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22-464: [REDACTED] Look up crackdown in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Crackdown may refer to Crackdown (TV series) Crack Down , 1989 video game Crackdown (video game series) Crackdown (video game) Crackdown 2 Crackdown 3 Crackdown (podcast) Crackdown (film) , a 1991 American film The Crackdown ,

44-452: A 1983 album Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Crackdown . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crackdown&oldid=1230149047 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

66-501: A couple of scenes, Iqbal Khan, is seen hurling expletives as Zorawar Kalra. Shriya Pilagaonkar impresses as Divya aka Mariyam but Waluscha De Sousa turned out to the surprise package of the show. Rajesh Tailang was as usual brilliant in his part as the RAW chief." Ruchi Kaushal of Hindustan Times wrote "The success of a suspense thriller lies in its ability to offer the unexpected and Crackdown never loses its way down unnecessary twists. Unlike

88-537: A dampener." Nandini Ramnath of Scroll.in wrote "Determinedly preposterous and as riveting as a train wreck in slow motion, Crackdown makes short work of narrative intelligence as it rips through the terrorism thriller template." Avinash Ramachandran of Cinema Express rated 2.5 star out of 5 stars and wrote "In a series about terrorism will, of course, have good Muslims and bad ones. The angle of in-house sabotage and Islamophobia, brought in by RAW’s deputy director Zorawar (Iqbal Khan), adds some inadvertent humour, and

110-542: A newspaper. It added a new business section on Mondays, a Sunday opinion page called The Prism , and an entertainment section Showtime on Saturdays focussing on showbiz and streaming platforms, besides creating a Travel & Living supplement on Tuesdays. Quoting the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) for the year 2013, the Deccan Herald announced that it had "emerged as one of the top ten English dailies in

132-579: Is an Indian English language daily newspaper published from the Indian state of Karnataka . It was founded by K. N. Guruswamy , a liquor businessman from Ballari , and was launched on 17 June 1948. It is published by The Printers Mysore, a privately held company owned by the Nettakallappa family, heirs of Guruswamy. It has seven editions printed from Bengaluru , Hubballi , Davanagere , Hosapete , Mysuru , Mangaluru , and Kalaburagi . Deccan Herald

154-402: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Crackdown (TV series) Crackdown is an Indian spy thriller webseries directed By Apoorva Lakhia starring Saqib Saleem in the lead role. All episodes premiered on Voot on 23 September 2020. The second season released on 25 May 2023 on JioCinema . The plot revolves around

176-564: The ₹ 5,00,000 capital, some 75 percent came from Guruswamy. Other shareholders were K. Venkataswamy, Moola Rangappa, M. K. Swamy and Dondusa, according to Machaiah. He documents the challenges of getting it started. Deccan Herald was initially launched as an eight-page tabloid paper, priced at one anna . It became a broadsheet newspaper later. Deccan Herald launched a sister daily in Kannada, called Prajavani in October 1948. T. S. Ramachandra Rao

198-425: The 35 buildings he had purchased from proceeds of his excise business. Guruswamy moved out of the liquor business by 1986. Guruswamy's adopted son K. A. Nettakallappa, who became a well-known journalist, was instrumental in helping the business grow during the 1950s and 1960s. But he died young at the age of 47. Nettakallappa and Prajavani editor Ramachandra Rao are credited with playing a pioneering role in founding

220-501: The Kannada language. However, Muslims in the city of Bengaluru took that story as a reference to their prophet and protested violently. Marchers went on a rampage and attacked police personnel in the city of Bengaluru , Mysore , and Mandya . Curfew was declared in Bengaluru and its suburban areas. The newspaper's editor, who happened to be its publisher, was arrested for "fomenting enmity between two communities and writing articles in

242-468: The Press Club of Bangalore. The company has been helmed by Nettakallappa's sons—K. N. Hari Kumar, K. N. Tilak Kumar, and K. N. Shanth Kumar—since the early 1980s and the business continues to be privately owned and managed by the family. The publications adopt a policy of "objectivity, integrity, impartiality and truth flying high". Deccan Herald's tagline (2019) is "The Power of Good." Sitaraman Shankar

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264-570: The city. It was one of the early publications to hire women journalists in reporting roles in Indian journalism. Deccan Herald' s Bengaluru edition is printed at a modern facility located in the Kumbalgodu Industrial Area since 1998. It has been printing in colour in its main edition since 1985. The Deccan Herald was one of the early Indian newspapers to launch its own website, on 15 April 1996, and claims "14 million page views per month" as of 2018. A controversial short story

286-579: The country". IRS 2013 termed the Deccan Herald as the eighth largest English-language daily in India, average issue readership-wise. The newspaper's average issue readership stands at 4,58,000, including 3,38,000 in Bangalore city. Deccan Herald has also faced its own share of setbacks. Plans for both an evening English-language daily and a New Delhi edition did not succeed. Since the late 1990s, it has faced competition from other English-language newspapers entering

308-420: The emotional aspect of The Family Man, The Voot Select original doesn’t come with distractions of romance or comedy, keeping its eye firmly on thriller aspect." Ronak Kotecha of The Times of India rated 3.5 our 5 stars and wrote "The show loses steam midway as a host of characters are introduced making an already complex screenplay even more crowded. While the overall plot remains intense, too many subplots are

330-433: The final resolution for this angle is even more laughable." Roktim Rajpal for Deccan Herald wrote "Crackdown opens on a mildly engaging note before flattering to deceive. The narrative lacks a sense of urgency, which makes it difficult for fans to relate to or even care about the reel action. Most of the twists, barring the one seen towards the end of the fourth episode, fall flat." Deccan Herald Deccan Herald

352-424: The life of a few Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) agents. RP, the top agent along with other agents plans to uncover a conspiracy that threatens the safety of India. They use one lady, Divya who is identical to Mariam who was the lover of one Militant Zaheed. Shweta Keshri of India Today praised performance of entire cast and wrote "Saqib Saleem as Riyaz Pathan is seen flexing his muscles and going shirtless in

374-568: Was appointed editor of the Deccan Herald in September 2018, and was later appointed chief executive officer of the company. In August 2019, the Deccan Herald relaunched its newspaper with a "revamped look to attract younger readers." Edinburgh-based Palmer Watson Words and Pictures design agency Deccan Herald has revamped its look. The English daily has got a new masthead in aqua blue, a colour to attract younger audience who need coaxing to pick up

396-450: Was its first editor. It has played a prominent role in the world of Kannada journalism and popular culture. Subsequent publications launched by the group include lifestyle magazine Sudha (initiated in 1965 and edited by E.R. Sethuram) and the literary magazine Mayura , launched in 1968. Only in 1956, eight years after launch, was the company able to break even. Earlier, Guruswamy had to depend on bank loans and selling all but three of

418-447: Was launched on 17 June 1948. Its founder, K. N. Guruswamy , in search of a suitable location for a news publishing business, purchased a bar and restaurant called Funnel's, that was owned by an Irish couple, in March 1948. Despite having no experience in the newspaper industry, Guruswamy, along with his close aides and well wishers, decided to launch two newspapers from Bangalore since there

440-544: Was no such title at the time. Veteran journalist Pothan Joseph served as its founding editor, which gave it a strong footing as an English paper. K. N. Guruswamy (1901–1990) was the eldest son of a prominent businessman of Ballari ( Bellary ), who later shifted to Bangalore , and the family belonged to the Ediga community, which was traditionally involved in toddy tapping . They won excise contracts and expanded their business across (then known as Mysore, now Karnataka). Bangalore

462-656: Was published in the Sunday magazine supplement of the Deccan Herald newspaper in December 1986. The story was about a physically and intellectually boy named Mohammad who died by suicide due to the travails of his family suffering from poverty. It was a fictional story originally written by PKN Namboodri a decade earlier in Malayalam language and had nothing to do with the Islamic prophet Muhammad . It created no turmoil when first published in

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484-524: Was then under the Kingdom of Mysore , ruled by the Wadiyar dynasty , and lacked an English newspaper in those times. The then Diwan of Mysore , Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar , is believed to have been instrumental in convincing Guruswamy to start an English-language daily and he launched the firm The Printers (Mysore) Pvt Ltd. Justice P P Medappa, later the state's chief justice, suggested the name Deccan Herald . Of

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