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Noble initiative Oxford University Press India with its Global Academic Publishing branch has taken an initiative called “Indian languages publishing programme”. It will include publishing of academic...
View ArticleIndia has survived as a single political entity because of democracy
Book Title: The Raisina Model Author: Meghnad Desai Publisher: Penguin Random House India Pages: 208 pages Price: Rs 499 Why, despite the differences and the almost continuous trouble in one or other...
View ArticleThe Trump syndrome and its impact: A psychiatric probe
Title: Twilight of American Sanity Author: Allen Frances Publisher: William Morrow/Harper Collins Pages: 336 Price: Rs 799 There are some times you can despair of the human race, or at least...
View ArticleEnid Blyton’s adventures get even more mouth-watering
Book: Jolly Good Food Author: Allegra McEvedy Publisher: Hodder Children’s Books Price: Rs. 799 Pages: 133 Enid Blyton knew her mysteries. She also knew her muffins and meringues. In Jolly Good Food,...
View Article‘Promoted content can’t sell the unsellable on social media’
Social media has fast emerged as a market of its own where selling and buying are both easier and more practical. But there has been a slow and steady rise of “promoted content” on such platforms,...
View ArticleBengali author Rabisankar Bal passes away
Renowned journalist and Bengali author Rabisankar Bal died at a hospital here on Tuesday following a brief illness, family sources said. He was 55. Bal, a novelist and short story writer has penned...
View Article350 writers from 35 countries to participate at JLF 2018
Set to take place from January 25 to 29, the JLF 2018 will be a celebration of literature like no other, hosting over 350 writers from 35 nationalities, the organisers said on Tuesday. After the Mumbai...
View ArticleHow writers build the sanctums where they write
Solitude and silence are what most writers seek to produce a full-length novel or non-fiction book. But what do writers do when all around them is chaos and noise? They sit back and build a peaceful...
View ArticleMy struggle has been with my acting profession: Soha
Actress Soha Ali Khan says her struggle has been with her profession as an actor. At the launch of her maiden book The Perils of Being Moderately Famous on Tuesday, Soha was asked about the toughest...
View ArticleWhy India is important for Asean
Title: The ASEAN Miracle: A Catalyst for Peace Authors: Kishore Mahbubani and Jeffery Sng Publisher: Oxford University Press Pages: 264 Price: Rs 750 As India prepares to host the leaders of the 10...
View ArticleA call for jihad in an earthly paradise — and its consequences
Title: A Ticket to Syria; Author: Shirish Thorat; Publisher: Bloomsbury India: Pages: 254; Price: Rs 399 Faith can move mountains. But when distorted and misplaced, it can demolish lives, families and...
View ArticleLata Mangeshkar on her association with Raj Kapoor
It was sometime in 1948 I was recording a song at the Famous recording studio for music director Anil Biswas. At that time, Raj Kapoor had a very small office on the second floor in the same building....
View ArticleNITI Aayog to launch Atal lab community day tomorrow
NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission will launch the Atal Tinkering Lab’s Community Day in New Delhi on Friday. The day will mark the initiative in which 25 mentors will engage with more than 200...
View ArticleA dose of mythology, dark secrets and suspense
What happens when reality mingles with mythology? Well, here is a young protagonist who discovers himself trapped in the days of Mahabharata. Then a story of dark secrets, shocking revelations and a...
View ArticleIGNOU to offer courses in food safety
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will offer a food safety training and certification course by food safety regulator FSSAI, the varsity announced on Thursday. The government...
View ArticleOxford Dictionaries declare ‘Youthquake’ Word of the Year
Oxford Dictionaries has declared “Youthquake” as 2017’s Word of the Year, reflecting what it calls a “political awakening” among millennial voters, the media reports on Friday. It was first coined in...
View ArticleTelangana Class10/SSC 2018 TSBIE exam time table released online at...
Telangana Board of Secondary Education (BSE) has released the Telangana TSBIE SSC 2018 examination timetable for Class 10th/ Secondary School Certificate (SSC), OSSC and Vocational courses on the...
View ArticleSSC CHSL Recruitment 2017: SSC to recruit 3000 candidates for LDC, JSA, DEO...
SSC CHSL Recruitment 2017: Authorities have made an announcement that the SSC has planned to recruit 3000 candidates for different positions that includes Lower Divisional Clerk (LDC)/Junior...
View ArticleIIT-D students to be mentored by Washington University
IIT Delhi and Washington University in St Louis (WashU) on Friday inked an agreement under which select students of the premier engineering institute will have their skills honed. As per the agreement,...
View ArticleDownload HTET 2017 admit card online at htet.nic.in, htetonline.com | Haryana...
HTET admit card 2017: Finally, BSEH (Board of School Education Haryana) has released the HTET 2017 admit card/hall ticket on the official website i.e. htetonline.com. Candidates willing to download...
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