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New York auction houses toast staggering billion dollar week

Agence France-Presse | Saturday May 18, 2013

Two of New York's leading auction houses combined for the art world's richest sales week ever, with works going under the hammer for a breathtaking total of more than one billion dollars.

Varun Gandhi appears to pitch for party president Rajnath Singh as Prime Minister

Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Wednesday May 1, 2013

At a massive rally in Uttar Pradesh today, BJP leader Varun Gandhi strongly hinted that the party should pick its president, Rajnath Singh, as its prime ministerial nominee. Mr Singh, 61, was present when Mr Gandhi paid him the richest tribute possib...

Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov replaces Lakshmi Mittal as Britain's richest man

Reuters | Monday April 22, 2013

Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov has knocked Lakshmi Mittal off the top of this year's Sunday Times Rich List with a jump in his fortune to 13.3 billion pounds after a tough year for the Indian steel magnate.

Mukesh and Anil Ambani 20th richest in the world

Sunday April 21, 2013

India's leading industrialist brothers, Mukesh and Anil Ambani, have been together listed as 20th richest in the world in the Sunday Times Rich List 2013.

In Karnataka election, a candidate worth Rs 900 crore

Press Trust of India | Friday April 19, 2013

Young and suave Priya Krishna, seeking re-election as Congress candidate from a city constituency for May 5 Assembly polls, has retained his status of the richest candidate with assets of over Rs 910 crore.

Karnataka Assembly elections: filing of nominations ends, Congress candidate richest in fray

Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday April 17, 2013

Around 2,000 candidates have entered the fray for the May 5 Assembly polls in Karnataka, as the process of filing nominations ended today.

Adele feels "too young" for an autobiography

BANG Showbiz | Wednesday April 17, 2013

Adele who was recently named the UK's richest young musician, reportedly turned down a seven figure sum offered by Harper Collins to pen her own story.

With 123 crores, this is the richest couple in Karnataka elections

Press Trust of India | Tuesday April 16, 2013

JDS Karnataka unit President and former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy and his wife Anita, contesting the May 5 Assembly elections, have together declared assets worth Rs 123 crore.

34-carat diamond, once owned by Nizam of Hyderabad, up for auction in US

Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday April 16, 2013

An extraordinary 34-carat 'Princie' diamond from the mines of Golconda in South Central India, once owned by the world's richest man - the last Nizam of Hyderabad - may fetch up to USD 50 million at an auction in New York.

Adele named Britain's richest young musician 2013

Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday April 11, 2013

Oscar winning singer Adele has been named Britain's richest young musician after amassing an estimated fortune of 30 million pounds.

France's richest man Bernard Arnault ends Belgian move after tax furore

Wednesday April 10, 2013

Bernard Arnault, France's richest man, has abandoned attempts to obtain Belgian nationality and will keep paying tax in his native country after months of speculation that he, like movie star Gerard Depardieu, wanted to dodge a 75-per cent supertax.

Guns, power, and killings in Delhi

Alok Pandey | Sunday March 31, 2013

The daring daylight killing of Bahujan Samaj Party leader Deepak Bhardwaj at his farmhouse in Delhi has brought back into focus the city's thriving gun culture. Mr Bhardwaj, Delhi's richest Lok Sabha candidate in 2009, was shot dead on Tuesday by two...

Man suspected to be driving car used in BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj's murder detained

Reported by Tanima Biswas | Sunday March 31, 2013

The Delhi Police, probing the murder of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Deepak Bhardwaj, today detained a man suspected to be driving the Skoda car which the killers used to escape. Mr Bhardwaj, a real estate tycoon and Delhi's richest Lok Sabha can...

Judge who charged Nicolas Sarkozy with exploiting France's richest woman receives bullet in post

Noopur Tiwari | Thursday March 28, 2013

One of three judges who charged former French president Nicolas Sarkozy with exploiting France's richest woman, has received a bullet in the mail. Jean-Michel Gentil received a death threat along with a blank cartridge by post, said a statement on th...

BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj, richest candidate in 2009 polls, shot dead at Delhi farmhouse

Reported by Alok Pandey, Tanima Biswas, Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Tuesday March 26, 2013

Deepak Bhardwaj, a man who contested the last Lok Sabha elections on a Bahujan Samaj Party ticket, was shot dead this morning at a farmhouse that he owned near Rajokri on the Delhi-Gurgaon border. Mr Bhardwaj, 62, was a real estate tycoon who had dec...