🏆 @Evening: Chiranjeevi, Tawang War Memorial, CV Raman And More

1. 📰 Catch Up

• Incriminating materials found from Mangaluru blast accused Mohammed Shariq's rented house.

• At least 44 people have been killed and 300 injured in Indonesia earthquake.

• Allahabad High Court will hear the revision plea seeking carbon dating of Gyanvapi 'Shivaling' on 30 November.

• Breakthrough for Delhi Metro Phase IV as tunnel between Janakpuri West and Keshopur successfully bored.

• Jio to acquire Reliance Infratel after National Company Law Tribunal allows acquisition on deposit of Rs 3,720 crore.

2. 🏆 PM Modi congratulates Chiranjeevi

Chiranjeevi is honoured with the Indian Film Personality of the Year Award by the 53rd edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI).

• Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur made the announcement at the IFFI opening ceremony on Sunday.

• The 67-year-old actor was honoured with the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, in 2006 for his contribution to Indian cinema.

Notable performances: Chiranjeevi has starred in more than 150 feature films in Telugu, as well as some in Hindi, Tamil and Kannada.

• He is known for his zestful dance performances and powerful fight sequences in films such as 'Gharana Mogudu', 'Khaidi', 'Indra', and 'Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy', among others.

Political career: In 2008, Chiranjeevi founded the Praja Rajyam Party and went on to become an MLA.

• He later merged his political party with the Indian National Congress and became a Rajya Sabha member.

• He served as the Union minister of tourism from 2012 and 2014 but left Congress after the completion of the Rajya Sabha term in 2018.

• Now he claims that he has left politics to let his brother Pawan Kalyan grow who is the founder of Jana Sena Party.

3. 📺 Movies I watched this weekend

Drishyam 2 is the sequel of Drishyam and was released in theatres on 18 November.

• The movie reopens the murder case against the protagonist's family and the plot is all about how he saves himself again.

• The first half goes in building up the story and the second half amuses you with sudden twists.

• Some can find some portions of the movie slow but the movie compensates for it well with its unexpected climax.

Sita Ramam is originally a Telugu movie and its Hindi version was released on OTT (Disney Hotstar) on 18 November.

• It is one of those rare romantic movies whose plot or ending you can't predict.

• The movie takes us through a unique love story of Lieutenant Ram and Sita Mahalakshmi set in the time frame of 1964-85.

• The artistic elements and storytelling keep the viewer bound till the end.

4. 🛡️ Renovated Tawang War Memorial

Pema Khandu, CM of Arunachal Pradesh, inaugurated the extended and renovated Tawang War Memorial today.

• He also felicitated the veterans of the 1962 Indo-China war and paid tribute to Param Vir Chakra Subedar Joginder Singh, Maha Vir Chakra Major MS Chaudhury, and other soldiers who fought valiantly.

• Abbot of Tawang Monastery HE Tulku Thupten Tendar la and MLAs Tsering Tashi, Phurpa Tsering, Dongru Siongju, DW Kharma and Kumsu Sidisow were present at the ocassion.

The War Memorial is a stupa built to commemorate the soldiers of the 1962 War who made supreme sacrifice for the nation.

• With the renovation, busts of these soldiers have been installed at the memorial.

• The memorial reminds us of the stiff opposition that 1 Sikh platoon under Subedar Joginder Singh and 9 Punjab under Major Chaudhury posed against the Chinese forces.

5. 🙏 Death anniversary of CV Raman

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman won the Nobel Prize in Physics (1930) at the age of 42 "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him".

• Today (21 November) is his death anniversary.

• He was nominated 10 times either as single candidate or along with others scientists for the award of Nobel Prize in physics.

His journey: At the age of 14, Raman completed his BA degree in Presidency College, Madras with English and Physics; in both subjects, he secured gold medals.

• He was barely 18 years old when he published his first research paper in 1906, in the November issue of Philosophical Magazine.

• You can read more about him here.