El Escorial, Alcalá and Aranjuez: a walk through Madrid’s heritage
bySan Lorenzo del Escorial, Alcalá de Henares and Aranjuez have a lot in common: They are Unesco Heritage enclaves and are also denominated “Legacy…
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Janmashtami preparations reach crescendo in Braj!
byMathura: Preparations for Krishna Janmashtami, the birthday of Lord Krishna, have reached a crescendo in the whole of Braj region of Uttar Pradesh, with temples…
Sonia Gandhi should have been taken in an ambulance: Modi
byNew Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today expressed concern over Sonia Gandhi’s health, and said the UPA chairperson should have been taken to hospital…
Top 7 Bizarre Superstitions in India
byNarendra Dabholkar, the rationalist who took up the battle against superstition in Maharashtra, was murdered on 20 August 2013 by two gunmen in Pune….
Delhi in festive mood on Raksha Bandhan
byNew Delhi: The national capital today celebrated the Raksha Bandhan festival in which sisters tie a decorated thread or “rakhi” on their brothers’ wrists, reaffirming…
‘Hindi cinema has greatly contributed to a secular idea of India’
byMumbai: Throughout the past 100 years of Indian cinema there have been Hindi movies that embody and define the quintessence of Hindi cinema. Filmmaker Manmohan…
Artist Neeraj Mittra, a rare talent
byFrom MF Husain’s iconic symbol of horse as a medium of nature’s powerful expression on canvas to Picasso’s cubic influences on human distortions, budding…
With pilgrims gone, efforts to boost tourism in Uttarakhand
byDehra Dun : Uttarakhand tourism minister Amrita Rawat intends organizing the World Tourism Day, that falls on Sept 27 in Uttarakhand, in the hope…
An argument against ‘Jugaad’
byLast week was a sad one in India. As if, the tragedy in Uttarakhand was not enough, Bihar featured in the news. It was…
Pizza, burger, pancakes shape up Roza Aftaar menu
byLucknow: Breaking the ritualistic fast in the holy month of Ramadan would also mark a break with tradition in the one-time city of nawabs here….