By Vikas Datta Title: Environmental Politics – A Very Short Introduction; Author: Andrew Dobson ; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Pages: 152; Price: Rs.225 Global warming and COP-21, or specifically at home in India, the ‘odd-even’…
How strong is the opposite attraction? Here is a tale of two extreme people from different professional world meeting – and love blossoms; a story of two childhood sweethearts living in Trinidad who fall apart…
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) The third batch of 25 declassified files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose will be released on Friday. According to an official release, Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma will release the third…
Madrid, April 28 (IANS) A haul of 600 kg of “hugely important” bronze Roman coins, was uncovered by workers in the Spanish town of Seville, the media reported on Thursday. The Andalusia Department of Culture…
Ujjain, April 28 (IANS) The foreign nationals who came to participate in the ongoing Simhastha Kumbh Mela in Ujjain city of Madhya Pradesh have been promoting cleanliness by connecting to “Green Ujjain – Clean Ujjain”…
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) Bringing back the spirit of devotional music to the capital, the annual Bhakti Sangeet Festival is set to begin from Friday. The three- day festival will bring together eleven singers…
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) Mongolia on Thursday conferred its highest civilian award, the North Star, on two Indian scholars who are experts on that country. Mongolian Foreign Minister Lundeg Purevsuren conferred the award on…
Tokyo, April 28 (IANS) Japanese has added 19 new cultural assets to a list it terms ‘Japan Heritage’. The newly-created list is aimed at promoting tourism and boosting local economies, The Japan Times reported on…
New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) A day after the India-Pakistan war erupted in 1971, then prime minister Indira Gandhi was so cool that she was changing the bedcovers on a ‘diwan’ when her personal physician…
By M.R. Narayan Swamy Title: India Rising: Fresh Hope, New Fears; Author: Ravi Velloor; Publisher: Straits Times Press; Pages: 368; Price: Not mentioned. In March 2013, National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon called Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the…
New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Wednesday staged a protest at the Delhi University against an academic history book that refers to freedom fighter Bhagat Singh as “revolutionary terrorist”….
Islamabad, April 27 (IANS) A Buddha sculpture smuggled from Swat Valley to the US will be returned to Pakistan on Thursday. According to the estimate, the rare sculpture smuggled in 1980s is worth more than…
New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar’s book “From Bihar to Tihar” will be simultaneously published in Hindi and English by Juggernaut Books later this year. The book will…
By Preetha Nair Dehradun, April 27 (IANS) There is a huge disconnect between Kashmir and New Delhi and the state’s BJP-PDP government has further alienated the Kashmiris, says author and columnist Humra Quraishi, who has…
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) Vice President Hamid Ansari on Tuesday said the experience of the Indian Muslim minority community living in a secular polity having a composite culture could be a model for others…
Beijing, April 26 (IANS) Three sets of coffins, believed to have been buried 3,000 years ago, were discovered in China’s Henan province, sources said on Tuesday. They were unearthed on Monday and taken to a…
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) A massive fire destroyed the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) here early on Tuesday, reducing its priceless collection including fossils to ashes, officials said. The shocking devastation forced Environment…
Lucknow, April 26 (IANS) It is unfortunate that some people are opposing the planned performance in Varanasi by Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali, eminent musician Pandit Jasraj has said. Ghulam Ali is due to perform…
Phnom Penh, April 26 (IANS) Thousands of people on Tuesday called for an end to wildlife tourism rides in Cambodia after an elephant dropped dead from exhaustion. The elephant was walking for about 40 minutes…
By Vikas Datta Title: Shanghai Redemption; Author: Qiu Xiaolong; Publisher: Mullholland Books; Pages: 322; Price: Rs.399 A country may be democratic or authoritarian, but the regime will always maintain influence, covert at least, on police,…