Shimla: Congress leader and five-time Himachal Pradesh minister Sat Mahajan died early Saturday in New Delhi after a brief illness, family members said. He was 85. Survived by a son and a daughter, Mahajan was ailing for some time and had undergone angioplasty at a hospital in Delhi Aug 22. [...]

Mumbai : From “Baazi” in 1951 to “Chargesheet” in 2011, it was an untrammeled joyride through six decades of Bollywood. It’s curtains for the ageless Dev Anand, who oversaw the growth of the Hindi film industry from the black and white era to technicolour, and leaves behind a unique legacy [...]

Mumbai: Indian ghazal king Jagjit Singh’s way of celebrating his 70th year was unique – he was aiming to complete 70 concerts by the end of the year. The man who gave ghazals a new lease of life managed only 46 before breathing his last. Singh, who learnt music under [...]

Washington: Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone, is no more. He was 56. The end came Wednesday just a day after Tim Cook, the new CEO of world’s leading tech company unveiled the iPhone 4S, a [...]

Dehra Dun: Dr Hari Datt Bhatt ‘Shailesh’, a renowned writer of Hindi and Garhwali, and former teacher of The Doon School, was consigned to the flames at the ghat along the Ganga at Hardwar amidst the chanting of mantras this morning. He was 85 and was suffering from kidney problem [...]