Mumbai, April 4 (IANS) Bollywood celebrities including Shabana Azmi, Vishal Dadlani and Lata Mangeshkar have mourned the death of renowned classical singer Kishori Amonkar, who passed away here shortly before midnight on Tuesday. She was…
Panaji, April 4 (IANS) Tourism minister Manohar Ajgaonkar said that Lamanis, members of a nomadic tribe mostly hailing from Karnataka, should be banned from Goa because they besmirch the reputation of Goa and don’t fit…
Mumbai, April 4 (IANS) Renowned classical singer Kishori Amonkar passed away shortly before midnight, family sources said here on Tuesday. She was 84 and breathed her last at her Dadar west home. In her singing…
Mumbai, April 4 (IANS) Renowned classical singer Kishori Amonkar passed away shortly before midnight, family sources said here on Tuesday. She was 84 and breathed her last at her Dadar west home. In her singing…
Cairo, April 3 (IANS) Egyptian archaeologists have discovered the remains of a pyramid dating back to the era of the 13th dynasty, during an excavation mission near Cairo. The head of the Egyptian antiquities sector,…
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) He is a Malaysian dancer, steeped in Indian classical forms and has allured audiences with his performances for well over three decades now. Ramli Ibrahim — a cultural icon and…
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) In one of the most unique crossovers between environment, law and art, some known artists and lawyers will attempt to raise awareness through a mock court trial on green issues….
Patna, April 3 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday visited the ruins of Vikramshila University, an ancient seat of Buddhist learning, in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district. Mukherjee reached Bhagalpur on Sunday evening. He began a three-day…
Hanoi, April 3 (IANS) Vietnam’s belief in the “Mother Goddesses in Three Realms” has been recognised by Unesco as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity, a media report said on Monday. In a ceremony on…
By Vikas Datta Title: The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline; Author: Jonathan Tepperman; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing; Pages: 320; Price: Rs 499 Toxic and messianic politics, misgovernance, corruption, xenophobia, extremism,…
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar Panaji, April 3 (IANS) Princess Jodhabai, often referred to as one of Emperor Akbar’s wives and the mother of his son Jahangir, whose life was portrayed onscreen by Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in…
Phnom Penh, April 3 (IANS) Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Monday called for authorities and armed forces to beef up security during the lunar New Year, which will be celebrated from April…
Guwahati, April 2 (IANS) Opposing religious conversion, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Sunday said forcible conversion is not good but people should have the freedom to change their religion voluntarily. “Basically, whether you…
By Subhash K. Jha Mumbai, April 2 (IANS) Eyebrows were raised when Karan Johar, who has as much link with Hindustani classical music as the sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan has with tabloid gossip, released…
Stockholm, April 2 (IANS) Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan finally received his Nobel Prize in literature at a private ceremony in Stockholm, according to a statement posted online by the head of the Swedish Academy. The presentation…
By Vikas Datta Every literary work has its significance, for good or bad, but sometimes only its negatives receive focus, leading to some striking creations being disparaged, damned and doomed. Like this ornate Urdu tale…
Moscow, April 2 (IANS) Russian Soviet-era poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko died of a cardiac arrest on Saturday in Oklahoma, US , at the age of 84. Yevtushenko’s wife was quoted by Xinhua news agency as saying…
Bhubaneswar, April 1 (IANS) Odia communities across the country and abroad on Saturday celebrated Utkala Dibasa to mark the formation of the then Orissa, now Odisha, state on a linguistic basis in 1936. Prime Minister…
By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad, April 1 (IANS) Seventy-five years after it was set up to manage the currency of Nizams, the State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH) on Saturday became part of history with its merger…
By Saket Suman Title: The Golden Legend; Author: Nadeem Aslam; Publisher: Penguin Random House; Pages: 376; Price: Rs 599 Nadeem Aslam never disappoints his readers and the characteristic features of his novels — vividly beautiful,…