By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Sep 7 (IANS) Close to its debut at Toronto on September 27-29, the iconic Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) is set to add an eighth country in 2019 “where the narrative…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Sep 7 (IANS) Digital transformation – an essential element of the Fourth Industrial Revolution – is a $1.7 trillion industry but 70 per cent of all such attempts fail due…
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) US Ambassador to India Kenneth I. Juster on Friday asserted that bonds between the two nations continued to “grow stronger” and that the foundation of partnership is the enduring strength…
Shimla, Sep 6 (IANS) Nearly a year after Shimla’s British-era Town Hall was reconstructed in its original half-timbered Tudor style with the Asian Development Bank’s funding of Rs eight crore, the Himachal Pradesh High Court…
Mumbai, Sep 5 (IANS) Acclaimed English-Marathi journalist and writer Kiran Nagarkar died here on Thursday after a brief illness, family sources said. He was 77. He had been admitted for treatment of brain haemorrhage to…
New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) Employees of Oxford University Press (OUP) one of the world’s largest publishers of academic books, went back into time on Thursday as they engaging sessions on themes such as photography,…
Bengaluru, Sep 5 (IANS) Amazon India on Thursday announced the third edition of Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Pen to Publish Contest in three languages for authors who publish directly on the Amazon platform. The contest…
New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) What would life look like if we followed through on our intentions? A former Stanford lecturer and behavioural designer, Nir Eyal spent over a decade researching the psychology behind habit-forming…
Rome, Sep 4 (IANS/AKI) Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli’s masterpiece, ‘the Madonna and Child’ has gone on show at the Primorye State Art Gallery in Russia’s eastern port city of Vladivostok until November, the Italian Foreign…
Mumbai, Sep 4 (IANS) Noted Tamil writer Perumal Murugan’s twin novels, “Trial by Silence” and “Lonely Harvest” (Penguin Random House) and Malayalam author Paul Zacharia’s maiden work in English “A Secret History of Compassion” (Westland)…
Varanasi, Sep 4 (IANS) From European artists to Indian photographers, painters and sculptors, the city of Varanasi has been a muse to countless artists. The holy city’s tryst with art and artists is being showcased…
Lucknow, Sep 4 (IANS) The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh getting ready to bring back the lost era. It has asked the Archaeology Department to compile a list of temples that were present in…
Paris, Sep 3 (IANS) The Tutankhamon exposition in Paris has become the most visited in the history of France with more than 1.3 million visitors, organizers said on Tuesday. The exhibition, which started on March…
Paris, Sep 3 (IANS) A work of art by Banksy that appeared outside the Pompidou Centre in Paris in 2018 has been “stolen” overnight, the cultural space said on Tuesday. The stencil had been on…
By Jayant K. Singh Basel, Sep 3 (IANS) Hoosesagg Museeum, which translates into “Pant Pocket Museum” in English, is perhaps the smallest museum in Switzerland – indeed in the world too. There’s no admission fee,…
New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) Award-winning and internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdies new novel “Quichotte” is in the race to win this years 50,000 pound Booker Prize for Fiction. The news of the shortlist broke…
London, Sep 3 (IANS) Terrance Dicks, who was among the original writers of the “Doctor Who” series, is dead. He was aged 84. Dicks had a long association with the long-running sci-fi show. He wrote…
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) The strong role of women authors, the continued emergence of debut novelists and the diversity of themes and issues which reflect the changing ethos of the culture and people in…
Ferozepur (Punjab), Sep 2 (IANS) One of the oldest cinema houses of Punjab, which once attracted more cinemagoers from neighbouring Pakistan, has been shut down and its heritage property put on sale. The cinema, Dhani…
By Ranjana Narayan New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS) India has been a “poster child” for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as all of the three IMF programmes in India were seamlessly implemented, and the moneys…