Thirty manuscripts of the ancient Hindu text Rig Veda dating from 1800 to 1500 BC are among 38 new items that have been added to the United Nations heritage list to help preserve them for posterity.
All the three were members of Ghanian club 'Hearts of Oak'.
Ford's company, ABF International, will promote the project along with a village industries park and a tourism\nhospitality complex at Mayapur visited by lakhs of tourists each year from India and abroad.
'The bhadralok would have earlier baulked at the very idea of wearing a coloured dhoti; now, with Dr Banerjee wearing, it is quite likely to be the hot fashion item during Durga Puja next year,' says Uttaran Das Gupta.
Co-hosts Vietnam stunned United Arab Emirates 2-0 with two quick-fire second-half strikes in their Asian Cup Group B opener on Sunday.
As we prepare to return to the land of silver screens and samosa, Sukanya Verma looks at notable theatre moments in Hindi films.
Jeremy Irons considered maths 'very boring' till he read G H Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology. The actor, who plays the British mathematician in The Man Who Knew Infinity, talks numbers, acting and his legacy with Aseem Chhabra/Rediff.com.
Khandaani Shafakhana neither enlightens nor entertains, feels Sukanya Verma.
A Nevada woman has sued Cristiano Ronaldo and is participating in a police investigation of the global soccer star for an alleged rape at a Las Vegas hotel in 2009, according to a complaint filed by her lawyer.
Hyderabad make 251 in reply to Punjab's 142 and gain a 109-run first innings lead.
Young seamer Alfred Absolem claimed seven wickets as Hyderabad bundled Punjab out for 142v in the first innings of the Ranji Trophy match.
Jeralean Talley, who was born in Georgia on May 23, 1899, but now lives in Inkster, Michigan turned 116 on Saturday.
'I have never had a foul experience in the industry.' 'There are rotten apples everywhere, in your family, relatives, friends circle, colleagues...' 'It's very vulnerable because of the glamour, but it's very heartbreaking to hear bad things about the industry.' 'It's not such a bad place.'
'I knew things were not going well, but there was always that hope.'
Oscar winners to set cinema records by speaking multiple Indian languages.
'Tragically, compassion is in short supply in our ancient capital city, as the horrific violence in recent weeks testified,' points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
French economist Jean Tirole won the 2014 economics Nobel Prize for his analysis of market power and regulation, the RoyalSwedishAcademy of Sciences said on Monday.
The US President won the dubious accolade for his appearance in Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 9/11.'
In the advertisement the Australian supermodel is shown seen through a keyhole dressed only in a bra and panty.
Alfred B Ford, senior trustee of Ford Motor Company Fund, said on Friday that he was talking to several strategic partners for setting up a Vedic Cosmological Project at Mayapur, West Bengal.
The village will also help India to bid for winter Olympics in the future.
'Kaba Gandhi no Delo', a bungalow in a narrow bylane of old Rajkot is mute witness to events that laid the foundation of the beliefs that shaped the character of the 'Father of the Nation'.
The 2004 Nobel Prize for Economics was jointly won by Finn E Kydland of Norway and Edward C Prescott of the United States on Monday.
The former Australian Test cricketer died in hospital on Monday after suffering serious head injuries in an assault outside a Melbourne hotel.
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Franois Englert and Peter W Higgs were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 on Tuesday for the theory of how particles acquire mass.
Cameroon midfielder Marc-Vivien Foe died on Thursday after collapsing during his country's Confederations Cup semi-final against Colombia.
India could become a dominant foreign presence in US equity markets, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. executives said on Monday, and the No. 2 US stock market wants to take advantage of that growth.
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