New Delhi: A series of sneak peeps into new books by top Indian writers will be the cornerstone of a festival of literature, "Spring Fever", to be held March 16-24 at the India Habitat Centre. An annual feature of Penguin-Books India, the festival will preview several new titles by authors like Vikram Seth, Gurcharan Das, Shobhaa De, Gulzar, Shashi Tharoor, Amit Chaudhuri and Devdutt Patnaik, who will discuss their books...
03:36 PM, Mar 12, 2012
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12:34 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: Love and grief, motherhood, redemption and her hometown Nainital... Writer and novelist Namita Gokhale runs her readers through a roller-coaster of emotions in her first ever collection of short stories, 'The Habit of Love', peeling the skin off feminine dramas across centuries in a contemporary voice. "The stories speak of a woman's need to love, rather than the objects of love. Women love passionately, deeply, often angrily. Real...
05:39 PM, Jan 11, 2012
A new study finds eating the right food can override a natural risk someone may carry for heart attack. ...
04:39 PM, Oct 15, 2011
London: Experts will help men and women harness their animal magnestism, drawing on research into different flirting techniques worldwide, under an initiative of London's Natural History Museum. The experts rely on lessons from the animal kingdom to show how to impress potential mates with the right kind of signals. Many people find the subtle cues and unwritten rules of flirting difficult to follow, even though it is a basic human...
12:29 PM, Sep 20, 2011
Washington: Parents who try to keep track of their kid's online activities seem to be just wasting their time. "If you feel that you have to use some sort of computer programme to surreptitiously monitor your child's social networking, you are wasting your time. Your child will find a workaround in a matter of minutes," said Larry D. Rosen, who led the study. "Communication is the crux of parenting. You...
07:20 PM, Aug 07, 2011
Actor Vikram has become the youth envoy for United Nations programme UN Habitat. ...
07:46 PM, Apr 30, 2011
New Delhi: Literature and spring will blend to form a creative cocktail at the 10-day Spring Fever, an annual literary festival, here March 4-13 at the India Habitat Centre. The festival, presented by publishing giant Penguin India, will feature writers like Vishal Bharadwaj, Ruskin Bond, Javed Akhtar, William Dalrymple, Shobhaa De and Gurcharan Das who will read out from their books and discuss the emerging trends in literary arts. Inaugurated...
07:15 PM, Mar 02, 2011
Washington: An orbiting NASA telescope is finding whole new worlds of possibilities in the search for alien life, spotting more than 50 potential planets that appear to be in the habitable zone. In just a year of peering out at a small slice of the galaxy, the Kepler telescope has discovered 1,235 possible planets outside our solar system. Amazingly 54 of them are seemingly in the zone that could be...
02:00 PM, Feb 03, 2011
Washington: US President Barack Obama is working very hard on his smoking habits and has not been seen smoking in probably nine months, a White House spokesman said on Friday. "I've not seen or witnessed evidence of any smoking in probably nine months," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said at his daily news briefing. "This is not something that he's proud of. He knows that it's not good for...
11:06 AM, Dec 10, 2010
London: Many smokers reach for a cigarette to ease their anxiety during stressful periods. But US researchers have found that quitting smoking makes people happier, and the effect lasts for as long as they manage to kick the habit. The team from Brown University and the University of Southern California said it showed quitting is not, as many smokers fear, a psychological sacrifice made for the sake of their physical...
04:17 PM, Dec 06, 2010
New York: Night owls may be more likely than early birds to smoke, and less likely to kick the habit over time, a new study suggests. Researchers found that among more than 23,000 twin pairs followed for up to 30 years, those who described themselves as "evening types" -- usually alert at night and bleary-eyed in the morning -- were more likely to be current smokers and less likely to...
12:25 PM, Oct 29, 2010
Almost the entire adult population of Scotland are likely to be either cigarette smokers, heavy drinkers. ...
12:18 PM, Jun 11, 2010
The actor will support the children who once fought in the ranks of LTTE ...
03:33 PM, May 13, 2010
Young people immersed in food culture today are as likely to praise a fish taco from a food truck. ...
08:54 AM, May 12, 2010
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