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Mumbai:  Isha Ambani, daughter of Nita and Mukesh Ambani, delivered a speech at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai. Taking the centre stage, Isha Ambani talked about her mother’s vision to create a platform for performers and visitors, for dreamers and creators, for one and all. “Bringing this centre to life has been an absolute labour of love and joy. It’s named after my mother, the NMACC is a tribute to her lifelong devotion to the arts,” she said. Also read: WATCH: Nita Ambani delivers speech at NMACC Mumbai She added, “As a trained classical dancer, this stage has always been my mother’s temple. But her love for the arts has transcended beyond medium or form. Over the years I have seen her dedicate herself to reviving, preserving and promoting traditional Indian arts and crafts.” She said that NMACC is the embodiment of Nita Ambani’s vision. Defining how the first-of-its-kind cultural centre would cater to artists and audiences, she said, “The NMACC is not only

Mumbai:  Nita Ambani on Saturday made a speech at the inauguration of the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai. After a night of the star-studded grand opening, it was time to open the doors of NMACC. Nita Ambani performed gracefully at the centre’s Grand Theatre. “On behalf of our Cultural Centre, and the entire team of Civilization to Nation, a heartfelt thank you for being our first and most spectacular audience! It has been a huge pleasure and an honour to present this musical chronicle of India. As they say, India is where it all started,” she said. Don’t miss: ‘Showcasing best of India to world’: Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre opens in Mumbai She added, “Our culture has not just survived, but thrived, over thousands of years. We are one of the oldest living civilizations of the world. Also, the most diverse. And at the same time, we have one of the world’s youngest populations. Today, we are in the Amrit Kaal of Modern India.” ‘For Mukesh and Me NMACC is a drea

Mumbai: After last night’s star-studded grand opening ceremony of the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre left everyone awestruck, a video of Nita Ambani’s graceful performance at the centre’s Grand Theatre has gone viral on social media. In the post shared by NMACC’s Twitter handle, Nita Ambani can be seen dancing to ‘Raghu Pati Raghav Raja Ram’ for the premiere of ‘The Great Indian Musical: Civilization to Nation.’ Watch the video: Watch the beautiful performance by Nita M Ambani, specially choreographed for the premiere of ‘The Great Indian Musical: Civilization to Nation’ at the grand launch. #NitaMukeshAmbaniCulturalCentre #TheGreatIndianMusical #CultureAtTheCentre #NMACC pic.twitter.com/12uBFfa81z — Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (@nmacc_india) April 1, 2023 The Grand Theatre Meticulously designed for immersive experiences, every performance at The Grand Theatre is magical, thanks to the combination of a world-class integrated Dolby Atmos surround sound system

Mumbai: All roads will lead to Jio World Centre at Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla Complex from 3 April as the much-awaited Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC) opens doors to the public. The multi-disciplinary art space which aims to bring the best of India and the world boasts three different theatres of varying sizes. To soothe curiosity of art lovers, NMACC has released its programming calendar a month ahead. The inauguration event of NMACC on Friday (31 March) saw the diversity of India’s cultural traditions and their impact on the world with its specially curated programme ‘Swadesh’. The launch of the cultural centre was announced last year by Isha Ambani , who dedicated it to her mother Nita Ambani. Meanwhile, the inauguration of the NMACC on Friday evening was a star-studded affair. It saw celebrities Priyanka Chopra, Nick Jonas, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Gigi Hadid, Emma Chamberlain, Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Saif Al

New Delhi : ​Israel Knesset speaker MK Amir Ohana (Likud) is on an official visit to India with his delegation including MK Michael Biton (National Union Party) ​and MK Amit Halevi (Likud), chair of the Israel-India Parliamentary Friendship Group. The tour which started on 31 March is the first-ever official visit to India by a sitting Knesset Speaker. Why Israel Knesset speaker in visiting India? Ahead of the visit, Speaker MK Ohana said: “I chose India as the destination for my first official visit as Speaker of the Knesset because I see the impressive development of this superpower in every aspect, and also because no sitting Knesset Speaker has ever visited India.” He further said, “This is an important milestone in the diplomatic relations between Israel and India, which were established some 31 years ago. There is no better opportunity than this to tighten and strengthen the collaborations between the countries in general, and between their parliaments in particular, for the

New Delhi: As if a leaf out of the post-apocalyptic drama series ‘Last of Us’, where not a virus, but a fungus takes over the world, a man from India, a mushroom hunter, has become the unfortunate first human to contract a deadly and rare fungal infection caused by Rose killing fungus. Called Chondrostereum purpureum, the fungus attacks rose plants, afflicts them with a rare disease called Silver Leaf disease. But, how did this Indian man become the first human host of this fungus? How did man get infected with Rose killing fungus? Turns out, a person in India recently became unlucky enough to become the world’s first person to get sick from the fungi. This is also one of the rarest examples of a plant pathogen crossing over into humans. The strange medical incident was detailed in Medical Mycology Case Reports , according to which, the hexagenarian visited an outpatient clinic in India with symptoms of cough, fatigue, sore throat which had plaguing him for close to three months.

New Delhi:  Founder Chairperson of Reliance Foundation Nita Ambani performed traditional puja on Ramnavmi on Thursday to seek the Almighty’s blessings on the eve of the launch of Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC). India’s first-of-its-kind, multi-disciplinary cultural space, the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, is set to be inaugurated today with an exquisite showcase of the best of India across music, theatre, fine arts and crafts to audiences from India and the world. The Centre will mark another definitive step in strengthening India’s cultural infrastructure and bringing to fruition the best of India and the world in the sphere of arts. The launch programming features a specially curated art and craft exposition called ‘Swadesh’ along with three blockbuster shows – a musical theatrical called ‘The Great Indian Musical: Civilization to Nation’; a costume art exhibition called ‘India in Fashion’ and a visual art show called ‘Sangam/Confluence’. Together, the programmin

New Delhi: At a time when the buzz created by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s recent statements abroad as well as his disqualification from Parliament following a conviction in a criminal defamation case is still reverberating, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday spoke out against those who go to foreign countries and use platforms there to attack India. “You will not find a parallel in the world, when people holding positions of power would go to other countries, other geographical locales, and run down their own country. We all need to reflect on this,” he said at Network18’s Rising India Summit. The Vice President said that one can see an entire ecosystem aimed at handicapping our growth; attacking India’s legitimacy as a nation-state, its constitutional institutions, including the Parliament, is becoming a favourite pastime, “even of some of us”. He also referred to those who have been creating a row over actions brought about by court rulings. “If there is a verdict of

New Delhi: Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Thursday attacked the opposition for criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and said if Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has conviction in his own words, he should come out on the streets and speak the truth. Speaking at the Rising India Summit, Thakur trained his guns on the Delhi chief minister and said he could not resist laughing at Kejriwal. “When I see his face, sometimes I feel like laughing and at other times, I feel like crying. He’s a man whose politics is based on lies, who falsely swore on his daughter’s life, who made a new record for lying, and entered politics after carrying out a campaign against corruption and claiming that he would never enter politics,” Thakur said. He added: “Look at the records. In the past eight years, 12 ministers and councillors of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had to resign over graft charges.” Accusing the Delhi CM of being hand in glove with his leaders’ corrupt practices, Thakur said: “He is an educated

New Delhi: In a bombshell revelation, Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah disclosed on Wednesday how he was regularly pressured by federal investigators to “frame” then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case. In an interview to Network18 Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi at the News18 Rising India Summit, Shah questioned why UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, then PM Manmohan Singh, then home minister P Chidambaram and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi were silent then. “All these people were there when this was happening. Chidambaram, Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, and Rahul Gandhi were all present then… In my entire interrogation, I was told ‘Modi ka naam de do, de do [give us Modi’s name]. But why should I frame him? Today, the same Congress is crying over its fate. They must reflect on their behavior,” Shah said. From setting the record straight on Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from Parliament to busting the myth of ‘opposition unity

New Delhi: As many as 117 apps related to dating, gaming, loan apps have been sending personal data of customers in India to foreign destinations including China, Nigeria, Philippines. The India’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has stepped in to get these apps active on Google Play “immediately blocked”. The MHA has shared the list of these 117 apps with Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeITY) and state law enforcement agencies and has asked them to block these on priority. “In the last 2-3 months, we detected 117 new apps active on Google Play. The backend investigations revealed that they are communicating data to a foreign destination,” a report by Economic Times quoted an official saying on condition of anonymity. “It was further revealed that entities claiming to provide online loans were not in the business of lending,” the official added. There were many apps which were confined to a particular state, the official said, adding that agencies in those regio

Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has eased the life of every Indian in terms of transactions. However, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has recently made an announcement that has been misunderstood by the users. Many people are thinking that they will be charged on making UPI payments. NPCI has made it clear that the interchange charges introduced are only applicable for the Prepaid Payment Instruments (PPI) merchant transactions. The misinterpretation of the new announcement has triggered a meme fest on social media and users are expressing their displeasure via humour. Let’s have a look at some of the hilarious memes people have shared on social media to show their displeasure with the latest development regarding UPI. A user posted a meme where Rajinikanth can be seen saying, “Kyu hila dala na?” (What happened? Did I give you a shock?). According to the user, this is what UPI is saying to everyone right now. #UPI Right now pic.twitter.com/QSTZfqyBOm — Saurabh Sharm

Russia wants to promote cross-border trade settlement with India in INR. Here’s why New Delhi: Russia wants to promote cross-border trade settlement with India in rupee. Moscow said transaction in Indian rupees and rubles creates “much more stable platform” for its companies and diminishes losses faced while settling payment in US dollar and euro. Speaking on the sidelines of the Russia-India business forum programme in New Delhi, head of the department for external economic and international relations of Moscow, Sergey Cheryomin, said: “We have to promote trades in rupees and rubles because it creates much more stable platform for our companies. Nowadays, they have a lot of doubts for the cross-border transactions.” De-dollarisation need of the hour Cheryomin went on to say that settling of international trade using dollar and euro bring lot of losses. “You lose commission, sometime money is blocked, sometime compliance is not giving commission for the transactions that really ha

New Delhi: Staunchly denying the allegation that vendetta politics is at work as far as Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s recent disqualification from Parliament is concerned, Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said the law of the land is clear on an MP’s disqualification and the Lok Sabha speaker had no authority to stop any leader’s disqualification following his conviction. “Rahul Gandhi did not appear before the Court and wants to remain a Member of Parliament. What kind of arrogance is this and where does it come from? No vendetta politics occurred on this issue as a court of law has ordered his conviction…PM Modi is often blamed for whatever happens to the Opposition, but the Lok Sabha speaker had no authority to stop his disqualification,” Shah said. “I want to clear the false narrative that the Congress has been spreading. Rahul Gandhi is not the first leader who has been disqualified from Parliament. There are 17 others who were disqualified earlier. Why was democracy