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They called him the "Kaiser", and for decades Karl Lagerfeld, who has died aged 85, reigned imperially over the fashion world.

Rivian Automotive founder R.J. Scaringe approached deep-pocketed Saudi investors in late 2011 with an audacious proposal. The young entrepreneur confessed he had no experience running a company.

Journalists should not "spread toxicity" among themselves, nor should they "fan the flames of anxiety among viewers", NDTV's Ravish Kumar said while accepting Best Hindi News Channel (Jury's Choice) at ENBA on Saturday. For the jury, he had a message - a special thank you for recognising that NDTV has been carrying on responsible journalism "despite efforts to douse the flame".

Zilingo Pte's path to becoming a fashion platform with a valuation approaching $1 billion began in December 2014 when Ankiti Bose, then an analyst at Sequoia India, chatted with a neighbor at a house party in the Indian tech capital Bengaluru.

Mahesh Anand, who essayed negative roles in a number of Bollywood movies, was on Saturday found dead at his residence in Mumbai under mysterious circumstances.

During her days in the opposition, Mamata Banerjee had accused an IPS officer of tapping the phones of political rivals of the ruling Left Front. A decade down the line, she is staging a dharna to protest the CBI's bid to question him.

Rishi Kumar Shukla, the new CBI Director is the second officer from the Madhya Pradesh cadre, after the agency's founder-director DP Kohli, to be appointed to the coveted post, officials said today.

Sean Fernandes is immensely proud of the legacy left behind by his father George Fernandes, but the New York-based banker says he has no immediate plans to enter politics and is comfortable watching the field from the sidelines.

George Fernandes the Giant Killer. Striking George. Rebel Without A Pause. George Fernandes embodied the idealistic and swashbuckling politics of the 1970s, when the socialist movement was gaining popularity in India carried along by waves of disenchantment with corruption and poverty.

Music maestro from Assam, Bhupen Hazarika, has been posthumously awarded Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian honour, along with former President Pranab Mukherjee and social activist Nanaji Deshmukh. Bhupen Hazarika was a singer, balladeer, poet, lyricist and film maker who was widely admired not only in native Assam but across the country.

Krishna Sobti, the master of prose whose works like 'Mitro Marjani, 'Zindaginama and 'Surajmukhi Andhere' delighted readers, died today in Delhi, at the age of 93. She was in the ICU of a city hospital for the last two months for age related illnesses.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has joined politics with an announcement buried in the third para of a Congress press statement just months before the national election, but she was always part of the decision-making process in the party that has been led by five generations of the Nehru-Gandhi family.

Kamala Harris, often referred to as "Female Barack Obama", by her admirers announced on Monday that she plans to run for the President of the United States of America in 2020. Already in the race are four more women Democratic nominations - Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and former housing secretary Julian Castro, among others.

Dr Shivakumara Swami, the 111-year-old seer of the Siddaganga mutt at Tumakuru near Bengaluru, was a popular and religious leader of the Lingayat community in Karnataka who served the poor and the needy for over eight decades.

Shivakumara Swami, the head of Sree Siddaganga Mutt in Karnataka's Tumakuru, has died at 111 after two weeks on the ventilator. Shivakumar Swami had been unwell for a while and was briefly treated in Chennai before being brought back to the Mutt, where he was placed on life support. Senior political leaders, including rivals Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy and former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, united in mourning the death of the seer known as "the walking god".