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  Blast in 'Lucky Star'-fame Japanese animation studio kills 23; Japan stunned

  World | July 18, 2019 16:21 IST

  A Japanese fire official says at least 23 people are now confirmed or presumed dead in suspected arson at a popular animation production studio in Kyoto. Kyoto fire department official Satoshi Fujiwara says 36 others have been injured, some of them critically. He says firefighters found more than 10 people presumed dead on the top floor of a three-story building, some of them collapsed on the stairs leading to the roof.

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  Animation Studio in US to make a film based on Hindu Gods

  Hollywood | December 01, 2015 15:02 IST

  New Delhi: In his quest to understand Vedic mythology, Sanjay Patel, an Indian-American, took the animation route to tell a story featuring Hindu gods as superheroes. The first-time director says an approval by a US