President Pranab Mukherjee confers Padma Awards to 44 personsThe focus of this year's Padma awards, according to the officials in the Home Ministry, was on recognising talent of unknown and unsung her...
13 Apr, 2017, 05.54 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
Amjad Ali Khan awarded the 'Swati Puraskar' by Kerala governmentSarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan has been conferred with Kerala Goverment's prestigious music award, for his outstanding contribution to ...
09 Sep, 2015, 04.53 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
Rahul Gandhi hits back at Narendra Modi with last-day rally in VaranasiRahul's payback roadshow came as campaign frenzy gripped Varanasi, which will go to polls on May 12, reaches the last lap of the nine-phase...
10 May, 2014, 02.16 PM IST
Muslim electorate in Varanasi vexed at false promises by politiciansThe resting place of Ustad Bismillah Khan has been converted into an instrument of symbolic reaching out to Varanasi’s Muslim population.
02 May, 2014, 06.12 AM 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
Playing victim for psychological advantageFinally, King Khan, whose success both as an actor and a brand has been as meteoric as meteoric can get, said he is perfectly safe in the c...
31 Jan, 2013, 09.18 AM 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
- No gems in literature
Nobody seems to be disturbed by the fact that so far no Indian writer has been considered worthy of Bharat Ratna, country's highest civilia...
19 Feb, 2011, 12.45 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