Abjijit Mukherjee, son of President Pranab Mukherjee and Congress candidate on Saturday won the Jangipur Lok Sabha by-election by 2,536 votes defeating his nearest Communist Party of India-Marxist rival Muzaffar Hussain.
Raja Parvez Ashraf, Pakistan Peoples Party's prime minister, is a strong loyalist of the Bhutto family and hails from a royal family of Rawalpindi in Punjab.
Prince Philip, 90-year-old husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, has undergone a successful heart surgery for a blocked coronary artery after being rushed to hospital with chest pain.
You'd want to gift your bae these fairy tale worthy gowns right away!
American actor and entrepreneur Meghan Markle is more than just a royal heir's girlfriend.
From Kate Middleton to Oprah Winfrey and Priyanka Chopra, he designed the hats for many lovely ladies at the royal wedding.
We can't help notice the similarity between the two looks.
The presence of an Indian origin man on the royal barge with Queen Elizabeth during Sunday's pageant on River Thames has raised a storm after it was revealed that he had been previously convicted and jailed for sex offences.
For many, he is the Dhirubhai Ambani of Kerala. For others, he is the most influential Indian in West Asia. M A Yusuff is back in the spotlight after the controversy surrounding the UAE's reported offer of a Rs 7 billion aid package for flood-hit Kerala.
Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid had ordered the hacking of phones of 100 high-profile people, including Prince William and a host of politicians and celebrities close to the royal family, a private investigator has claimed.
As Britain waits with bated breath for a new entrant into the Royal family, Kate Middleton made a rare slip of tongue that suggested the unborn baby is a girl.
Malayankil Gopalakrishnan, a former journalist and a member of the Archives Advisory Council of Kerala has studied and researched the history of Thiruvananthapuram.
Intimate pictures of Prince William and Kate Middleton on their honeymoon have been made public by an Australian magazine, causing an outrage in the British royal family.
A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices L N Rao and Dinesh Maheshwari said it was only going into the aspect of security of the two women -- Bindu and Kanakadurga, and would not like to entertain any other prayer made in the petition.
Prime Minister Modi addressed the second plenary of the executive session, during which he reiterated India's focus on small island developing nations of the organisation and delivering 'demand-driven, rather than donor-driven' assistance to the organisation's smaller member states.
According to sources quoted in the upcoming book penned by BBC broadcaster Andrew Marr, the 62-year-old Prince wants to put his own stamp on monarchy by formulating a 'detailed plan for a first year of change under King Charles III'.
The leading ladies of Patiala royal family are sparing no efforts these days in gleaning voters' support for their men, who are in the fray from this crucial parliamentary segment in Punjab. The 117-constituency strong state assembly goes to polls on January 30.
Oprah looked elegant, draped in a Sabyasachi Mukherjee sari, as she graced the cover of Elle's 22nd anniversary edition.
As the Prince brings in his milestone birthday today, we take a look at his life in pictures.
'Here I am, at a forum where perhaps I do not have many whose thought process is similar to mine but there are enough thinking people whose constructive criticism is something I greatly look forward to'
Madhavrao Scindia briefly left the Congress in 1996 and was later pacified to rejoin ranks
In a row over the re-naming of Ujjayanta Palace, the home of erstwhile Royal family of Tripura, the Left Front government has apparently given in to the massive public protests orchestrated by Tripura Students' Federation.
The counting will begin at 8 am, and as per the Election Commission's COVID-19 guidelines, a candidate, his poll agent and counting agent can remain present in the counting hall, officials said, adding various measures have been taken to ensure social distancing and avoid crowding.
Recently, he received the prestigious Lorenzo De Medici Gold Medal, at Florence Internazionale Biennale, in Florence, Italy, for his work Bacon's Man with the Child and Priest.
'It's only been two and a half days, three days, but we're just so thrilled to have our own little bundle of joy'
The RSS leader said he had not violated any customs and claimed that he ascended the 18 steps carrying the sacred offerings.
A closer look at the royal family portrait will reveal more details.
Swami Sandeepananda Giri had welcomed the apex court order permitting women in the 10-50 age group to offer prayers at the Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala.
The recent catastrophic attack on US troopers underlines the undamaged capability of the Afghan Taliban to take the NATO forces by surprise and inflict heavy casualties on them and its determination to make the US withdrawal from Afghanistan a humiliating retreat and not a successful withdrawal, says senior analyst B Raman.
The Sabarimala Karma Samiti, a platform of right-wing outfits, including VHP, appealed to media houses not to depute women journalists in the menstrual age group to cover the developments in Sabarimala.
'It's a moot point if Kailaasa will ever evolve beyond being a haven for a fugitive from justice,' notes Devangshu Datta.
Here's a look inside the venue where the two lovebirds will say 'I do' and other details about the wedding, which is being dubbed as the 'event of the year'.
The police, which took the women to safety, said that the duo informed the security forces that they came to Sabarimala without knowing the customs of the temple.
In this interview to rediff.com's Shobha Warrier, Professor MG Sashibhushan goes back centuries to trace how the riches reached the erstwhile Travancore Royal family and the Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple.
'The entertainment industry is on the verge of a big, big, change over the next few months and years.'
S Kalyana Ramanathan walks around the affected parts of London, a week after it was burned by the riots.
Shweta Tiwari talks about her new serial Parvarish, and much more.
The mortal remains of the last titular Maharaja of Jaipur Brigadier Bhawani Singh was consigned to flames in Jaipur on Monday with full state honours. Padmanabh Singh, his grandson who was adopted by the maharaja, lit the pyre amid the chanting of vedic mantras at 'Gaitore Ki Chatriya', the crematorium of royal family at Amber road.
Saudi Arabian forces on Monday entered the strife-torn Bahrain after two days of clashes between police and protesters mounted the most serious challenge to the Island's royal family. "More than 1,000 Saudi troops have entered Bahrain," the BBC reported, quoting a top Saudi official. The report said that the troops were part of Gulf Countries Peninsula Shield Force.
The actors are in fine form but they do not have anything solid to work with.
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