Indian theatre has an unbroken history of over two thousand years. Almost contemporaneous with Aristotle's poetics, ancient India produced an encyclopaedic manual on theatre called ...
06:24 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: Arpit Agarwal, a student of Faridabad's Modern Vidya Niketan School, reportedly topped IIT-JEE 2012 with a score of 385 out of 408. The second position was grabbed by Bijoy Kochar from Chandigarh, followed by Nishant Kaushik from Bhilai at the third position. According to JEE Chairman GD Reddy a total of 24,112 have secured ranks in various categories and 19,426 have been shortlisted for counselling for admission to...
11:51 AM, May 18, 2012
In spite of having an uninterrupted history of 200 years, Indian literatures, written in 22 officially recognized major languages, countless tribal languages and in foreign ...
01:58 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Artworks from the National Musuem and the National Gallery of Modern Art would now be accessible at the touch of a keystroke. ...
09:31 AM, Apr 11, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Its hardly time to forget the innovative exercise the City Corporation and INKEL resorted to last September when they put up a ballot box asking the public to choose a design for a new market complex at Palayam. Seven months have passed; if not moth-eaten, the design must have surely gathered dust. Indications are that TRIDA, which has to take a decision on the future of the project, is...
09:36 AM, Apr 10, 2012
New Delhi: It's almost been a decade since passenger fares were increased and railway finances are in the red. The Indian Railways is the country's 24*7 lifeline with 23 million passengers a day and 2.65 million tonnes of freight traffic. With the Railway finances going from bad to worse, a question often asked is whether the railway sector is going the aviation sector way. Union Minister Dinesh Trived says, "No,...
08:49 AM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: Railway Board Chairman Vinay Mittal has said that a fare hike will bolster the railway finances to a limited extent and the urgent need was to consolidate rather than expand. When asked if the current model of railways is a financially viable model, he said, "Trains run but we don't earn revenue because they are necessary." "We fulfill a huge social responsibility. There are still areas in the...
07:58 AM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: It's the D-day and all eyes will be on Union Minister Dinesh Trivedi who will present the Railway Budget 2012 in Parliament. Sources say that the government is likely to impose a safety cess, although it will not be labelled a fare hike. Sources add that there is a possibility of an additional surcharge, called the Union government development surcharge. However, the ministry is not likely to announce...
06:30 AM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: Syed Haider Raza, the grand old man of modern art, turned 90 on Wednesday. Raza set an auction record for modern Indian art when one of his paintings 'Saurashtra', sold for almost USD 3.5 million in London. CNN-IBN wishes India's most famous modern artist SH Raza a very happy birthday. It takes an attendant and a wheel chair to get Syed Haidar Raza close to his canvas but...
09:03 AM, Feb 22, 2012
Palakkad (Kerala): Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi on Tuesday said he was awaiting a report from Sam Pitroda, adviser to the Prime Minister on public infrastructure, information and innovations, on steps for modernisation of the railways. He said this while laying the foundation stone of a coach factory in Kerala's Palakkad city. The factory, announced a couple of years ago, would come up near here over an area of 426 acres....
05:30 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Los Angeles: An anti-profanity crusader on Tuesday asked ABC to pull this week's 'Modern Family' episode in which a toddler appears to use a bleeped curse word. "Our main goal is to stop this from happening," said McKay Hatcher, an 18-year-old college student who founded the No Cussing Club in 2007. "If we don't, at least ABC knows that people all over the world don't want to have a 2-year-old...
10:56 AM, Jan 18, 2012
Los Angeles: The Golden Globes crowned a new galaxy of television stars on Sunday, honoring a slew of shows in their first season and leaving old favorites out in the cold. Psychological thriller 'Homeland', which premiered on cable channel Showtime in October, won best TV drama series and best actress for Claire Danes in her role as a suspicious bi-polar CIA agent tracking a possible home-grown terrorist. "It feels completely...
01:16 PM, Jan 16, 2012
Saurabh Dube's 'Handbook of Modernity in South Asia' is a significant contribution to the study of modernity and globalization in South Asia. The book has contributions by well-known historians and anthropologists. Combining a variety of disciplines and perspectives, the handbook interprets modernity as a contradictory process and probes its history. Some of the essays stand out. Ajay Skaria in his discussion on Gandhi raises important questions on faith and reason,...
06:32 PM, Jan 05, 2012
Los Angeles: Behind a pair of nondescript black doors on the second floor of an angular office building along an unremarkable stretch of Ventura Boulevard is the headquarters for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare developer Infinity Ward. It's out of sight from Hollywood in an unsuspectingly sterile place where one might expect to find spreadsheets, not video games. Yet beyond these doors is where one of the gaming industry's most...
08:05 AM, Nov 09, 2011
Since a major power's military capabilities or those of a group of major powers still play a decisive role in the world (as recently demonstrated in Libya), it is important to take stock where India's modernisation plans stand in this regard. India's defence preparedness has always been adversary-specific. The arming and organisation of the Indian Armed Forces have been planned mainly keeping Pakistan in mind. However, a minimum deterrence against...
02:58 PM, Oct 27, 2011
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