New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) He is from Verona, the Italian city where William Shakespeare set his immortal play, 'Romeo and Juliet', yet Renato Bosco is a man of few words.
Srinagar, Feb 17 (IANS) In order to protect the fragile environment of Kashmir’s rare stag species known as the ‘Hangul’ a social enterprise has decided to plant over 1, 25,000 plants in the habitat of this protected animal.
New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) Just 10 per cent of the ancient Chinese traveller Hiuen Tsang's travelogue, which offers an eyewitness account of India at the time of Harsha Vardhan (the itinerant Buddhist scholar was here between 630 and 645 CE), has been discovered so far.
New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) At the turn of this millennium, Ana Ros had to choose between a career in her country's diplomatic service or to co-manage a restaurant and inn that her boyfriend inherited from his parents who had just retired.
New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) One of India's most creative chefs who put nawabi Lucknow's Dum Pukht cuisine on the world map, and also became the first practising member of his fraternity to ever get a Padma Shri in 2016, Imtiaz Qureshi, passed away on Friday at the age of 93.
New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANSlife) A National Mental Health Survey in India revealed that nearly 14 percent of the population in the country necessitated active mental health interventions. The need to provide mental health support and counselling in schools should be one of the top priorities of educators to ensure their holistic development. India boasts the highest population of children and adolescents in the world and this further necessitates the need to bolster the mental health programmes to facilitate healthy psychological growth of the leaders and policymakers of tomorrow.
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) As China continues to bless the Pakistani deep state's designs on Kashmir, a former top diplomat has made a pitch for India becoming more active across the Karakoram region and reclaiming the ancient economic and cultural ties that bound it with Kashmir.
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) Shah Jahan, son of Jahangir, was way ahead of his father in terms of barbarity. It was merely in the first decade (sixth year) of his reign that he passed a farman to raze mandirs whose foundations had been laid during his father's period and stood unfinished. He was high with the zeal to revive Islam in the best possible way. He intended to reflect Islam as a dominant religion, and hence apart from demolishing mandirs, he commissioned many grand mosques like the Jama Masjid in Delhi.
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) Valentine's Day is a day that celebrates modern love in all forms, including families, partners and cherished friends and furry companions.
New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) Celebrated historian Sugata Bose, who holds Harvard University's prestigious Gardiner Chair of Oceanic History, has said in his latest book that the "Asian Dream" remained unfulfilled because of two major events that unfolded in the last century.
