployed to the Dhaka University where clashes in recent days left more than 100 students injured by tear gas and rubber bullets.


Govt. appoints panel to review CSR enforcement under Companies Act

NEW DELHI: The government has set up a 12-member panel to review the enforcement of CSR provisions under the companies law as well as look at having a centralised scrutiny and prosecution mechanism to deal with violations.

The latest move by the Corporate Affairs Ministry, which is implementing the Companies Act, comes little over four years after the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) norms came into force on April 1, 2014.

A committee on CSR to review “the functioning of CSR enforcement and to recommend a uniform approach for its enforcement” has been constituted, according to a communication from the ministry.



UAE approves plan for new equal pay law

  • The UAE Cabinet has approved the issuance of legislation to ensure equal pay for men and women working in the country.

  • According to state news agency WAM, the Law on Equal Wages and Salaries for Men and Women will ensure that women have equal opportunities as partners in the UAE’s development, and to further empower women to lead future national strategies and ambitious projects.


India, Morocco sign pact to promote mineral exploration

  •  India has inked a pact with Morocco under which focus would be laid on evaluation of potential mineral resources and promoting exploration and mining through participation of both public and private sector.

  • "After the bilateral discussions, an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) in the field of Mining and Geology for a period of 5 years was signed by both the countries," the mines ministry said in a statement.



ISRO's PSLV Successfully Launches IRNSS-1I Navigation Satellite From Sriharikota Days After Big Jolt: 10 Points

  • ISRO, the Indian Space Research Organisation, declared the 43rd mission of the PSLV a success after it placed the IRNSS 1I satellite into a precise orbit. The last satellite launch for the satellite-aided navigation NAVIC programme by the PSLV had failed in August 2017.

  • After the launch, ISRO Chairman Dr K Sivan said, "I am extremely happy to announce that the 8th navigation satellite of India was launched successfully into the NAVIC constellation. We are moving towards a major goal. This NAVIC constellation will create history."

  • India needs seven operational satellites for providing failsafe satellite based navigation. The 1,425-kg satellite was made by the Bengaluru-based Alpha Design Technologies, in collaboration with ISRO.


CWG 2018: Gold for Shreyasi Singh, Harvard student Varsha narrowly misses bronze

  • Shreyasi Singh shot her way to a career-best gold in the women’s double trap final
  • she edged Australia’s Emma Cox in the shoot-off to to claim the top spot in the podium
  • Coming agonisingly close to a bronze medal in her first appearance at the CWG was 23-year-old Varsha Varman, who finished fourth


DefExpo 2018, India's mega defence exhibition, to begin tomorrow

  •  India’s mega defence exhibition, the defexpo 2018, will begin in Chennai on Wednesday. The event will underscore India’s first serious attempt to project itself as a major military manufacturer.

  • The event will be formally inaugurated on April 12 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

  • The event is happening even as work on the Tamil Nadu defence industrial corridor has begun. The corridor will be a quadrilateral extending from Chennai to Hosur, Coimbatore, Salem and Tiruchirappalli, opening new opportunities for the industry.