Hyderabad, June 12 (IANS) Eminent Telugu poet, writer and lyricist C. Narayana Reddy died here on Monday, following prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 85. Famous as ‘Cinare’ in literary circle, the Jnanpith awardee…
La Paz, June 12 (IANS) Retired Bolivian Gen. Gary Prado Salmon, who in 1967 captured Ernesto “Che” Guevara, said the Cuban Communist party sent the iconic Argentine-Cuban guerrilla leader “to die in Bolivia” because they…
By Vikas Datta Title: Blitzed – Drugs in Nazi Germany; Author: Norman Ohler (translated by Shaun Whiteside); Publisher: Penguin Books; Pages: 368; Price: Rs 499 His vegetarianism, teetotalism, non-smoking and concern for animals (his regime…
New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) Indian writer Munshi Premchand’s “Binni” as well as Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky’s works “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man” and “White Dreams”, have inspired an independent film set in Uttar…
By Gaurav Sharma Beijing, June 11 (IANS) Nearly 1,000 people on Sunday took part in a yoga event in Zhenjiang in east China in the run up to the 3rd International Yoga Day. The event…
Manali, June 11 (IANS) Union Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma will inaugurate daylong Chandra-Bhaga Sangam Parv in Himachal Pradesh’s Lahaul-Spiti district on Monday, event organisers said on Sunday. He will be accompanied by Haryana Chief Minister…
Bhubaneswar, June 11 (IANS) Legendary poet and essayist Haraprasad Das was on Sunday conferred with the covetous Kalinga Literary Award for his work and contribution to literature at the fourth edition of Kalinga Literary Festival…
By Vikas Datta The Second World War was truly a “world” war — for, apart from encompassing most of the globe, it saw all military forces drawing in additional “personnel” beyond the planet’s dominant species….
New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) Odisha’s 12-year-old Padmalaya Nanda, who has won the Little Miss Universe 2017 beauty pageant, says that she wishes to promote her culture across the world. She feels that she can’t…
New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) There has been a substantial shift in the bilateral, regional and multilateral foreign trade policy of the United States post Trump taking over as the President. Author Amiya Chandra’s latest…
Ottawa, June 10 (IANS) An Ontario man who invented the Hawaiian pizza, a style of pizza known for its inclusion of pineapple and ham, has died at the age of 83, leaving a legacy that…
New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) One of the finest contemporary Indian writers in English, Manu Joseph is all set to publish an extraordinary work of fiction this September. Publisher HarperCollins said, Joseph’s new novel, “Miss…
Kolkata, June 9 (IANS) The Tagore Centre for Natural Science and Philosophy (TCNSP) here will take up the task of translating Nobel laureate poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore’s “Visva Parichay” into English and other languages to highlight…
Bhubaneswar, June 9 (IANS) Thousands of devotees thronged the pilgrim city Puri in Odisha to catch a glimpse of Lord Jagannath and his siblings during the Snana Yatra (bathing ceremony) on Friday. The deities reached…
New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) Read a page-turner based on the rivalry between real-life paleontologists, get a reference manual for entrepreneurs, managers and leaders who want to think better — individually or as teams –…
By Vishal Gulati Shimla, June 9 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh’s octogenarian Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh has taken it upon himself to restoring, and sometimes even reconstructing, the state’s beautiful ancient temples to preserve as he says…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) India’s first open access platform for academic authors to publish their works and make them available in over 100 countries has just been launched — and the…
Oviedo (Spain), June 8 (IANS) Polish poet and author Adam Zagajewski has won Spain’s prestigious Princess of Asturias Award for Literature, the prize’s jury announced on Thursday. Zagajewski, who was born in 1945 in what…
New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) Technology giant Google’s Arts and Culture arm on Thursday launched a new virtual exhibition project that will showcase 3,000 years of the world’s fashion and style, the company said in…
By Vikas Datta Title: Chronicle of a Last Summer; Author: Yasmine El Rashidi; Publisher: Tim Duggan Books/Penguin Random House US; Pages: 194; Price: Rs 499 Volcanic emotions contribute to, and are further generated, during turbulent…