When my father travelled 5,000 miles to build a new home in Ireland, I doubt he ever dreamed that his son would one day grow up to become its leader.
Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/Rediff.com profiles Dr Leo Varadkar who will step down as Ireland s taoiseach (prime minister) next week.
Miss World 2024 will be crowned in India soon.
Long before Aishwarya Rai and Priyanka Chopra, Yukta Mukhey and Diana Hayden, a beautiful woman from Bombay was crowned Miss World.
In 1966.
Reita Faria was India s first Miss World.
Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/
Rediff.com met the 80 year old in Dublin recently, still as elegant, still as attractive as she was all those years ago.
Three men, originally from Tamil Nadu, arrested by the Mumbai Police started their boat journey from Kuwait on January 28 and claimed to have taken the Saudi Arabia-Dubai-Pakistan route before entering Indian shores illegally, as per the police remand note.