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Sheela Patel, a Padmashree awardee, is Founder and Director of the Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC)

UN chief names Indian to head a panel on urban development

Sheela Patel, a global expert on urban poverty alleviation and advocacy for slum dwellers.

13 April 2017 3:17 PM IST

There are 465 licences would be made available for women in Mumbai and the neighbouring district of Thane. (Photo: AFP)

These women rickshaw drivers are Mumbai's first

'This job is much better than doing household work. I can make more money and it helps us secure our futures,' one women...

13 April 2017 12:37 PM IST

Screenshot from the viral video. (Photo: YouTube | RNews1 Network)

Video: Rajasthan tea seller marries off 6 daughters, gives Rs 1 crore...

The I-T department served the notice to Gujjar after video of him giving Rs 1 crore for dowry went viral on social...

13 April 2017 11:28 AM IST

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani student activist and Nobel Peace laureate. (Photo: AP/File)

Malala Yousafzai becomes honorary Canadian citizen

She is also the youngest to receive honorary Canadian citizenship.

13 April 2017 10:46 AM IST

Sonam Kapoor and Abhay Deols Raanjhanaa had released in 2013.

Sonam has interesting response to Abhay's criticism on fairness cream...

She said that her ad was from 10 years ago and also reminded him of his close relative who had also promoted it.

13 April 2017 10:32 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: File)

Modi cracks up on Deewar-Swacch Bharat spinoff poster on Twitter

Modi couldn't help cracking up at the poster which was tweeted to the Prime Minister by a follower.

12 April 2017 2:13 PM IST

Apu Biswas kept the marriage a secret so that she could protect Shakib Khans career after she got married to him in

B'deshi actress kept marriage secret to help star husband's career,...

The actress revealed the details after she broke down on national television

12 April 2017 10:06 AM IST

The Storm Lake Times, Art Cullen (centre), editor and co-owner of the small-town newspaper, poses for a photo with his son, Tom, left, and brother, John, outside the paper in Storm Lake, Iowa, after Art won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. (Photo: AP)

Small, family-run Iowa newspaper wins Pulitzer

Cullen told the Washington Post that he knows what readers like.

12 April 2017 3:09 AM IST

Kangana Ranaut with director Vikas Bahl.

'There will always be another side to the story,' says Kangana on...

Kangana says that people should speak up, whether it is right or wrong.

11 April 2017 3:31 PM IST

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani student activist and Nobel Peace laureate. (Photo: AP/File)

Malala designated as UN Messenger of Peace for promoting girls'...

Yousafzai, who was shot in 2012 by the Taliban for attending classes, is the youngest-ever UN Messenger of Peace.

11 April 2017 2:19 PM IST

Quick thinking and technology put to good use (Photo: Facebook)

MBBS student uses WhatsApp to help woman deliver baby on train

He sent a picture of the woman on a Whatsapp group of doctors and a senior resident helped out.

11 April 2017 12:40 PM IST

The gender and name of the Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk was not revealed initially. (Photo: AP)

It's a girl! Bradley and Irina welcome Lea de Seine Shayk Cooper

The couple, who welcomed their first child two weeks ago, have named their daughter Lea de Seine Shayk Cooper.

11 April 2017 9:58 AM IST