24-484: The Filmfare Short Film Awards are held annually by Worldwide Media . Started in 2016, the short film awards are a part of WWM's and Filmfare's ongoing transition onto the digital platform. These awards invite first-time as well as professional filmmakers to submit their entries, following which a panel of filmmakers judges and honours them with Filmfare Awards in five categories. The first ever Filmfare Awards for short films were held in 2016. The awards were announced for
48-550: A bank and an insurance company of which he was the Chairman. In 1955, this came to the attention of the socialist parliamentarian Feroze Gandhi who was part of the ruling Congress party headed by his estranged father-in-law Jawaharlal Nehru . In December 1955, he raised the matter in the Parliament , documenting extensively the various fund transfers and intermediaries through which the acquisition had been financed. The case
72-579: A division of BCCL in 2004 to create an exchange for job seekers and employers on the internet. With the growth of internet attaining rapid speed and being a highly profitable venture, Times Business Solutions – A division of Times Internet Limited was born as the " Internet Initiatives " of BCCL. Times Group, others put $ 20 million into Square Yards in September 2019. Times Internet is an Indian company which owns, operates and invests in various Internet-led products, services and technology . Radio Mirchi
96-525: A place of safety (for which lifeboats on the open sea were not sufficient). The Persia was a British ship presenting itself openly to another belligerent. The U-boat fired a torpedo and made no provision for any survivors, under Germany's policy of unrestricted submarine warfare but against the Imperial German Navy 's own restriction on attacking passenger liners, the Arabic pledge . At
120-409: A size of 7,951 gross register tons (GRT), Persia carried triple expansion steam engines capable of driving the ship at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph). Persia was sunk off Crete , while the passengers were having lunch, on 30 December 1915, by German World War I U-boat ace Max Valentiner (commanding SM U-38 ). Persia sank in five to ten minutes, killing 343 of
144-517: Is a nationwide network of private FM radio stations in India . SS Persia (1900) Persia was a Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger liner , built in 1900 by Caird & Company , Greenock , Scotland. It was torpedoed and sunk without warning on 30 December 1915, by German U-boat U-38 . It was 499.8 feet (152.3 m) long, with a beam of 54.3 feet (16.6 m), depth of hold of 24.5 feet (7.5 m) and
168-404: The 519 aboard. One reason for the large number of casualties was that only four of the lifeboats were successfully launched because of the list to port. The sinking was highly controversial, as it was argued that it broke naval international law that stated that merchant ships carrying a neutral flag could be stopped and searched for contraband but not sunk unless the passengers and crew were put in
192-537: The 63rd Filmfare Awards in Mumbai. Filmfare , decided to start a digital short film festival primarily aiming to promote the new medium of filmmaking. The first year saw industry bigwigs like Karan Johar, Vidya Balan, Aanand L Rai, Kabir Khan, Zoya Akhtar and Gauri Shinde lend their support to the Filmfare Short Film Awards. This astute jury selected films in four categories. The second year of
216-669: The People's Choice Award. The Times Group Vineet Jain (Managing Director) Bennett Coleman and Company Limited (abbreviated as B.C.C.L. and d/b/a The Times Group ) is an Indian media conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai , Maharashtra . The company, which is a family-owned business , publishes The Times of India newspaper, which is the highest selling daily English-language newspaper in India, in addition to several radio stations, television channels such as Times Now ,
240-645: The Short Film Awards features Karan Johar, Nikkhil Advani, Kabir Khan, Onir and Shakun Batra as the panel of jury members. Filmfare's short film awards are given in five exclusive categories. Four are adjudged by the jury while the People's Choice Award is handed to the entry that gets the maximum public votes via Filmfare's digital platforms. The Short Film Jury awards honours in the Best Film Fiction, Best Film Non-Fiction, Best Actor (Male) and Best Actor (Female) categories. The first stage of
264-563: The Times of India Group, was taken over from its British owners in 1946 by industrialist Ramkrishna Dalmia. Ramkrishna Dalmia (7 April 1893 – 26 September 1978) was a pioneer industrialist and founder of the Dalmia-Jain group or Dalmia Group and The Times Group. The name is variously written as Ram Krishan Dalmia and Ram Kishan Dalmia. In 1947, Dalmia engineered the acquisition of the media giant Bennett, Coleman by transferring monies from
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#1732783816585288-698: The ceremony in January 2017. The first year saw Manoj Bajpayee win the Best Actor award for his efforts on the short film Taandav. Tisca Chopra was awarded the Best Actor (Female) trophy for her performance in Chutney. Director Jyoti Kapur Das won the Best Film Fiction Award for Chutney as well. The documentary Matitali Kushti won the Best film Non-Fiction Award while Aarti S Bagdi's Khamakha won
312-669: The company. Jain would buy the company a few years later and the company would be primarily run by his family in the years after. The company expanded its presence in the Indian media sphere by founding different papers and local editions of The Times of India . The Times of India press published a number of influential English (e.g. Illustrated Weekly of India 1880-1993) and Hindi magazines (e.g. Dharmyug 1949-1997, Sarika, Dinaman 1965-1990s, Parag 1958-1990s), edited by distinguished authors including Khushwant Singh , Dharmveer Bharti , Agyeya and Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena . However,
336-546: The film magazine Filmfare , and the women's magazine Femina . The Sahu Jain family continues to own a majority of the stake in the group, and in May 2023 the Times Group was split into two separate business entities between brothers Vineet Jain and Samir Jain, such that its radio and broadcast properties would remain with Vineet Jain and its print properties would be under Samir Jain. The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce
360-556: The first time, in December 2016. The first ceremony was held in January 2017 along with the annual 62nd Filmfare Awards 2017 in Mumbai. The announcement of the first ever Filmfare Awards for short films was made through a Facebook live stream. It's an initiative to promote and facilitate new filmmaking talent through the Filmfare Awards. The second edition of the Filmfare Short Film Awards will be held in January 2018 along with
384-494: The nomination process involves submission of entries to the Filmfare Awards platform. Once the final entries have been received a careful and vigilant screen process by the Filmfare edit team and the jury members selects a final 30 films that are considered for the five categories. All 30 films are eligible for jury and public votes thereafter. Winners of the Short Film Awards were announced on Filmfare's digital platforms prior to
408-614: The organisation faced financial difficulties, and most of them were closed down during the 1990s. The sons of Sahu Ashok Jain , Sahu Samir Jain and Vineet Jain are credited with reviving the financial success of the group with newer and more profitable ventures. The Times Group owns the following channels. Times Business Solutions – A division of Times Internet Limited is a limited company, wholly owned by Bennett Coleman Company Limited (The Times Group). TBS develops web sites within areas such as recruitment , real estate and matrimonials such as SimplyMarry.com. TBS started as
432-473: The paper saw its ownership change several times until 1892 when an English journalist named Thomas Jewell Bennett along with Frank Morris Coleman (who later drowned in the 1915 sinking of the SS Persia ) acquired the newspaper through their new joint stock company, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd . (BCCL). At the time, some 800 people were employed by the paper. The company, by that time consolidated in
456-693: The then Portuguese colony of Goa perished. Most of them were stewards. The sinking was front-page news on many British newspapers, including the Daily Mirror and the Daily Sketch . Service personnel who died on the SS Persia are recorded on the Commonwealth War Graves memorial at Shatby , Alexandria , Egypt. The wreck of Persia was located off Crete in 2003 at a depth of 10,000 feet (3,000 m), and an attempt
480-595: The time of sinking, Persia was carrying a large quantity of gold and jewels belonging to the Maharaja Jagatjit Singh , though he himself had disembarked at Marseilles . Among the passengers to survive were Colonel Charles Clive Bigham , son of Lord Mersey , 2nd Lieutenant John Lionel Miller-Hallett of the Gurkha Rifles, and John Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu . His secretary and mistress Eleanor Thornton , who many believe
504-592: The trip several times, working on this trip for a Mrs Bird, with a last address of the Ayah’s House , in Hackney. The survivors on the four lifeboats were picked up during the second night after the sinking by the minesweeper HMS Mallow . Only 15 of the women on board survived, among them British actress Ann Codrington ( The Rossiter Case ), who was pregnant with her daughter, Patricia Hilliard . Ann lost her mother, Helen Codrington. Sixty-seven crewmen from
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#1732783816585528-468: Was first published on 3 November 1838 as a predecessor to what would become The Times of India . While starting as a biweekly paper, it was converted to a daily in 1850. In 1859 the paper was merged with two other papers into the Bombay Times and Standard under editor Robert Knight . Two years later, in 1861, the paper got a more national scope with the title The Times of India . Subsequently
552-676: Was investigated by the Vivian Bose Commission of Inquiry. In the court case that followed, where he was represented by the leading British attorney Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot , he was sentenced to two years in Tihar Jail . But for most of the jail term he managed to spend in hospital. During this period the company was run by his son-in-law Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain. Upon his release his son-in-law Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain to whom he had entrusted running of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. rebuffed his efforts to resume command of
576-638: Was the model for the Rolls-Royce " Spirit of Ecstasy " mascot by Charles Sykes , died. Also among the dead were Robert Ney McNeely , American Consul at Aden and a former North Carolina state senator from Union County, Robert Vane Russell , Captain Harry Lawrence Ainsworth, Adjutant of the 10th Gurkha Rifles, American missionary Rev. Homer Russell Salisbury , Frank Morris Coleman, the co-owner of Bennett, Coleman & Company and Mary Fernandez, an Indian travelling ayah who had made
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