Marathi cinema
Actors Rohini Hattangadi, Bharat Ganeshpure unveil Once More? music album in Nagpur

From left: Naresh Bdikar, Rohini Hattangadi, Bharat Ganeshpure and Vishnu Manohar at the music launch of the Marathi film ‘Once More’ held at Vishnuji Ki Rasoi in Nagpur. (Photo by: Bhavesh Mahalle)
Veteran actress Rohini Hattangadi and popular Marathi actor Bharat Ganeshpure along with filmmaker Naresh Bidkar and celebrity chef and actor Vishnu Manohar unveiled the music album of their upcoming Marathi film Once More? at an event organised on July 13 at Vishnuji Ki Rasoi in Nagpur.
The music of the film has been composed by music composer Shailendra Barve and the lyrics have been written by Shweta Bidkar, who has also written the screenplay and dialogues for the film.
Interestingly, this is probably the first time that VFX have been used to a great extent in a Marathi film. Naresh Bdikar while speaking during the music launch informed that at least 40% of the movie has VFX technology. The movie will also mark the debut of famous music composer Ashok Patkis son Ashutosh Patki and actress Dhanashree Dalvi. It is also the debut film of celebrity chef Vishnu Manohar.
Once More? is a movie, which showcases the lives of the characters in the movie in different eras. Most of the actors in the movie will be seen playing double roles. Also, Rohini Hattangadi, along with playing the role of a queen, will also be playing the role of an elderly man. Hattangadi, went through grueling prosthetic make up process during the shoot of the film, for her transformation into a man. She is completely unrecognizable as the elderly man in the teaser of the film.
Once More, which will be released in August 1, 2019, is directed by Naresh Bidkar and has been produced by Dhanashree Vinod Patil, Suhas Jahagirdar, Nilesh Lawande, Vishnu Manohar and Dr Bandiwdekar.
COVID-19
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Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) added 25 additional beds in Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital Kalwa apart from arranging a special ward dedicated to COVID-19 patients. The total number of active patients in the city stood at 252 while five succumbed to the virus. Meanwhile, TMC Commissioner Abhijit Bangar said a ‘death audit’ of patients who died of COVID would be conducted. The TMC has ensured it has additional stock of oxygen concentrators, testing kits, medicines, to name a few. Bangar told HT, “Due to the increasing number of Covid patients, it is necessary for everyone to be alert.”
He added, The number of Covid tests should be increased to stay one step ahead of the disease. As a result, the number of patients is likely to increase due to increased testing. However, as per the ‘test, isolate, treat’ protocol for Covid, it becomes necessary to isolate and treat more and more patients. The testing centres will not remain closed even for a single day. At the same time, more arrangements for testing will be made immediately in public places, markets, railway stations, malls.”
India recorded 3,095 new COVID cases and five deaths in last 24 hours.
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Politics
After Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification, his namesake who contested from Wayanad disqualified

Rahul Gandhi
An independent candidate for Lok Sabha elections named Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from contesting polls for failing to lodge account of election expenses. Gandhi, who’s name figures as ‘Rahul Gandhi K E S/o Valsamma’ in an Election Commission list of persons, had contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as an Independent and had received 2196 votes from the Wayanad seat in Kerala – a constituency from where ex-Congress MP Rahul Rajiv Gandhi had won with over seven lakh votes.
However, since it is mandatory for all contestants to submit their account of election expenses among other mandatory requirements under EC rules and the Representation of the People Act.
Rahul Gandhi K E S/o Valsamma stood disqualified to contest polls from September 13, 2021 till September 13, 2024. According to Section 10A, the Election Commission can disqualify a contestant for a period of three years from the date of the order if he/she has failed to lodge an account of election expenses within the time and in the manner required by law and has no good reason or justification for the failure.
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Nagpur News
Nagpur records 22 COVID cases in 24 hours
A total of 22 patients tested positive for COVID-19 in Nagpur in past 24 hours on Thursday. Almost 242 people were tested in the city, out of which 15 belonged to urban area while and 6 were from the rural areas, and one from outside Nagpur district.
At present, there are 72 active patients in the city. Three new cases of the new XBB.1.16 variant of COVID-19 were detected that took the total tally to five in the district.
India recorded 3,095 new COVID cases and five deaths in last 24 hours.
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