A record number of devotees are expected to take part in the first 'Amrit Snan' of the Maha Kumbh Mela on Tuesday, coinciding with Makar Sankranti. The event is significant as it marks the participation of the 'Akharas' and is also the first 'snan' after the grand Pran Pratishtha of Lord Ram Lalla in Ayodhya. The Uttar Pradesh government anticipates a total of 35 crore devotees visiting Prayagraj during the Kumbh Mela.
Actor Mamta Kulkarni has renounced the worldly life at the Maha Kumbh and will be consecrated as a Hindu nun under the Kinnar Akhara. She performed her own 'Pind Daan' and will be consecrated as 'mahamandaleshwar'.
Chennai-born Indian-American businesswoman and musician Chandrika Tandon, 71, won a Grammy in the Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album category for her album Triveni, a blend of ancient chants and world music, at the 2025 Grammys.
'To be an immigrant, a South Asian immigrant of colour, a woman to be included in the Portrait Gallery... it really says that we are the country where people look for the people who make a positive impact and celebrate them,' Nooyi, 64, told reporters during the portrait gallery induction ceremony on Sunday.
Darshan acts in dual roles for the first time in Indra directed by H.Vasu, who had earlier directed two of the actor's films. Indra is the remake of the Tamil film Arasu featuring Sharath Kumar. Vasu has not made any substantial changes in the script, but has just projected Darshan in doble role as brothers, while the Tamil original had Sharath Kumar as father and son.
'Something exciting is going to happen very soon.'
Sunil Bharala, the chairman of the state Labour Welfare Council, said stubble burning is an 'age-old practice'.
"Now is the time to shift my priorities to my family," said the outgoing PepsiCo CEO.
Lord's, the 'home of cricket', will host its first-ever Women's Test between India and England in 2026, the ECB announced on Thursday.
Under the challenge, PepsiCo India has invited business strategies, for unlocking the latent demand for beverages in India, from leading management schools.
"The time for offers has ended," the Shiv Sena leader said, when asked about reports that the BJP had agreed to share the CM's post with the Sena.
Indra Nooyi, the former chairperson and CEO of PepsiCo, has said that she has "never, ever, ever" asked for a raise as she found it "cringeworthy" and cannot imagine working for somebody and saying "my pay is not enough." Nooyi, 65, who helmed the beverage giant PepsiCo for 12 years and stepped down as its chief executive officer (CEO) in 2018, has published a memoir 'My Life in Full'. Born in Chennai, she graduated from the Madras Christian College and studied management at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta before moving to Yale University in the US for a master's degree.
The wedding celebrations of Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani that started in Jamnagar in March and continued in Italy in May, finally culminated in Mumbai on July 14, with the Mangal Utsav or the wedding reception.
The cross-sectional survey was conducted among 1,566 healthcare workers from diverse medical institutions across India using a pre-tested, self-administered online questionnaire, which assessed various dimensions of workplace safety.
The eighth edition of the India-Russia Joint Military Exercise 'INDRA-2016' -- with a focus on counter-terrorism operations in semi-mountainous and jungle terrain under United Nations Mandate -- is on in the Ussiriysk district in Vladivostok, Russia.
I think that all of us women have to learn to trust other women a lot more. I'm not sure we are there. I think we tend to trust men more than we trust each other. And we have to figure out what it is about us that we feel that advice -- constructive advice from a woman is viewed a little bit negatively than the same thing coming from a man, says PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi
SKM won 31 of the 32 assembly seats in the polls which occurred simultaneously with the Lok Sabha elections.
Indian novelist Indra Sinha is among six authors shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious award for fiction.
Nooyi is the first woman to ever serve at the helm of the premier business advocacy organization.
She was among 50 persons who were presented with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services', 'The Americans By Choice Awards'.
PepsiCo on Monday announced that Indra K. Nooyi has been appointed as chief executive officer from October 1, 2006.
The Bihar government has moved the Supreme Court challenging a Patna high court verdict that has set aside the amended reservation laws in the state, which enabled the Nitish Kumar government to increase the quotas for Dalits, tribals and backward classes from 50 per cent to 65 per cent.
Indra Nooyi joins several prominent persons of Indian-origin who have donated generously to US universities.
It was Shabana Azmi who gave him Mr Perfectionist tag.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices J B Pardiwla and Manoj Misra, however, agrees to hear as many as 10 petitions of the Bihar government against the Patna HC verdict.
For Sinha, who is based in southern France, the connection goes deep. His book is set in the slums of a make-believe Bhopal, and is a searing indictment of corporate buccaneering and apathy to mass suffering. There is more connection with reality: the book ends with a hunger strike to shame the authorities into action
Sukanya Verma looks at all the times Bollywood peddled its treasured ishq our way.
PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi's efforts to promote equality of women in business goes way beyond designing a maternity deal, but when it comes to choosing the American President she says only the best will do regardless of gender or race.
Chhota Bheem: The Curse of Damyaan is a fun movie, its adventurous story and lovable characters make it worth watching with family, notes Riddhi Soni.
The current chairman Steven S Reinemund, 58 retires on May 2, as he had announced last August.
She may be making billion-dollar decisions as head of Pepsico, but mom is the word when it comes to soul-searching for India-born Indra Nooyi, president and CEO of the $33-billion food and beverages firm.
"When friends and relatives came, they all told my mother that she had got a great daughter. But it is not about me, but about my parents who brought me up so well," Nooyi said.
On the occasion of Onam, whip up a baby onion curry and a raita made from beets
The exercise provides an opportunity to practice freefall techniques with the highly-experienced Russian diving team.
A nine day Indo-Russian joint air force exercise concluded at the Halwara Air Force Station in Punjab that saw fighter, helicopter and missile crew of the two countries operating together.
Pepsico's Indra Nooyi claims she remains bullish on India, while Sebi's Sinha makes the case for using pension money to pump capital into the market, reports Faisal Kidwai.
Chennai-born Nooyi has moved up to the third rank in this year's list, from the fifth last year, to become the top-ranked among all the corporate chiefs on the list.
"It is a matter of self-respect and dignity to live in Indra Nagar rather than in a street that identifies your caste.'
A Division Bench headed by Chief Justice K Vinod Chandran passed the order on a bunch of petitions which had opposed the legislations brought by the Nitish Kumar government in November 2023.
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