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Karva Chauth or Karwa Chauth or Karaka Chaturthi ( Sanskrit: करकचतुर्थी, romanized : Karakacaturthī) [3] is a Hindu festival celebrated by Hindu women of Northern and Western India in October or November on the Hindu lunar month of Kartika. [4] Like many Hindu festivals, Karva Chauth is based on a lunisolar variant of the ...
Wanted by. India. United States of America. Wanted since. 1993. Dawood Ibrahim ( / ɪbrəˈhiːm / ⓘ; born 26 December 1955) is an Indian mob boss, drug lord, [1] and terrorist from Dongri, Mumbai, who is wanted by the Indian government. [2] [3] He reportedly heads the Indian organised crime syndicate D-Company, which he founded in Mumbai in ...
India Scarlett Willoughby (born 2 September 1965) [1] is an English newsreader, broadcaster, journalist and reality television personality. She is Britain's first transgender national television newsreader and the first transgender co-host of an all-women talk show, Loose Women on ITV. [citation needed]
Aroon Purie (born 1944) is the founder-publisher and editor-in-chief of India Today, and former chief executive of the India Today Group. He is the managing director of Thomson Press (India) Limited and the chairman and managing director of TV Today. He is a recipient of the Padma Bhushan award. [2] He was also the editor-in-chief of Reader's ...
News media in India is owned by business families and individuals along with numerous investors, in the form of joint stock companies, societies, trusts and firms. [1] The Government of India owns news media such as DD News and All India Radio. [1] While the news media market (readership and viewership) in India is highly concentrated, the ...
In the 1980s, Gadani was the largest ship-breaking yard in the world, with more than 30,000 direct employees. However, competition from newer facilities in Alang, India and Chittagong, Bangladesh resulted in a significant reduction in output, with Gadani today producing less than one fifth of the scrap it produced in the 1980s. The recent ...
1 September – An outbreak of diarrhoea in Orissa, kills at least 26 people and hospitalises 237. [30] 2 September – 2009 Andhra Pradesh helicopter crash: A Bell 430 helicopter crashes during a flight in southern India. Fatalities included Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
This is a list of the top newspapers in India by circulation. These figures include both print and digital subscriptions, are compiled by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The figures include normal print editions, branded print editions (e.g., regional editions or editions tailored for commuters), and digital subscriptions (e.g., for tablet ...