End of the road for Amba theatre
The Hindu
Iconic movie hall razed to make way for retail mall
The iconic Amba Theatre in the Mehdipatnam area has been torn down to make way for a proposed retail mall.
Catering to the student community in Santoshnagar, Mehdipatnam, Gudimalkapur and Masab Tank, the single-screen theatre screening both Hindi movies like ‘Qurbaani’, ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’ to Telugu movies like ‘Vakeel Saab’ was very popular till the Over-The-Top streaming platforms took off in a big way.
The two successive lockdowns due to COVID proved to be a double whammy from which the cinema hall could not escape. The last screening was that of a romantic movie starring Ramya Krishna and two unknown actors.
A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.