He took up the causes of tribals marginalised after their lands has been taken over for dams, mines and townships, often without their consent.
Images from the FIFA World Cup qualifying matches on Sunday night.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday joined Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.
Jet Airways plans to connect European cities through its partnership with Thalys rail network. Since last week the airline has been offering connectivity to Paris via Brussels on Thalys train network.
The Belgian national team will not train for a second day following the Brussels bomb attacks, calling off a scheduled session on Wednesday in the wake of the deaths of at least 30 people, the country's football association said.
"We do not think it is a terrorist act," Hasan Aydin of the local council in Verviers said.
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will attempt to set a world record for attendance at a tennis match, with the help of some celebrity guests, when they play an exhibition game in Cape Town in February.
"So it's all about how I feel after Rio, if I feel I can really put my body through one more season. If I'm going to be focused and I'm going to be determined. That will determine if I compete after Rio. So we'll see how it goes."
Euro zone leaders will hold an emergency summit on Monday.
The new variant is said to be 70 per cent more transmissible, though health experts say there is no evidence that it is more deadly or would react differently to vaccines.
Tamil actor Dhanush, whom we loved in Raanjhanna, is all set to work with an Oscar-nominated actress in his big international film The Extraordinary Journey Of A Fakir.
At major airports like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai and Ahmedabad, Central Industrial Security Forces and local police have shored up security apparatus and passengers are being observed and screened minutely.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, has denied newspaper reports that he met Inter-Services Intelligence chief Lt General Shuja Pasha during his Europe visit.
We bring you a presentation of some of the best photos from around the world in the last week.
Instagram couple Jean and Camille, from Brussels, better known as "@backpackdiariez", travel the world taking photographs. Their most recent one is that of themselves hanging out of a moving train in Sri Lanka to get a photo they captioned as "one of our wildest kisses".
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
The newborns opens their eyes to see the world fighting a deadly disease.
The Champs Elysees and the vast circle around the Arc de Triomphe were packed with an estimated 200,000 fans
Shoppers around the world stood in long lines, waiting to buy essentials like toilet paper, pasta, bottled water, medicine and masks as a worsening coronavirus crisis stoked fears of shortages.
According to a source on the Indian side, New Delhi and Brussels have agreed to eliminate tariffs on 90 percent of all tradable goods. But, India wants the EU to up their offer to include 95 percent of goods, while the EU wants India to offer a slash in tariffs on 98 percent of goods.
Brussels' gently warm summer days draw thronging crowds out to Cinquantenaire Park, a generous green sprawl a stone's throw away from the European Union headquarters. The scents of vanilla and caramel float from waffle vendor vans and the excited shrieks of toddlers mucking about in sandpits punctuate the air.
Six-times Olympic champion Usain Bolt has decided not to race again this year after his triple gold medal haul at last month's World Championships in China.
The development of the constitution of the tribunal comes at a time when the Delhi high court in December 2020 refused to restrain Amazon from interfering in Future Retail's deal with Reliance Retail by writing to statutory authorities.
Given the dynamics of the world today, it is inevitable that a relative decline in European power will occur.
President Zardari is losing political support very fast not only in public but also in Parliament. A majority of the people of Pakistan supported the latest offensive against the Taliban in Swat valley. This offensive displaced about 3.5 million people. More than five weeks have passed and the operation is not yet complete.
The Withdrawal Agreement was rejected by 432 votes to 202 - a majority of 230, the biggest defeat ever suffered by a British premier in modern history.
The sale will be quicker if an Indian private bank buys it; it will take longer for regulatory clearances if a foreign bank or an NBFC buys it, points out Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
The video shows images of the United Kingdom Parliament and Eiffel Tower crashing to the ground.
A few days back Jet Airways discovered six passengers with false passport/travel documents on their flight, which landed in Brussels from New Delhi. They didn't detect their documents were false when they boarded the plane in New Delhi.
We present a collection of the best photographs clicked across the globe in the last 48 hours!
Last week, India lodged a complaint against the EU's measures on PET at the WTO, saying Brussels allegedly violated core provisions of the Agreement on anti-dumping as well as subsidies and countervailing measures. Under the WTO's anti-dumping and anti-subsidy rules, the EU is required to terminate its measures after five years. But Brussels continued to impose them on the ground that the Indian exports could harm the European producers.
The expert committee sought more information from Serum Institute regarding the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
'Increasing Indian influence meant "people here in Washington DC, in Brussels, in London or other world capitals don't talk about Kashmir".'
Trump and Macron's handshake was white-knuckle prolonged one, with as usual fierce, crunched bones, tightened jaws and both had a fixed smile and as per the French president was entirely intentional.
A section of the main terminal at Denver International Airport was evacuated because of a possible security threat, officials said.
Could you imagine a world where everything is made of chocolate? In the small city of Durbuy, southeast of Brussels that dream just came through, thanks to the ChocoPalace festival -- where everything, including sculptures, is made of fine Belgian chocolate. Feast your eyes of the delicious art.
Cinemas, stadiums, town squares and other public gathering places are devoid of people as the coronavirus spreads to at least 118 countries around the world. As of Thursday, the Johns Hopkins University tracker says 1,26,258 people have contracted the disease and 4,638 have died across the globe. The vast majority of the victims have been in China but the country said on Thursday that it had only 15 new cases. The outbreak also claimed its most high-profile victim so far when Hollywood star Tom Hanks announced he and his wife, Rita Wilson, had tested positive. The couple, who are in Australia where Hanks is making a film about Elvis, said they had felt "a bit tired, like we had colds" before being "found to be positive" Take a look.
World championship favourite Noah Lyles stormed to the year's second fastest 200 metres, 19.65 seconds, as he returned to competition at the Paris Diamond League meeting on Saturday. Reigning World champion Ramil Guliyev of Turkey was more than three-tenths of a second adrift in 20.01 and Canadian Aaron Brown finished third in 20.13.
The deadly coronavirus has forced us to adopt new ways of life.
Celebrities are taking a stand on gender equality.
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