Wife of Siachen braveheart Hanamanthappa Koppad, Mahadevi Ashok Bilebal wants their only daughter to join the Indian army when she grows up.
In the global list of 793 richest people, 44 billionaires added to their net worth. Moreover, there are 38 new billionaires in the list, even as there was steep decline in stocks and real estate prices last year.
A look at former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani's failed campaign for the US presidency.
In a rare gesture of solidarity with the Indian Americans, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and a few other officials came to the Ganesh Temple in Flushing, Queens to participate in a memorial service for the victims of terror attacks in Mumbai.
Images from Sunday's action in La Liga and Ligue 1.
In a novel way to help Indian businesses set up offices in London, 'Touchdown London,' a dedicated start-up scheme, has been launched to provide them subsidised space and support services for the purpose.
Earlier in the day, Congress workers owing allegiance to two other leaders were involved in a scuffle at the Ahmedabad Collectorate where they had gone to file nominations.
Observing that India and London have vital interest in "strengthening" their business links, city Mayor Ken Livingstone
London Mayor Ken Livingstone insisted that plans for the London Olympics remained on course despite a rash of headlines saying costs could eventually soar to 10 billion pounds ($19 billion).
In May 2006, after the DMK was voted to power, the CB-CID had sought permission from a sessions court to investigate further into the case. However, since no evidence was found, it was subsequently dropped.
Protests were held across Tamil Nadu with raising of slogans-- "Vendum Vendum Kudineer Vendum" (we want water) and "Edappadi Arasai Kandikirom" (we condemn chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswamy's government).
Mahajan, who turns 76 next week, said there had been speculations whether the party will field someone who has crossed the 75-year age bar.
Contractors were seen busy boarding up major stores and businesses from New York and Boston in the north to southern Houston to Washington DC and Chicago in the east to San Francisco in theWest.
Toronto was the location of Guru's premiere; a first for Bollywood.
Over 3 billion yuan has been spent in the region in the last ten years on developing infrastructure such as road, power, water, drainage systems, telecommunications, and gas, among others, to provide a conducive environment for investors.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has said that the metropolitan city is the 'epicenter' of the coronavirus crisis in the United States, as government officials announced some of the most stringent measures to slow the spread of the pandemic that has claimed over 200 lives in the country.
The academic session will go till June and schools re-open around September for the next session.
Signalling the return of the good old times in the Kashmir Valley, the clock tower in Srinagar's busy Lal Chowk started functioning on Monday after a gap of nearly 16 years.
Another report by Oxfam had found that eight billionaires, including Bill Gates, from around the globe have as much money as the 3.6 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world's population.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh on Saturday filed his nomination papers from the prestigious Lucknow Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh.
Organisers of an erotica festival in Warsaw, Poland, have announced a search for the woman who can carry out a sex act with the most men.
Several buildings across the world lit up bright green on Thursday night in support of the Paris climate accord.
The DMK leader was arrested last week for trespassing into the Queen Mary's College.
'We will fight hatred with love, we will fight bigotry with inclusivity. And today I am a Muslim too.' New Yorkers by the thousand, representing myriad backgrounds and faiths, converged on Times Square, to let Muslims know their fellow Americans stood by them.
Henry Bello, the shooter, was lying on a floor of the hospital dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He had apparently tried to set himself on fire as during the incident, the hospital's fire alarm got activated.
VHP leader says that the ghar wapsis will continue till 15 crore people are reconverted.
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam youth wing leader and former Chennai mayor was granted bail by a city sessions court in the case that accused him of inciting party workers to attack policemen who had gone to arrest on April 9.
African-American George Floyd's death on May 25 has sparked civil unrest that has since spread nationwide.
Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant said it was unfortunate that the BJP was 'playing politics' over the issue rather than solving it.
Unlike the regimes of Jayalalitha, Palaniswami and Karunanidhi, ministers are actually getting to make decisions on their own, with the unmentioned rider that they would be held responsible and accountable, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
City mayor Sovan Chatterjee, who visited the market, said the fire was controlled to some extent, but refused to comment on how long it would take to extinguish the blaze completely.
Aligarh mayor from BJP strongly backed an official ban on the movie Aligarh, claiming the movie is a "conspiracy" to defame the city.
Floyd's death has triggered nationwide violent protests with a section of the protesters resorting to looting and rioting across the country, leaving behind a trail of destruction.
According to the data from the New York City government, an increase of at least 5,695 cases on Sunday put New York City's total number of coronavirus infections at over 1,04,410 as of April 12 and 27,676 hospitalisations. The city's death toll is 6,898.
Holding the 2024 Olympics in Hamburg would cost taxpayers a projected 7.4 billion euros ($8.4 billion) with a total overall budget for the world's biggest multi-sports event estimated at 11.2 billion, the candidate city's mayor said on Thursday.
At the moment the process of "cooling down" was on at the Bagree Market and 15 fire tenders have been pressed into service for it.
Bharara's presence at Trump Tower provoked much curiosity.
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