Dinesh Thakur

Dinesh Thakur passed away after a prolonged illness in a Mumbai hospital on Thursday

Veteran theatre actor-director Dinesh Thakur, who was admitted to a hospital in Andheri three days ago, passed away on Thursday after he suffered a cardiac arrest at 10.30 am.

Dinesh Thakur, the former Ranbaxy executive who pocketed Rs 244 crore ($48 million) for blowing the whistle on the dubious manufacturing practices of the country's largest drug maker, has made some of his peers and ex-colleagues turn green with envy.

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This weekend, a drama festival will be held in Mumbai to honour and commemorate the late director-actor Dinesh Thakur and playwright Dr Shankar Shesh.

Doon recently paid a tribute to late actors – Tom Alter and Dinesh Thakur – with a five-day long theatre festival. Doonites turned up in large numbers to attend the five plays performed by two different theatre groups from Mumbai and Manipur – Ank Theatre Group and The Chorus Repertory, respectively – at Graphic Era Hill University and AMN Ghosh auditorium, ONGC. While Ank is the one of the oldest Hindi theater groups from Mumbai established by Thakur, Chorus Repertory Theatre was formed in Manipur in 1976 by playwright and theatre director and Padma Shri awardee, Ratan Thiyam.

Ranbaxy whistleblower Dinesh Thakur on Wednesday is learned to have shared with the US lawmakers his firsthand account of how fraudulent manufacturing practices resulted in adulterated drugs coming out of the company.

She talks about Ank Theatre which has been selected to present the play 'Ek Din Bank Mein' at Dastak, Singapore Hindi Theatre Festival

Dinesh Thakur, who blew the whistle on the wrong-doings in India’s largest drug company Ranbaxy, is now using his domain knowledge to help the pharma industry to mitigate risk in the global supply chain, and comply with the complexities of US law.

A 42-year barber from a Banka village had to pay with his life for refusing to accompany some local youths during lockdown to give them a hair cut and shave. Dinesh Thakur had only last month returned from Mumbai while his son is still stuck there.

Bollywood actors Paresh Rawal andYashpal Sharma will also be seen on stage during the festival.

Bike-borne thieves, who are known to target women walking on deserted roads to snatch their gold chains, seem to have now taken a fancy to high-end mobile phones.

As many as seven cases of sexual assault, including four rapes of minor girls, were registered in the city over the last 48 hours.

Within a year and half of Ranbaxy whistle-blower Dinesh Thakur bagging $48 million by revealing company's misadventures, there has been a fourfold jump in the number of Indians reporting secret tips about misconduct and fraudulent practices to the US watchdog.

With student polls slated for August 23, the Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) campus and colleges in the city as well as across the state are abuzz with activity.

The National Film Archive of India (NFAI) has acquired rare footage from a 1948 Marathi classic, ‘Vande Mataram’, featuring iconic writer and playwright P L Deshpande, who is affectionately known as ‘Pu La’.

Rupali Ganguly opens up about her family's financial difficulties due to her father's film failures. They sold off whatever little they had and faced hardships, walking from Worli to Prithvi Theater. Her father's stress led to health issues and they lost all their money. Rupali shares her modest beginnings in theater and her journey to recognition in the television industry.

Rekha Rana is back with her charm on big screen after her first film "Ab hoga Dharna" which was themed on Anna Hazare's Dharna. Rekha would be seen in the lead Role in "TARA- the journey of love and passion".

Corporate honchos from across India took the battle out of the boardroom and out on to the golf course over the weekend at a golf tournament that was held on the outskirts of the city.

Singapore's Hindi theatre festival Dastak will see Ank group performing their play 'Ek Din Bank Mein'

The annual festival in its 3rd edition will take place across 10 cities in India in addition to Mumbai

The American subsidiary of Indian pharma major Ranbaxy has swallowed a bitter pill, coughing up $500 million in civil and criminal fines to Uncle Sam after pleading guilty to felony charges related to drug safety.

Meeting a crying need in these strife-torn times, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (BVB), Chowpatty, is organising a nine-day cultural festival 'Unity in Diversity' from February 18-26. Entry is free.

Written by Syed Asghar Wajahat in 1980, the Partition-era story revolves around a Muslim family which migrates from Lucknow to Lahore and is allotted a 'haveli' vacated by a Hindu family. The old Hindu matriarch who refuses to leave her ancestral home strikes a rare bond with the Muslim immigrants.