Stockholm: Princess Madeleine, fourth in line to the Swedish throne, married US-British banker Christopher O'Neill on Saturday at a ceremony attended by royals and socialites from around the world.
The 30-year-old princess married O'Neill, 38, before some 600 guests in the chapel of the Royal Palace of Stockholm.
O'Neill fought back tears as the princess, wearing a white lace and silk dress by the Italian designer Valentino, walked down the aisle with her father, King Carl XVI Gustaf.
Marie Fredriksson of the pop group Roxette and Swedish musical star Peter Joback both sang at the service....
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07:08 AM, Jun 09, 2013
New Delhi: The government on Thursday allowed Swedish furniture major IKEA to invest Rs 10,500 crore - the biggest ever FDI proposal in single brand retail - for setting up home furnishing stores in the country. "Whatever proposal of IKEA was there has been cleared," Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari told reporters after the application was cleared by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs headed by Prime Minister Manmohan...
09:30 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress has trashed the latest WikiLeaks revelation naming late former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi as mere 'sensation with no substance'. Reacting to the revelation, Congress leader Janardhan Dwivedi said, "I do not know on what grounds such a story was published." "Right below this article, is an article which names an NDA leader, does it mean there is truth to that article as well? That he took...
03:16 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: The Opposition has questioned the Congress over the latest revelations by US cables WikiLeaks naming late former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in a scandal. The Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded that the Congress comes clean on it. "Today, the WikiLeaks revelations are serious. They are connected to the first family of Congress. All defence deals have some relation with the Congress's first family. They should come clean on...
11:02 AM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress has rejected the WikiLeaks revelation that named late former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in a scandal. Reacting to the allegations, Congress said, "The credibility of WikiLeaks is questionable and any case the author is planning a political party. We don't give importance to the allegations and the cables." The Bharatiya Janata Party, has, meanwhile, demanded that the Congress comes clean on it. "Today, the WikiLeaks revelations...
09:54 AM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: The latest WikiLeaks revelations from US Embassy cables have named former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in a scandal. National daily The Hindu has published their findings of the Kissinger cables, which claim that Rajiv Gandhi may have been a middleman for a Swedish Company before he became the Prime Minister. This, during the 1970s when Swedish company Saab-Scania was trying to sell its Viggen fighter aircraft to India....
08:20 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Without a willingness to lug cheap flat-pack wardrobes home and wrestle with self-assembly, there would be no IKEA, but in Asia, where the locals have other ideas, the Swedish furniture giant thinks it still has a bright future. ...
10:51 AM, Mar 07, 2013
The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has given approval to Rs 10,000 crore investment proposal of Swedish furniture major, IKEA. The company will now be able to sell all its products and set up cafeterias at its retail stores. ...
08:45 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Stockholm: Hackers have struck at least two Swedish government-affiliated websites, shutting down one of them in a denial-of-service attack and leaving links to profane messages on the other. The attacks come just days after police on Monday raided a Stockholm-based webhosting company, PRQ, and a video was posted on YouTube - allegedly made on behalf of the hacker group Anonymous - warning Swedish authorities of repercussions. Police spokesman Anders Ahlqvist...
10:18 AM, Oct 04, 2012
A Swedish celebrity gossip magazine published topless photographs of the wife of Britain's Prince William, the former Kate Middleton, on Wednesday and a Danish sister journal is to follow suit on Thursday. The pictures were published despite a decision by a French court on Tuesday to ban gossip magazine Closer from further publishing the photographs and ordering it to hand the pictures over to the royal couple. The injunction granted...
10:45 AM, Sep 20, 2012
Stockholm: Swedish government websites were jammed by hackers for hours Monday, with some supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claiming responsibility on Twitter. The websites of the Swedish government, Armed Forces and the Swedish Institute were among those experiencing problems. Niklas Englund, head of digital media at the Swedish Armed Forces, said it was unclear who was behind the so-called denial-of-service attacks, in which websites are overwhelmed with bogus traffic....
09:55 AM, Sep 04, 2012
Bofors scam was raised by the opposition parties in Rajya Sabha as well as Lok Sabha to corner the Congress-led UPA. ...
09:26 PM, Apr 26, 2012
On Wednesday, former Swedish police chief and 'Deep Throat' Sten Lindstrom revealed that while Rajiv Gandhi did not receive any payments in the Bofors deal, he did shield Ottavio Quattrocchi. ...
11:19 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Chitra Subramaniam was the journalist who broke the Bofors story nearly 25 years ago. In an interview with IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, the senior journalist seemed to back former Swedish police chief and her informant in the case, Sten Lindstrom, in his claims that while Rajiv Gandhi did not receive any bribes in the Bofors case, it was a multi-country massive cover-up. Here is a full transcript of the interview:...
06:57 PM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: Actor Amitabh Bachchan reacted with relief in a late night blog post on Wednesday to his exoneration in the Bofors case after the main informant in the controversial deal said the case against the actor and then Congress MP and his family was planted in Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter by Indian investigators. Former Swedish Police chief Sten Lindstrom has owned up to being the informant of journalist Chitra...
02:04 PM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: The man who blew the lid off the Bofors case has finally made his identity known more than 25 years since the controversial deal came to light. In an interview that appeared on website thehoot.org, former Swedish Police chief Sten Lindstrom has owned up to being the informant of journalist Chitra Subramanian who had broken the story. Lindstrom had operated under the pseudonym Swedish Deep Throat. The case...
08:48 AM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: The world's cheapest tablet computer Aakash seems to have created a global buzz with Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt planning to meet Sunnet Singh Tulli, the man behind the headline-grabbing innovation, here later this week. It's unusual for visiting foreign ministers to set up a standalone meeting with entrepreneurs and innovators, but Bildt has found time amidst his myriad diplomatic engagements to fit in a meeting with Tulli,...
09:46 AM, Oct 19, 2011
Milan: Swedish clothing retailer Hennes & Mauritz is to launch its first collection designed by a fashion blogger, a move cheered by unconventional online fashionistas. H&M, which has worked with top celebrities such as pop icon Madonna, said in a statement on Monday that Swedish fashion blogger Elin Kling had created a minimalist collection to be launched exclusively in Sweden on Feb. 3. "As one of the largest fashion profiles...
05:09 PM, Jan 11, 2011
