Awarded the Padma Vibhushan, the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Shri, Pandit Jasraj also popularised semi-classical music like ‘haveli sangeet' and reached out to devotees with his......
Diana, the People's Princess, died in a tragic car accident 20 years ago, August 31, 1997.To remember their beloved mother, her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, loaned some of her favourite......
Four Indian-American youngsters are among 40 students who have been named as finalists for this year's Intel Science Talent Search award, billed as the Junior Nobel. The contest is America's oldest......
Tina Brown, the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast has called it 'the greatest literary show on earth' -- a fact that the website of the Jaipur Literature Festival proudly displays on......
One of Britain's best loved Indian entrepreneurs has revealed how he was addressed as Sir Gulam by Queen Elizabeth even before he was formally invested with a knighthood.Sir Gulam Noon, who is the......
'The pride of the devoted Seinfeld fan is that he happens to love a show that doesn't take his love for granted, so that even on repeat viewings he is never really sure what directions an episode......
'...as much as in India, it's only because she sang for mankind, not the details on the passport.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Lata Mangeshkar/Twitter I had decided to not write an obituary on the......
Italian opera legend Luciano Pavarotti succumbed to kidney failure after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer this morning, and the world mourns its huge loss. Joining in is ace photographer......
Luciano Pavarotti, perhapsthe world's most famous opera singer, is not ascuddly as hisfigure and million watt smile suggests. According toformer publicity manager and agent Herbert Breslin,......
Opera legend Luciano Pavarotti, who died early on Thursday in Modena, Italy, of kidney failure after a long and painful struggle with pancreatic cancer, will be forever remembered for making the......
Italy drew 0-0 with France in a passionate and tough-tackling Euro 2008 qualifier on Saturday, which dropped the world champions to third in Group B. The repetition of last year's World Cup final......