Chennai, Sep 6 (IANS) Students from Mexico come to India to learn different kinds of skills ranging from information technology (IT) to yoga and even how to play the tabla, said the Mexican envoy to…
Kolkata, Sep 6 (IANS) West Bengal Governor K N Tripathi, also a known poet, on Tuesday embarked on a visit to Britain to participate in and preside over a conference of poets. According to a…
Mumbai, Sep 6 (IANS) A group of 10 Indian poets will travel to Germany as part of an unique initiative ‘Poets Translating Poets’ as part of a two-year long literary project of Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan,…
By Vikas Datta Title: Once Upon a Time in India -The Marvellous Adventures of Captain Corcoran; Author: Alfred Assollant (translated by Sam Miller); Publisher: Juggernaut; Pages: 252; Price: Rs 299 The Raj seems an integral…
By Vishnu Makhijani Book: China’s Transition under Xi Jinping; Editor: Jagannath P. Panda; Publisher: Pentagon Press; Pages: 427; Price: Rs 1,995/$59.95 This China 2015 Yearbook of the defence ministry-funded think tank Institute for Defence Studies…
New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) The ten-day long ‘Ganesh Utsava’ commenced here on Monday with traditional gaiety and fervor with a number of pandals coming up across the city. Lord Ganesha, the son of Lord…
Mumbai/Hyderabad/Bhopal/Chennai/Bengaluru, Sep 5 (IANS) Ganesh Chaturthi, marking the beginning of 10-day festivities, was celebrated across the country on Monday with the installation of idols of the elephant-headed Hindu god. Cities in various states wore a…
Bengaluru, Sep 5 (IANS) Thousands of people across Karnataka celebrated the beginning of the 10-day Ganesha festival on Monday with religious fervour and piety. Rising before dawn and taking a early oil bath, hundreds of…
By Vikas Datta Soon after he became India’s second President, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan’s birthday began to be celebrated as “Teachers’ Day”, given his belief that “teachers should be the best minds in the country” and his…
By Vikas Datta Title: The Bolt Supremacy – Inside Jamaica’s Sprint Factory; Author: Richard Moore; Publisher: Yellow Jersey Press/Random House India; Pages: 330; Price: Rs 499 When Jamaica started participating in the Olympics in 1948,…
Vatican City, Sep 4 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sang popular Bengali devotional songs and walked with members of her delegation from Rome to St Peter’s Basilica where Mother Teresa on Sunday was…
Udaipur (Rajasthan) Sep 4 (IANS) Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhrara Raje said on Sunday that ‘living heritage’ needs to be promoted proactively through heritage and historical buildings. “Living heritage’ needs to be promoted proactively through our…
New Delhi, Sep 4 (IANS) Greeting teachers on the occasion of Teachers Day, President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said teachers are the building blocks of a good eduction system. In India, Teachers’ Day is observed…
Kochi, Sep 4 (IANS) It was “Atham” day in its traditional glory on Sunday in Thripunithura, near here, signalling that Kerala is ready to celebrate Onam. The Atham is held 10 days before the most…
By Preetha Nair Thimphu, Sep 4 (IANS) Aboriginal, litterateur and rebel, Witi Ihimaera is a moving force in giving voice to the Maoris in New Zealand. The first published novelist in Maori literature, the 72-year-old…
By Vikas Datta The memorial at the Kohima War Cemetery, where lie dead of a World War II battle termed “Stalingrad of the East”, asks us: “When you go home tell them of us and…
Niamey, Sep 4 (IANS) With characters extravagantly dressed as science-fiction, comic-book and videogame characters parading down Peachtree Street, the 30th annual Dragon Con Parade brought thousands of fans to Atlanta on Saturday for this spectacularly…
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) Works of masters like S.H. Raza, K.G. Subramanyan, F.N. Souza, Tyeb Mehta and M.F. Husain, among others, will go under the hammer here on Saturday. Organised by Art Deal auction…
By Preetha Nair Thimphu, Sep 2 (IANS) The Bangladesh government’s failure to take action against those behind the attack on bloggers and minorities in the recent past led to the terror attack in July on…
Guwahati, Sep 2 (IANS) One of Assam’s most prominent and celebrated poet and literary critic Nalinidhar Bhattacharya passed away at a private hospital in Guwahati on Friday. His family said that Bhattacharya died around 4.10…