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…
Mumbai: Lyricist Javed Akhtar during the special celebrity screening of film Guddu Rangeela in Mumbai on July 2, 2015. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) Well known poet and writer Javed Akhtar on Tuesday…
By Vikas Datta Title: The House at Baker Street; Author: Michelle Birkby; Publisher: Pan Macmillan; Pages: 352; Price: Rs.399 In most of his career, Sherlock Holmes always made light of women – despite the story…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The National Remote Sensing Centre of ISRO has signed an agreement with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for preparing satellite-based maps to help check unauthorised construction around over 3,000…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The government has not received any proposal to open a Madame Tussauds wax museum here, Culture and Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma said on Monday. In a written reply to the…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The government does not intend to constitute national heritage sites commission, parliament was told on Monday. Culture and Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma told the Lok Sabha in a written reply,…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Pakistan former ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani will not attend ‘Spring Fever’, touted as one of Delhi’s oldest literary and cultural festival, which begins on Tuesday, said organisers. Citing…
Bhubaneswar, March 14 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday urged the central government to direct the ASI to send its best experts for repairing the hall facing the sanctum sanctorum of Shri Jagannath…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The Art of Living (AoL), headed by spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, on Monday, said it was committed to setting up a bio-diversity park at the Yamuna floodplain. “We…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) As the embattled Sahara chief Subrata Roy completes two years in prison, there is something he can cheer about. Roys book “Life Mantras”, which hit the stands last month, has…
By M.R. Narayan Swamy Title: Applied Spirituality; Author: Swami Agnivesh; Publisher: Harper Element; Pages: 156; Price: Rs.350 In this small yet punchy book, Swami Agnivesh unveils all that has gone wrong with organised religions. Agnivesh,…
By Vikas Datta Title: The Morning They Came for Us – Dispatches from Syria; Author: Janine Di Giovanni; Publisher: Bloomsbury ; Pages: 224; Price: Rs.399 The worst wars are where a regime turns on its…
New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) Questioning the intentions of environmentalists who opposed the World Culture Festival, union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma said the criticism was the craving of “some people’s negative thinking”. “How could an…
New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) BJP leaders on Sunday slammed critics of the Art of Living’s World Culture Festival celebrated on the banks of the Yamuna river here, saying attempts were made to stop the…