IIT-Madras introduces Cultural Excellence admission initiativeIIT Madras introduces FACE admissions for students excelling in fine arts. Two extra seats per program are reserved. One seat is gender-neu...
17 Dec, 2024, 01.01 PM IST
10,000 women set world record for largest Kashmiri folk danceIn Baramulla, Kashmir, 10,000 young women set a world record by performing the largest Kashmiri folk dance Rouf at the Kashur Riwaaj festiv...
13 Aug, 2024, 05.39 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
Raja Ravi Varma's portrait of his granddaughter to be displayed at Bengaluru exhibitionThe portrait features a three-year-old toddler staring defiantly back at the artist, her grandfather, as if aware of what life has in store...
29 Apr, 2024, 08.43 PM IST
Congress move to give half of party positions to those below 50 has started from Chhattisgarh, says Chief Minister Bhupesh BaghelCongress has started implementing the decision to give half of all party positions to those under 50 years of age, with the appointment of ...
13 Jul, 2023, 03.49 PM IST
Jaipur Literature Festival's 16th edition to return on January 19; Nobel, Booker winners to take partThe fest is expected to see participation by over 250 authors, politicians & pop-culture icons.
04 Oct, 2022, 12.18 PM IST
Indian citizen Kaushik Barua conferred with Royal Order in CambodiaBarua has been awarded the national medal by the Cambodian government under the Royal Order of Sahametrei, conferred primarily on foreigner...
24 Feb, 2021, 03.37 PM IST
Lockdown: Lecturer turns farm labourer to support familyNavnath Gore (32), a resident of Nigdi, a small village in Jat tehsil of Sangli district, received the Sahitya Akademi's Yuva Puraskar for ...
25 Sep, 2020, 02.20 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
Sattriya will always be a concert art form: Dr Indira PP BoraSangeet Natak Akademi winner Indira PP Bora talks about the Sattriya dance and how it is deeply rooted in the satras of Majuli.
03 Sep, 2017, 12.01 AM IST
Reliving a lost voice: Singer Gauhar Jaan returns to enthrall BengaluruGauhar Jaan was the first Indian voice to be recorded on the gramophone back in 1902. She cut close to 600 records in 20 languages.
17 Mar, 2016, 11.09 AM IST
Some Sahitya Yuva Puraskar awardees 'condemn' intoleranceBadiger is among the writers from 23 languages who were conferred the Yuva Puraskar in a ceremony here on November 18.
19 Nov, 2015, 05.05 PM IST
Writers must respect their awards: Sahitya Akademi PresidentPost the 'award-wapsi' campaign across the country during which a slew of writers returned their Sahitya Akademi awards to protest against ...
18 Nov, 2015, 09.40 PM IST
Rome-based Indian author's fiction on social media obsessionsThe new novel covers two weeks in the life of an Indian consultant working in Rome and has been published in hardcover by Fourth Estate, th...
03 May, 2015, 12.19 PM IST