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News18
a day ago
- Entertainment
- News18
Southern Actress Chooses Motherhood Without Marriage, Pregnant With Twins At 40
Kannada actress Bhavana Ramanna, whose real name is Nandini Ramanna, made her debut in the Kannada film industry in 1996 and has been active ever since. She rose to fame with the 1997 film Chandramukhi Pranakshi and went on to star opposite South superstar Mohan in the Tamil film Anbulla Kadhalukku. She also appeared in popular films like I Love You, Adhuveera Nacha Kadhalu, and Aha Ithanai Azhugu. (News18 Hindi) 3/8 Apart from being an actress, Ramanna is also a trained and award-winning Bharatanatyam dancer. She is currently active in Karnataka politics and continues to remain in the public eye. (News18 Hindi) At the age of 40, Ramanna made the life-changing decision to become a mother. What makes this journey stand out is that she chose to do it without getting married. In a society that often stigmatises single motherhood, Ramanna broke the norm by opting for IVF treatment and is now seven months pregnant with twins. (News18 Hindi) Her decision didn't come easy. In the beginning, many hospitals refused to take her case because she was unmarried. After multiple rejections, a compassionate doctor, Dr Sushma, understood her desire to become a mother. (News18 Hindi) Ramanna conceived on the very first attempt at IVF and has since been sharing her pregnancy journey on social media with grace and pride. (News18 Hindi) 'This is a new chapter,' Ramanna said. 'In my 20s and 30s, the thought of becoming a mother never crossed my mind. But when I turned 40, the desire grew. Many hospitals turned me away. Dr Sushma was the one who truly understood me, and with her help, I conceived twins on the first attempt.' (News18 Hindi) She also spoke about the support she received from her family. Her father, siblings, and extended family stood by her wholeheartedly. 'No one questioned my decision,' she added. 'Even though my children won't have a father, they will grow up in a home full of art, music, culture, and unconditional love.' (News18 Hindi)
Time of India
5 days ago
- Time of India
66 Maoists carrying cash bounty of Rs 2.31cr surrender in Chhattisgarh
RAIPUR: As many as 66 Maoists, including 49 top rank cadres carrying a cumulative bounty of Rs 2.31crore, on Thursday surrendered before police and paramilitary officials across five districts of Chhattisgarh's Bastar division. There were four women Maoists among those who surrendered. About 1,570 Maoists have renounced violence and surrendered in the past 18 months. Most of the top-ranking Maoists who surrendered were from Bijapur district. These cadres include state zonal committee member (SZCM) Ramanna Irpa, carrying cash bounty of Rs 25 lakh. He surrendered along with 24 others. They carried a total bounty of Rs 1.15 crore. "Maoists, with a bounty of Rs 2.31crore, have surrendered in Bastar division under the 'Poona Margham' (rehabilitation and social integration) campaign," Bastar range IGP P Sundarraj said. Ramanna alias Jagdish alias Vikesh, a 37-year-old SZCM from Bijapur, was considered the "nerve centre" of Maoist operations in the Red Corridor linking Malkangiri in Odisha, Sukma, and Bijapur in Chhattisgarh. He was active since 2002 and commanded company number 8. Ramanna oversaw jungle warfare training, arms procurement, and coordinated major attacks on security forces across Odisha and Chhattisgarh and was involved in at least 40 incidents of violence. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Access all TV channels anywhere, anytime Techno Mag Learn More Undo "I joined the Maoist organisation inspired by the 'Jal-Jungle-Jameen' campaign. But, in the past 25 years, promises that the organisations made were never met and no development done. It's a hollow ideology," Ramanna told mediapersons in Bijapur. "This transformation is not a coincidence, but a clear testament to the widespread acceptance of our govt's surrender and rehabilitation policy and welfare-oriented initiatives. Programmes like the Niyad Nellanar Yojana have laid a strong foundation of trust in tribal-dominated regions," Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Deo Sai said. In Dantewada district, 15 Maoists surrendered, including five carrying a total reward of Rs 17lakh. Budhram alias Lalu - a DVCM -- and his wife Kamli alias Moti Potavi, an area committee member, topped the list, with bounties of Rs 8lakh and Rs 5lakh, respectively. The duo was associated with the movement for over two decades. Another major surrender unfolded in Kanker district with 13 Maoists, carrying a combined bounty of Rs 62lakh. The most high-profile among them was Manglu alias Rupesh alias Arun Komra, a military company number one commander, wanted for a series of deadly ambushes between 2006 and 2024. He carried a bounty of Rs 10lakh.
Hans India
01-07-2025
- Politics
- Hans India
DYFI demands solution for language volunteers' issues
Vijayawada: The Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) urged the state government to address the long-standing issues faced by language volunteers, who have been providing crucial services for the past 18 years. G Ramanna, DYFI state secretary, highlighted the plight of 1,327 language volunteers across 7 ITDA (Integrated Tribal Development Agency) areas, who are struggling to support their families on a meager honorarium of just Rs. 5,000 per month. DYFI representatives submitted a memorandum to M M Naik, principal secretary of tribal welfare department and the additional director of tribal welfare on Monday at the Secretariat, pressing for immediate action. Ramanna stressed the urgent need for the state government to provide minimum wages of Rs 26,000 to these volunteers and ensure their job security. He also demanded the annual issuance of a Government Order (GO) for their renewal each academic year. Language volunteers are instrumental in implementing the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) programme across Andhra Pradesh since 2007. They teach in tribal mother tongues such as Savara, Kuravi, Konda, Adivasi Oriya, Koya, and Sugali, in addition to Telugu, English, and Hindi, in schools ranging from MPPS, UPS, GES, and GUPS. This approach has significantly reduced student dropout rates and encouraged children to stay in school. Currently, 1,122 schools across the state conduct education in tribal mother tongues for grades 1 to 5, benefiting approximately 52,000 children. The DYFI highlighted the inconsistent renewal of these volunteers' services, noting that after a period of non-renewal post-state bifurcation in 2014, they were renewed briefly in 2019 but stopped again in the 2022 academic year. While the previous government renewed them from August to February in 2023 following protests, their services were discontinued in March and April. The volunteers have confirmed that their renewals have resumed from July this academic year under the new coalition government. Ramanna stressed that many language volunteers possess and qualifications, along with Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) certification. He demanded that they be recognised as CRT contract employees and called for the reinstatement of G.O. No. 3 and the release of a Special DSC notification for their regularisation. Kunj Naveen, State Secretary of the Language Volunteers Association, along with Lalitha, Nagamani, Kiran, Sagar, Bhavani, Roja, Uma Maheswari, Sai Vennela, and others were present.
The Print
01-06-2025
- Politics
- The Print
Citing precedent, Bastar IG says CPI (Maoist) unlikely to get new gen secy after Basavaraju
As an example, the IG cited the fact that no clear names had emerged to replace the CPI (Maoist)'s Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC) secretary, Ramanna, six years after his death. Ramanna reportedly died of a heart attack in the jungles of Bijapur in 2019. The assertions come 10 days after security forces, comprising District Reserve Guard (DRG) personnel from Narayanpur, Dantewada, and Bijapur, killed Basavaraju and 26 other Maoists in a three-day encounter in Abujhmarh. Jagdalpur: No cadre of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) will come forward to take the place of its slain general secretary, Nambala Keshav Rao, alias Basavaraju, Bastar range Inspector General (IG) of Police Sundar Raj Pattilingam said in an exclusive interview with ThePrint. 'After the end of the CPI (Maoist) general secretary Basavaraju, I don't think there will be any other cadre who will be coming forward to take that position. Because, in 2019, we have observed, after the demise of DKSZC general secretary, Ramanna, for the last almost six years, no one has come forward' to take his position, Pattilingam said. 'Though someone has been officiating or acting as a secretary, there has been no official communication from Maoist outfits… to name anyone as the secretary of DKZSC,' he added. Pattilingam, the seniormost police officer in the Bastar division, oversees anti-Naxal operations carried out in at least five of the seven districts of the region. It comprises Narayanpur, Kanker, Kondagaon, Bijapur, Sukma, Dantewada and Bastar districts. 'I am seeing the same scenario for CPI (Maoist) general secretary also, because this organisation is facing its end and breathing its last breath. No one would come forward to fill the post as the general secretary of CPI (Maoist),' he said. He further said, 'It is not a constitutional post. It is not a constitutional body. The entire CPI (Maoist) outfit is a banned, illegal outfit. It doesn't need any leadership. 'Unknown will come forward, and this whole organisation is already in terrible shape. Its morale is hitting its lowest ever possible. They are facing a lot of defections from the cadres. So the entire organisation is in very bad shape.' (Edited by Sanya Mathur) Also Read: Abujhmarh op shut Basavaraju chapter of Maoist insurgency. How homegrown DRG gave forces edge
India Today
18-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
When Buddha finally smiled: 51 years since India's first nuclear test
Fifty-one years ago, on May 18, 1974, the arid sands of Rajasthan's Pokhran witnessed a silent roar that echoed across the world. With the successful detonation of its first nuclear device, India stunned the world and reshaped the global nuclear order. That single explosion made India the first country outside the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to demonstrate nuclear 'Smiling Buddha', the operation established India's technological prowess, strategic autonomy, and national resolve on the world stage. The operation, known as Pokhran-I nuclear test today, was conducted in extreme secrecy under the leadership of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. 'Dr Ramanna, please go ahead. It will be good for the nation," Indira Gandhi said on May 17, 1974. This was two years after she greenlighted the project during a visit to BARC on September 7, 1972. Indira Gandhi at nuclear test site (Photo: X/INCIndia) A team of 75 scientists and engineers, led by Raja Ramanna, PK Iyengar, Rajagopala Chidambaram and others had worked on it from 1967 to Ministry of External Affairs described the test as a 'peaceful nuclear explosion", as several countries raised concerns about the proliferation of nuclear weapons. In response to India's nuclear test, the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) was formed. This group of 48 nuclear supplier countries collaborated to regulate the export of nuclear-related equipment and technology apart from the material provided to non-nuclear WAS IT CALLED SMILING BUDDHA?The operation's codename, Smiling Buddha, was inspired by Gautama Buddha. Coincidentally, the test took place on Buddha Jayanti, the day celebrating the Buddha's Ramanna, who was then the director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, sent a secret message after the testing to the Prime Minister saying, 'The Buddha has finally smiled."WHAT WAS THE DEVICE?The nuclear device tested in 1974 used an implosion-type design, similar to the "Fat Man" bomb dropped on Nagasaki. It worked by using high explosives to compress a plutonium core until it triggered a nuclear explosion. About 6 kg of plutonium from the CIRUS reactor was used, and a polonium–beryllium initiator, codenamed Flower, helped start the chain reaction. The implosion system was developed in Chandigarh, and the detonation system in engineers at BARC fully assembled the bomb, which was hexagonal, about 1.25 meters wide, and weighed around 1,400 kg. It was mounted on a metal tripod and transported to the test shaft using a rail system, which the army kept camouflaged with sand to maintain PUSHED THE BUTTON?advertisementThe device was detonated on 18 May 1974 at 8.05 IST and scientist Pranab Rebatiranjan Dastidar was the one who pushed the firing Raja Ramanna, a key figure behind the nuclear test, in his autobiography, 'Years Of Pilgrimage' recalled that on the day of the detonation, there was some argument about who would press the button. 'I put an end to it by suggesting that the person who had been responsible for fabricating the trigger should, in a manner of speaking, pull it. Dastidar was chosen to press the button'' Ramanna a Padma Shri awardee, was the Group Director at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and later served as Director at the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). He also contributed to the development of the reactor for India's first indigenous nuclear submarine, INS passed away on February 11, 2022, in EXPLOSION OR BOMB?While the Ministry of External Affairs officially termed the test a 'peaceful nuclear explosion,' the reality was more complex. In a 1997 interview with the Press Trust of India, Raja Ramanna clarified:advertisement'The Pokhran test was a bomb, I can tell you now An explosion is an explosion, a gun is a gun, whether you shoot at someone or shoot at the ground I just want to make clear that the test was not all that peaceful.'POKHRAN-IIFollowing the 1974 test, India refrained from further nuclear testing for over two decades. Then, in May 1998, India conducted a second series of tests under Operation Shakti—also known as Pokhran-II—using advanced indigenous technology developed over the previous 24 years. The site where Shakti-3 nuclear device was detonated underground on 11 May 1998. (Photo: AFP) India conducted a series of five nuclear tests over the span of two days in 1998. On May 11, the country detonated a thermonuclear device (hydrogen bomb), a fission bomb, and a sub-kiloton device. Two additional sub-kiloton tests followed on May 13. These successful tests positioned India as the sixth nation to openly demonstrate nuclear weapons capability, joining the ranks of the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China. Then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Defence Minister George Fernandes, India's 'missile man' APJ Abdul Kalam and Atomic Energy chief R Chidambaram display the victory symbol during a visit to the Shakti 1 test site, where India tested nuclear device in Pokhran. (Photo: AP) advertisementHOW THE WORLD REACTEDJAPAN'It is extremely regrettable that India conducted such testing, resisting the global trend to ban nuclear testing, while the international community including Japan had repeatedly requested the new Government of India to exercise maximum self-restraint on nuclear policies. Japan strongly urges the Government of India to stop its development of nuclear weapons immediately.'AUSTRALIAThe Australian Government conveyed 'condemnation of the tests in the strongest possible terms' and announced a series of measures against the Disarmament Conference held by the United Nations on May 15, 1998, the Australian representative, John Campbell, had stated, 'Australia could only conclude that this was the act of a Government that had the utmost disregard for accepted international norms of behaviour. India's actions were a slap in the face to the overwhelming majority of the international community determined to work towards the goal of a nuclear weapon-free world.' advertisementKOREAThe Republic of Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, 'country was concerned over the nuclear tests conducted by India on May 11 and 13, 1998. Korea's Foreign Ministry had stated that the tests were all the more regrettable for coming at a time when international efforts to achieve a nuclear-weapons-free world had advanced with the adoption of the CTBT.' MALAYSIA'The action by India was a serious setback to efforts to keep the region free of nuclear weapons. It also undermined the efforts of the international community towards attaining a complete ban on nuclear testing. Malaysia was particularly disappointed that India had taken such a step in the light of the overwhelming adoption of the CTBT.'NEW ZEALAND'New Zealand joined the many calls of other concerned countries urging India to make the commitment not to conduct any further tests. It also called on India to join the NPT and sign the CTBT as a matter of urgency.'
