Everything you need to know about Basant Avenue: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Basant Avenue: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Melbourne, May 19 (ANI): Winona Ryder, who was arrested in December 2001 for shoplifting at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, has finally opened up about her brush with the law and how it forced her to take a much-needed break from acting.
Toronto, May 15 (IANS) An Indo-Canadian real estate agent has been charged with stealing from listed homes he claimed he was showing to potential clients in the city of Brampton in the Canadian province of Ontario.
New York, April 28 (ANI): Scores of Sikhs participated in their 26th annual parade here over the weekend, with an aim to spread awareness about Sikhism, the Sikh martial arts and an exhibition of sword dancing during the 'Nagar Kirtan'.
Dubai, April 22 (IANS) The condition of an Indian woman in Bahrain, who sustained severe burn injuries during a clash between police and protesters April 19, is said to be improving, reports said Monday.
Chandigarh, April 19 (IANS) Three separate police teams were formed Friday to arrest a Chandigarh police constable who shot dead his lover's husband and her mother-in-law, and injured another woman in Haryana's Sonepat district Thursday, police said.
Sonipat (Haryana), April 18 (IANS) Upset over his beloved being married to someone else, a Chandigarh police constable Thursday killed her husband and her mother-in-law and critically injured another woman in Haryana's Sonipat district, police said.
Kolkata, April 14 (IANS) Expressing grief at the death of industrialist Rama Prasad Goenka, Birla family patriarch Basant Kumar Birla Sunday said that "India has lost one of its prominent sons".
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) The external affairs ministry Wednesday said that "no formal decision has been taken" on which agency will be handed over the probe into the killing of two Indian fishermen allegedly by two Italian marines, amid reports that the National Investigation Agency has got the nod to do so.
London, April 3 (ANI): Harrison Ford says that whether or not he gets to don Indiana Jones' fedora again, he's satisfied just to have acting jobs.
Ghaziabad, April 2 (IANS) A councillor Tuesday demanded an audit of the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation's developmental works which, he alleged, resulted in a loss of Rs.46 crore to the civic agency over the past three years.
New York, March 30 (ANI): Marilyn Monroe's suicidal letter to mentor Lee Strasberg, Dwight D. Eisenhower's heartfelt missives to his wife during World War II and John Lennon's angry message for Paul McCartney are among hundreds of historical documents being offered in an online auction.
New York, Mar 29 (ANI): Hermes'100 percent crocodile skin T-shirt has been put for sale at the luxury brand's Madison Avenue flagship.
Hyderabad, March 27 (IANS) Eight people were killed in four separate incidents during Holi celebrations in Andhra Pradesh Wednesday, police said.
Washington, March 23(ANI): New York City prosecutors will not be charging Lindsay Lohan for allegedly fighting at a Manhattan nightclub in November, her attorney has revealed.
London, Mar 16 (ANI): The Mid Devon District Council has outraged guardians of the English language by proposing to ban apostrophes from new street names - as one of a number of measures aimed at "reducing potential confusion."
Brussels, March 16 (IANS/AKI) The European Union (EU) said it hoped Italy and India would find a "mutually acceptable" solution to the escalating dispute over Rome's decision not to return to India two marines for trial on murder charges.
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) India's apex court Thursday restrained the Italian envoy from leaving the country following Rome's refusal to send back its two marines to face trial for killing two Indian fishermen, even as the government said it was reviewing "all aspects" of its ties with Italy.
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) India said Thursday it was reviewing "all aspects" of its ties with Italy following Rome's refusal to send back its two marines to face trial for killing two Indian fishermen.
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) India said Thursday it was reviewing "all aspects of our relationship" with Italy following a diplomatic row over the non-return of two Italian marines charged with killing two fishermen off the Kerala coast mistaking them for pirates.
Chandigarh, March 11 (IANS) Police have arrested a pharmacist who used to conduct authenticity tests of drugs for international drug smugglers from Ludhiana in Punjab, police sources said.
Fatehgarh Sahib, March 11 (IANS) Punjab police have arrested a pharmacist who used to conduct authenticity tests of drugs for international drug smugglers from Ludhiana city late Sunday, police sources said.
London, Mar. 7 (ANI): An investigation has been launched in London to probe reports that a Liberal Democrat councillor was hosting sex parties at his home.
Kolkata, Feb 15 (IANS) Goddess Saraswati, considered the deity of music, culture and learning, was worshiped across the city Friday, with women clad in traditional yellow saris offering flowers, children participating in cultural programmes and families sharing 'prasad'.
Islamabad, Feb 15 (IANS) One person died and another was injured when a US embassy vehicle knocked them down in Islamabad, the embassy confirmed Friday in a statement
The people in different parts of India are celebrating the festival of Vasant Panchami today. The beautiful season of spring has already begun and nature is at its elegant best and it is time to worship Goddess Saraswati with traditional fervor.
n another incidence in the ongoing Mahakumbh, one person was killed when a fire swept through a cluster of tents today. Another person injured in the incident in the fire
Allahabad, Feb 15 (ANI): Atleast 100 million pilgrims and ascetics are expected to take holy dip for the second biggest snan of the Kumbh Mela on Basant Panchami today.
Agra, Feb 14 (IANS) Come Basant Panchami Friday, the Taj city will fondly remember one of Urdu poetry's earliest and greatest poets Nazeer Akbarabadi, a poet who sang of subjects like roti, kite-flying, love and romance, childhood and old age.
Allahabad, Feb 12 (IANS) Action will be taken against officials if found guilty of lapses for the Feb 10 stampede due to the Kumbh Mela rush at the Allahabad railway station here, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said Tuesday.
Lucknow, Feb 11 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh Urban Development Minister Mohammad Azam Khan Monday quit his position as chairman of the Kumbh Management Committee, owning moral responsibility for Sunday's stampede at the Allahabad railway station that killed 36 people.
New York, Feb. 9 (ANI): A 12 1/2-foot-tall statue of the iconic raising of the US flag at Iwo Jima in 1945 is expected to fetch about 1.8 million dollars this month at a New York auction dedicated to World War II artifacts.
New Delhi, Feb 8 (IANS) International designer Tommy Hilfiger is looking forward to his show at Park Avenue Armory as part of the ongoing New York Fashion Week (NYFW) and says the place has a distinct charm.
London, Jan 22 (ANI): After passing away last November from a year long battle with cancer, Larry Hagman's estates in Santa Monica and Ojai, California have been sitting unused.
Washington, Jan 21 (IANS) Four years after making history as the first African-American president of the US with a promise of "hope and change", Barack Obama Monday renewed his oath to take the nation "forward" over the next four.
Washington, Jan. 20 (ANI): When US President Barack Obama takes his oath on Sunday, he will be using two Bibles - one that was owned by Abraham Lincoln, and one that belonged to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Washington, Jan. 15 (ANI): A Hyde Park man has been accused of spitting at the face of a Secret Service agent guarding President Barack Obama's Chicago home last month.
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Paris, Jan 9 (IANS) Rapper Kanye West has taken his three months pregnant girlfriend Kim Kardashian for a vacation to Paris to celebrate their baby news.
Washington, Jan. 2 (ANI): Nine people have been shot in the New York City since the city welcomed in 2013, police said.
Shillong, Dec 29 (IANS) Pune FC moved to the second place in I-League football with a dominating 2-1 win over Shillong Lajong in the round 13 encounter at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here Saturday.
Sydney, Dec 27(ANI): One of Australia's finest batsman, Neil Harvey's bronze statue will be placed outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground next year in the latest episode of the Avenue of Legends.
London, Dec. 24 (ANI): Chantelle Houghton was spotted browsing sexy underwear in a lingerie store recently.
New Delhi, Dec.21 (ANI): Admitting that there is a "clear gap in the overall regulation of higher education", the Minister for State for Human Resource Develpment, Dr. Shashi Tharoor, today said that the government is planning to establish an over-arching authority to set and coordinate standards in higher education.
Lucknow, Dec 21 (IANS) Worried at crowd management during visits of VIPs, the Uttar Pradesh government has requested them to avoid coming to the Maha Kumbh on major bathing days.
Gurgaon, Dec 17 (IANS) Basant Fauji, an accused in last week's shooting incident in a hospital ICU in which one person was killed, was Monday sent to judicial custody for 14 days by a court here, police said.
Gurgaon, Dec 11 (IANS) Following a fight over commercial vehicles' parking, 15-20 armed men Tuesday entered the intensive care unit (ICU) of a hospital here and shot at and critically injured a transporter and his son, a doctor and police said.
New York, Dec. 8 (ANI): Lindsay Lohan has a new off-screen role - as a groupie of the English-Irish boy band The Wanted.
Los Angeles, Dec 4 (IANS) Actress Lindsay Lohan's close friends are worried about her and feel she is on a downward spiral.
London, December 3 (ANI): Lindsay Lohan, who made headlines after it emerged that she is allegedly sinking two bottles of vodka a day, is apparently refusing even though she has been charged with misdemeanour assault after allegedly hitting a woman in a Manhattan night club.
Los Angeles, Dec 3 (IANS) Singer Max George says the scuffle between actress Lindsay Lohan and fortune teller Tiffany Mitchell has been blown out of proportion.
New York, Dec 1 (IANS) Actress Vanessa Williams is worried her career is over.
New York, Dec 1 (IANS) Lindsay Lohan's personal assistant feels the troubled actress is in desperate need of help.
London, Nov 30 (ANI): Lindsay Lohan has been arrested after allegedly punching a blonde psychic at a New York nightclub in the early hours of Thursday morning, in a row over Max George from The Wanted.
New York, Nov 29 (IANS) Actress Lindsay Lohan has been arrested on charges of an alleged altercation with a woman at a nightclub here.
Fort Lauderdale, Nov 18 (ANI): A US man was reportedly sentenced to prison after he was found guilty of allowing his dog to attack a cat.
Chicago, Nov. 15 (ANI): The owners of the unoccupied plot next to President Barack Obama's home in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood are selling the plot for 899,000 dollars.
New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) Vineet Saxena and Hrishikesh Kanitkar of Rajasthan, and Tripura's Abbas Ali smashed centuries on the opening day of the second round of Ranji Trophy matches Friday.
Los Angeles, Nov 8 (IANS) Actress Lucy Liu says she grew up as a tomboy, and so she is easily charmed by men who praise her good looks.
Chicago, Nov 6 (IANS) "I'm calling with President Obama's grassroots campaign... We wanted to remind you about the upcoming election on Tuesday, Nov. 6." For up to six hours a day, Jennifer Beasley, a blonde volunteer at a Chicago office of US President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, made hundreds of phone calls like this to voters in Illinois and neighbouring states via a computer-based automatic dialing system.
London, November 3 (ANI): Tamara Ecclestone, whose favourite pastimes if undoubtedly shopping, looked positively thrilled as she indulged in a bit of retail therapy in New York City.
Washington, Oct 26 (IANS) A man who scaled the fence of the Russian embassy to flee police after crashing his car has been arrested.
Washington, Oct. 23 (ANI): The New Yorker has announced its endorsement for President Barack Obama ahead of the 2012 presidential election.
Washington, October 17 (ANI): The Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) has recently unveiled "the greenest street in America", which is paved with smog-eating cement.
New York, Oct 16 (ANI): Donald Trump took a dig at Alex Rodriguez's on-field struggles on Twitter because the Yankee is moving out of Trump Park Avenue.
Melbourne, Oct 9 (ANI): Passersby in Australia took off with 12-cartons of beer in less than a minute after the crates fell off a truck in Surfers Paradise.
Moscow, Oct 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The world may know him as a bloodthirsty Soviet dictator responsible for millions of deaths, but to many people in his hometown of Gori in eastern Georgia, Joseph Stalin was simply a local boy.
New York, Oct 2 (ANI): Lindsay Lohan has vowed to get her revenge on the congressional aide, Christian LaBella, she had accused of choking her at the W Hotel on Park Avenue South in the early hours of Sunday morning.
London, Sep 27 (IANS) An Iranian diplomat was escorted from a New York street by police after he was surrounded and threatened by angry protesters near the UN headquarters, a media report said.
New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) Thailand could be well on the way to host a Formula One race in 2014.
Chennai, Sep 27 (IANS) India's largest chain of bakers, The French Loaf, will create a 100 meter long photo cake of 1,000 kg by compiling 1,000 photographs of maestro Ilayaraja on it.
Beijing, Sep 25 (IANS) A WalMart store in China has been fined 100,000 yuan (about $15,800) for a discount hoax, an official said Tuesday.
London, September 24 (ANI): Eva Longoria was spotted out and about with footballer boyfriend Mark Sanchez as they explored apartments on Park Avenue in New York on Saturday.
Washington, Sep 22 (ANI): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been allowed to stay at a luxury New York hotel after a US judge rejected an Israeli suicide bombing victim's bid to claim the reservation made by the leader.
New York, September 21 (ANI): The historic Plaza Hotel on Fifth Avenue is close to getting new fashionable partners as Indian hotelier Vikram Chatwal along with designer Tommy Hilfiger and restaurateur Sean Largotta are nearing a deal to take over it.
Washington, September 14 (ANI): Sarah Jessica Parker and his husband Matthew Broderick have put their New York City townhouse on the market for 25 million dollars.
London, Sep 14 (ANI): The White House's West Wing may have emerged from a 86 million-dollar makeover that took two years to complete, but apparently it didn't seem as if anything about the landmark building had actually changed.
London, September 14 (ANI): Tamara Ecclestone swapped her more demure outfit at NY fashion week with a tight cleavage-enhancing strapless dress for a night out in the city.
New Delhi, Sep 11 (ANI): Asserting that Muslims have lived in India's religiously plural society for over a thousand years, at times as rulers, at others as subjects and now as citizens, Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari has said that Indian Muslims are, in more ways than one, 'sui generic'.
New York, Sept 6 (ANI): Brooklyn-based DJ Vikas Sapra is set to perform for President Obama at Thursday night's closing party of the Democratic National Convention.
New York, Sept 6 (ANI): Brooklyn-based DJ Vikas Sapra is set to perform for President Obama at Thursday night's closing party of the Democratic National Convention.
Washington, Aug 29 (IANS) South Carolina's Indian American Governor Nikki Haley has slammed President Barack Obama, painting his administration as an obstructing force that hinders American businesses as Mitt Romney officially clinched the Republican presidential nomination.
New York, Aug 24 (IANS) A gunman Friday shot dead at least five people in front of the Empire State Building in New York, but was later killed by police, CNN reported.
Washington, Aug 23(ANI): Serbian tennis ace Novak Djokovic has said he doesn't believe in superstitions.
London, August 23 (ANI): A Victoria Secret's ad for shoe designer Brian Atwood, has been banned from display, as it was considered too racy by the building housing his soon-to-open New York store.
London, Aug 17 (IANS) Bestselling erotic novel "Fifty Shades Of Grey" has led to a dramatic rise in sale of fetish fashion like whips, handcuffs, eye-masks, sex toys and even "bold-coloured" lingerie in British stores.
New York, August 8 (ANI): The swank W Hotel on Lexington Avenue has topped as the preferred spot in New York for an extramarital fling, according to a survey ranking the top 10 city hotels where cheaters go to break their marriage vows.
London, August 4 (ANI): Russell Brand is opening his own yoga studio since he has bedded far too many ladies in his last one.
Los Angeles, Aug 4 (IANS) British comedian Russell Brand is set to open his own yoga studio, but his reason for the new project is not his fascination for the fitness art.
New York, August 1 (ANI): A Brooklyn man risked his life to scale an empty billboard to write a marriage proposal for his girlfriend.
London, July 21 (IANS) Actress Penelope Cruz will launch a special T-shirt range that will be sold at stores to help raise money for a women's cancer research fund.
Washington, July 20 (ANI): Spanish actress Penelope Cruz has signed up to promote a new cancer research charity campaign.
London, July 10 (IANS) A court in Birmingham held the husband, in-laws and a relative guilty of killing a six-month pregnant Pakistani woman as they believed she was possessed by "evil spirits".
Boston, July 10 (IANS) Eleven people were injured in a bus collision on the sets of Sandra Bullock's upcoming film "The Heat".
London, July 5 (ANI): David Beckham appeared to be in a foul mood as he shopped for clothes on Melrose Avenue.
Lucknow, July 5 (IANS) Two people, including a child and a young man, were killed when lightning struck at two places as the first monsoon showers pounded the state capital Thursday, police said.
New York, June 27 (ANI): Charlie Sheen's manager has rubbished reports that the actor trashed a hotel room at the Manhattan Ritz this weekend during a drug and hooker-fueled bender.
London, June 24 (IANS) Stonehenge was built as a monument to unify Britain, after a long period of conflict and regional difference between eastern and western parts of the landmass, says a new finding based on 10 years of archaeological investigations.
New York, June 20 (ANI): Rielle Hunter has called the night she first bedded Senator John Edwards at a Park Avenue hotel, as "the most extraordinary night of my life."
Washington, June 18 (ANI): Thousands of New Yorkers marched silently in upper Manhattan demanding to protest against New York Police Department's (NYPD) stop-and frisk program.
New York, June 18 (ANI): The true story behind one of the most romantic and enduring photos of the 20th century - that of the iconic V-J Day sailor and 'nurse' smooch during in Times Square during World War II, has finally been revealed.
