The Asian fashion elite came together at the Saatchi Gallery in London’s Chelsea for Fashion Parade – a grand fashion show celebrating the finest fashion from South Asia. The fashion show showcased the work of ten Pakistani and Indian designers – Aashni + Co presents Anamika Khanna, Syeda Amera, Seher Tareen, Areeba Asif, REMA, Rani […]
Nek Chand, the creator of Chandigarh’s famous Rock Garden, died at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research here early Friday following cardiac arrest, his family members said. He was 90. Ssuffering from diabetes, hypertension and cancer, Nek Chand had been hospitalised for the past few days. The Chandigarh administration declared a holiday […]
India’s retail inflation inched up to 5.01 percent in May from 4.8 percent in April, due largely to higher prices of the food index, official data showed on Friday.
As a young journalist working in Delhi, I find it always irritating to face the frequent question from people – even strangers – about my being a Kashmiri. The questioners seem to believe that Kashmir is a hotbed of terrorist violence with gunfire resounding all through the day and night and that people of the […]
In a meeting with heads of commercial banks here on Friday, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday asked banks which have not passed on to borrowers the interest rate cuts made by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) this year to do so over the next few weeks. A finance ministry release after the meeting […]
Actress Preeti Gupta, whose film “Unfreedom” touches upon homosexuality, has come out to support a new advertisement which looks at lesbian relationships in a refreshing way. She says it’s a step towards representation of the community in the mainstream media. Reacting to the advertisement by fashion app Myntra, she said in a statement: “I think […]
Ayush Minister Shripad Yesso Naik on Thursday appealed to the Muslim community to participate in the International Yoga Day in a big way and said people who do not want to chant ‘Om’ can say ‘Allah’. Naik told IANS after his meeting with a delegation of Muslim leaders on Thursday that they have extended full […]
Chandigarh is India’s ‘Happiest City’ while Delhi is the country’s ‘Happiest Metro’, a study commissioned by multinational electronics company LG has found. Happiness is the most important aspect of life for people across the country, compared to respect, trust, success or recognition, LG Life’s Good Happiness Study revealed. Chandigarh, Lucknow, Delhi, Chennai and Bengaluru are […]
In what can be a scene straight from Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece “Psycho”, police have come across a man who has been living with the corpse of his sister and two dead dogs for the past six months in Kolkata. Police stumbled on the skeletons on Wednesday night while investigating the death of Arabinda De, the […]
India’s northeastern states are now the most unsafe conflict theatre for security forces with 41 deaths this year. These states accounted for 23 deaths of security personnel in 2014, according to data compiled by the South Asia Terrorism Portal. Eighteen Indian Army soldiers were killed and 11 injured in Manipur’s Chandel district in a terrorist […]