Hotel heiress and international celebrity Paris Hilton, who is in India on a three-day business trip, showed her humanitarian side when she tipped a beggar $100.

"Yesterday (Sunday) when Paris was travelling to launch her bag store, a woman with a baby was begging near her car; she was so moved that she gave her a $100 note, " a source told.

Paris arrived in India Saturday to launch her new line of bags and her stores in collaboration with Brand Concepts Pvt. Ltd.