New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) The government has planned an elaborate fortnight-long programme to commemorate the country’s 70th Independence Day, Information and Broadcasting Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu said on Tuesday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will…
Kolkata, Aug 2 (IANS) The Mamata Banerjee government’s bid to rechristen West Bengal as “Bengal” has attracted mixed reactions from authors, singers and politicains, with some giving the thumbs up and others frowning at the…
By Vikas Datta Title: Crisis; Author: Frank Gardner; Publisher: Bantam Press/Penguin Random House; Pages: 460; Price: Rs 599 For decades now, the world is so fixated with the peril from Islamist terror that the earlier,…
By M.R. Narayan Swamy Title: Bhagat Singh’s ‘Jail Note Book’: Its Context and Relevance; Editors: Malwinder Jit Singh Waraich and Harish Jain; Publisher: Unistar; Pages: 378; Price: Rs 495. In prison, as he awaited execution,…
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Artists desire the freedom to tread their chosen path and to show to the world a part of their souls. A group art show titled “Freedom of Thought” in the…
By Ankit Sinha India’s musical landscape is currently witnessing an overwhelming change and there is no doubt that independent artistes across genres are collectively pushing the limits with bohemian ideas. But the seriousness of this…
By Ankit Sinha India’s musical landscape is currently witnessing an overwhelming change and there is no doubt that independent artistes across genres are collectively pushing the limits with bohemian ideas. But the seriousness of this…
Kharagpur, July 31 (IANS) The Intellectual Property Rights cell of IIT Kharagpur has taken up an initiative to facilitate the process of filing of potential Geographical indications for “Goyna Bori” – the fine art of…
Shimla, July 31 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh government has catalogued over one lakh manuscripts as part of the National Manuscript Mission Yojna which aims to preserve old languages and dialects, an official said on Sunday….
By Vikas Datta Title: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Parts One and Two; Authors: J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, Jack Thorne; Publisher: Little, Brown/Hachette India; Pages: 348; Price: Rs 899 “The scar had not…
Gangtok, July 31 (IANS) The Khangchendzonga National Park in Sikkim, home to dozens of lofty mountain peaks, 18 glaciers, lakes, waterfalls and some unique flora and fauna, has been named India’s first “Mixed World Heritage…
Mumbai, July 31 (IANS) Spiritual Guru Radhanath Swami’s new book, “The Journey Within: Exploring the Path of Bhakti”, has topped the July New York Times Best-seller list within two months of its release in the…
By Vikas Datta The Caribbean, for most of us, brings to the mind a once invincible cricket team, holiday cruises, voodoo, pirate yarns, rum, reggae, Rastafarians — and these days, tax havens. But there is…
By Preetha Nair Book: Tiger: The Life of Tipu Sultan; Author: Kate Brittlebank; Publisher: Juggernaut; Pages: 188; Price: Rs 399 Contextualising the enigma of Tipu Sultan is a difficult task. His 16-year rule has been…
New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) The “heart of incredible India”, Madhya Pradesh was declared the Best State/Union Territory for Comprehensive Development of Tourism at the National Tourism Awards here on Saturday. Amarkantak was declared the…
Dhaka, July 30 (IANS) In the second such attack this month, three Baul singers were attacked in Chaudanga district of eastern Bangladesh when unidentified miscreants stormed their akhra (den), tied them up and chopped off…
Beijing, July 30 (IANS) A Chinese “living Buddha” in Tibet has raised one million yuan (about $150,668) to fund the construction of a pagoda in Bangladesh, sources said on Saturday. Drukhang Thubten Khedrup, the seventh…
Bhubaneswar, July 30 (IANS) The Central government proposes to organise a ‘Make in India’ conference in Bhubaneswar in December, an official said on Saturday. The conference would be organised by the Department of Industrial Policy…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, July 30 (IANS) Jumpstart, an annual congress of children’s content creators, a flagship project of the Frankfurt Book Fair’s South Asia node, ‘Goes To School’ in its eighth edition this…
Kolkata, July 29 (IANS) With Mahasweta Devi’s death, the world has lost a renowned writer-activist, but for the Lodhas and Sabars – two primitive tribal groups from West Bengal – they have lost their mother,…