MUMBAI, (IANS) – Nearly four decades before Madhuri Dixit (courtesy Alka Yagnik) in “Tezaab” (1988), she had already made the nation count “Ek do teen…” in Raj Kapoor’s “Awara” (1951) at her career’s ...

Hajrah Mumtazullah Khan was born in1910 to Natiqa Begum and Mumtazullah Khan in Saharanpur, in the western part of Uttar Pradesh in British India. Her father was a tehsildar [revenue officer]. She was ...

Former Awami League member of parliament and popular singer Momtaz Begum has been arrested by the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police from the Dhanmondi area of Dhaka. On Monday at ...

Sultana Begum, claiming to be Bahadur Shah Zafar's great-granddaughter-in-law, faced disappointment as the Supreme Court dismissed her plea for the Red Fort's possession. The court deemed her petition ...

Sultana Begum, claiming to be the Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar's great-granddaughter-in-law, petitioned the Supreme Court of India seeking ownership of the Red Fort. The court dismissed her plea ...

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea to hand over the Red Fort - the 17th century Mughal red sandstone fortress that is one of Delhi's most iconic historical monuments - to the 'widow of the ...

Begum Parveen Sultana is 75. Her cheeks may be less rounded but her smile remains intact. She is as graceful and strikingly dressed, including a string of jasmine adorning her hair, as before. Most ...

Paris-based Begum TV provides school classes, health programmes and light-hearted entertainment to Afghan women stripped of all rights. Employing Afghan journalists exiled in France, the channel’s ...

Shamima Begum could be set free years after running away to join ISIS terrorists, a former camp guard has said. In 2015, Begum left the UK for Syria to join the Islamic State (ISIS), where she became ...

Shamima Begum, who joined Islamic State in Syria aged 15 in 2015, now lives in the Roj detention camp. (Getty Images) A lawyer representing Shamima Begum's family has suggested the UK will eventually ...

Rana Begum is an artist who holds disparate elements in a fine balance. She plays with the hard and the soft, with taut structure and improvisation, and with solidity and intangibility. Her Mesh ...

Adnan Sami penned an emotional tribute to his late mother, Begum Naureen Sami Khan, on October 7. She was of Indian origin, hailing from Jammu. Adnan Sami took to Instagram to announce the passing of ...