Honoured to be part of ‘Midnight’s Children’: Ritu Kumar (With Images)
September 13th, 2012 - 6:51 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) India's ace designer Ritu Kumar, who has designed the costumes for wedding sequences in Deepa Mehta's much-in news film "Midnight's Children", has used Kashmiri influences ... Read more...
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GOPIO plans global Gadar centennial in 2013
March 15th, 2012 - 11:12 am ICT by IANS
Washington, March 15 (IANS) The Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) is organizing the Gadar Centennial Commemoration, the 100th anniversary of the Gadar Movement to liberate India from ... Read more...
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Probe S.P. Mookerjee’s death: BJP
September 25th, 2011 - 12:40 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday demanded setting up of a commission to probe the "mysterious death" of Jan Sangh founder Shyama Prasad Mookerjee ... Read more...
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Mt Everest! That’s the height of British colonialism (With Image)
June 14th, 2011 - 1:42 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, June 14 (IANS) Have you ever heard of Chomolungma or Sagarmatha? For the uninitiated, these are the Asian names of Mt Everest. An American photographer, mesmerised by the world's ... Read more...
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Hues of India: History, drama, culture valour on bookshelf (IANS Books This Week)
March 3rd, 2011 - 4:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) The bookcase sweeps back on a time machine to history to unearth old classics, sensibilities, edgy stories, slices of history and supernatural. Soak in the ... Read more...
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CWG’s scandalous mismanagement has exposed India: Pakistani daily
October 3rd, 2010 - 3:05 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Oct 3 (IANS) India has been "exposed by the scandalous mismanagement" in the preparations for the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games, a Pakistan daily said Sunday, adding that the country ... Read more...
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Anamika Veeramani Becomes The Third Consecutive Indian-American To Conquer The Spelling Bee
June 6th, 2010 - 8:12 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
June 6, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Many Indians, whether in India or overseas, have a strong relationship with the English language. It could be due to the Indian colonial association ... Read more...
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China daily warns India to avoid hegemonistic designs in neighbourhood
October 19th, 2009 - 12:53 pm ICT by ANI
Beijing, Oct.19 (ANI): An editorial in the Chinese daily -- People's Daily -- has said that powers that be in Beijing are not surprised or overtly troubled by what it terms as ... Read more...
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India’s `hegemony’ is a threat, says China daily
October 16th, 2009 - 12:19 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 15 (IANS) India's "hegemony" poses a threat to its neighbours, says a premier Chinese daily, citing India's "recent provocation on border issues with China" as proof.
In an opinion piece, ... Read more...
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Nepal gays hail Delhi High Court verdict
July 2nd, 2009 - 5:54 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, July 2 (IANS) Nepal's gay community Thursday hailed the landmark ruling by the New Delhi High Court legalising sex between consenting adult homosexuals, calling it a "liberalisation from British colonialism" ... Read more...
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Gandhi’s Swadeshi movement still motivates Indians to rebel against foreign brands
June 16th, 2009 - 1:27 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 16 (ANI): Mahatma Gandhi's Swadeshi movement still motivates people to rebel against global brands in India, according to a Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta researcher.Rohit Varman came to this conclusion ... Read more...
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End second-class treatment of Tamils, Sri Lanka urged
January 28th, 2009 - 10:37 am ICT by IANS
Toronto, Jan 28 (IANS) If Sri Lanka's Sinhalese majority doesn't accommodate the aspirations of Tamils, the LTTE-led insurgency could stage a comeback, warns a Canadian daily.In an editorial Tuesday, the respected Globe ... Read more...
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Historian claims Pak history a creation of successive establishments
July 9th, 2008 - 3:41 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad , July 9 (ANI): An eminent Pakistani historian has reportedly said that Pakistan history had been dictated by successive ruling establishments, and hence it represented their willful perversion of facts.He ... Read more...
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