The 92-year-old singer tested positive for Covid with mild symptoms and was admitted on January 8 to Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital.
The president was in the city to inaugurate the underground Bunker Museum at the Raj Bhavan.
'I somehow escaped the difficulties that a majority of working girls face.'
The arterial Pedder Road connects Tardeo and Malabar Hill localities in south Mumbai and is home to many affluent people.
Ganga, whose ancestors were from India before migrating to Trinidad, revealed in an interview to Rediff.com in March 2020, that his family was brought up on a steady diet of Bollywood.
The Maharashtra cabinet on Wednesday decided to name the proposed international music college in Mumbai after legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar, who died recently, a state minister said.
The Rohit Sharma-led Indian cricket team wore black armbands in the first ODI against the West Indies in Ahmedabad, to pay respect to the legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar, who died on Sunday morning.
A book chronicling the life and times of legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar in the form of conversations with her was released on May 15.
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Do you know Lata Mangeshkar likes to gamble in Las Vegas? Read on for her biographer Nasreen Munni Kabir's fascinating insights on the legendary singer.
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Fascinating excerpts from Lata Mangeshkar... In Her Own Voice, the new book on the legendary singer who turns 80 on September 28.
The legendary singer talks about her favourite TV shows, and actors.
The singer who mesmerised millions with her golden voice in a career spanning seven decades, turned 81 on Tuesday, spending a quiet day with the family even as fans, including famous names, wished her a happy birthday.
Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar has been honoured with the first Yash Chopra Memorial Award for her contribution to Hindi cinema.
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Mangeshkar, 90, was admitted to the Breach Candy hospital in the early hours of November 11.
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The long awaited duet between singing legend Lata Mangeshkar and 'Shehanshah-e-Ghazal' Mehdi Hassan will soon be a reality with the launch Tera milna next month.
Ram Kumar, the late legend Sivaji Ganesan's son, remembers his father and family's close relationship with Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle and their family.
Over the years she directed the country's collective mood so masterfully -- and so often -- that it remains impossible to overestimate her impact on our perception of Hindi cinema as a whole, notes Raja Sen.
"Give me a harmonium and my 'Lota', and I will give you an outstanding composition," Sachin Dev Burman once famously declared.
The veteran singer talks about her 2011 calendar, Tere Sur Aur Mere Geet, a collector's item.
Lata: 'Do you feel you are happy now?' Kishore Kumar: 'I am very happy. By the grace of God, I want nothing. If there is anything I want, it is to return back home, home is Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh. I hear it calling me.'
Kamini Kaushal was one of the top three heroines of the 1940s, alongside Suraiya and Nargis. Dinesh Raheja lists 10 songs that defined her career.
Yet another honour for Javed Akhtar.
The CMO gave information about the one-day mourning and public holiday in a statement issued on Sunday.
This is the first time she has been hospitalised in 20 years, says Subhash K Jha.
Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu read out an obituary reference after which MPs stood as a mark of respect to the memory of the departed.
Lata Mangeshkar...in her own voice is fascinating because the bulk of the book is in the form of an interview, conducted not over days or weeks but over years.
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Lata Mangeshkar gave away Dinannath Smruthi Pratisthan, awards in memory of her father Master Dinannath Mangeshkar on his 71st death Anniversary.
Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar, who was in the intensive care unit of Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital, passed away on Sunday morning. She was 92.
Zia confessed his admiration for Mangeshkar while talking with late Indian journalist Kuldip Nayar in 1982.
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