Ancestral Homes

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor today posted a video of him participating in swing tradition as part of Onam - a 10-day harvest festival celebrated by Keralites to welcome the beginning of Malayalam year, Kolla Varsham.

The ancestral homes of Bollywood legends Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar were taken under the possession of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Directorate of Archaeology and Museums on Tuesday.

A relative of Queen Elizabeth II was on Tuesday sentenced to a 10-month prison term for sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus, Scotland.

The lawyer representing the owner of Indian film legend Dilip Kumar's ancestral home in Peshawar has advised the provincial Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to not buy the over 100-year-old haveli, as it is in a dilapidated condition and repairing it would be as costly as acquiring it.

Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and the owners of the ancestral houses of legendary Bollywood actors Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor have been urged to reach a settlement over the rate fixed for the purchase of the two historic buildings for converting them into museums.

The owner of Indian film legend Raj Kapoor's ancestral home in Peshawar has refused to sell the building at the rate fixed by the provincial Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, saying the prime-location property has been severely undervalued.

Members of Trinamool Congress, including its students' wing, on Sunday held a day-long sit-in outside Jorasanko, the birthplace of Rabindanath Tagore, to protest the putting up of flex hoardings with Union Home Minister Amit Shah's image on top of the picture of the bard.

Six properties of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, including his ancestral home in Mumbke village in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district, were sold in an auction held on Tuesday, an official said.

In Joe Biden's Irish ancestral hometown, distant relatives and well-wishers nursed happy hangovers on Sunday after a night spent toasting the success of the new president-elect -- and claimed credit for having "saved the world".

Residents set off firecrackers in the ancestral home of Kamala Harris on Sunday as India celebrated the US vice president-elect's victory, with her uncle hailing her achievement as historic and an inspiration to women and girls.

Salman Rushdie's ancestral house in the upscale Civil Lines area in Delhi, which the globally renowned writer's father had agreed to sell to a Congress leader in 1970 but the deal stalled due to dispute between the two sides, has been valued at Rs 130 crore by the Delhi High Court.

It was a "difficult decision" to join TMC, said Mausam Noor, sitting behind her desk in her ancestral home, a legacy of Ghani Khan Choudhary, her uncle and veteran Congress leader from Malda, who represented it eight-times in Parliament.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who began her election campaign in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday and is taking a massive three-day boat ride from Prayagraj to Varanasi, spent the night at her ancestral home in Prayagraj where her grandmother, former prime minister Indira Gandhi, was born.

Patna has no five star hotel and after prohibition was enforced in Bihar, even the ones that were planned have been scrapped. But Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi, who finally entered the bungalow allotted to him after a protracted legal battle, has called the house nothing short of a seven-star resort. In the compliment was a shot at its fo...

A crude bomb was thrown at the house of a BJP parliamentarian in Kerala hours after a similar attack on the house of a Left party legislator was reported to the police on Friday night. The family of BJP parliamentarian V Muraleedharan were sleeping at their ancestral house at Thalassery in Kannur district when they were attacked at midnight. No one...

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor today posted a video of him participating in swing tradition as part of Onam - a 10-day harvest festival celebrated by Keralites to welcome the beginning of Malayalam year, Kolla Varsham.

The ancestral homes of Bollywood legends Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar were taken under the possession of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Directorate of Archaeology and Museums on Tuesday.

A relative of Queen Elizabeth II was on Tuesday sentenced to a 10-month prison term for sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus, Scotland.

The lawyer representing the owner of Indian film legend Dilip Kumar's ancestral home in Peshawar has advised the provincial Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to not buy the over 100-year-old haveli, as it is in a dilapidated condition and repairing it would be as costly as acquiring it.

Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and the owners of the ancestral houses of legendary Bollywood actors Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor have been urged to reach a settlement over the rate fixed for the purchase of the two historic buildings for converting them into museums.

The owner of Indian film legend Raj Kapoor's ancestral home in Peshawar has refused to sell the building at the rate fixed by the provincial Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, saying the prime-location property has been severely undervalued.

Members of Trinamool Congress, including its students' wing, on Sunday held a day-long sit-in outside Jorasanko, the birthplace of Rabindanath Tagore, to protest the putting up of flex hoardings with Union Home Minister Amit Shah's image on top of the picture of the bard.

Six properties of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, including his ancestral home in Mumbke village in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district, were sold in an auction held on Tuesday, an official said.

In Joe Biden's Irish ancestral hometown, distant relatives and well-wishers nursed happy hangovers on Sunday after a night spent toasting the success of the new president-elect -- and claimed credit for having "saved the world".

Residents set off firecrackers in the ancestral home of Kamala Harris on Sunday as India celebrated the US vice president-elect's victory, with her uncle hailing her achievement as historic and an inspiration to women and girls.

Salman Rushdie's ancestral house in the upscale Civil Lines area in Delhi, which the globally renowned writer's father had agreed to sell to a Congress leader in 1970 but the deal stalled due to dispute between the two sides, has been valued at Rs 130 crore by the Delhi High Court.

It was a "difficult decision" to join TMC, said Mausam Noor, sitting behind her desk in her ancestral home, a legacy of Ghani Khan Choudhary, her uncle and veteran Congress leader from Malda, who represented it eight-times in Parliament.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who began her election campaign in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday and is taking a massive three-day boat ride from Prayagraj to Varanasi, spent the night at her ancestral home in Prayagraj where her grandmother, former prime minister Indira Gandhi, was born.

Patna has no five star hotel and after prohibition was enforced in Bihar, even the ones that were planned have been scrapped. But Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi, who finally entered the bungalow allotted to him after a protracted legal battle, has called the house nothing short of a seven-star resort. In the compliment was a shot at its fo...

A crude bomb was thrown at the house of a BJP parliamentarian in Kerala hours after a similar attack on the house of a Left party legislator was reported to the police on Friday night. The family of BJP parliamentarian V Muraleedharan were sleeping at their ancestral house at Thalassery in Kannur district when they were attacked at midnight. No one...