Bhubaneswar, July 28 (IANS) Renowned sand artist from Odisha, Sudarsan Pattnaik, has won the People’s Choice Prize at International Sand Sculpting Championship 2019 held in Boston city of the US. Pattnaik sculpted a sand art…
London, July 27 (IANS) The Victoria and Albert (V&A) museum in London has acquired a number of objects that document the movement by Extinction Rebellion (XR) – a global activist group calling for urgent action…
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Despite the breadth and scope of the Indian media, there is little meaningful literature available about journalism practised in the country today. There have been individual accounts by journalists, some…
Bhubaneswar, July 26 (IANS) Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has requested Union Tourism Minister Prahlad Singh Patel for the inclusion of Sun Temple in Konark and Jagannath Temple in Puri in the iconic tourist sites….
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) In July 1999, a mortar shell fired by the Pakistan Army cost Devender Pal Singh, a Kargil war veteran, his right leg. Twenty years later, a graphic novel on his…
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) How has the Indian letterform, specifically Devanagari script, evolved from its earliest stone engraving? A new digital exhibition surveys the journey of Devanagari from stone pillars to digital screens. Titled…
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Chinese smartphone company OnePlus on Friday announced the first edition of an upcoming multi-genre music festival that it will host in Mumbai. The OnePlus Music Festival is slated for November…
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Culture and Tourism Minister Prahlad Singh Patel on Friday urged the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to include monuments pre-dating 500 years in its list of protected monuments and said…
New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) The International Council on Museums (ICOM) on Thursday announced an alternative definition of museums, changing the one it had adopted in 2007. “Museums are democratising, inclusive and polyphonic spaces for…
Kolkata, July 25 (IANS) A gallery dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi was inaugurated at Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport here on Thursday to mark his 150th birth anniversary, an official said. The Airports Authority of…
New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) An exhibition of photographs on Iran and its architecture, people and landscapes is currently on view at the India International Centre here. It presents a rare glimpse into the everyday…
By Siddhi Jain New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) Thirty years after he played Duryodhana in B.R. Chopra’s “Mahabharata” TV series, noted actor-director Puneet Issar has brought the antagonist’s character to stage, and feels humbled that…
By Siddhi Jain New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) With its moving portrayals of dyslexia and art, 2007 movie ‘Taare Zameen Par’ touched many hearts and lives, but it left a unique impression on artist Pallav…
New York, July 24 (IANS) A rare pair of Nike’s “Moon Shoe” designed by the sportswear giant’s co-founder has sold for a record-breaking $437,500, breaking the world auction record for a pair of sneakers, according…
Mumbai, July 24 (IANS) Contemporary Rajput and Mughal-style miniature paintings along with folk and tribal art by Indian artists who bring ancient into the modern will be on display here from Thursday. The four-day exhibition…
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) An exhibition of paintings on Buddha, a widely-seen muse of art and literature, is going on at Triveni Kala Sangam in New Delhi. Madhya Pradesh-based artist Parul Golchha’s paintings depict…
Cairo, July 23 (IANS) The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities has said it has started the sterilization work of the coffin of ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamun in order to restore it for the first time since…
Mumbai, July 22 (IANS) Renowned historian J.V. Naik, who chronicled the history of modern Maharashtra, passed away at a private hospital here on Monday following renal failure, a family member said. He was 85. He…
New Delhi, July 22 (IANS) US Ambassador to India Kenneth Juster on Monday called himself “a strong believer in the value of these institutions and what they have to offer” and highlighted the role of…
New Delhi, July 22 (IANS) Set three decades back in the bylanes of Kolkata’s Ballygunge, a theatre production by director Atul Satya Koushik explores, along with love, longing and loss, a genre under-done in Hindi…