Tara Suri, 17, a high school junior who has been helping orphaned children, has won the grand prize in the Teen Hero Awards programme of the Taco Bell Foundation for Teens. Tara, a Scarsdale, New York, resident, began volunteering when she was 13, when she founded Helping Orphans Pursue Education. Through the organisation, she has helped provide children at orphanages in India and Sudan with access to shelter, education, health care, and other daily necessities.
'I hadn't just been raped, I was taken to my own house and had been brutalised.'
Mahatma Gandhi's granddaughter Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee has been decorated with one of France's top honour.
Ukrainians hailed their women's sabre team for winning the country's first gold of the Paris Olympics
'These crimes have left a dark mark on my thoughts and conscience.'
'In Mumbai, isolation is a very different isolation.' 'It's not about actual physical loneliness.' 'It's the loneliness in the company of others, and I felt that that is a very Mumbai thing.' 'You can be travelling in the ladies compartment squashed against everybody's armpits and still be really, really sad and alone.'
Tara enjoys a candle light dinner... Vijay prays for new beginnings... Mahesh Babu promotes his film...
'Our greatest enemies lie within us Kama -- selfish desires; krodha -- anger; moha -- attachment; lobha -- greed; madha -- pride and matsarya -- envy. Life is a constant battle against these dark forces. An enlightening excerpt from Priya Arora's book, Rama: A Man of Dharma.
Love, Sitara doesn't flesh out the people or their problems enough to give us a glimpse into their minds, observes Sukanya Verma.
Images from the athletics action at Stade de France, Saint-Denis, Paris, on Thursday.
Voting for this crucial phase, covering 40 assembly segments across seven districts -- Jammu, Udhampur, Samba and Kathua in the Jammu region and Baramulla, Bandipora and Kupwara in north Kashmir -- is scheduled for October 1.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who was set to participate in the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) rally in Ranchi, will not be able to attend as he 'took ill suddenly and is unable to leave New Delhi for the present', party leader Jairam Ramesh said on Friday.
Just what were the glamour girls of Bollywood busy doing on Thursday?
'I guess only the top players' images matter. I guess only the independent tribunal's opinion on the top players is taken as sound and right.'
Ma Durga might be the city's most celebrated annual visitor, but Kali is the resident Goddess, notes Sandip Roy.
Officials said the three others who have been arrested are Ghosh's security guard Afsar Ali (44), and hospital vendors Biplav Singha (52) and Suman Hazara (46) who used to supply material to the hospital.
'In a world obsessed with counting likes and followers, I count my blessings in doing what I love, and doing it my way.'
The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) is poised to form the first elected government in Jammu and Kashmir, having secured a victory in the assembly elections by securing 49 out of 90 seats on which polls were held for the first time since the abrogation of Article 370 five years ago.
The agency has slapped Section 120B of IPC (criminal conspiracy) read with Section 420 IPC (cheating and dishonesty) and Section 7 of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (amended in 2018) which covers unlawful acceptance of gratification by a public servant.
'I've never done anything cliche and I've never got anything cliche.'
Eight new faces will be gracing the ramp at the Lakme Fashion Week's autumn/winter instalment in March. We introduce you to another pretty hopeful.
Dimple Jhangiani who plays Kanya in the popular soap, Kuch Is Tara talks about her role and her feelings about the show being pulled off the air.
With no other stand-out performance (besides Tara Sutaria's) or impressive scene, Apurva falls by the wayside, where other quickly made films end up, points out Deepa Gahlot.
Shriya gets magical in Rome... Arjun looks back at July... Tara meets the Queen...
Nijjar was a close associate of Gurdeep Singh alias Deepa Heranwala, who was involved in the killing of around 200 people in Punjab during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Images from the Euro 2024 Group E matches between Slovakia and Romania, Ukraine and Belgium, in Germany on Wednesday.
The BJP won 74 seats in the 147-member Odisha assembly and was leading in four more seats, the Election Commission of India.
'It was my job to read out their lines to the actors and make sure they spoke them with the right diction, accent and pronunciation. If you look at my photographs from the Sadma set, you will always find me with a file in hand, even when I am in my costume. While Kamal and Sridevi were diligent about their Hindi dialogue, Silk Smitha, while always respectful, was not too interested in her lines or my instructions.'
Officials said the polling went off peacefully in all segments including special polling stations along the International Border and Line of Control (LoC) with no untoward incident reported from anywhere.
'Gadar 2 was made with the purpose of entertaining people and not to perpetuate enmity between neighbouring countries.'
Kartik Aaryan turned 33 and will star in a war film, produced by Karan Johar and Ektaa R Kapoor.
Two empty chairs -- one each for jailed Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal former and former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren -- were kept on stage as the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) organised a mega rally in Ranchi on Ranchi.
The Indian team will next face Hong Kong China and Malaysia on Saturday.
Political parties and leaders wait with bated breath for the Haryana and Jammu-Kashmir assembly poll results on Tuesday.
Randeep Hooda and Lin Laishram made a handsome couple at their wedding reception in Mumbai, where they invited their friends from the film industry.
Manushi wines and dines in Monaco... Amyra's day out with Akshay... Kunal makes 40 look good...
A Nepalese private plane crashed and caught fire shortly after taking off from the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu on Wednesday, killing 18 people aboard, including a child, and seriously injuring the pilot -- the only survivor.
Karra, who became the J&K Congress chief last Friday replacing Vikar Rasool Wani, said a call is already there for all secular parties who are opposed to the "hegemonic attitude" of the BJP to unite.
'Filing a nil ITR serves as a formal declaration to the tax authorities that your earnings fell below the taxable threshold in the given financial year, and you had no tax liability during that period.'
Bollywood kept its date with the Ambanis when folks arrived at the launch of Isha Ambani's Jio World Plaza, Mumbai's latest retail destination.
