Music maestro A.R. Rahman has cancelled the North American leg of his “Jai Ho Concert: The Journey Home World Tour” after a lighting rig collapsed in Detroit before the show.

Pablo Picasso’s Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, a work from the painter’s Blue Period, has sold for nearly £35 million at a London auction.

Country singer Taylor Swift has been immortalised in print — she will feature in a 25-page comic book titled Fame: Taylor Swift.

India’s monsoon rains, vital to the trillion-dollar economy’s farm output and economic growth, were 9.4 per cent below normal for June 1-22, the Met office said on Wednesday.

Mr Ram Vilas Paswan, a former chemicals and fertiliser minister, says both the Congress and BJP-led governments at the centre were “non-serious in handling the Bhopal gas tragedy” and he heard one excuse after another as to why nothing could be done to give relief to the affected people or take action against then Union Carbine chief Warren Anderson.

Two Indian women — Roshni Nadar and Nisa Godrej — have been listed among Forbes magazine’s list of “a breed of heiresses who choose to live a lower-key life ... and working to make a difference behind the scenes.”

An heiress to the fortune of Cadbury, the famous British chocolatiers, is selling her £27 million family estate to launch a chocolate company to rival American giant Kraft, which took over the company earlier this year.

The condition of renowned cartoonist R.K. Laxman, who was airlifted from Pune to Mumbai after he suffered a stroke, continues to be critical but stable, family sources said here on Monday.

Fatigued and frustrated by their fruitless one-year war to topple the government, Nepal’s Opposition Maoist party took a break from politics to recharge their batteries — by watching the recent Bollyw

With Delhi University set to announce its first cut-off list on Tuesday, aspirants were tense as they hoped to make it to the premier varsity. “The cut off percentage will definitely be higher than last year. I am not sure if I can get admission,” Bikash Baruah, an applicant said.