There is a slow revival of interest in Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and his works in Germany, but mostly among a niche readership, says German scholar and Tagore researcher Martin Kampchen. ...
Damascus, May 8 (IANS) Colourful lights have started returning to the Roman amphitheatre in Syria's Palmyra so that audience can listen to the fine art of opera....
Prominent Pakistani rights activist Khurram Zaki was shot dead while having dinner with a friend at a restaurant here, and his NGO blamed "Takfiri Deobandi militants" for the killing. ...
Iraqi and US diplomats have warned of a serious danger to millions of people around the giant Mosul dam, which was undergoing repairs and could breach at any moment, releasing a killer flood wave capable of wiping out entire cities and even flooding Baghdad....
The Congress on Saturday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come clear on his date of birth and the controversy about his educational qualifications, saying there was an evident discrepancy in the details....
Jadavpur University's left-leaning students and RSS students' wingm ABVP seemed on a collision course on Saturday, a day after the screening of Vivek Agnihotri's controversial "Buddha in a Traffic Jam" triggered clashes and sparked tension on the campus....
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday came down heavily on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa for corruption while assuring the people of providing a clean government if his party-DMK alliance won the May 16 poll....
The Congress party on Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of large-scale corruption in the Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) during his tenure as chief minister and of using the PSU as a "cash cow" to fund his way to 7, Race Course Road. The party has demanded a Supreme Court-monitored probe into the case....
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday denied reports in a section of media that any land had been allotted or was being allotted in the Kashmir Valley for setting up 'Sainik Colony' or an ex-servicemen colony....
With anti-incumbency stalking the Akhilesh Yadav government, Narendra Modi losing his earlier appeal and Mayawati yet to live down her statue-building extravaganza when in power, there is no obvious winner....
