emergency

Emergency, a comedy thriller about three college friends – two Black, one Latino – navigating a downpour of bad optics and decisions, traffics in several established lanes: the raucous one-last-epic-party romp a la Booksmart, where everything that can escalate will in the course of a single night; the hijinks-filled buddy road trip comedy albeit this time around campus; and the socially aware thriller in the shadow of Get Out, where every move is weighted by the looming threat of anti-Black racism in America. In other…

Mumbai Airport. (Image for representation)An inebriated passenger on a Bengaluru-bound flight led to an emergency landing at Mumbai International Airport on Saturday night.An inebriated passenger on a Bengaluru-bound flight led to an emergency landing at Mumbai International Airport on Saturday night. The police stated that Sarfuddin Ulwar, who hailed from Kerala was detained and booked under the Indian Penal Code and the Aircraft Act. Ulwar was produced in a metropolitan magistrate court on Sunday and remanded in…

The Memoir of a Lapsed Revolutionary 432pp, ₹499; Navayana (Gita Ramaswamy’s memoir is a story of struggles and victories) It was the 1980s. In Ibrahimpatnam, Telangana, south India, landless Dalits were being exploited by the wealthy upper castes, who, like movie villains, brandished whips and guns. Enter 30-year-old Gita Ramaswamy. In her teens, she had escaped her brahminical family, who had tried to “cure” her of Naxalism with shock treatment and sedation. She was disillusioned by the Emergency, but held on to…

Daisy Hildyard’s first novel, Hunters in the Snow, was lyrical and haunting and brought well-deserved critical success. She followed it with a book of essays on climate change and human relations with plants and animals, The Second Body. In Emergency, Hildyard develops the strengths of her first novel and the concerns of her nonfiction. There isn’t exactly a plot but there are spiralling, intricate meditations on plants, animals, humans and ecosystems, gracefully told through an approximate coming-of-age story set in a…

Considered to be one of the most controversial periods in post-independent India, the then President of India, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed declared a state of Emergency in the country on the night of June 25, 1975. Journalists, academics and authors have over the years, penned literature about one of the most trying times in Indian history as they probed the role of Gandhi and her son Sanjay, among other details, here are 5 books that range of fiction to memoirs that deal with the subject of The Emergency. Midnight's…

Editor's Note: The following excerpt has been taken from the book Chandra Shekhar: The Last Icon of Ideological Politics written by Rajya Sabha deputy chairman Harivansh and writer Ravi Dutt Bajpai. The book was launched on Wednesday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and chronicles the journey of former PM Chandra Shekhar from his humble lower middle-class background to becoming one of the most prominent political icons of India. During the launch of the book, Modi lashed out at the Congress stating that…

The Drugs Controller General of India has given restricted emergency use authorisation to BharatBiotech's Covaxin for children between the age of 6-12 years, according to sources. This development comes following recommendations by the Subject Expert Committee (SEC) on Covid-19 of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation(CDSCO). The SEC had last week reviewed the application of both the companies seeking emergency use authorisation for Corbevax and Covaxin for use…

India on Tuesday opened up covid-19 vaccines for children as young as five, in a relief for millions of parents at a time school reopenings have coincided with a rise in infections.  The drug regulator has approved Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin for children aged 6-12 and Biological E.’s Corbevax for those aged 5-11, Union health minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya tweeted. The regulator also approved Cadila’s ZyCoV-D for children above 12, the minister said.  “India’s fight against…

Jio users now have the facility to get instant high-speed data on loan and pay for it later. Called Emergency Data Loan, the latest offering by the Mumbai-based telecom operator is aimed to allow its prepaid subscribers to get up to five data loan packs of 1GB each — 5GB in total. The subscribers will be able to pay for the added data at a later stage. The new facility will help users who have exhausted their existing data allocation and are not able to purchase a data top-up for their accounts.Each emergency data loan…

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