Gaya: Even though the BJP is contesting only two of the five assembly seats in Nawada district — Hisua and Warsaliganj — PM Narendra Modi, in his characteristic style, fulfilled the ‘gathbandhan' ...

The name was Bond, James Bond. Bond was an American ornithologist whose name was borrowed by Ian Fleming, a twitcher himself, for his spy hero 007. The original Bond possesses another fame, being ...

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, always welcome visitors to the Proms, are big hitters reserved for the final week of the season. Last night, the first of their two concerts, paired Berg and ...

Regional identity battles and language flashpoints are testing the BJP’s national pitch ahead of elections. Case in point: West Bengal where Mamata Banerjee has gone ballistic over an alleged BJP ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Award-winning guitarist and Macarthur fellow Mary Halvorson returns to the brassy textures and sinewy rhythms ...

THIS is a book which possesses many good points, but which becomes, on close acquaintance, painfully disappointing, and even irritating, to the reader. The author has undoubtedly spared no pains to ...

An aperture in one of Henry Moore’s sculptures aligns perfectly with the pale blue sky of a Georgia O’Keeffe painting three rooms over in “Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore” at the Museum of Fine Arts, ...

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Thursday heard a petition complaining of alleged prejudicial actions by the police of Bhainsa and Nirmal against the majority group in the community, and ordered ...

Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and music director Fabio Luisi with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany on June 11, 2024. Sören L. Schirmer HAMBURG — The Dallas ...

In High Heels, Adiga shows how fragile fledgeling relationships can be when those involved—in this case Binod the bully and his sincere colleague Sarita—are unsure of their place within larger social ...

Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation and a global apostle of peace, never got the Nobel Peace Prize. Nominated repeatedly, the inspiration for the likes of Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Dr ...

Janus, the two-faced Roman god looking in opposite directions – past and future balanced on his mythological shoulders – gives January its name. So, no better time than now to glance back at the ...