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  • Congress spokesperson Reetam Singh has claimed that Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) co-convenor Ashutosh Ranka refused to meet Congress leaders during his recent Assam visit. He alleged that the group was told to stay away because its outreach was "an Aam Aadmi Party initiative"
  • Indian Railways is undertaking a major expansion of the Guwahati rail network, including new lines, the second Saraighat Bridge, station redevelopment and a Mega Coaching Complex. The projects are intended to improve connectivity, passenger facilities and train operations across the Northeast
  • 150 people were arrested in Delhi as the CJP protest over the resignation of CEC Gynaesh Kumar entered the second day
  • The Centre ordered all AGMUT cadre segments to report within 48 hours any FIR, arrest, adverse court order or investigative action involving IAS, IPS, DANICS and DANIPS officers. The move follows concerns over delays in reporting investigations by agencies including the CBI, ED and anti-corruption bodies
  • India brought back alleged international narco-trafficking kingpin Navpreet Singh from Türkiye, where he had allegedly obtained citizenship under the false identity Navab Virk. Home Minister Amit Shah said Singh was accused of running heroin and methamphetamine trafficking routes from Afghanistan into India
  • Jack Dorsey’s decentralised messaging application Bitchat disappeared from Apple's and Google's app stores in India after Apple said the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology had ordered its removal under Section 69A of the IT Act. The app's website was also inaccessible through several Indian internet providers
  • The RBI reiterated its cautious stance on private cryptocurrencies, while backing the underlying technologies such as distributed ledgers and tokenisation. Governor Sanjay Malhotra said central-bank digital currencies could offer an alternative for improving cross-border payments
  • Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said India must continue building economic resilience amid global uncertainty, highlighting strategic-resource security, diversified supply chains, skills and domestic capabilities in critical minerals, rare earths, semiconductors and small modular reactors. She was speaking at the Kautilya Economic Conclave in New Delhi
  • RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra warned that a slowdown in the global AI investment cycle could trigger sharp repricing of financial assets, while saying any correction in elevated AI valuations in advanced economies could potentially redirect capital towards India. He also identified cyber risk as a major financial-stability concern arising from increasingly sophisticated AI
  • India lost 4-0 to Brazil in the historic international friendly at Kolkata’s Salt Lake Stadium, with Estevao, Pedro and Samuel Lino, who scored twice, finding the net. The match was Brazil’s first senior men’s international on Indian soil
  • Seventeen-year-old Kumkum Mohod won India’s first women’s individual recurve gold at the Asian Games, beating South Korea’s Oh Yejin in a shoot-off. The victory also secured an Olympic quota place for India for the 2028 Los Angeles Games
  • Pranavi Urs became the first Indian woman to win an individual Asian Games golf gold, finishing one stroke ahead of China’s Yin Ruoning at 15-under 265. India also took silver in the women’s team event
  • Wrestler Aman Sehrawat won the men’s 57kg freestyle gold, defeating reigning world champion Han Chong Song of North Korea 11-7 after recovering from a 7-6 deficit late in the bout
  • India’s men’s hockey team retained the Asian Games gold, defeating Malaysia 5-1 in the final. The victory also secured India a place in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics
  • India retained the Asian Games men’s T20 cricket title, beating Pakistan by 19 runs in the final. Abhishek Sharma’s 61 off 28 balls and Tilak Varma’s unbeaten 51 off 22 helped India post 211/6 before Pakistan finished on 192/6
Asian Games: October 3 gold medallists: Kumkum Mohod (Archery), Pranavi Urs (Golf), Aman Sehrawat (Wrestling), India men’s cricket team (Cricket), and India men’s hockey team (Hockey) /////// India finishes its campaign in 4th position in the Asian Games medal table: 21 gold, 27 silver, 37 bronze; 85 medals.
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Mumbai Diaries: Gripping Drama

By Yogendra
First publised on 2021-09-12 03:52:19

About the Author

Sunil Garodia Yogendra is freelance writer

Although Mumbai Diaries 26/11 is about the terrorist attack on the city that never sleeps, it is not only about that. It is a multi-layered web series that shows in-built prejudices, personal relationships, brutality, heroism and the problems faced by doctors in government hospitals. With the Bombay General Hospital (BGH) as the main place where the story unfolds, director Nikhil Advani takes the viewer on a gripping, roller-coaster ride on how the events unfolded that fateful day, how people got entangled in the flow and how it affected their lives. It makes for engaging viewing and since the series moves ahead t a fast pace, the viewer is always interested in finding out what happens next despite so many shows and films on the same subject having already hit the screens. That in itself is a big achievement for the series.

Three interns from different backgrounds appear for their interview with the charismatic surgeon Kaushik Oberoi (Mohit Raina) at the BGH. But before they could meet him, they are sucked into the events that start happening as streams of injured start coming in from the shooting that starts happening at various places in the city. Thus begins a story that keeps going back and forth from various attack points to the happenings at the BGH. While the terrorists keep killing people, the doctors and the staff at the BGH try to save as many as they can. There is a media person who needs exclusive footage and enters the hospital as a patient. There are back stories of all principal characters and individual prejudices come to the fore. But heroism, not jingoism, is the main plank on which the series moves ahead. It judiciously avoids the many pitfalls that are the bane of such dramas.

The cast, comprising Konkona Sen Sharma, Mohit Raina, Prakash Belawadi, Mrunmayee Deshpande, Satyajeet Dubey, Shreya Dhanwantary and Natasha Bharadwaj, are the backbone of this series. Even the newcomers in small roles contribute to making it real and believable. The action is well filmed and although viewers have seen it in many earlier shows and films, it keeps them hooked due to some surprise elements thrown in. Mumbai Diaries 26/11 is a series that holds viewer attention in all eight episodes. 

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