External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee is undertaking day-long visit to Bangladesh on Saturday to express solidarity with the people of the neighbouring country where heavy loss of life and widespread destruction was caused due to cyclone more than a week ago.
Being a son of Nehru's dentist is not the only connection that Alvi has with India. He is yet another president whose family migrated to Pakistan from India after partition. His predecessors Mamnoon Hussain's family came from Agra and Pervez Musharraf's parents migrated from New Delhi.
Tennis Australia are to beef up their integrity unit to fight corruption in the sport after their showcase tournament was blighted earlier this year by allegations of global inaction to combat it.
With the export market losing its sheen, a growing number of apparel exporters are drawing up strategies to sell their wares in the domestic market. Analysts said that the higher local demand for branded apparel was because of rising purchasing power of consumers who were now spending 6-7 per cent of their disposable income on ready-made garments. The surge in consumer spending has resulted in a 20 per cent growth in demand for international apparel.
American wildcard Vania King came from a set down to beat Anne Kremer in the Pacific Life Open first round.
The reopening of the station early on Monday brought the Belgian capital's underground network back up to full capacity.
In a surprise choice, 45-year-old Irish writer Anne Enright has been selected for this year's Booker Prize for her work 'The Gathering'.
For months, Hong Kong's streets have seethed with discontent. Scenes show protesters, sometimes numbering in the hundreds of thousands, many wearing surgical masks and carrying umbrellas that have come to signify resistance. The images are astonishing, and the issues that set the protests in motion are complex. Amid these 11 weeks of protests, here's how daily life unfolds.
American singer Stacy Ann Ferguson or Fergie as she is known, is all set to be the new face of fashion house Calvin Klein.
The other semi-final in the WTA Sunfeast Open will be between Mariya Koryttseva of Ukraine and Anne Keothavong of Britain.
The Ukrainian player beat the conqueror of top seed Marion Bartoli to enter the last eight stage in the WTA Sunfeast Open.
On being sworn in as a member of the Edison Township Council on New Year's Day, Dr Sudhanshu Prasad chose to take the oath of office on the Bhagwad Gita, a philosophical discourse that is set within the larger frame of the religious epic Mahabharat. Dr Prasad said he chose the Gita because he grew up believing in it, and it is "where my conscience is," he said.
Bitter rivals in Bihar politics Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad will be neighbours now after the Janata Dal-United top leader abdicated power as chief minister in the face of severe drubbing in the recent Lok Sabha election.
Irom Sharmila, the woman who was on a hunger strike for 16 years, leads a quiet life, and recently became a mother of twin girls.
Number two seed Sharapova will face 13th seed Tatiana Golovin of France on Thursday, who beat Luxembourg's Anne Kremer.
The meeting of the NDA MLAs was called to discuss the strategy to be adopted by treasury bench members during the four days long monsoon session of state assembly that began on Thursday.
Asian junior girls champion Mary Ann Gomes made a stride forward for the gold medal after defeating Maria Ignacz of Hungary in the sixth round of the Under-18 section of World youth girls' chess championship in Antalya
Brown, a former governor of California and a good friend of the Indian community, termed it as shocking and unacceptable.
The Videocon group will directly acquire land from the farmers with the West Bengal government assistance for its special economic zones in the state.
England and Indian cricket board chiefs are in the running to succeed South Africa's Percy Sonn as president of the ICC.
The name of an India-born doctor, who went missing without a trace from the World Trade Centre in New York after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks has been put back on the list of the victims after a four-year legal battle by her family.
Troops of India and China were locked in a 73-day-long standoff in Doklam from June 16 last year after the Indian side stopped the building of a road in the disputed tri-junction by the Chinese army.
Chikungunya-infected travelers have also been diagnosed in Belgium, French Guyana, Hong Kong, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, Martinique, Norway, Switzerland and Sri Lanka.
Heather Knight's majestic maiden T20I century helped England to a record-breaking 98-run victory over Thailand in the ICC Women's T20 World Cup match at Manuka Oval, in Canberra, on Wednesday. In the day's second match, played later, Pakistan claimed the scalp of the West Indies outplaying the 2016 winners in an eight-wicket victory.
The film is a good version of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window.
The United States held off Jamaica in a thrilling finish to win the women's 4x100 metres relay at the world championships on Saturday.
The Supreme Court's verdict puts nearly half a dozen former chief ministers in the state of Bihar in a hotspot.
Swati Ghate helped the Indian eves salvage a draw against third seed Georgia at the Women's chess Olympiad
Fixtures from the US Open Women's Singles Round 1 matches
Rupee is a Barbadian musician, who is the lead composer of the World Cup's official song and will perform at the inaugural ceremony of the event in March.
Citing the example of the Tarapore nuclear plant facing acute shortage of nuclear feedstock, the minister said we need an assurance from the west that it will not put impediments on the way to supply fuel to India.
Twice-married Steve Wright, who was arrested on Tuesday morning from his home in the red light area of Ipswich, has been charged for killing and dumping all five women in a murder spree, which shocked Britain.
Heralding a new era in container trains services, Railways on Thursday permitted private players to run container trains for, both, import and export and domestic traffic.
The US said it does not see anything new in the nuclear defence treaties that were signed during the recent visit of the Chinese President Hu Jintao to Islamabad
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