New Delhi, June 17 (PTI) Just two days after recording 811.6 mm of rainfall in a day, Cherrapunji in Meghalaya received a bountiful 972 mm of precipitation in 24 hours ending 8.30 am on Friday, the highest in J
Islamabad, June 16 (PTI) Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and former premier Imran Khan's wives have financial assets worth more than their husbands, the media reported on Thursday.
According to a
London, June 12 (PTI) Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday overtook Thailand's King to become the world's second-longest reigning monarch in history, after France's Louis XIV.
The UK has be
New Delhi, June 10 (PTI) Actor Sonali Bendre believes Bollywood has always been a soft target but the negative headlines about the industry have increased today due to a rise in the number of media organisation
Mumbai, June 6 (PTI) Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt on Monday paid tribute to his father Sunil Dutt on his 93rd birth anniversary, crediting the veteran actor-politician for helping him become "who I am today&
London, Jun 4 (PTI) Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is pacing herself over the course of the royal events planned for her Platinum Jubilee and chose to skip one of her favourite horse-racing events on Saturday
Houston, June 3 (The Conversation/PTI) Strip away the celebrity intrigue and media frenzy, and the high-profile court battle between actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard involved issues painfully familiar to many
Mumbai, June 3 (PTI) Actor Nushrratt Bharuccha believes women, both in films and in real-life, have become much more vocal about their point of view on various social issues and taboo subjects.
The 37-year-o
New Delhi, May 31 (PTI): A United Kingdom-based Indian-origin actor is all set with a special Bollywood-themed Wedding Party, complete with a six-metre-high four-tiered cake and a specially designed sari, to ce
Mumbai, May 30 (PTI) Actor Kiara Advani says early rejections and recent successes -- "Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2" and "Shershaah" -- have given her a sense of clarity about the kind of films she wan
New Delhi, May 27 (PTI): Author Geetanjali Shree's Hindi novel Tomb of Sand has become the first book in any Indian language to win the prestigious International Booker Prize.
At a ceremony in London on
Cambridge, May 24 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said that the assassination of his father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was the single biggest learning experience of his life, asserting that h
New York, May 23 (PTI) Billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani and advocate Karuna Nundy have been named by TIME magazine on Monday as among the 100 Most Influential People of 2022.
The list includes US Presi
New Delhi, May 23 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday arrived in Japan on a two-day visit to attend a summit of the Quad leaders which is aimed at further bolstering cooperation among the member natio
New Delhi, May 19 (PTI) Veteran actor Neena Gupta says there is "a certain kind of innocence" at the heart of her comedy drama series "Panchayat" that people have found endearing.
The act
Kolkata, May 17 (PTI) In West Bengal, 78.9 per cent of the households have bicycles, the highest in the country, as per the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5).
While the national average is 50.4 percent,
New Delhi, My 15 (PTI): Devasahayam Pillai, who embraced Christianity in the 18th century, on Sunday became the first Indian layman to be declared a saint by Pope Francis during an impressive canonisation cerem
Beijing, May 12 (PTI) More than half of people hospitalised with COVID-19 still have at least one symptom two years after they were first infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to the longest follow-up s
Mumbai, May 8 (PTI) For someone whose childhood was all about listening to the radio, actor Tabu says narrating the Hindi audiobook adaptation of the popular graphic novel series "The Sandman" was an
New Delhi, May 6 (PTI) About 25 per cent of women aged 18-29 and 15 per cent of men aged 21-29 got married before reaching the minimum legal age of marriage, according to the latest National Family Health Surve