'...by combining religious and political missions -- to destroy the Babri Masjid and establish Ram Rajya.' 'Hindutva was successful in creating synergy with the aspirations of devotees,' Dhirendra K Jha, author of Ayodhya: The Dark Night, tells Kanika Datta.
The iconic selfie taken by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chinese premier Li Keqiang during his current visit to China is being hailed by western media as one of the most "power-packed selfie in history".
These 12 photographs show what a mad, mad world we live in!
A lowdown on what's happening in Hollywood.
Brad Pitt opens up about his divorce with Angelina Jolie for the first time.
Boxer Manny Pacquiao was sued in a US court on Tuesday by two people who said they paid to watch him fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. in the "Fight of Century" but felt defrauded by Pacquiao's alleged failure to disclose a pre-bout shoulder injury.
An English village cricket club has thrown up a challenge to hit a 150-yard shot into Hollywood star Catherine Zeta Jones's back garden.
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The company's loss in the financial year 2013 was Rs 13.82 crore (Rs 138.2 million).
The Linkin Park frontman's suicide is a tragic reminder of how real and common the struggle against depression is.
Director Danis Tanovic, producer Anurag Kashyap and actor Emraan Hashmi have created an inspiring work of international collaboration with Tigers. Arthur J Pais reports from Toronto.
'I am 51 now. I think I can do action till 56.' 'After that, God knows.'
England striker Jamie Vardy has signed a new contract with Premier League leaders Leicester City that will keep him at the club until June 2019. The news completed a perfect Saturday for Leicester fans, still in ecstatic mood following the 3-1 win at Manchester City that left them five points clear at the top of the table. "I'm absolutely delighted to be fighting to achieve something special," Vardy told the club website (www.lcfc.co.uk). "I've never known a spirit like it, from the owners to the manager and his staff, the players and the fans. I want to be part of it for a long time. "Leicester have shown nothing but total faith in me since the day I arrived here three and a half years ago and it's impossible to measure how much that belief has helped me to improve," said Vardy.
A lowdown on the Tamil film industry.
'Does Deepika not have the right to raise her voice in a democratic and peaceful manner on an issue she considers important?' 'Why should one view her only as an actor and not appreciate her role as a concerned citizen of the country?' ask Aftab Alam and Mohammad Asim Siddiqui.
More than the revenue component, the movies gain hugely in terms of visibility and reach, reports T E Narasimhan.
Rubbing shoulders with Hollywood royalty.
Three or four stars are disproportionately powerful in the industry. All the others in Bollywood, no matter how talented, must be aligned to one of these stars or be reconciled to doing small movies with the others, says Aakar Patel.
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, world's most-wanted drug lord who fled through a tunnel from a maximum security prison in a made-for-Hollywood escape that deeply embarrassed the Mexican government and strained the country's ties with the United States six months ago, has been recaptured.
'The majority of transmission will be via people who are within two metres of one another.' 'The closer you are, the more likely that you'll be infected.'
Fans and fellow musicians have paid glowing tributes to legendary musician Prince, who passed away on Thursday in his Paisley Park Studios in Minneapolis.
The first film to be screened will be actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui's Freaky Ali.
Two days after saying he would be open to a re-match with Manny Pacquiao, unbeaten American Floyd Mayweather Jr. reversed course on Thursday while describing the Filipino as 'a sore loser'.
The PNB ambassador is Virat Kohli, Priyanka Chopra and Siddharth Malhotra are the faces of the Nirav Modi label, Kangana Ranaut, Kriti Sanon and others endorse the family of brands under the Gitanjali Group.
Indian Admirals say Malabar 2018 will involve unprecedented complexity, featuring enemy threats in all three dimensions, but especially underwater threats from submarines -- a key Chinese strength. For the first time, officers from all three navies will be posted on other navies' warships. That means Indian Navy officers will obtain the unprecedented benefits of operating on US nuclear attack submarines and Japan's highly regarded Soryu submarines.
He is in negotiations to play the lead in Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them.
The end of newspaper reporting will produce a landscape so barren that it will be terrifying, says Aakar Patel.
Looking at Kangana Ranaut's trendiest hairdos.
'Fox makes films worth millions and millions of dollars. Fudging a few crores doesn't make much difference.'
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