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Charley Scalies, the beloved character actor best known for his role as Thomas 'Horseface' Pakusa on The Wire, has passed away at 84 after a long battle with Alzheimer's. The Philadelphia-born actor, also recognized for his appearance in The Sopranos and films like Liberty Heights and Jersey Girl, left a lasting mark on television. His daughter, Anne Marie Scalies, confirmed the heartbreaking news, as fans mourn a performer whose quiet strength resonated across every role. With a career spanning decades and appearances on Law & Order, SVU, and Cold Case, Scalies' presence on screen will be dearly missed.
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The Wire
3 hours ago
- The Wire
J&K: Army Official Allegedly Beats Up Nomadic Tribals Accused of Aiding Militants
Srinagar: The army allegedly beat up a group of nomadic tribals on Saturday (July 26) in the higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir's capital Srinagar on charges of shielding suspected militants, The Wire has learnt. At least four victims, identified as Mohammad Liyakat, Mohammad Azam, Showkat Ahmad and Abdul Qadir, all residents of Rajouri district, suffered injuries of various degrees in the thrashing, which was allegedly led by an army official of the 50 Rashtriya Rifles. The official is in charge of a new base camp that has come up in the Dhagwan area in the higher reaches of Srinagar in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terrorist attack. Terming the incident a 'grave violation of human rights', ruling National Conference lawmaker from Rajouri's Budhal constituency and tribal leader Javed Choudhary, who is in contact with the victims, demanded action against the guilty. 'The administration should immediately register an FIR and rein in the forces responsible for these recurring atrocities against innocent tribal people. This pattern of intimidation and violence against tribal communities must stop,' Choudhary told The Wire, adding that the community will launch a mass agitation if the perpetrators are not punished. The Wire could not immediately verify the name of the army official who, according to the description provided by the victims, sported long hair and used a heavy wooden cane to beat up the tribal people. The army's Srinagar-based spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel M.K. Sahu could not be reached for comment. Srinagar's senior superintendent of police G.V. Sundeep Chakravarthy said that the police were trying to get in touch with the alleged victims, who are reportedly on the way to the capital city. 'It is a very far-off area. Once our team gets in touch with them, we will have clarity on the matter,' he said. Dhagwan is a high-altitude geographical barrier where Srinagar's Zabarwan range of mountains and the Lidder valley of Anantnag district meet. It has dense vegetation comprising pine and cedar forests, glacial water streams, deep ravines and steep mountains spread over thousands of hectares of land. The area serves as a summer home for nearly 200 families of the nomadic Gujjar and Bakkerwal communities, the poorest of the poor in Jammu and Kashmir, who graze their herds of sheep, goats and other livestock in the mountain pasturelands circling Kashmir during the summer and migrate to Jammu before the onset of winter. Three victims who spoke with The Wire over phone alleged that they were segregated into two groups, of which one group comprising 10-15 men were 'beaten up like animals', while others received minor thrashing. The victims claimed that two army soldiers held the victims by their arms while the superior official thrashed them 'without showing any mercy'. Recalling the ordeal, Liyakat said that a group of soldiers came to his seasonal home on Saturday morning, saying that 'sahab' was looking for him. He said that when he reached the camp at around 1 pm, around 40 other male residents had gathered outside it. The army official accused the tribal men of having information about militants and providing them food. He also issued an ultimatum to the residents to vacate their homes within two days. Speaking with The Wire over phone, Liyakat said that the officer accused him of sheltering militants who have turned the higher reaches of Kashmir into a dangerous battleground by inflicting heavy casualties on security forces in the years after the reading down of Article 370. Security agencies have been carrying out massive searches in the girdle of mountains surrounding Kashmir amid fears of infiltration by militants after the four-day-long Indo-Pakistani conflict in May this year. 'When I rejected his allegations, he said 'Go to Pakistan and get them [militants] from there'. Why will I go to Pakistan? He said 'our people have died in Pahalgam', but what have we got to do with it?' Liyakat said in a weak voice over the phone. Muhammad Yusuf, who received a minor beating, claimed that he pleaded with the army official to let go of Liyakat as he was going to be surgically operated on next week. He said that the officer didn't listen and thrashed him anyway. 'Now my second leg is also broken,' a distraught Liyakat said. 'I can't even stand up and go to the bathroom. They should have shot me there instead of putting me through this ordeal.' Dhagwan is also a haven for trekking enthusiasts and mountaineers as it connects Srinagar with the Dachigam national park, the Wasturwan meadow, the Overa wildlife sanctuary and Pahalgam. According to security agencies, the area has been used as a transit route by militants in recent years to move from south Kashmir into Srinagar. Following the terrorist attack in Pahalgam, the victims said that the army set up a new base camp in the area. 'We carried the wooden logs and other materials on our backs for the base camp. We do their work and serve them tea whenever they like. This is how we have been paid back,' said Yusuf. This is not the first incident where the army has faced accusations of using violence against the tribal people of Jammu and Kashmir, who have come under an intensifying political and security spotlight following the reading down of Article 370 in 2019. In December 2023, three members of the Gujjar community were allegedly tortured to death, while many others suffered grave injuries when the army launched an operation in the Poonch district of Jammu division, which has emerged as a militancy hotspot since 2019. The army had set up a court of inquiry with regard to the torture allegations. A brigadier and three other officers were removed from the command of the army camp where the tribal civilians were tortured. On November 20 last year, four civilians were detained for questioning in connection with a militant attack in the Kishtwar district of the Chenab valley in the Jammu region; they were allegedly tortured in custody. The army had ordered a probe into this matter also, but it wasn't immediately known whether any action was taken against the alleged culprits. Zafar Choudhary, a Jammu-based senior political analyst, said that the Gujjar community was having a 'strong feeling of either being specifically targeted or not being factored in as worthy of consideration as a human stock'. 'If the authorities think the exclusion of this community with a strong feeling of alienation and injustice was their political objective, then they have almost achieved it. If there is a case of rogue elements colluding with political interests at isolated smaller levels, then an all encompassing legal, administrative and political process must take place towards confidence-building, keeping in view overall strategic and security interests as specific to Jammu and Kashmir,' he said in a post on X.
The Wire
9 hours ago
- The Wire
Gurugram Police Releases Bengali Migrant Workers, Only Ten ‘Confirmed Bangladeshis' Remain, It Says
Government The police are yet to confirm the exact number of detainees released. They now say that verification is ongoing and 'only highly suspicious individuals will be picked up'. Women from an Assamese Muslim neighbourhood in Gurugram's Khatola village on their way to meeting their detained husbands. Photo: Alishan Jafri Gurugram police public relations officer Sandeep Kumar confirmed that all but ten detainees have been released. He claimed that these ten people are undocumented immigrants from Bangladesh and that the police have now initiated the process for their deportation. 'Nobody is there except ten individuals who are confirmed Bangladeshis,' he said. However, he did not confirm the total number of people who were detained and later released. When The Wire asked on what basis these individuals were identified as undocumented immigrants while the others were released, Kumar claimed, 'The ten suspects possess documents that prove they are from Bangladesh.' Asked if the authorities' drive to identify and deport undocumented Bangladeshi citizens will go on or intensify, he said, 'verification is going on and only highly suspicious individuals will be picked up'. When asked if the hundreds of people detained and released earlier were also 'highly suspicious', Kumar questioned the source of this figure, although he added that the drive is ongoing and that official numbers can't be shared at this point. Regarding the process of releasing detainees, he said, 'We contacted the district administrations of the areas the detainees claimed as their home. After verifying their citizenship through the respective district officials, we released them.' The detainees' release comes amidst growing public scrutiny and pushback from opposition leaders and civil society. Calling the detentions in Gurugram 'linguistic terrorism', West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee wrote that she was shocked to see 'these terrible atrocities of double-engine governments on Bengalis in India'. 'What do you want to prove? This is atrocious and terrible. We are not going to tolerate this.' In a video message on X, Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra compared the drive to 'living in Nazi Germany'. Terming these ' wide-net detentions ' illegal, Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi wrote on X, 'This government acts strong with the weak, and weak with the strong. Most of those who are accused of being 'illegal immigrants' are the poorest of the poor: slum-dwellers, cleaners, domestic workers, rag-pickers, etc. They have been targeted repeatedly because they are not in a position to challenge police atrocities.' On Friday, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya visited Bengali migrants in Gurugram. Amanur Sheikh's shanty in the Bengali ragpicker colony near the Kapasheda border between Delhi and Gurugram. Photo: Alishan Jafri Large numbers of Bengali-speaking migrant workers have fled to Assam and West Bengal. When The Wire visited a neighbourhood in Gurugram's Khatola village known for its large Assamese Muslim population – and where residents claimed nearly 2,000 people used to live – it was almost entirely deserted. Only around a dozen women were present, who were about to visit their husbands and other male relatives held in detention centres. Barring a few people, the entire neighbourhood has apparently fled to Assam's Dhubri following the recent crackdown. And now after the release of detainees, many, including Sayra Bano and her family, are going back to Assam. All the migrant workers The Wire covered in its previous report from Gurugram have been released. Amanur Sheikh, brother of Hafijur who was detained in a Sector 10A 'holding camp', said that his brother has been released but that they are still living in fear. Rafukul Islam was released by the police on July 23 after being held in detention for over five days. He was detained on July 18 and taken to the Basapur City Centre vote camp, which the police refer to as a 'holding centre'. According to Islam, around 150 people were detained in that facility. He claimed that 15 or 16 among them were Hindus and were released earlier. The remaining detainees, he said, were Muslims from Assam and Bengal. 'There were 27 people I personally knew who were detained along with me. We were all picked up from the same neighbourhood. The police have released all of us,' he said. When asked what the police told them before releasing them, Rafukul replied, 'They didn't say anything. They just made us sign on a few papers and told us to go. They said, ' Tum log ab jao yahan se, tumhara ho gaya abhi ' ('You people can go now, it's done').' He also claimed that the police confiscated their mobile phones. 'A few people got their phones back, but the rest of us, including me, didn't get ours.' Following their release, Islam and the others left the National Capital Region and returned to their villages. Rafukul hails from the Kokrajhar district of Assam. 'When things return to normal, we will come back,' he said. 'Our livelihood is there, how can we stay away for long? What will we eat? But right now, we can't stay in Gurugram. Who knows when they might come and detain us again?' When asked on what grounds the police detained them, Islam said, 'The police asked us where we were from. When we said we're from Assam, they replied, 'No, no, you're from Bangladesh, go sit in the vehicle.' Then they took us to the centre.' The Wire is now on WhatsApp. Follow our channel for sharp analysis and opinions on the latest developments.
Time of India
2 days ago
- Time of India
Where was ‘Happy Gilmore 2' filmed? full list of Netflix sequel locations in New Jersey
'Happy Gilmore 2' filming locations across New Jersey Netflix's Happy Gilmore 2 was filmed entirely in New Jersey, with production taking place in September 2024. Adam Sandler reprises his role as Happy Gilmore, returning to golf to help finance his daughter's ballet classes. The sequel moves away from the original's British Columbia setting and instead features several iconic and recognizable New Jersey sites. Explore courses from Top Institutes in Please select course: Select a Course Category Project Management Product Management healthcare MBA PGDM Leadership Healthcare Public Policy Management CXO Data Science Technology Others Data Analytics Digital Marketing Artificial Intelligence Finance MCA Cybersecurity Design Thinking others Data Science Degree Operations Management Skills you'll gain: Portfolio Management Project Planning & Risk Analysis Strategic Project/Portfolio Selection Adaptive & Agile Project Management Duration: 6 Months IIT Delhi Certificate Programme in Project Management Starts on May 30, 2024 Get Details Skills you'll gain: Project Planning & Governance Agile Software Development Practices Project Management Tools & Software Techniques Scrum Framework Duration: 12 Weeks Indian School of Business Certificate Programme in IT Project Management Starts on Jun 20, 2024 Get Details Also read: Adam Sandler's daughters take center stage in 'Happy Gilmore 2': Their careers, net worth, and future in h Key filming took place at multiple golf courses, public landmarks, and local businesses across the state. Sandler and his family reportedly relocated to New Jersey for the duration of the shoot, making filming logistics more efficient. Montclair Golf Club in Verona, New Jersey, is one of the primary golf course locations featured in the film. The club, which dates back to 1893, spans a 36-hole private course and holds historical significance in US golf. Another prominent location is Pleasantdale Château in West Orange, where Gilmore is shown being honored alongside golfing legends like Tiger Woods. The estate, originally purchased in 1912 by Charles Walter Nichols, is frequently used for filming and has previously appeared in The Sopranos , Law and Order: SVU , and Cadillac Records . Live Events Fiddler's Elbow Country Club also appears in the movie. According to reports, the club was closed for filming during production. Additionally, Ideal Beach, located in New Jersey and known for being pet-friendly, was used for beachside practice scenes. Local businesses and public locations featured in 'Happy Gilmore 2' In addition to golf courses, Happy Gilmore 2 was filmed at several well-known businesses and public buildings in New Jersey. Verona Town Hall shared behind-the-scenes images of filming, along with a social media message: 'Come Back Anytime.' The film also utilized locations in Kearny, a Newark suburb that has served as a filming site for Annie (1982), Smile (2022), and The Sopranos . Also read: Happy Gilmore 2: Adam Sandler revives his cult-classic role after 30 years. Check release date, cast and s Scenes were also shot in Closter, New Jersey. The town has previously appeared in movies including The Family Man and The Wolf of Wall Street . Other notable filming spots included: Steve's Burgers on Route 46 Kim's Nails in Maplewood Goldberg's World Famous Deli & Bagels in Millburn Lokl Café in Morristown Newark Liberty International Airport, used in one of the film's transitional scenes These locations provided the backdrop as the film moves across burger joints, delis, and suburban streets, adding a local flavor to Gilmore's return to competitive golf. Happy Gilmore 2 is now available for streaming on Netflix as of July 25.
