Trinidad and Tobago President Kangaloo named chief guest at Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, to take part in various events in Odisha

Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi chaired a meeting on Tuesday, December 31, to review the preparations for the programme, which will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

New Year 2025: Doordarshan to screen restored version of Manthan in tribute to Shyam Benegal

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.

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.

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