Paul And Mike, an artisanal Kerala-based ‘bean to bar’ chocolate maker is savouring the taste of success. It has become the first Indian company to win a silver in the International Chocolate Awards (2020-2021 world final) for its ‘64 Percent Dark Sichuan Pepper and Orange Peel Vegan Chocolate’.
Bhuvan Sathya’s Pinni is the only Kannada language short-film to get the honour along with three Kannada features
Three films produced by Chennai-based independent studio Stray Factory will be screened at the New York Indian Film Festival this year.
The NYIFF, which is being held from June 4 to 13, will screen Nasir (directed by Arun Karthick), B. Selvi & Daughters (directed by Drishya), and Freddie’s Piano (directed by Aakash Prabhakar).
Raimona in Kokrajhar district has become Assam’s sixth national park.
Eastern Assam’s Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary, under stress for unregulated coal mining in the vicinity is in the process of becoming the seventh national park, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said at a function to mark World Environment Day on Saturday.
“Go to Guwahati for the Ankia Bhaona Samaroh. You will have a rare experience and a new vision of Assamese culture,” Raju Das, an officer of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi, who hails from Assam, had told me.
Noted Assamese litterateur and Padma Shri awardee Lakshmi Nandan Bora passed away at a private hospital in Guwahati on Thursday. He was 91.
Netflix has announced that it will be unveiling its first fully owned post-production facility in Mumbai in 2022.
Tejinder Singh, the founder editor of the Washington-based India America Today newspaper has died, according to a tweet from the publication.
On Tuesday, Pentagon Spokesperson John Kirby paid tributes to Singh calling him “a real gentleman, good reporter, damn good reporter.”
He said at his regular news briefing, “We’d here at the Pentagon would like to take a moment to — to express our condolences and sympathies for the passing of Mr. Tejinder Singh.”