Awards  

Four coaches have been recommended for the Dronacharya award in the life-time category. They are Clarence Lobo (hockey), Tarak Sinha (cricket), Jiwan Kumar Sharma (judo) and VR Beedu (athletics)

Tamil Nadu's popular stand up comedian PM Manoj Prabhakar at the Acadummy Awards 2017-18 programme, took on Tollywood hero Mahesh Babu's expressions as the theme of his show. Being a Telugu superstar, Mahesh Babu has a large fan base. This time, even other movie lovers joined them in criticising the comedian for insulting the actor.

 MyNation is in possession of documents that reveal shocking details of Tamil Nadu minister Velumani awarding multi-crore government contracts to companies owned by his kith and kin through departments that are right under him. It roughly adds up to 104% turnover boost in 3 years.

The awardees include a Cambodian genocide survivor, who helped document the Khmer Rouge atrocities, and an Indian psychiatrist, who led the rescue of thousands of mentally ill street paupers.

Dipannita Sharma bagged her first international award for the Assamese film Xhoixobote Dhelamite at the Love International Film Festival (LIFF).

Many famous Mollywood celebrities including Geethu Mohandas and Rajeev Ravi have signed the letter stating they don't want Mohanlal to be the chief guest at Kerala State Awards

Most of the actors and technicians in AMMA had supported the return of Dileep to the association and not decided to back the victim. This has angered Biju and other artists too, who have decided to stay away from AMMA.