Urgent need for an ATM
The residents of Srijangram in the Bongaigaon district have been facing hardships because there is no ATM in the area. Despite having a UCO Bank branch in Borghola for several decades, the bank doesn’t have any ATMs in the area. But the branch has a good number of customers.
The absence of an ATM in the area forces people to travel approximately 10 kilometres to Abhayapuri town simply to withdraw cash. This inconvenience not only wastes their time but also adds unnecessary travel expenses. Given the daily reliance on cash transactions by the residents, it is imperative to establish an ATM either at the UCO bank branch in Borghola or the Srijangram block market. I earnestly appeal to the concerned authorities, including UCO Bank and other banks, to consider the issue.
Rahul Pathak,
Srijangram, Bongaigaon.
Silver screen villain
Very recently, while going through a report published in a leading English daily, I was rather appalled to read a statement made by one of the leading Bollywood stars of yesteryear, none other than our so-called common man star, Amol Palekar. In a press release, he candidly opined that films like Kashmir Files and Kerela Story are simply propaganda-based films and should not be exempted from the entertainment tax as they depict a total false story. Gone are those days when Bollywood was graced by personalities like Prithviraj Kapoor, Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand, Dharmendra, Manoj Kumar, Shammi Kapoor, Ashok Kumar, Pran, etc., to name a few who were Indian by heart and soul. Now Bollywood is infested with stars like Amol Palekar, Naseeruddin Shah, Amir Khan, Sabana Azmi, etc., who, after receiving all the love and affection from the cinegoers of the nation, have stabbed the nation in the back. They are, in fact, silver-screen villains.
Lanu Dutt Chowdhury,
Guwahati.
Cultural destruction
Ravana was the king of Lanka; he had warriors to fight for him, not apes. And this is the first time in the film ‘Adipurush’ that I’ve seen a king without a crown. Before being cleared, a religious film should've been reviewed by religious leaders. The dialogues also delivered by the characters in the movie, playing Lord Rama, Hanuman, and Sita, have destroyed the ideal culture of the Ramayan. The film should've been banned. How did the Censor Board clear it by giving it a certificate? The movie is nothing but cultural destruction.
Jubel D'Cruz,
(jubeldcruz@yahoo.com.)
A woman was convicted and sentenced for lacing sweets with poison and then serving them to her six-year-old stepdaughter. The child died in the hospital. The advocate appearing for the woman submitted in the court of Justice Arijit Banerjee and Justice Apurba Sinha Ray on Friday that there were several discrepancies in the depositions made by the witnesses during the trial, adding that his client is likely to be acquitted when her appeal comes up for hearing. The date of the hearing of the appeal is uncertain. The judges pointed out that High courts normally do not grant bail to a person sentenced to life. It would be extremely unfair if she was finally acquitted after serving several years in prison for no reason. It is also not known when the appeal will come up for hearing, given the large number of pending cases. Keeping this in mind, the bench granted Naju Bibi bail – Calcutta HC