This year's list featured a major new entrant: SRK's son Aryan Khan, who came in at No. 7 on the Most Searched Personality list after his detention by the Narcotics Control Bureau in October sparked massive online attention.
Pakistan Electronic Media Regulator warned the media houses there that non-compliance with its directives/guidelines and orders of the Superior Court shall compel the authority to initiate legal action
In Bihar, caste violence erupted like a plague in the late 1990s. There was the armed Ranvir Sena, composed mostly of Bhumihar landlords, baying for Dalit blood. And then there were retaliatory strikes of Maoist groups.
What picqued us in 2019? Picked us up? Let us down? A stocktaking of the year’s top events and wired personages.
High and low points of the recent past that mark India’s present
Manipur erupted in anger after the killing of Thangjam Monorama in 2004. A dozen women stripped naked in protest holding banners one of which read, “Indian Army, Rape Us”.
Twenty years after the ghastly murder of her husband, the missionary Graham Staines, Gladys has forged a new life—as a nurse and doting grandmother—in Australia.
After winning Fame Gurukul, Touqeer acted in a movie called Take Off, which was never released.
A batchmate of former IPS officer RK Sharma says he turned into a recluse after the murder of journalist Shivani Bhatnagar, and has been living at his home in...
Father of Indian BPO industry Raman Roy still lives a frenetic existence with the day starting at 7 am sharp, never to end before midnight.
On September 21, 2007, Calcutta was jolted by the fate of 29-year-old Rizwan, who had fallen in love with Priyanka Todi, 23, the daughter of a rich hosiery...
The dapper Harshad Mehta and the reclusive Ketan Parekh were involved in the biggest stock market scams in liberalised India, leaving many an investor...
Bandit Queen Phoolan Devi’s killer Sher Singh Rana says he wants to be remembered as somebody who got jobs for lakhs of people
For former cricketer Joginder Sharma, switching over from cricketing to policing has been a veritable leap from one world to another
KBC jackpot winner Sushil Kumar, who worked as a computer operator, had once aspired to become a government officer but gave up the effort after the KBC...
Prince Kumar whose rescue from 60 feet under riveted a nation
Decades ago, they shook India. They made headlines for days. But time and tide wait for none. Outlook remembers a dozen unique newsmakers...
