Beijing, Jan 24 (IANS) China has rebuffed demands by Sweden for information on the fate of a Swedish citizen who was seized on a train by plainclothes Chinese officers despite being under the protection of…
By Saket Suman Jaipur, Jan 24 (IANS) A sea of heavyweight literary icons, including the likes of Pico Iyer, Amy Tan and Tom Stoppard, have begun to assemble in this Pink City to participate in…
New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) Performances by military bands and cultural troupes from various states will add more flavour to the public celebrations from January 26-31 at the Red Fort here, after the Republic Day…
By Saket Suman Jaipur, Jan 24 (IANS) “You are the brand ambassadors of Jaipur for the next five days,” is the direct message of Jaipur Police Commissioner Sanjay Agarwal to the hundreds of police personnel…
New York, Jan 24 (IANS) Award-winning US science fiction and fantasy author Ursula K. Le Guin has died, her family said. She was 88. The best-selling writer passed away on Monday at her home in…
New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) Taking on Amazon, Google on Wednesday rolled out audiobooks with Google Assistant integration on its Play Store in nine languages across 45 countries, including in India. Like Apple’s iBooks and…
New Delhi, Jan 23 (IANS) Attacking the CPI-M government in Tripura, BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav on Tuesday said the country is not aware of the true colours of state Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, who…
Kolkata, Jan 23 (IANS) Nobel laureate and micro-finance founder Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday said the existing financial and banking systems in the world have fundamental flaws as they direct people to work only for their…
Kolkata, Jan 22 (IANS) The young generation should create its own leadership and encourage the natural instincts to build a new world, Nobel laureate and economist Muhammad Yunus said here on Monday. “The young generation…
Kolkata, Jan 22 (IANS) Nobel laureate and micro-finance founder Muhammad Yunus on Monday termed the existing banking model as “banks for the rich” and suggested there should be banks for the poor to boost the…
Agra, Jan 22 (IANS) Agra, home to the Taj Mahal, came alive on Monday on the occasion of Basant Panchami, with admirers flocking to the modest tomb of Urdu poet Mian Nazir Akbarabadi whose birthday…
Kolkata, Jan 22 (IANS) Goddess Saraswati, regarded as the Hindu deity of music, culture and learning, was worshiped across West Bengal with traditional pomp and gaiety on Monday. Women and girls decked up in traditional…
By Vikas Datta Title: Sex, Botany and Empire; Author: Patricia Fara; Publisher: Icon Science/Icon Books; Pages: 176; Price: Rs 399 An Indian minister has made himself notorious all over social media for his comments questioning…
Nampong (Arunachal Pradesh), Jan 21 (IANS) Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Sunday inaugurated the World War II Memorial Museum here in the state’s Changlang district bordering Myanmar. Built by the Union Culture Ministry,…
By Vikas Datta An intrepid swordsman, inveterate royalist, handsome, and a ladies’ man, this 17th-century English nobleman was a Cavalier, with a capital C, in all its colourful, historical meaning, instead of the current usage…
By Nivedita Singh New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) It was an unprecedented fourth Sunday in a row when Delhi’s famous Daryaganj weekly book market was not allowed to function, causing huge losses to booksellers and…
By Umer Rashid Srinagar, Jan 21 (IANS) A recent book looks at the suffering of Kashmir’s transgender community by studying the lives of 24 “hijras”, with the author contending that very few people are interested…
New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS) Calling former Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) Vinod Rai a “murderer”, former Union Telecom Minister A. Raja on Saturday said Rai should be prosecuted for “cheating”. “There was…
New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS) Mahendra Singh Mewar, the 76th descendant of the Mewar dynasty and a former Lok Sabha member, has criticised the Supreme Court order allowing country-wide release of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s “Padmaavat”,…
Book: Why I Am A Hindu; Author: Shashi Tharoor; Publisher: Aleph Book Company; Pages: 302; Price: Rs 699 Shashi Tharoor’s new book on Hinduism — the religion followed by a majority of Indians — comes…