In a message to Taliban, Tajikistan honours Ahmed Shah MassoudTajikistan, strategically placed in Central Asia, on Thursday awarded its highest distinction to former Afghan defence minister Massoud and...
04 Sep, 2021, 06.48 AM IST
Afghan Defence Minister urges Interpol to arrest Ashraf Ghani for treason"Those trading and selling out their motherland should be punished and arrested," Mohammadi wrote on Twitter, adding hashtag #InterpolArres...
18 Aug, 2021, 06.25 PM IST
Special metro train to spread message of patriotism for next two monthsUnion Minister of State for External Affairs General V K Singh paid tributes to the freedom fighters and martyrs by writing a message on th...
13 Aug, 2018, 03.13 PM IST
Prominent theatre personality Sukracharya Rabha passes away at 41 after cardiac arrestRabha's annual open air theatre festival, 'Under the Sal Theatre', brought people from across the country to remote his village in Goalpara...
09 Jun, 2018, 12.17 PM IST
Shiv Sena shuts 500 meat shops in old GurgaonThe Sena workers assembled at Palam Vihar yesterday and forced the closure of meat market and dhabas such as Bismillah Khan eatery in other...
29 Mar, 2017, 12.50 PM IST
Five of Ustad Bismillah Khan's shehnais stolen from his son Kazim Hussain's homeThe Bharat Ratna awardee's family has been demanding for a museum to preserve his memorabilia since his death in 2006.
05 Dec, 2016, 12.47 PM IST
Narendra Modi government adds Ustad Bismillah Khan, Biju Patnaik to non-Nehru-Gandhi pantheonIt enhances the political process to de-emphasise Congress's first family by celebrating personalities from culture, politics and history w...
22 May, 2016, 11.24 AM IST
Shehnai exponent Ustad Ali Ahmad Hussain Khan diesSuffering from kidney related problems, he was hospitalised for the past few days and breathed his last this morning, family members said.
16 Mar, 2016, 04.14 PM IST
Feel scared over political atmosphere: Bismillah Khan's son"We don't want to get involved in politics, for us all are the same. Sometimes I feel scared, though, the way political atmosphere is build...
12 May, 2014, 03.59 PM IST
Lok Sabha elections 2014: Congress goes all out to woo Muslim votersA group of Congress leaders from the Centre and UP were asked to reach out to influential leaders and families of the Muslim community in V...
12 May, 2014, 05.08 AM IST
Varanasi: Bismillah Khan's kin at Rahul Gandhi's roadshow, say nothing politicalA number of Khan's relatives welcomed Gandhi by playing shehnai at Beniabagh area of Varanasi, seen as some kind of support to Congress.
10 May, 2014, 04.36 PM IST
Ustad Bismillah Khan's family refuses to be Narendra Modi's proposerAffaq Haider said he and his father never refuse any invitation for a cultural programme for any political party including BJP but won't le...
21 Apr, 2014, 02.18 PM IST
Varanasi seat winner should build Bismillah's mausoleum: FamilyBismillah's family, however, rued that political parties remember the Bharat Ratna recipient only during elections but forget all the promi...
25 Mar, 2014, 03.00 PM IST
Suddenly, political parties discover Ustad Bismillah KhanA group of BJP workers and Narendra Modi supporters went to Khan's grave at Fatman to pay tributes on his 101st birth anniversary.
22 Mar, 2014, 11.10 AM IST
Family still waiting for Bismillah Khan's mausoleumThe promise to make a mausoleum and monument in the Shehnai player Bharat Ratna Bismillah Khan's memory remains unfulfilled.
26 Aug, 2013, 05.32 PM IST
- Lok Sabha okays amendments to copyright law
A bill seeking to uphold the rights of lyricists, artistes and performers to claim royalty for their creations got Parliament's nod on Tues...
23 May, 2012, 03.17 AM IST
- Bismillah Khan dead
Shehnai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan died of cardiac arrest in the wee hours on Monday.
21 Aug, 2006, 08.50 AM IST