New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) Arts education, which will include imparting the knowledge and practice of India’s rich and diverse culture and performing traditions, will be be made compulsory in Delhi schools, Deputy Chief Minister…
Rome, July 1 (IANS/AKI) Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and shoe magnate Diego Della Valle on Friday attended a ceremony to mark completion of the multi-million euro cleaning of Rome’s Colosseum – the first phase…
New Delhi, July 1 (IANS) RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat will visit Britain in July to participate in a Hindu gathering in a bid to attract British Hindu youths to Indian culture. Bhagwat will stay in…
New Delhi, July 1 (IANS) Enter the kitchen of a great chef, cast an eye on the educational experience at alternative schools, flick through the upstream life of a man who battles alone in a…
New Delhi, July 1 (IANS) Legendary athlete Milkha Singh has launched the ‘Read India’ initiative which aims to set up libraries in about 700 government-run schools to benefit over 3.5 lakh underprivileged students. Backed by…
Dharamsala, June 30 (IANS) China has detained award-winning Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden for what Chinese police said was a dispute over baggage at an airport in Qinghai, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) said on Thursday….
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) The public will have access from next month to three new ‘tourist circuits’ at Rashtrapati Bhavan here: The main building, two museum complexes and the gardens, which they can see…
Kolkata, June 29 (IANS) Eminent artist K.G. Subramanyan, one of the pioneers of modern Indian art, passed away in Vadodara on Wednesday, due to old age, art historian and curator R. Siva Kumar said. Subramanyan…
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) Spontaneously painted women-centric expressions that present various stages in a woman’s life can be viewed alongside the relationship of nature with its varied moods at an exhibition here July 2-7….
Mumbai, June 28 (IANS) Shiv Sena activists on Tuesday attempted to disrupt a function at the Mumbai Press Club here, where a delegation of Pakistani press photographers was present. The protesters also raised anti-Pakistan slogans…
By Vikas Datta Indian foreign movie fans in the 1980s will remember him as a bearded, bulky bruiser in a string of light-hearted ‘Spaghetti Westerns’ and other oddball action comedies throughout 1970 and 1980s, but…
New Delhi, June 28 (IANS) An e-greetings design contest to mark and celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr has been announced by MyGov.in, with the top three designs to be awarded cash prizes. MyGov.in, an interactive portal launched by…
Mumbai: Author Chetan Bhagat during the red carpet of Easy Evening with Brad Sherwood and Colin Mochrie from `Whose Line is it Anyway?` hosted by Black DogSparkling Water, in Mumbai on March 25, 2016. (Photo:…
Agra: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate Middleton visit the Taj Mahal in Agra on April 16, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Hanoi, June 28 (IANS) The Taj Mahal in India is among…
By Imran Khan Patna, June 28 (IANS) The Ram janmabhoomi temple at Ayodhya was demolished during the reign of Auranagzeb and not by Babur’s commander Mir Baqi, says former IPS officer Kishore Kunal in his…
By Anurag Dey Kolkata, June 28 (IANS) Having mastered the art of vocal percussion, he takes his listeners to a realm of disbelief. With his unique ability to translate musical compositions into sounds of a…
By Vikas Datta Title: A Rising Man – Introducing Sam Wyndham; Author: Abir Mukherjee; Publisher: Harvill Secker/Random House India; Pages: 400; Price: Rs 599 From medieval England to Stalin-era Moscow, and apartheid South Africa to…
New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) Vice President Hamid Ansari on Monday hailed former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao for initiating basic changes in the economy with his policies of 1991 but also maintained that…
Guwahati, June 27 (IANS) The first cabinet meeting of the BJP-led government in Assam on Monday decided to fulfill poll promises, including a special task force to stop poaching of one-horned rhinos and upgrade the…
New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) Former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao’s “pro-Hindu mindset” encouraged the destruction of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in 1992, senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar said on Monday. Speaking at…