Nurse-turned-actress Gihana Khan talks about her new film Mumbai Mirror.
Brand name rule might be waived for Swedish major's mega investment proposal, indicates DIPP; final revision of its application likely by end-August.
The sixth-seed from Ecuador saved five match points to defeat Spanish teenager Rafael Nadal.
This is the largest investment in the single-brand retailing ever since the government has allowed foreign direct investment.
David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz won the Nobel Physics Prize for revealing the secrets of exotic matter.
The company shall hike prices of its various models at least by 5 per cent or so in India from January next year, in the wake of rupee devaluation, inflation, and rising cost of imports, a company official said.
Loud applause and cheers rang out as the first jabs were administered to frontline workers at hospitals and healthcare centres across the country on Saturday at the start of the gargantuan COVID-19 vaccination exercise, hailed as a 'momentous' occasion in India's fight against the pandemic.
The prolific actor turns 62 today.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's parliamentary body on Wednesday decided to rake up the Bofors pay-off issue in Parliament in the wake of fresh allegations that then prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi may have 'soft-pedalled' the probe to protect Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi.
A "merciless and evil" South African man who murdered Anni Dewani -- a Swedish with Indian origin on a honeymoon -- in 2010, allegedly at the behest of her UK-based NRI husband, was on Thursday sentenced for life.
The five biggest spenders in 2018 were the United States, China, Saudi Arabia, India and France, which together accounted for 60 per cent of global military spending, it said.
A massive pan-India inoculation drive against COVID-19 was set in process on Tuesday with more than 56 lakh doses of the Covishield vaccine flown to 13 cities across India from Pune and taken to designated national and state-level stores amid tight security.
Manchester United released top scorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic after a year at Old Trafford, with the injured Swedish striker's name appearing on a list published by the English Premier League.
Finding yourself often cash-strapped? Can't seem to save up to buy that cell phone or cute shoes? Here's a guide on how not just to save money, but also make more with little effort.
Leander Paes enjoyed an all-win outing to enter the quarter-finals of the men's and mixed doubles at the US Open. However, it was a mixed day for Sania Mirza in the season's last Grand Slam in New York.
In a last ditch effort to block his extradition, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has sought reopening of his extradition case, days after Britain's Supreme Court ruled that the Swedish request had been "lawfully made".
'When I went home to Sweden after Bigg Boss, people recognised me. They were following the show!' 'In New York, they were calling out my name on the streets!'
The retail company has sought approval to invest Rs 10,500 crore to set up single-brand retail stores in the country.
Manchester United moved to the top of the Premier League with a comfortable 2-1 win over Arsenal, a match that saw striker Robin van Persie face his old side for the first time.
Manchester United moved to the top of the Premier League with a comfortable 2-1 win over Arsenal, a match that saw striker Robin van Persie face his old side for the first time.
An instance of a foreigner extending support to the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and its front organisations has come to notice, the government said on Wednesday.
Real Madrid have signed Spain right-back Alvaro Odriozola from Real Sociedad on a contract until 2024, the European champions said on Thursday.
A docu-feature on the life of Ingmar Bergman is going through its post production in Mumbai headed by Resul Pookutty.
Swedish carmaker Volvo Car Corporation is revving up plans for India with an aim to become the third largest luxury car maker in the country by 2020, for which it may even consider assembly operations.
'What's on offer for India is to establish a production line here that would be the world's only production line.'
With the custody row with Norway over two Non-Resident Indian children settled, an Indian mother in Sweden has sought the Indian government's intervention for custody of her 11-year-old son allegedly being held by the Swedish authorities.
The first IKEA store in India is unlikely to come up during the second term of the United Progressive Alliance government, which ends in May 2014, as the euro 25-billion Swedish furniture major takes "years" to set up shop in a new country after securing the necessary approvals.
Team scouting for space on outskirts of metros.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has attacked the reporting of his extradition case, alleging that press commission did not act on 45 of his complaints while he "suffered extensive libels" in the coverage.
The 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals, a mosaic-like chemical structure that researchers previously thought was impossible.
Pakistan is believed to have 140-150 nuclear warheads this year, 10 more than last year. In contrast, India is said to have 130-140 nuclear warheads, according to the annual nuclear forces data by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Roy Hodgson may wonder if he is looking into a footballing mirror in Kiev on Friday when he travels back to the future as England meet Sweden in their Euro 2012 Group D clash.
Olympic-bound paddlers, Soumyajit Ghosh and Ankita Das, will spearhead Indian challenge in men's and women's competitions respectively at the Swedish Open to be held at Helsingborg between June 7 and 12 and the Brazil Open at Santos from June 13 to 17.
Serena Williams will rest for a week after withdrawing from the Swedish Open due to an elbow problem but is confident the injury will not derail her preparations for the US Open.
The actor shares his experience of working in The Expendables 2.
With nearly 7 million subscribers, Ajey Nagar, 19, is among the most followed YouTubers in India.
Coronavirus is a '12-18 months' problem and the world is not going to be free of this till 2021, says Professor Ashish Jha.
Eighty five-year old Swedish writer and political commentator Jan Myrdal was in India recently. Son of Nobel laureates Alva Myrdal and Gunnar Myrdal, Jan talks to Business Standard on elections, politics and the Left-wing extremism in the country.
Swedish swimmer Therese Alshammar has decided to skip the 100-meter freestyle at the Olympics because of a pinched nerve in her neck, although she may still swim the 50.
With the Swedish whistle-blower in the Bofors case giving him a clean chit, megastar Amitabh Bachchan Wednesday said truth had prevailed but nobody could fathom the anguish he had to go through because of the "petulant blame".
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