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Friday, November 7, 2025
TopicWomen singers

Topic: Women singers

Singer Mubarak Begum went from poverty to Bollywood & Lollywood. Then her ‘wings were cut’

‘Kabhi Tanhaiyon Mein’ singer Mubarak Begum, who died on 18 July 2016, worked with some of the biggest names in Bollywood in the 1950s & 60s. But her career took a nosedive.

Remember Sunidhi Chauhan? Playback singer is India’s new pop icon—dress, dance, and disco

Sunidhi Chauhan's transformation goes beyond her makeover. She has become one of the rare Indian performers who is converting herself into an international pop star.

Delhi cafes are bringing women singers for live gigs. But rowdy guests are a big problem

Popular cafes such as The Piano Man Jazz Club, Cafe 27, and Teo are opening their doors to women singers, and they enjoy adequate security. But not everyone is so lucky.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.