Jeet Thayil on 2012 Man Booker long-list

Noted Indian poet and writer Jeet Thayil is among 12 authors long-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction worth 50,000 pounds and an assured spurt in the sales of the prize-winning book.......

Assange asks UK Supreme Court to reopen extradition case

In a last ditch effort to block his extradition, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has sought reopening of his extradition case, days after Britain's Supreme Court ruled that the Swedish request had......

Wadias ask for government info on Jinnah House

The Central Information Commission has directed the Ministry of External Affairs to consider afresh the plea of Mohammad Ali Jinnah's grandson Nusli Wadia for information regarding a letter his......

Olympic history: Torch relay pioneered at Nazi Games

Mist clears to reveal white marble images from classical Greece culminating in Myron's celebrated statue of an athlete poised to launch a discus in the prologue to Leni Riefenstahl's remarkable......

100-year-old will help carry London flame

Olympic organisers have unveiled the white and gold kit to be worn by torchbearers as they carry the flame on its 8,000-mile journey around Britain plus the name of a 99-year-old who will take......