Mumbai, Oct 11 (IANS) Film maker Anubhav Sinha and Bhushan Kumar came together to pay a tribute to ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh on his death anniversary on Monday and also to celebrate the success of…
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma on Monday said that the government will commemorate the birth centenary of social activist and former RSS leader Nanaji Deshmukh from October 11 (Tuesday), 2016…
Mumbai, Oct 10 (IANS) A Mumbai square was named after the legendary ghazal singer and composer, the late Jagjit Singh, on the occasion of his fifth death anniversary here on Monday, an official said. The…
Kolkata, Oct 10 (IANS) Reflecting the festival spirit of sharing and bonding, people from all walks of life including celebrities relished community feasts at marquees and visited friends and relatives on Monday celebrating Mahanavami –…
Mysuru (Karnataka), Oct 10 (IANS) Marking the 10th day of the famous Dasara fest, Mysuru’s titular Maharaja Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wodiyar on Monday worshipped the vintage arms and treasures of the royal family amid chanting…
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) India’s sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan will be a part of Vision concerts being held in Mumbai and Delhi to mark the start of a new phase in the global…
Stockholm, Oct 10 (IANS) Two economists were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences 2016 “for their contributions to contract theory”, the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences announced on Monday. “The new theoretical tools…
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) You understand Punjabi perfectly well, but cannot read Gurmukhi, or are fluent in Bengali but cannot read Bangla, and ditto for English. Well, despair not. An app is here to…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) Shaken by the killing of Dalit midwife Bhanwari Devi in Rajasthan four years ago, filmmaker-author Vinod Pande, best known for the seminal “Ek Baar Phir”, said lack…
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday greeted the nation on the eve of Dussehra, urging citizen to follow the path of moral and ethical rectitude. “On the joyous occasion of Dussehra,…
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Kolkata, Oct 9 (IANS) The Durga puja spirit peaked on Sunday in West Bengal as devotees from across the country and abroad converged at the Belur Math for Kumari Puja (worship of a pre-pubertine girl)…
By Subhash K. Jha Mumbai, Oct 9 (IANS) India’s sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan and his two sons Amaan and Ayaan performed live with musicians from across the world for the Chant4Change peace concert at…
By Vikas Datta A small band of prominent people, including women and children, refusing allegiance to the ruler, were forcibly confined on a dusty plain for over a week, refused access to water, and eventually…
Lucknow, Oct 9 (IANS) Security has been heightened at Taj Mahal, many other important places, tourist spots and government installations across Uttar Pradesh following an Intelligence Bureau (IB) alert of a potential threat by terrorists,…
Hyderabad, Oct 8 (IANS) ‘Maha Bathukamma’, the floral festival of Telangana, made it to the Guinness World Records with over 9,000 women participating in festivities here on Saturday. At the grand event held at L.B….
Beijing, Oct 8 (IANS) A 500-year-old archway on the Great Wall has been reduced to rubble in China’s Shanxi province after a strong gale hit earlier this week, a media report said. The archway was…
New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) To pay homage to renowned Kathak dancer Shovana Narayan, her disciples are all set to present selected pieces of the danseuse’s repertoire along with pure dance pieces in traditional Kathak…
Kolkata, Oct 8 (IANS) After a scintillating start, the Durga Puja spirit soared on Saturday which marked Maha Saptami — day two of the Puja — as thousands of revellers decked up in their best…
New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) The cases of acid attacks is an issue which should be addressed by the Home Ministry and not Women and Child Development, minister Maneka Gandhi said. She was speaking here…