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In this episode of The Lead from DH Radio, Arshad Warsi talks to DH all about his latest film 'Durgamati'

Hi and welcome to the Lead by DH Radio. In this episode, Arshad Warsi talks to DH's Rohktim all about his latest film 'Durgamati'. Listen in.

Rohktim Rajpal: Hello, sir. How are you?

Arshad Warsi: I am fine, Rohktim. I am very amused by your name. What does it mean?

Rohktim: It means red. So I will begin by asking you: What encouraged you to give a nod to 'Durgamati'?

Arshad: Great script. Really interesting and Very intriguing, exciting, etc. All the things that will make you go to the cinema to watch the film.

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In your evening news brief, From The Newsroom, BJP president JP Nadda tests positive for Covid-19; Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has asked the BJP-ruled Centre to shun "arrogance" and scrap three farm laws; Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala has asserted that farmers who are protesting the Centre's farm laws will reach consensus with the government in 24-48 hours; The Indian Railways is working on using artificial intelligence and data analytics in a big way to improve its operational efficiency and Chaos reigned at the Karnataka Examination Authority’s CET cell in Bengaluru after hundreds of students, plus parents, thronged a small seating area, throwing Covid-19 social distancing norms out the window.

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In your evening news brief, From The Newsroom, Farmer leaders ready to hold talks with government; Ministry of Home Affairs unilaterally summons three IPS officers of West Bengal to serve in the central deputation; strike called by the Karnataka transport corporation workers continues and adviser to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei condemns Morocco's normalisation of ties with Israel.

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In your evening news brief, From The Newsroom, Prakash Javdekar says India is not responsible for the problem of climate change; New Year celebrations in all public places and high streets like MG Road and Brigade Road are banned; Bharatiya Kisan Union has approached the Supreme Court challenging the validity of recently enacted three farm laws; Filmmaker-choreographer Remo D'Souza was admitted to a hospital here on Friday after he suffered a heart attack and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has issued the starkest warning yet that the UK could be out of the EU on January 1, 2021.

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In this episode of The Lead from DH Radio, Rajeev Khandelwal tells DH all about his new series on Zee5, Naxalbari.

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In your evening news brief, From The Newsroom,  PM lays foundation stone of the new Parliament building;  Union Agriculture Minister says government is open to amending some provisions in new farm laws; Karnataka Assembly passes Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Bill and BJP chief J P Nadda says West Bengal has become a state of "lawlessness and intolerance".

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In this episode of The Lead from DH Radio, we discuss our reads of the week that are  "A Burning" by Megha Majumdar and the issue of representation of India in literature.

Ahmed Shariff: Hi and welcome to the Read of the Week, where we open troves of artefact which is defined by the words and worlds they lock-in. Who knows this trove can be your read of the week. I'm Ahmed Shariff and joining me today is L Subramani, my colleague.

Hi, sir. Welcome to Read of the Week.

L Subramani: Hi, Ahmed. Thank you for having me.

Ahmed: Shall we open the trove?

Subramani: Yes!

Ahmed: What has been your week to you?

Subramai: Yeah, it's been a pretty absorbing sort of a week. Reading-wise, it was pretty good so far.

Ahmed: So what did you read?

Subramani: So I just finished reading "A burning" by Megha Majumdar. When I started looking for a good, a sort of an absorbing Indian Novel, the internet rather Google threw up this name. It seemed very interesting when I read the blurb about a terrorist attack...

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In your evening news brief, From The Newsroom, government proposes to make significant changes to the three farm sector laws; Centre approves framework for the proliferation of public Wi-Fi networks through PM WANI scheme; As many as nine states have completed One Nation One Ration Card reform; Union Cabinet approves Rs 22,810 crore outlay for a new employment scheme; Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw says she will get vaccinated though its durability is not known as of now; Earth remains on course to warm more than 3 degrees Celsius and the head of Britain's medicine regulator says two allergic reactions were reported on the first day of the rollout of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine.

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In this episode of The Lead from DH Radio, DR N K Ganguly tells DH all about how the ICMR has handled the Covid-19 pandemic.

Hi and welcome to the Lead by DH Radio. The pandemic has been here for quite some time. How has it been handled? In today's episode, former director-general of Indian Council of Medical Research DR N K Ganguly tells DH's Suraksha P about how the ICMR has fared so far.

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Suraksha P: We are joined by DR N K Ganguly, the former director-general of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). As you know, the ICMR has had its hands full for the past 8 months of the pandemic, whose scale the world hasn't seen before. Hi, Dr Gangully, thank you so much for joining with Decan Herald.

DR N K Ganguly: Thank you, Suraksha

Suraksha: So, let me begin by asking: You have been at the helm of affairs of ICMR, what do you think of how the apex research body has handled the pandemic so far?

Dr Ganguly: The ICMR has been at the helm of handling the pandemics. In my time, we handled 11 of them. Whether it was H5N1 or it was SARS...

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In your evening news brief, From The Newsroom,  Nationwide strike called by farmer unions against the Centre's agri laws was underway; government may allow emergency use of Covid-19 vaccine in two weeks; The UK woman become the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine; China cancels plans to jointly launch commemorative stamps with India and Australia beat India n the third and final T20 International.

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