New York, May 23 (IANS) A confident and distinctly global community of collectors converged at Christies flagship US saleroom in Rockefeller Center, driving its 20th Century Art sales of Impressionist, Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art…
By Sweta Daga “My Naba (father) always says you can’t challenge nature. If you challenge nature, you are asking for trouble. When you see a river and think, it’s so low, I can easily cross…
By Vishal Gulati Manali, May 22 (IANS) Taking a leaf from the success of Leh’s Sindhu Darshan festival, locals of the picturesque Lahaul Valley in Himachal Pradesh also decided to hold a similar event every…
By Nury Vittachi I always say “please” and “thank you, Miss” when talking to Siri so that when the machines take over she won’t kill me. “Spare the puny one. He was always polite.” You…
New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) The Delhi Public Library has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian Public Library Movement (IPLM) to improve the overall functioning of its outlets and make them more relevant…
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) Fresh ginger juice mixed with lime juice, orgeat syrup, pineapple juice and Tennessee whiskey, shaken well with lots of crushed ice and what you have in hand is a great…
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Veteran Indian artist Ganesh Haloi is in the forefront of representing modern Indian art at the ongoing Documenta 14, one of the worlds most prestigious and keenly awaited art events….
By Prachi Salve & Swagata Yadavar Nearly a million workers — forming the frontline of India’s faltering public health system — are inadequately trained and are underpaid, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of Health Ministry…
New York, May 12 (IANS) A wonderful painting by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and her Cartier watch, an iconic timepiece, are all set to be auctioned in New York. Christie’s Watches announced “The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis…
By Nury Vittachi One of my children asked me whether ham came from hamsters. “Of course,” I said. “Just like jelly comes from jellyfish.” I added that our family’s favourite dessert, Nutella mousse, was a…
By Sahana Ghosh Kolkata, May 12 (IANS) India is all set to opt for automatic observation of pollution in the ocean to crunch data that will aid the tourism industry and could also come in…
By Somrita Ghosh New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) India’s publishing industry is as ruthless as it is dotted with glitz. With debutant authors often taking years to find a publisher, the journey of the manuscript…
By Arun Kumar Washington, May 6 (IANS) At last Hillary Clinton is “out of the woods”, smugly telling Americans that had election been held 12 days earlier, “I would be your President” and not that…
By Nury Vittachi Legislative officials in the European Union have been trying to decide whether robots are people or not. This is idiotic. Of course they are people. The little robot in my smartphone told…
By Prashant Sood New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) The Congress suffered its worst defeat of the last three Delhi municipal polls on Wednesday, bringing to light the enormity of challenges it faces to revive itself…
By Anand Singh New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) The BJP’s hat-trick in the capital’s municipal polls is being seen as a feather in the cap of the party’s Delhi unit chief Manoj Tiwari and it…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) Founded in 2004, Facebook — on track to hit two billion active monthly users this year — is now the fifth-largest US firm by market capitalisation (exceeding…
By Vishal Gulati Shimla, April 24 (IANS) It’s definitely not going to leave men on a high in Himachal Pradesh, literally! Saying thumbs down to liquor vends within neighbourhoods, women’s brigades across the state, especially…
By Somrita Ghosh New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Indian Railways — one of the world’s largest railway systems that runs over 12,500 trains every day — is more than just the country’s transport lifeline. For…
By Anurag Dey Sahebganj (Jharkhand), April 23 (IANS) Her thumbs flying fast over the touchscreen of her smartphone, Purnima Mahato, 35, of this tribal village in Jharkhand, has just discovered ease of doing business with…