Mohamed Al-Fayed, whose son killed with Princess Diana, dies at 94

Mohamed Al-Fayed, the outspoken Egyptian tycoon who turned around the fortunes of two iconic London institutions—Harrods department store and Fulham Football Club—and waged a war of......

Author Sunjeev Sahota among Booker's 13 contenders this year

Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota is among the 13 authors longlisted for the prestigious 2021 Booker Prize for fiction for his novel China Room, alongside Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro......

Mubarak's family flees to London: Report

The panic-stricken family of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has reportedly fled Egypt for the luxurious refuge of their 8.5 million pound townhouse in London, a media report said on......

Remembering Diana: The life of a princess

On July 1, 2021, Britain's Princess Diana would have turned 60 and two decades after her tragic death in a car accident near the end of summer 1997, she still holds an exalted place on the altar of......

Al-Fayed sells Harrods for pound 1.5 bn

Harrods, the iconic London store, has been sold by Mohammed Al-Fayed to Qatar's royal family for pound 1.5 billion. Al-Fayed, 77, had bought Harrods in 1985 for pound 615 million. According to......

Crisis Brews In Darjeeling's Tea Gardens

In the last three years, 20 gardens have changed hands, and 90 per cent of the buyers are from non-tea background. IMAGE: A worker gathers tea leaves at the Happy Valley tea garden estate in......

Modiji, this is your last chance

'The most important thing to do is to stop taxing citizens so brutally,' recommends T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   Now that practically every economy in......

They earn Rs 5.75 & the tea sells for Rs 25K

Tea grown on the steep slopes of Darjeeling hills, connoisseurs swear, is unlike anywhere else in the world. Epicures use a plethora of adjectives to describe the 'champagne of teas': brisk,......

Spotted: Abhishek Bachchan in Harrods, London

Reader Ketki Patel and Ami Shah met Abhishek Bachchan in Harrods, London, on an Easter...

Janhvi, Girl In A Pearl Sari

Pooja prances in Dubai... Aahana's advice...Neha and Aisha in Thailand... Photograph: Kind courtesy Janhvi Kapoor/Instagram Janhvi Kapoor promotes her movie Devara Part I in a pearl sari in......

Karisma, Kareena shop in Harrods

Reader Viral Parikh sent us a rare picture where we see Karisma Kapoor (centre) without any makeup. Lolo, along with sister Kareena Kapoor, were seen shopping at Harrods, the London superstore......

The Crown Has Lost Its Way

Was descending into the telling of only Diana's tale in four long, slightly-draggy soap-opera-ish episodes of the last season the original premise of The Crown? asks Vaihayasi Pande Daniel. IMAGE:......

WSH to have goalposts to be used in London Olympics

The upcoming World Series Hockey (WSH) starting from December 17, will feature international standard goalposts that will be used in the London Olympics in 2012. The goalposts have been......

Al-Fayed may sell Fulham

Mohamed al-Fayed, owner of Harrods, is planning to sell Fulham F.C., the football club he owns in the capital, sources familiar with the situation said. In 1997, Egyptian-born Al-Fayed, whose son......