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KIDS SHINE AT NATIONAL FILM AWARDS 2015
The 62nd National Film
Awards were announced in
a press conference in New
Delhi on March 24.
Children from Tamil Nadu
took the spotlight at this
year’s awards.

little boys from a slum craving for pizza,
won its lead actors, brothers J Vignesh, 14,
and J Ramesh, 12, both from a real-life
slum in Kasimedu in Tamil Nadu, the
awards for best child artistes.

1994).
Other winners include Kangana Ranaut who bagged
the best actress award for Queen while Mary Kom was
named Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment.

'Saivam', the story about a little girl's love
for her rooster, bagged 10-year-old Uthara
'Kaakai Muttai' (meaning
Unnikrishnan the award for best female
Crow's Egg), the story of two playback singer. For Uthara, the win was
doubly special because
20 years ago, her father
P Unnikrishnan had
won his first National
Award for playback
singing for his first song
(for the film Kaadhalan
in

The National Film Awards were established in 1954.
Every year, a national panel appointed by the government selects the winning entry, and the award ceremony is held in New Delhi, where the President of India presents the awards. This is followed by the inauguration of the National Film Festival, where the
award-winning films are screened for the public.

Plane Crashes in the Near Past
The Germanwings Plane
Crash

Germanwings 4U9525
crashed into the French Alps
on. Andreas Lubitz the copilot is said to have been
suffering from depression. In
fact he did not let the pilot
enter the cockpit and immediately decided to descend
the plane, which ultimately
crashed into the French Alps,
killing 149 passengers.
Information on the Crash
was gathered from the Black
Box in the plane, which recorded all the happenings on
the flight.

Indian Navy Loses 2 of its pilots in a
surveillance sortie.
Lt Kiran Shekhawat and co-pilot Lt Abhinav Nagori lost their lives on board
the Dornier surveillance aircraft that
crashed around 20 nautical miles southwest of Goa.
Lt. Shekhawat was an observer. Her Father and Husband are both in the Navy.
She had gone against all odds to become
an officer and devote her life to the Navy.
The aircraft has been said to have been
found few nautical m [\