New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Sunday opened an exhibition here on how Parsi traders used gains from trade with China to lay the foundation of Mumbai as India’s financial…
By Vikas Datta Among the divisions in our already fractured world, one is between those who derive recreation from the printed word and those who like it on the screen. The two are not exclusive…
Singapore, March 19 (IANS) The Singapore ArtScience Museum on Saturday unveiled a new exhibit that merges cutting edge technology with artistic design and creativity in 15 larger-than-life installations mimicking ecosystems, cities and space. “Art is…
Tokyo, March 18 (IANS) Barcelona-born artist Antoni Muntadas takes a peek into the intense and conflict-ridden relations between Japan, South Korea and China with Asian Protocols, his exhibition that opens on Saturday in Tokyo aiming…
By Arvind Padmanabhan Title: “A Dog Eat Dog World”; Author: C. Suresh; Publisher: Fablery Publications; Pages: 85; Price: Rs.150. For a chemical engineer who has spent a good part of the professional life as an…
Embark on a new vision for India-Indonesia relations in the 2015-2025 decade, a boy’s plight to fulfil his father’s last wish, a girl’s journey from being a tomboy to a reluctant woman in progress; a…
By Kishori Sud Title: “In The Shadows of Death: A Detective Agni Mitra Thriller”; Author: Sourabh Mukherjee; Publisher: Srishti Publishers and Distributors; Pages: 217; Price: Rs.195. Set in the city of Kolkata, “In The Shadows…
By Vikas Datta Title: Hitler’s First Victims – And One Man’s Race for Justice; Author: Timothy W. Ryback; Publisher: Vintage/Random House Penguin; Pages: 288; Price: Rs.499 Four men, deemed the regime’s adversaries and held in…
Cairo, March 17 (IANS/AKI) Scans of King Tutankhamen’s tomb have almost certainly shown two rooms hidden behind the pharaoh’s burial chamber, Egyptian Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damati said on Thursday. “We can say more than 90…
Kolkata: Pakistani ghazal singer Ustad Ghulam Ali arrives at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata, on Jan 11, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Ahmedabad, March 17 (IANS) Pakistani ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali will be presented…
London, March 17 (IANS/RAY) The northeastern region of India entered London’s cultural scene this week, with an exotic exhibition of organic textiles and trendy made-for-the-west designs, as well as lively music and dance from the…
By Nirendra Dev New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) Even as the post-retirement stand taken by former bureaucrats in the Ishrat Jahan case has re-exposed the chink in the politicians-babus nexus, a new book by Jammu…
New Delhi/Bhubaneswar, March 16 (IANS) Union Tourism and Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma and Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday held a review meeting over the restoration and repair of the Jagamohan (porch) of the Jagannath…
Kolkata, March 16 (IANS) Veteran shehnai exponent Ustad Ali Ahmad Hussain Khan, who had rendered Doordarshan’s signature tune, died here on Wednesday, family sources said. He was 77. Suffering from kidney-related problems, he was hospitalised…
New Delhi: Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravishankar, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, Union Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs, and Information and Broadcasting Arun Jaitley, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Union Minister for…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) The process for online application for this year’s Kailash Manasarovar Yatra has begun, the ministry of external affairs announced on Wednesday. The ministry said applicants should access the website http://kmy.gov.in…
Tehran, March 16 (IANS) At least three people were killed and hundreds injured in Chaharshanbeh Suri (fire festival) in Iran, an official said on Wednesday. The dead were from Tehran, Qazvin and Rasht cities, Xinhua…
London, March 16 (IANS) Historians have uncovered secrets of England’s first printed Bible — one of only seven surviving copies and which is housed in London’s Lambeth Palace Library, a media report said. The discovery…
By Vikas Datta Title: Mohammed Rafi – Golden Voice of the Silver Screen; Author: Sujata Dev; Publisher: Om Books International; Pages: 238; Price: Rs.595 Statistics tells us he sang 4,425 Hindi film songs but the…
Kolkata, March 16 (IANS) Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan and Pakistan’s classical singer Shafaqat Amanat Ali will render the national anthems of the two countries before the start of the India-Pakistan World Twenty20 clash at the…