The idea behind the festival was finalised after a team comprising sweet manufacturers had gone to meet Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at her residence where she asked them to go ahead with the plan.

Al Franken, the 66-year-old former comedian from Minnesota, has the highest profile of the lawmakers hit by allegations in the past few weeks.

Shehbaz, 66, is the younger brother of Sharif and currently the chief minister of the country's largest province of Punjab.

The Academy's 54-member board of governors had earlier removed the disgraced film producer with immediate effect after the investigations by The New York Times and The New Yorker revealed sexual harassment and rape allegations against Weinstein.

Manchester City goalkeeper Claudio Bravo was the Premier League leaders' hero as they beat Championship table-toppers Wolves in a penalty shoot-out to book their place in the quarter-finals of the English League Cup on Tuesday.

Speaking at an event at the University of California, Berkeley, on September 11, Rahul Gandhi had said that most Indian political parties were dynastic and Indian politics functioned like that.

In his exclusive interaction with CNN-News18’s Entertainment Editor Rajeev Masand, star Shah Rukh Khan admitted that Anushka never liked him as an actor, but appreciated him for being a good individual.

The political drama unfolding in Tamil Nadu suggests a rift in the Sasikala family over the control of the party as her husband and brother have shown signs of withdrawal from active politics, while her nephews are willing to fight it out.

2017 KTM RC390 and 2017 KTM RC200 is expected to launch in India within months.

Sidharth took to Instagram on Thursday to share some photographs in which he is seen working out in gym with a bandage on his ankle.

A man riding a horse, brandishing a rifle amidst a busy, crowded market area in Belagavi town in north Karnataka has re-raised the simmering boundary dispute between Karnataka and Maharashtra.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday asked Pakistan to stop cross-border infiltration to create an environment conducive for peace talks.

Police sources said the mishap occurred when a 30-feet deep cellar was being dug for a proposed multi-storey building at Lakshmipuram in Guntur.

The rainbow hues of lakes that dot the Himalayas helped NASA astronaut Scott Kelly keep sane during his 340-day mission aboard the International Space Station which aimed at studying the effects of weightlessness in humans.