New Delhi, Feb. 16: Music composer and singer Bappi Lahiri has passed away at the age of 69 in Mumbai. Dr Deepak Namjoshi, Bappi Lahiri’s treating doctor and director CritiCare hospital, Juhu, told that Bappi Lahiri passed away around 11.40 – 11.45 on Tuesday night. The composer has been ailing…

New Delhi, Feb. 6: The central government has declared two days of state mourning as a mark of respect for singer Lata Mangeshkar who died in Mumbai early on Sunday. She will be accorded a state funeral, the government said. Indian President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid…

New Delhi, Dec. 13: The coveted Miss Universe title has finally returned home — after 21 years — as Chandigarh-born Harnaaz Sandhu was declared the winner of the 70th edition of the pageant on Sunday night in Eliat, Israel. According to the Indian Media, In second place was Miss Paraguay…

Stockholm, Oct. 7: Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in literature, the award-giving body said. The prestigious prize was awarded on Thursday by the Swedish Academy, which cited Gurnah’s “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the…

Chandigarh, Oct. 6: Little would have this NRI living in the US known that singing a Hindi song on a New York Street would get him so much fame. Gaurang Rakholia was randomly stopped by popular YouTuber and artiste Reginald Guillaume, and the two agreed to perform “Dilbar mere kab…

New Delhi, Jul. 7: Legendary actor Dilip Kumar died on Wednesday morning after prolonged illness, his family and doctors treating him said. He was 98. Kumar, known to generations of Indian film-goers as ‘tragedy king', had been admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Hinduja Hospital, a non-Covid-19…

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Stockholm, Oct. 8: American poet Louise Gluck won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature for “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”, the Swedish Academy said on Thursday. The 10 million Swedish crown ($1.1 million) prize is named after dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel…