As Narendra Modi headed for a hat-trick in Gujarat, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday parried questions on whether he will be the party's prime ministerial candidate in the next Lok Sabha elections. "Modi bhai has always been an important leader in the BJP...We are not a dynastic party which is led by a Yuvaraj. We function in a pure democratic fashion," BJP chief spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said hitting...
11:43 AM, Dec 20, 2012
Slamming the Delhi government as well as the Centre for failing to bring down the crime graph in the national capital, Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday raised the issue of the brutal gang-rape of a girl in the national capital in Parliament. There was chaos in the Upper House with Opposition members demanding a statement from the Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on the horrific incident. ...
11:49 AM, Dec 18, 2012
BJP national spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday ruled out the possibility of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar becoming NDA's Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. "There is no doubt that NDA's Prime Ministerial nominee will come from the BJP, which is its major constituent," Prasad said. ...
01:16 AM, Dec 16, 2012
Writer-lyricist Gulzar remembers the late sitar maestro as an honest person who was young at heart. ...
04:48 PM, Dec 15, 2012
Pakistan's Interior Minister, who is in country for a three day visit, will call on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday, his second day of the trip, but will not hold a meeting with United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi. There has been no agenda set for the meeting with prime minister officially, but reports suggest that the two leaders may talk on the Sir Creek issue, apart from the...
09:35 AM, Dec 15, 2012
Raakhee Gulzar spent weeks learning how to play the sitar from the maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar himself. ...
02:36 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Indian classical musician and Pandit Ravi Shankar's disciple Pandit Barun Kumar Pal joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the impact of Pandit Ravi Shankar on Indian classical music. ...
01:36 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Did Pandit Ravi Shankar show the way as to how the classical arts can be kept alive in the contemporary world? ...
11:59 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who is grieving the demise of Pandit Ravi Shankar, says he was puzzled to receive the sitar maestro's call for the first time a week before the music legend's demise. He never knew it would be his last. "A strange feeling crawls within me. Just last week his wife Sukanyaji had sent a message to me on my mobile, while I transited from Marrakech, Morocco to Florence...
06:13 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Pandit Ravi Shankar died yesterday - well, technically, he died on December 11 at 4.30pm PST (Pacific Standard Time or West Coast time,) in San ...
11:40 AM, Dec 13, 2012
Legendary sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar would receive the lifetime achievement Grammy award, organisers of the top music award announced on Thursday. Shankar would receive the award posthumous on February 10 at the 55th Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, said the Recording Academy, which gives the prestigious Grammy Awards. ...
09:57 AM, Dec 13, 2012
The music world loses a gem, sitar legend Pandit Ravi Shankar passes away, the prime minister leads the tributes, says an era has ended. ...
11:30 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Expressing his condolences over the death of Pandit Ravi Shankar, renowned Kathak dancer Birju Maharaj said that he had no words to express what he was feeling. ...
07:32 PM, Dec 12, 2012
"Now onto work mode in Chennai for 'I', AR Rahman is scoring the music" tweeted actress. ...
06:32 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Karthi Sivakumar says, Devi Sri Prasad's songs in 'Alex Pandian' will be well received. ...
06:02 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Prominent dancer Shovana Narayan looks back at the impact of Pandit Ravi Shankar on popularising Indian culture abroad. ...
05:10 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Pandit Ravi Shankar's daughter-in-law Tanushree Shankar says that the death of the sitar maestro is not only a loss to his family but to the entire artist family. "May be he grew in numbers but at heart he was absolutely a young dynamic and vibrant person," she said. ...
04:59 PM, Dec 12, 2012
He will be remembered as a global icon for Indian Music, philosophy and culture. He took India to the world. ...
03:36 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Legendary sitarist and composer Pandit Ravi Shankar died near his home in Southern California on Tuesday. He was 92. He stood just 5 feet 3 inches tall but Ravi Shankar was a towering musical figure and was famously known as Pandit Ravi Shankar. ...
01:30 PM, Dec 12, 2012
