New Delhi, Mar 22 : Filmmaker Priyadarshan's "Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham" was named the best film, while Bollywood actors Kangana Ranaut, Manoj Bajpayee and Dhanush were declared best actors at the 67th National Film Awards, announced here on Monday.

While Ranaut won the best actress award for her performances in "Manikarnika" and "Panga", Bajpayee was named best actor for Devashish Makhija's "Bhonsle". The actor shared the honour with Dhanush, who earned the honour for "Asuran".

Here is the complete list of winners of the 67th National Film Awards:

Feature Film Awards: Best Feature Film: 'Marakkar: Arabikkadalinte Simham" (Malyalam) Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment: "Maharshi" (Telugu) Best Director: Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan for "Bahattar Hoorain" (Hindi) Best Hindi Film: "Chhichhore" Best Actor (shared): Manoj Bajpayee for "Bhonsle" (Hindi), and Dhanush for "Asuran"(Tamil) Best Actress: Kangana Ranaut for "Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi (Hindi) and "Panga" (Hindi) Best Supporting Actor: Vijaya Sethupathi for "Super Deluxe" (Tamil) Best Supporting Actress: Pallavi Joshi for "The Tashkent Files" (Hindi) Best Screenplay (Original): Kaushik Ganguly for "Jyeshthoputro" (Bengali) Best Screenplay (Adapted): Srijit Mukherji for "Gumnaami" (Bengali) Best Screenplay (Dialogue Writer): Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri "The Tashkent Files" (Hindi) Best Music Direction: D Imman for "Viswasam" (Tamil) Best Background Music: Prabuddha Banerjee for "Jyeshthoputro" (Bengali) Best Lyrics: Prabha Varma for "Arodum Parayuka Vayya", "Kolaambi" (Malayalam) Best Male Playback Singer: B Praak for "Teri Mitti", "Kesari" (Hindi) Best Female Playback Singer: Savani Ravindra, for "Raan Petala", "Bardo" (Marathi) Best Choreography: Raju Sundaram for "Maharishi" (Telugu) Best Cinematography: Gireesh Gangadharan for "Jallikattu" (Malayalam) Best Editing: Navin Nooli for "Jersey" (Telugu) Special Jury Award: "Oththa Seruppu Size 7" (Tamil) Best Children's Film: "Kastoori" (Hindi) Best Child Artist: Naga Vishal for "Kruppu Durai" (Tamil) Best Production Design: Sunil Nigwekar and Nilesh Wagh for "Anandi Gopal" (Marathi) Best Costume Designer: Sujith Sudhakaran and V Sai for "Marakkar: Arabikkadalinte Simham" (Malyalam) Best Make-up Artist: Ranjith for "Helen" (Malayalam) Best Special Effects: Siddharth Priyadarshan for "Marakkar: Arabikkadalinte Simham" (Malyalam) Best Action Direction: Vikram Mor for "Avane Srimannarayana" (Kannada) Best Audiography (Location Sound Recordist): Debajit Gayan for "Iewduh" (Khasi) Best Audiography (Re-recordist of the final mixed track): Resul Pookutty for "Oththa Seruppu Size 7" (Tamil) Best Audiography (Sound Designer) : Mandar Kamalapurkar for "Trijya" (Marathi)

Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration : "Tajmahal" (Marathi) Best Film on Social Issues: "Anandi Gopal" (Marathi) Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director: Mathukutty Xavier for "Helen" (Malayalam) Best Film on Environment Conservation/ Preservation: "Water Burial" (Monpa) Best Bengali Film: "Gumnaami" Best Tamil Film: "Asuran" Best Telugu Film: "Jersey" Best Marathi Film: "Bardo" Best Malayalam Film: "Kala Nottam" Best Assamese Film: "Ronuwa- Who Never Surrender" Best Manipuri Film: "Eigi Kona" Best Kannada Film: "Akshi" Best Konkani Film: "Kaajro" Best Odia Film (shared): "Sala Budhar Badla" and "Kalira Atita" Best Punjabi Film: "Rab Da Radio 2" Best Haryanvi Film: "Chhoriyan Chhoron Se Kam Nahi Hoti" Best Chhattisgarhi Film: "Bhulan The Maze" Best Khasi Film: "Iewduh" Best Mishing Film: "Anu Ruwad" Best Paniya Film: "Kenjira" Best Tulu Film: "Pingara" Special Mention (Director): Sajin Babu for "Biryani" (Malayalam), Abhijeet Mohan Warang for "Picaso" (Marathi) Special Mention (Actor): Benjamin Daimary for "Jonaki Porua" (Assamese) Special Mention (Actress): Lata Kare for "Lata Bhagwan Kare" (Marathi)

Non-Feature Film Awards:

Best Non-Feature Film: An Engineered Dream (Hindi) Best Biographical Film: "Elephants Do Remember" Best Ethnographic Film: "Charan-Atva" Best Environment Film: "The Stork Saviours" Best Promotional film: "The Shower" Best Debut Non-Feature Film: "Khisa"

Best Explorative Film: "Wild Karnataka" Best Narration: "Wild Karnataka" (David Attenborough)

Audiography (musical): "Radha" On Location Sound Recordist: "Rahas"

Best Cinematography: "Sonsi"

Best Direction: "Knock Knock Knock" Best Film on Family Values: "Oruu Pathira" Best Short Fiction: "Custody" Special Jury Award: "Small Scale Values".

Best Animation: "Radha" Best Investigative Film: "Jakkal" Best Education Film: "Apples and Oranges" Best Film on Social Issues: "Holy Rites" and "Ladli".

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Mumbai, Aug 13 (PTI): The RBI will introduce a new mechanism from October 4 for clearance of cheques within hours of being presented to banks, reducing the current time period of up to two working days.

Cheques will be scanned, presented, and passed in a few hours and on a continuous basis during business hours. The clearing cycle will be reduced from the present T+1 days to a few hours.

Cheque Truncation System (CTS) currently processes cheques with a clearing cycle of up to two working days.

To improve the efficiency of cheque clearing and reduce settlement risk for participants, and to enhance customer experience, the RBI has decided to transition CTS from the current approach of batch processing to continuous clearing with 'on-realisation-settlement'.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued a circular for introduction of Continuous Clearing and Settlement on Realisation in CTS.

"It has been decided to transition CTS to continuous clearing and settlement on realisation in two phases. Phase 1 shall be implemented on October 4, 2025 and Phase 2 on January 3, 2026," it said.

There will be a single presentation session from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

Cheques received by the branches shall be scanned and sent to the clearing house by the banks immediately and continuously during the presentation session, RBI said.

"For every cheque presented, the drawee bank shall generate either positive confirmation (for honoured cheques) or negative confirmation (for dishonoured cheques)," it said.

During Phase 1 (from October 4, 2025 to January 2, 2026), drawee banks will be required to confirm (positively/negatively) cheques presented on them, latest by the end of the confirmation session (7:00 PM), else those will be deemed to have been approved and included for settlement.

In Phase 2 (from January 3, 2026), the item expiry time of cheques shall be changed to T+3 clear hours.

Giving an example, the RBI said the cheques received by drawee banks between 10:00 AM and 11:00 AM will have to be confirmed positively or negatively by them by 2:00 PM (3 hours from 11:00 AM).

Cheques for which confirmation is not provided by the drawee bank in the prescribed 3 hours shall be treated as deemed approved and included for settlement at 2:00 PM.

RBI further said that on completion of settlement, the clearing house will release the information of positive and negative confirmations to the presenting bank.

"The presenting bank shall process the same and release the payment to the customers immediately, but not later than 1 hour from successful settlement, subject to usual safeguards," it said.

RBI directed banks to make their customers adequately aware of the changes in the cheque clearing process.

Banks have also been asked to be in readiness to participate in continuous clearing in CTS on the prescribed dates.