After 4,764 party delegates formally backed her, the former US First Lady tweeted, "This moment is for every little girl who dreams big."
Memon was recently provided security following intelligence reports that the underworld had plans to eliminate him.
It's not easy to be a spy. The job requires a unique set of skills, including mastery of a wide range of gadgets and devices. Now, at the new Spyscape museum in New York, one can not only experience what being a 007 spy entails, but also learn about the history of espionage.
'I reached Bhopal the day after the gas tragedy; the smell was still in the air. It was a professional hazard but I was not scared.'
From ice creams to dosas, these food pics will tease your taste buds.
Do you know this giant?
It turned out to be an awesome experience, says Bienu Vaghela who visited Kuala Lumpur last November!
Amit Singh, 32 from Delhi shares his incredible weightloss journey.
After questioning him for four hours in the morning, Chidambaram was taken to a special court in Delhi which sent him to CBI custody till Monday.
United States First Lady Michelle Obama's 50th birthday bash featured performances by pop stars Beyonce and Stevie Wonder as the "fun" party went on all night with her hubby President Barack Obama also shaking a leg.
Here's a glimpse of how the world welcomed 2016.
Manjula Chimbalkar, a health coordinator from Mumbai's COVID-19 hotspot Dharavi, speaks about her concerns and fears
The authorities billed it as a rescue, but Mexican soccer player Alan Pulido escaped his kidnappers by punching the one guarding him, snatching a cellphone and calling for help, a top official in the country's violent northeast said.
'When, finally, my bedroom was declared odour-proof (which it isn't -- for the record), I moved back in with a sense of relief -- only to find I couldn't sleep on a bed any more, having grown unaccustomed to such luxury after 10 days of camping out,' says Kishore Singh.
If you have a budget of just under Rs 50,000, usher in the New Year with these beauties.
How a swanky Mumbai cultural venue was transformed into a contact-less facility to combat coronavirus.
At least 49 people have been killed in terror attacks at two New Zealand mosques on Friday. The shootings at Linwood Masjid Mosque and Al Noor mosque in central Christchurch took place during Friday prayers. Describing the horrific attacks, eyewitnesses said that they saw blood and bodies everywhere.
A young Alyssa Healy grew up batting in a backyard where hitting windows meant getting out. Now, she just breaks glass ceilings. Healy is the latest in Australia's most storied cricketing lineage, with all the pluck and expectation that comes with it.
We have let a woman of Italian origin rule us through a clever divide of administrative power centres, but far too many of us have not accepted her Indianness. We have every right to reject her politics and her corrupt government, but shouldn't her living most of her life here make her Indian enough?
"After pulling down the statue, slogans of 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' were raised,'' Datta told PTI.
'George Fernandes was an innocent among the cut-throats and pickpockets who infest the political jungle.' 'He was too good a man to achieve spectacular success in the game of thrones,' notes Sunanda K Datta Ray.
'Art Deco was the last of the truly international styles.'
Meel Patthar is, both by theme and design, a tragedy of inertia, observes Rohit Satish Nair.
Mamata imposed affirmative action to the point of absurdity. This has naturally led to counter-action: The Hindus who never thought of themselves as Hindus are now banding behind the BJP, points out Aditi Phadnis.
'I would've been the first butt of Bollywood onscreen.'
Bhilar, a strawberry farming hub in Maharashtra, has been transformed into India's first 'books village'.
Iqbal wanted to land the smuggled goods by helicopter on the Andaman Islands. DK asked, 'Iqbal, a helicopter will bring the consignment to the island, drop it there and then return. Won't radars detect it?' 'No.' 'How?' 'Radars can't detect aircraft that fly at a low altitude. Our helicopter, after entering India's air space, will dive and fly at four feet above the sea level.' 'For that, I have a German pilot in mind. He was an ace aviator in the last world war.' An enthralling excerpt from Aabid Surti's Sufi: The Invisible Man Of The Underground.
'I was on my toes the entire time because I was working with such great actors.' 'I learnt a lot.'
Thousands of people on Wednesday queued up outside Singapore's Parliament House to have a glimpse of the country's founding father Lee Kuan Yew lying in state as his casket was taken there for public viewing.
Two years after Major Akshay Girish sacrificed his life fighting terrorists in J&K, his mother wonders why his valour wasn't duly recognised.
'And he was really trying just to do the best by the shareholders, and by the laws of India.'
Persuaded not to sell that day in January 1975, DLF today has assets of over Rs 52,237 crore and a net worth of around Rs 40,000 crore.
Rare glimpses of Rashtrapati Bhavan. Kind courtesy: Architectural Digest India.
Veenu Sandhu visits the new Adidas office in Gurugram, which is cultivating a refreshing new sports culture among its employees.
Office building should face north, north-east or north-west direction as it brings good luck and positive energy.
If everybody is 'working' from home, then how has TV consumption gone up? Who is making all that gourmet food being posted on social media?
'This love angle was so funny,' Yuvika Chaudhary tells Rediff.com contributor Rajul Hegde.
The prolific fashion designer had given the Chanel's Paris haute couture show a miss in January due to ill health.
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