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Son of a railway employee who started off as a vegetable and fruit vendor in trains, Abdul Kareem Telgi took to the murky underworld and attained notoriety as the kingpin of a multi-crore counterfeit stamp papers scam.

An Indian-origin campaigner has been named the UK's most influential black person of the year for winning a legal challenge that prevented British Prime Minister Theresa May from triggering Brexit without Parliament's approval.

President Xi Jinping was formally handed a second term Wednesday, with no clear successor emerging in a revamped ruling council, cementing his grip on power and setting the stage for him to dominate China for decades to come.

The rescue of an abducted US-Canadian family in Pakistan last week has spotlighted their captors the Haqqani network, former CIA assets now considered one of the most dangerous factions fighting US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan.

Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner is perhaps one of the world's last great adventurers: he has conquered the planet's highest peaks, crossed Antarctica and hunted for the elusive Yeti. That he has lived to tell those tales, is mainly down to luck, he says

Bill Gates is losing hold of his title as the world's richest person, with Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos once again mounting a challenge for the top spot. But if Gates weren't so philanthropic, it wouldn't even be close

Mukul Roy's exit from the Trinamool Congress or TMC today marked the end of his 20-year-long stint in the party that he helped mould with his former mentor, Mamata Banerjee.

What does it mean to work with the dead? For Banarasi Shyamlal Chouttle, 64, who spent 40 years of surgically opening dead bodies, the experience has been both traumatic and eye opening.

Madhu Valli, an emerging hip hop artist and a student of criminal law at George Mason University in Virginia, has been crowned as Miss India Worldwide 2017.

As many as seven women have been named in Forbes magazine's annual 'India Rich List 2017'.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "economic experiments" barely affected India's billionaires, says Forbes.

Jagdish Mukhi has been appointed the new governor of Assam, as President Ram Nath Kovind announced new governors for five states.

Retired army brigadier Dr B D Mishra was today appointed as the new Arunachal Pradesh governor. He was appointed by President Ram Nath Kovind along with the governors of Tamil Nadu, Assam, Meghalaya and Bihar. Lieutenant Governor for Andaman and Nicobar Islands was also appointed.

Makhan Lal Fotedar, a veteran Congress leader who worked closely with three generations of the Gandhi family, died at a hospital in Gurgaon on Thursday.

Angela Merkel has been derided as Europe's "austerity queen", cheered as a saviour by refugees and hailed as the new "leader of the free world".