Suresh Triveni’s Maa Behen begins with a wonderfully chaotic premise. A mother calls her daughters in the middle of the night and tells them that a man has died in her house. What follows is panic, confusion, bad decisions and a growing mess that nobody seems capable of handling. On paper, it sounds like the perfect setup for a dark comedy. Thankfully, the film manages to extract quite a bit of humour from that madness.
At least 15 coal-laden wagons of a goods train derailed in Jharkhand’s Palamu district on Thursday, leading to disruption of train services between Daltonganj and Garhwa Road Junction, a railway official said. However, no casualties were reported, the official said. The incident was reported near Rajhara station under the Dhanbad division of East Central Railway (ECR) when the goods train was diverting to an upline, he said.
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Muslim religious leaders and ulema in Karnataka have demanded greater representation for the community in the state cabinet, urging the Congress government to induct five Muslim leaders as ministers. They argued that Congress came to power with the support of Muslim voters and that the community deserves adequate representation in the government.
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