Bhikhari Thakur’s Bhojpuri legacy goes international
July 1st, 2012 - 12:14 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 1 (IANS) He might have been forgotten in his homeland, but poet, writer and doyen of Bhojpuri theatre Bhikhari Thakur's ballads and folk songs are garnering huge ... Read more...
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Ghazal maestro Mehdi Hassan is dead (Second Lead)
June 13th, 2012 - 4:08 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, June 13 (IANS) Mehdi Hassan, the legendary Pakistani ghazal maestro born in India, passed away at a Karachi hospital Wednesday after a prolonged illness. He was 84.His son Arif ... Read more...
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MS Swaminathan award to be presented in Hyderabad
May 18th, 2012 - 7:23 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, May 18 (IANS) The Retired Indian Council for Agricultural Research Employees Association and Nuziveedu Seeds Pvt. ltd. (NSPL) will jointly present the MS Swaminathan award to the leading Indian ... Read more...
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Assam to pay rich tributes to Bhupen Hazarika
April 13th, 2012 - 6:49 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, April 13 (IANS) Assam will pay rich tributes to legendary singer and music maestro Bhupen Hazarika on the occasion of Rongali Bihu festival.Most of the Bihutolis (fields where ... Read more...
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Collection of classical Indian, Asian art creates record
March 21st, 2012 - 5:23 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) The Doris Wiener Collection, a collection of Indian classical and South East Asian art auctioned by Christie's in New York, has raised nearly $12.8 million ... Read more...
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Friends, fans mourn death of ‘revolutionary’ Dubey
December 25th, 2011 - 5:09 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) A controversial figure, one of the founders of contemporary Indian theatre, vibrant, extremely talented, revolutionary in his approach -- that's how friends and fans remembered ... Read more...
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Fahimuddin Dagar, golden voice of Dhrupad, falls silent
July 29th, 2011 - 12:58 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) A golden voice of Indian classical music has fallen silent with the death of Ustad Rahim Fahimudddin Dagar, a doyen of the Dhrupad school who ... Read more...
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Doyen of Indian Bridge Robi Roy passes away
June 14th, 2011 - 9:25 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, June 14 (IANS) One of the all time Indian greats in bridge, Robi Roy passed away after protracted illness at his residence in the northern suburb of the city ... Read more...
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Reality theatre sweeps Mahindra excellence awards
March 9th, 2011 - 2:13 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) An 80-minute reality play in English, "The Interview", directed by Akarsh Khurana, swept the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre awards at a glittering awards ceremony in ... Read more...
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Karnataka institutes award in memory of Bhimsen Joshi
February 25th, 2011 - 7:07 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, Feb 25 (IANS) The Karnataka government Friday instituted an annual award in the memory of Bhimsen Joshi, doyen of classical music who passed away last month.Named Bhimsen Joshi Sangeet Ratna, the ... Read more...
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Strategic guru K Subrahmanyam cremated with full honours
February 4th, 2011 - 4:54 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Feb 4 (ANI): K Subrahmanyam, the doyen of the strategic affairs community in India, a distinguished former civil servant and a prolific writer, was cremated with full honours at the ... Read more...
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Strategic guru K.Subrahmanyam is dead (Second Lead)
February 2nd, 2011 - 6:40 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) K. Subrahmanyam, the pre-eminent security and foreign policy thinker who played a key role in shaping government and public thinking on key issues and helped ... Read more...
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Subrahmanyam was key architect of India’s security doctrine: Ansari
February 2nd, 2011 - 5:39 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari Wednesday condoled the death of K.Subrahmanyam, the doyen of strategic affairs in India, and described him as one of the key architects of ... Read more...
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Walking through history in bylanes of Agra (Letter from Agra)
January 28th, 2011 - 12:42 pm ICT by IANS
By Brij Khandelwal
Agra, Jan 28 (IANS) On an exceptionally cold January morning, when people were struggling to venture out of their cosy comforts, five of us braved the chill and experimented with ... Read more...
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Gandhi family had special regard for Bhimsen Joshi: Sonia
January 25th, 2011 - 12:45 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi Monday expressed her heartfelt condolences on the passing away of Pandit Bhimsen Joshi and said the Gandhi family always had a very ... Read more...
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Karnataka town mourns loss of its famous son
January 24th, 2011 - 7:39 pm ICT by IANS
Gadag (Karnataka) Jan 24 (IANS) People of this north Karnataka town, where Pandit Bhimsen Joshi was born, were in mourning Monday, having lost their famous son who ran away from home at ... Read more...
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Band Baaja Baaraat: Is The Movie Funded By Ranveer Singh’s Father Or YRF?
November 3rd, 2010 - 2:36 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
November 3, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): BBB as we would abbreviate it is a new movie from the house of Yash Raj Films. It looks like a debutants movie as it is ... Read more...
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‘Band Baaja Baaraat’ not funded by debutant’s father: YRF
November 1st, 2010 - 9:55 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) Yash Raj Films' (YRF) upcoming project "Band Baaja Baaraat" has not been funded by debutant Ranveer Singh's businessman father, says the spokesperson of the production house."'Band Baaja ... Read more...
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Dadasaheb Phalke Winner D Ramanaidu Speaks To Subhash K Jha
September 15th, 2010 - 7:43 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
September 15, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): The first things that strike you about the 75-year old doyen of Telugu cinema D Ramanaidu, who gave Hindi cinema blockbusters like Premnagar, Tohfa and Maqsad, ... Read more...
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I’m the first Telugu filmmaker to win Phalke award in 20 years: Ramanaidu
September 15th, 2010 - 3:12 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Sep 15 (IANS) D. Ramanaidu, who has produced over 130 films in 12 languages, is quite thrilled at having won the Dadasaheb Phalke award, the highest honour in Indian cinema. But ... Read more...
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Vice President Ansari condoles death of K M Mathew
August 2nd, 2010 - 8:04 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Aug 2 (ANI): Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari has condoled the death of Malayala Manorama Chief Editor K M Mathew, who breathed his last at his residence in Kottayam on ... Read more...
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Doyen of Kerala’s media industry K.M. Mathew dies
August 1st, 2010 - 10:31 am ICT by IANS
Kottayam (Kerala), Aug 1 (IANS) Chief editor of Malayala Manorama K.M. Mathew died early Sunday at his residence here in Kerala. He was 93.
Mathew is survived by three sons and a daughter.An ... Read more...
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How human laughter is different from that of apes
July 21st, 2010 - 1:27 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 21 (ANI): Scientists have unveiled how human laughter is different from that of apes.Human laughter, as we know, is unique and different than other animals-this is down to our unique ... Read more...
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Kolkata pays last tribute to theatre doyen Kumar Roy
March 1st, 2010 - 7:22 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 1 (IANS) The members of Kolkata's cultural fraternity Monday paid their last tribute to noted theatre personality Kumar Roy, the pioneer of the Bengali theatre movement for decades, who died ... Read more...
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Fourth PHD-GPI bridge tournament inaugurated in Delhi
January 22nd, 2010 - 5:06 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Jan.22 (ANI): The three-day PHD-GPI Bridge Tournament was inaugurated today by Ashok Kajaria, President, PHD Chamber.He welcomed players from all over the country.More than 100 pairs of bridge players ... Read more...
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Basu ‘one of the tallest leaders’ in Indian politics, says BJP (Lead)
January 17th, 2010 - 7:25 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the staunchest anti-Communist force in the country, Sunday mourned the death of Marxist stalwart Jyoti Basu, describing him as "one of ... Read more...
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V. Shantaram’s Race Awards for excellence
December 26th, 2009 - 5:10 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
By Jyothi VenkateshKiran Shantaram, the son of the late doyen among filmmakers- V. Shantaram who had founded the "Race Awards' seventeen years ago in memory of his father said that though ... Read more...
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Thousands throng to Palin as she begins book tour
November 19th, 2009 - 8:02 am ICT by IANS
Los Angeles, Nov 19 (DPA) Thousands of Sarah Palin fans thronged to the opening of her book tour as the former Republican vice presidential candidate embarked on a campaign that appeared ... Read more...
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Palin hints at presidential ambitions as memoir goes on sale
November 18th, 2009 - 4:28 am ICT by IANS
Los Angeles, Nov 18 (DPA) Sarah Palin's widely touted memoir, "Going Rogue", went on sale Tuesday as the former Republican vice-presidential candidate gave her clearest hint yet that she may take ... Read more...
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M.K.Naryanan dismisses Santhanam’s Pokhran-II ‘failure’ remark
September 20th, 2009 - 11:08 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Sep.20 (ANI): National Security Adviser M. K. Narayanan on Sunday described the former DRDO scientist K Santhanam's claim on Pokhran-II nuclear tests as "unfortunate" and asserted that India has thermonuclear ... Read more...
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President Patil condoles death of vocalist Gangubai Hangal
July 21st, 2009 - 10:14 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, July 21(ANI): President Pratibha Patil on Tuesday expressed her sorrow and grief over the death of renowned Hindustani classical vocalist Gangubai Hangal.She breathed her last on Tuesday morning following ... Read more...
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Cultural fraternity mourns death of Gangubai Hangal
July 21st, 2009 - 3:37 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, July 21 (IANS) A pall of gloom descended over the cultural fraternity in Karnataka on the news of the death of legendary Hindustani classical singer Gangubai Hangal Tuesday.
The 96-year-old legend ... Read more...
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Veteran Marathi actor Nilu Phule dead
July 14th, 2009 - 12:50 am ICT by IANS
Pune, July, 13 (IANS) Veteran Marathi stage and film actor Nilu Phule died here Monday after a long battle with cancer. He was 79.
Phule had been admitted to a hospital for ... Read more...
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Movie mogul Nagi Reddy’s memoirs coming soon
April 5th, 2009 - 2:29 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, April 5 (IANS) The memoirs of the celebrated late doyen of south Indian film industry and Dadasaheb Phalke award-winner B. Nagi Reddy will be released soon in Telugu.
"My late father is ... Read more...
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Gremlin like primate lost since 85 years discovered in Indonesia
November 19th, 2008 - 2:02 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 19 (ANI): A long lost group of primates not seen alive in 85 years has now been discovered by a research led by a Texas A&M University anthropologist.Called pygmy ... Read more...
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