Continuity in treatment and the help offered by NGO-run homes for free stay during medication of children fighting cancer are the focus of a documentary film made by a cancer survivor here to spread awareness. Kapil Chawla, who successfully fought off cancer a few years ago, has filmed the facilities at a Kolkata-based free-stay home […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday presented Uzbek President Islam Karimov a specially commissioned reproduction of the “Khamsa-i-Khusrau” quintet by the great 13th century Sufi poet Amir Khusrau. Khusrau was born in Uttar Pradesh but his father hailed from Uzbekistan. Written in Persian, and profusely decorated and illuminated with various colours including gold and ultramarine, […]
Munawar Ali Hussainy, a 17-year-old poet from Jammu and Kashmir, has been named ‘Poet of the Year’ for 2014 by the National Urdu Cultural Academy here. Speaking to IANS over phone, Hussainy – who was awarded for his poem “Zulm Ka Mara” – said the academy every year invites five poems from a poet to […]
It was her parents’ love for sitar exponent Pandit Ravi Shankar that introduced Paola Carraro to Indian art and music far away in Brazil. Carraro, who started learning sitar from Ravi Shankar’s disciple Alberto Marsicano, says India was the biggest inspiration in her life and Indian culture continues to fascinate her. “Indian music has always […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that Indian movies, language and music were extremely popular in Uzbekistan. “Indian movies, language and music are very popular in Uzbekistan. In 2012, Uzbek radio completed 50 years of Hindi broadcasting,” he said in a tweet. Modi arrived here on July 6 on the first leg of his […]
By denying life-saving drugs in jail, the Maharashtra government tried to kill him, alleged G.N. Saibaba, a Delhi University English professor who has just been released on three-month’s bail from Nagpur jail. In a two-hour long conversation with IANS at his official residence in Delhi University campus, a wheel-chair bound Saibaba said that despite being […]
About 86 million more rural Indians have been counted as illiterate than the 2011 census data found. This is revealed by the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC), which counted 315.7 million Indians in rural areas as illiterate in 2011, the same year as the census and the highest number of illiterates of any country in the world. Put […]
The AAP government has decided to install jammers to prevent cheating with the help of high-tech electronic gadgets in examinations held for Delhi government jobs. The growing use of electronic devices in written tests has the city government worried over the possibility of incompetent candidates entering the government. “After successfully using the jammers in a […]
A policeman’s lot is not a happy one, as the old song goes. Who know this better than South Asia’s policemen, who saw criminals strike alliances with politicians to become their masters, terrorists become another implacable enemy and jealous colleagues turn out to be most lethal. This makes for a complicated life of compromised principles, […]
Top police officers who undertook rare deterrent action against the killings on the streets of Delhi following the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984 ran into a wall of disapproval from the police leadership, according to a new book. Some of the most dramatic police action came from additional deputy […]