French Culture Minister Rachida Dati confirmed the incident on X, saying, "A robbery took place this morning at the opening of the Louvre Museum."
The partition of Bengal in 1905 split more than a province, it touched people's hearts and awakened India's fight for freedom.
Deadly brides, daredevil officers, bloodthirsty royals, killer toys, celebrity chefs, comic book heroes, angry goddesses, senior citizen dreams, poisonous snowfall, the OTT offerings this week will make you wish for days twice the size of its menu.
Queen Mary 2 is one of the most magnificent luxury ocean liners ever built.
She was referred to King George's Medical University as the women's hospital in Ayodhya did not have the facility to provide adequate treatment, the district's chief medical officer Sanjay Jain said.
The bench made it clear that except for students, teaching and non-teaching staff no one should be allowed into the college campus and told the students to attend the classes and not to abstain.
The palace said the Queen Mary Crown was removed from display at the Tower of London to be repurposed for the ceremony on May 6 with jewels paying tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II.
As the stage gets set for the coronation of King Charles III and some monarchy gazing, the India connect over the centuries glimmers faintly through pages of colonial history.
'The people of Tamil Nadu in particular Chennai know about the double standards of the BJP. Nothing will work for them here.'
India's best medal hope, five-time World boxing champion M C Mary Kom lived up to expectations as she beat Zhaina Shekerbekova of Kazakhstan to win the gold medal in the flyweight category (48-51kgs) at the Asian Games, in Incheon, on Wednesday.
Out of competitive action for over a year, five-time world champion M C Mary Kom will return to the ring in an invitational tournament to be held in Mongolia next month.
London Olympics bronze medallist MC Mary Kom declared her intention to bow out on a high at the Rio Games in 2016, saying it could be her last tournament.
The king and his wife, Camilla, the queen consort, travelled from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey -- a distance of 2.2-km -- at a stately pace in the Diamond Jubilee State Coach bearing a gilded crown, which was commissioned for Queen Elizabeth II in 2012.
Charles will be crowned the King of the United Kingdom amid spectacular pomp and pageantry at Westminster Abbey in London on Saturday in a solemn religious ceremony that dates back almost a thousand years.
The controversial colonial-era Kohinoor diamond claimed by India is to be cast as a symbol of conquest as part of a new display of Britain's Crown Jewels at the Tower of London set to open to the public in May.
From witnessing the dawn of Independence to playing host to annual Republic Day celebrations for over seven decades, the historic Rajpath in India's power capital has seen the colonial rule and basked in the glory of a free, democratic nation.
The grand-prize winner will receive an eight-day National Geographic expedition to Alaska for two
The grand-prize winner will receive an eight-day National Geographic expedition to Alaska for two
There were Vedic mantras engraved along with prayer songs for Lord Shiva, Lord Rama and Lord Krishna. Neither the government nor the people of Faisalabad demanded that the carvings be removed. I felt very happy to see Sanskrit shloka
The estimated size of the Durga Puja economy could be about Rs 2.75 trillion in 2021 had there been no pandemic, points out Atanu Biswas.
The exhibition, which will run from October 26 to January 6 next year, will also feature her exquisite veil and a diamond and platinum bandeau tiara, lent to her by The Queen, which will be on public display for the first time.
The DMK leader was arrested last week for trespassing into the Queen Mary's College.
... Why care for the truth when the legend so interesting, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam youth wing leader and former Chennai mayor was granted bail by a city sessions court in the case that accused him of inciting party workers to attack policemen who had gone to arrest on April 9.
Mary Kom added another feather to her already crowded cap and became the first Indian woman boxer to clinch a gold medal at the Asian Games. In the 2010 edition she had to settle with a bronze medal.
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As the ownership of the rare diamond continues to exercise Indians, here are some interesting facts about it.
Flowers from Bangkok in Thailand, Indonesia and Bengaluru, a nizami feast and a rose petal shower await United States President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump as she heads to Hyderabad on November 28 for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit. The US First Daughter will be accorded the royal treatment at Taj Falaknuma where she will be joining Prime Minister Narendra Modi for dinner on November 28.
Named Proxima b, the planet is in a "temperate" zone compatible with the presence of liquid water -- a key ingredient for life.
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Ethiopian-born Maryam Yusuf Jamal thanked Bahrain for giving her the chance to earn a living from athletics on Wednesday and told Reuters that her Asian Games 1,500 metres gold medal was down to intensive training, not which country she originated from.
'All statue-building is an exercise in hubris, but Mr Adityanath's enterprise begs a question: Can a state with rampant child malnutrition and 325 children dying in a Gorakhpur hospital afford Rama's benediction?' asks Sunil Sethi.
Distraught after losing her controversial semifinal bout, Indian boxer L Sarita Devi on Tuesday stunned officials and spectators by refusing to accept the bronze medal, which is now in the custody of organisers.
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