A rare print of Satyajit Ray’s controversial film, ‘Sikkim’, has been restored by the Oscars Academy, and will be shown during the 14th Kolkata Film Festival to be held from November 10 to 17.

The documentary film, made in 1971, was banned by Indian censors for glorifying monarchy in a Himalayan kingdom that acceded to India. Commissioned by the then Chogyal King of Sikkim and his wife, the film earned censorship both from them and from the Indian government after the state’s accession to India in 1975.

The celebrity couple, Ajay Devgan and Kajol, have always impressed audiences with their on-screen and off-screen chemistry, and now they have won millions of hearts with the touching gesture for the Senior Citizens’ Run. 

The couple was in New Delhi on Sunday November 9, for one of the four sporting events in the capital, along with Half Marathon, Wheelchair Event and the Great Delhi Run.

Producer Bunty Walia’s film, ‘Lamha’, is a first film to be entirely shot in post-insurgency Kashmir. Though all precautions were taken for the shooting of the film, it still ran into trouble with protesting mobs.

The reason the locals were protesting was that they were afraid of being portrayed negatively, as the film is supposed to present a realistic look of the state with guns and militancy.

Members of the media community of Kolkata arranged a function on Sunday to honor cricketer Sourav Ganguly. Sourav has decided to take retirement from the international cricket after the conclusion of the India-Australia Test series, completing his 13-year cricket career.

Journalists across the city gathered here and honoured his contribution to the Indian cricket. They asked him to lead young cricketers from the state to glorify the name of West Bengal.

Sourav's wife Dona and daughter Sana were also present at the function.

Former players and the Australian media have criticized Ricky Ponting for 'baffling' captaincy in the recent match. Australian media alleged that Ponting used part-timers to try to improve over rate to save his captaincy.

It is to be noted that Ricky has employed part timers instead of his regular pacers after the tea interval during the fifth day of the Nagpur Test. He actually wanted to step up the slow over-rate to avoid a ban in the next Test match.

Indian bowler, S Sreesanth ruled out any quarrel at his birthday party held at an apartment in Bangalore. He said that media reports are baseless and nothing wrong happened in his presence.

He said that it was, infact, a small gathering of close friends who were dancing and enjoying in his apartment on music beats. He criticized his neighbors for spreading baseless rumors for cheap publicity. Regarding the charges of bleeding, Sreesanth said it was due to the injury, caused by fall of a brick on the head of one of his friend.