India’s First Gati Shakti Research Chair is Established at - IIM Shillong 

The Ministry of Ports, Shipping & Waterways (MoPSW) has collaborated with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Shillong to establish the first ‘Gati Shakti Research Chair’ in India. 

Aim 

• Spearhead high-quality academic research on multimodal logistics with a North-East focus: building knowledge on multimodal logistics development strategies and practice in the North-Eastern region, facilitate knowledge and innovation for logistical capacity building in the region. 
• To foster collaboration with global experts in creating and developing knowledge & expertise while strengthening the links between the multimodal logistics research and capacity-building activities with key stakeholders such as the logistics industry, government bodies, local authorities, and other partners and associations.  
• To support the multimodal logistics research activities, capacity building and outputs to enable PM Gati Shakti Masterplan to power the East and North-East Region’s logistical capacity. 

Renowned Director Kumar Shahani Passed Away 

Renowned director Kumar Shahani passed away. He was an Indian film director and screenwriter, best known for his parallel cinema films Maya Darpan (1972), Tarang (1984), Khayal Gatha (1989) and Kasba (1990).  

He was born on 7 December 1940 in Larkana, Sindh. After the partition of India in 1947, Shahani's family shifted to the city of Bombay. Due to his dedication to formalism, and with the reputation of his first feature Maya Darpan being considered among Indian cinema's first formalist films critics and film enthusiasts often associated him with filmmakers such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Andrei Tarkovsky and Jacques Rivette. He was also known as a teacher and theorist of cinema, whose essays The Shock of Desire and Other Essays, comprising 51 essays, were published by Tulika Books in 2015. 

Important Works 

• Maya Darpan 
• Tarang 
• Khayal Gatha 
• Kasba 
• Char Adhyay 

He won national award for best film in the years 1972, 1984 respectively for Maya Darpan, Tarang and National Film Award for Best Biographical Film in 1991 for Bhavantarana.