New Delhi, June 17 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the completion of the India-Myanmar-Thailand highway was New Delhi’s priority to improve access to Southeast Asia. “Connectivity is an important area and is…
Embark on a journey of remorse, redemption and love where a girl falls for a man with dark secrets; then a modern day version of the Mahabharata presented with a humorous corporate twist. Learn the…
By Vikas Datta Title: Stasi Child; Author: David Young; Publisher: Twenty7 Books/Bloomsbury; Pages: 416; Price: Rs 399 With one agent for every 166 of its people, one in every 63 a collaborator and one in…
New Delhi, June 17 (IANS) After wowing the audiences across the world, the award-winning documentary, “Awake: The Life of Yogananda”, an unconventional biography of the eminent Indian Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda, is releasing in India on…
New Delhi, June 16 (IANS) To provide a tasty and juicy treat to the connoisseurs of the national capital during the scorching summer, the West Bengal government on Thursday launched its “Mango Mela”. The fortnight-long…
New Delhi, June 16 (IANS) Acclaimed Indian bands Parikrama, Indian Ocean, among other artistes, are set to enthral audiences at Hard Rock Cafe’s World Music Day celebration. The rock music-themed restaurant chain has collaborated with…
Rome, June 16 (IANS/AKI) Archaeologists are due to resume a study aimed at unravelling the mystery over the identity of one of most controversial coffins in ancient Egyptian history and the tomb it was found…
By Somrita Ghosh Title: Crumbs! Bread Stories and Recipes from the Indian Kitchen; Author: Saee Koranne-Khandekar; Publisher: Hachette; Price: Rs 450, Pages: 256 There’s a lot more to bread than what goes with your breakfast…
By M.R. Narayan Swamy Title: Timeless Wisdom from Ancient India; Author: Basant K. Gupta; Publisher: Laksmi di Asya Om (Italy); Pages: 235; Price: Not listed. It is not another book on spirituality. A key reason…
Bhubaneswar, June 15 (IANS) The Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF) is back here, this time with the theme of “Literature and democracy” to discuss several dimensions of the inter-connections between the two. “The third edition of…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, June 15 (IANS) Mother Teresa’s planned sainthood is in an “uncharted” place as the miracle attributed to her was denied by the so-called cured person, says Britain-based author Aroup Chatterjee,…
New Delhi, June 15 (IANS) Trying to reach out to the religious pilgrims in Uttar Pradesh, the central government on Tuesday cleared tourism projects worth over Rs 300 crore “in-principle” in Uttar Pradesh under the…
Rome, June 14 (IANS/AKI) A stolen 2,000-year-old marble sculpture of the head of the first Roman emperor, Augustus, was welcomed back to Italy on Tuesday, over 40 years after it was illegally smuggled out of…
Ahmedabad, June 14 (IANS) The Navjivan Trust, the Ahmedabad-based publishing house founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1929, is planning to bring out his life story in a comic form. “It would be similar to Amar…
Kolkata, June 14 (IANS) To prevent next generation of weavers from abandoning the heritage art, the West Bengal Handicrafts Development Corporation Ltd (Manjusha) on Tuesday launched a e-commerce portal and app exclusively devoted to promoting…
New Delhi, June 14 (IANS) Art graduates from different colleges in the country are all set to present their works, created under the annual PEERS 2016 residency programme to address issues of urban safety, racial…
Srinagar, June 14 (IANS) About 12,000 Hindus, mostly migrant Kashmiri Pandits, on Tuesday gathered at the ‘Sangam’ (confluence) of the Jhelum river and Sindh stream in Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir to celebrate ‘Maha…
Ottawa, June 12 (IANS) The construction of a record-setting 53-metre high tower building, using mostly wooden material, is under way on the campus of the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada’s Vancouver city. Its…
By Ankit Sinha New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) Jazz still has a scope to grow in the country despite the presence of mainstream music, says Grammy nominated artiste Louiz Banks, who has spearheaded the jazz…
By Vikas Datta Among forms of transport as settings for stories, trains seem the most popular. Rail travel may not have the speed or ‘glamour’ of air travel, or the well-heeled ambience of, say, a…