CBSE date sheet 2025 released: Board exams for Class 10 and 12 to begin on Feb 15; check complete schedule hereThe Central Board of Secondary Education has released the board exam dates for 2025. The exams will begin on February 15 for Class 10 and F...
20 Nov, 2024, 10.34 PM IST
Sahitya Akademi announces Yuva Puraskar, Bal Sahitya Puraskar winners for 2024The Sahitya Akademi announced the winners of the prestigious Yuva Puraskar and Bal Sahitya Puraskar for 2024. A total of 23 writers, includ...
15 Jun, 2024, 03.15 PM IST
World Book Fair 2024: Here are all the details you need to knowTickets for the World Book Fair 2024 can be purchased online at the ITPO website or at 20 DMRC Metro stations. The fair, with over a thousa...
12 Feb, 2024, 05.38 PM IST
Sahitya Akademi Awards ‘23: Neelam Saran Gour’s historic novel ‘Requiem In Raga Janaki’ wins in English; a look at all recipientsThe award was presented in the shape of a casket containing an engraved copper plaque. It also included a cash prize - a lump sum of Rs 1,0...
21 Dec, 2023, 12.09 PM IST
Goan writer Damodar Mauzo gets Jnanpith AwardGoan writer Damodar Mauzo has been awarded the prestigious Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honour. Mauzo, known for his work in Ko...
28 May, 2023, 01.09 PM IST
Sahitya Akademi Award 2021: Authors Namita Gokhale, Khalid Hussain, TMC MLA Bratya Basu among 20 winnersThe awards will be presented at an event to be held later.
31 Dec, 2021, 09.48 AM IST
Veerappa Moily, Arundhathi Subramaniam, among others to receive Sahitya Akademi Award 2020While Subramaniam won the award for her poetry collection "When God is a Traveller" in English, Moily was named for his epic poetry titled ...
12 Mar, 2021, 07.11 PM IST
Shashi Tharoor, Nand Kishore Acharya to receive Sahitya Akademi Award 2019; win Rs 1 lakh cash prizeTharoor won the award for his book 'An Era of Darkness' in English.
18 Dec, 2019, 05.15 PM IST
How Indian startups gear up to take on the voice assistants of Apple, Amazon and GoogleFrom asking Siri existential questions, to ordering Alexa to give us the weather report, India’s gadget aficionados have come a long way in...
06 May, 2018, 11.09 AM IST
C-DAC launches project to digitise Sindhi languageSome of the software developed under the TDIL Programme of MeitY, Govt. of India has also been enhanced.
11 Apr, 2017, 04.46 PM IST
Sheldon Pollock offers scholarly opinion on Sanskrit - a language that the government seems keen to massifySanskrit has always been identified as central to the idea of Indianness and culture. And, the world over, the language has been appreciate...
01 May, 2016, 01.02 PM IST
L K Advani felicitated in Hong Kong by Indian diasporaSenior BJP leader L K Advani was felicitated in Hong Kong by the Indian diaspora on being conferred with Padma Vibhushan, BJP said today.
08 Jul, 2015, 10.57 PM IST
Government announces measures to promote Sindhi languageThe decisions were taken in the first meeting of the newly reconstituted Governing Council of National Council for Promotion of Sindhi Lang...
18 Feb, 2015, 08.13 PM IST
Rohan Murty Classical Library of India launches with five booksSet up by Harvard University Press with the help of a personal endowment by Murty, the library aims to publish as many as 500 books over th...
15 Jan, 2015, 06.24 PM IST
Why Gujarat has become politically monochrome is a mysteryPlurality flourished in post-colonial politics even if it fell short numerically of requisite critical mass, under the Westminster model of...
01 Jun, 2014, 10.53 AM IST
Poke Me: Why India is now a hedgehog nationWe are offended by anything; and by its opposite, too.
30 Jan, 2013, 07.18 PM IST
- Jaswant's episode shows who was the decisive political leader
Modi banned Jaswant Singh's book saying it hurts sentiments of Gujarat. It was a decisive hijacking of Patel, which also showed who was dec...
10 Sep, 2009, 01.38 AM IST