After an intense, moving performance with Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur and a motley crew of 17 outrageously gifted Rajasthani folk musicians at the...
Shye Ben Tzur, the Israeli composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist, was on stage fronting a 19-piece band that included dhols, the hartal, the sarangi and...
Heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, pancreas, tissues including the cornea, skin, heart valves, bones, tendons. It takes all of five minutes to save a life...
B.V. Raghavulu, senior politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from Andhra Pradesh, is emerging as a strong contender to replace Prakash...
Ad hoc measures adopted in appointments to the posts of heads of several key cultural bodies have rendered the organisations directionless and adversely affected...
Former Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and his daughter Praniti tried to scuttle a pilot project for subsidised housing for the poor, in Solapur,...
The Zoo Zoo Twitterati Collective Orgasm AwardWinner: NH7/Harley Rock RidersThere was this one particular day a few months ago when there was nothing to...
"Gossip is like testosterone for women," goes a one-liner in Forbidden Fruit, a new play by Zorian Cross Productions that enjoyed a sold-out weekend...
Bangalore's experimental/post-rock four-piece Space Behind The Yellow Room overshot the time limit a bit during their set on day two of the first ever...
"The Secretary, NSCS (National Security Council Secretariat), pointing towards the heads of R&AW and Intelligence Bureau, whispered to me, 'General Malik, inki bhi to...
It's boom time for Punjabi cinema, with more than 50 films in various stages of production. Having tasted commercial success, the budgets of Punjabi...
The Bahujan Samaj Party is distancing itself from exposes targeting the business dealings of Anand Kumar, party chief Mayawati's brother. Speaking to The Sunday...
Vinay Krishna Chaturvedi, aka Tufail Chaturvedi, a jeweller by profession and an Urdu poet by passion, is using easy-to-understand metaphors and similes to mentor...
The Airports Authority of India suspended 29 officials in 2012 for offences such as misbehaviour with colleagues, theft and misappropriation of cash.According to an...
India has gifted a Dornier-228 surveillance aircraft to Seychelles. The long range maritime reconnaissance aircraft was handed over by Defence Minister A.K. Antony to...
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy's Congress government became a minority on Friday night after expelling nine of its MLAs for openly...
The timing of Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray's "peace offering" to estranged cousin Raj Thackeray is being viewed with interest. Shiv Sainiks say that...
All India Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi is keen on expanding his party beyond the old city of Hyderabad...
The rise of the Sukhbir Badal-led Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) after virtually sweeping the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC), routing the Congress-led Paramjit...
A compassionate Indian Army will post its officers in a manner that they stay motivated. The Army's Military Secretariat (MS) branch will give, wherever...
Timely and deft intervention by BJP's Yashwant Sinha helped prevent a minor incident turning into a major communal riot in his parliamentary constituency of...
Kashmir's first and only all-girl rock band, Pragaash, has decided to stop performing months after its debut. The decision was taken after they drew...
Datawind, the company which manufactured Aakash-1 and Aakash-2 tablets, plans to bid for the Aakash-3 tender, which is likely to be floated by February...
Environmentalists and experts are unhappy with the Jammu and Kashmir government's decision to lift the ban on the extraction of medicinal plants and other...
The Indian military acquired phone tapping equipment illegally, said former Army chief General V.K. Singh in an interview with The Sunday Guardian, but claimed...
Tamil Nadu coconut trader T.M. Ramalingam has sent a legal notice to the Income-Tax Department in Chennai asking them to return his international bills...
Enterprising female students at Cambridge University have discovered a novel way of helping fund their tuition fees, through "sugar daddy dating". No fewer than...
The political atmosphere has been vitiated in both Telanga and Seemandhra regions of Andhra Pradesh after the controversial remarks by AICC general secretary and...
The nation's military might was on full display at the 64th Republic Day parade at Rajpath on Saturday, with the indigenous nuclear-tipped long range...
Former BJP ideologue K.N. Govindacharya is planning to reinvent himself by founding the "Save Democracy Front", which, he hopes, will bring individuals such as,...
The Jammu and Kashmir government may revoke the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Srinagar city. Sources close to the ruling National Conference...
The Jagadish Shettar-led BJP government in Karnataka is keeping its options open, including dissolution of the state Assembly, in the wake of resignation by...
