Toronto | 16 days ago
Indo-Canadians annoint their first Idol
Toronto, Feb 2 - The huge Indian community here anointed their first-ever 'Indo-Canadian Idol' during belated celebrations of India's Republic Day Sunday.In sub-zero temperatures, over 10,000 people converged on the city's Pearson Convention Centre to enjoy the day-long extravaganza organized by Panorama India, a cultural body of the community in Canada. The high point of the celebrations was the ... read more

5 months ago
New NASA temperature maps provide 'whole new way of seeing the moon'
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter -, an unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire moon, has returned its first data. One of the seven instruments aboard, the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, is making the first global survey of the temperature of the lunar surface while the spacecraft orbits some 31 miles above the moon. Diviner has obtained enough data already to ch ... read more

5 months ago
New NASA temperature maps provide 'whole new way of seeing the moon'
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter -, an unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire moon, has returned its first data. One of the seven instruments aboard, the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, is making the first global survey of the temperature of the lunar surface while the spacecraft orbits some 31 miles above the moon. Diviner has obtained enough data already to ch ... read more

5 months ago
New NASA temperature maps provide 'whole new way of seeing the moon'
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter -, an unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire moon, has returned its first data. One of the seven instruments aboard, the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, is making the first global survey of the temperature of the lunar surface while the spacecraft orbits some 31 miles above the moon. Diviner has obtained enough data already to ch ... read more

6 months ago
Rituparno's film to be screened at Durban film festival
Kolkata, July 27 - Bengali film-maker Rituparno Ghosh's new celluloid venture, 'Shob Charitro Kalponik' -, has been selected for the 30th Durban Film Festival 2009, in South Africa. It will be the first ever premier for a Bengali film in the African continent. The film - produced by Indian conglomerate Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group -'s flagship media arm Reliance Big Entertainment Ltd - - will be ... read more

7 months ago
Capital gets ready for video art finale
New Delhi, July 21 - Video Wednesday, one of the biggest exhibitions of video art in the country spread over a year, will close with a digital blitz in the capital during July 29-Aug 1. It has featured video works by over 60 artists. Since July 2008, the capital-based Gallery Espace has dedicated every Wednesday to the promotion of video art with shows and accompanying lecture sessions as part ... read more

8 months ago
Iran special guest in South Asian Film Festival
New Delhi, June 15 - Iran, with its thousand-year-old legacy of cultural history and traditional arts, is the guest country in the fourth edition of the South Asian Films Festival 2009, which begins in Goa June 26. The festival hosted by the South Asia Foundation, a leading non-profit organisation, will be supported by the Entertainment Society of Goa and the Kala Academy. It will be co-sponsore ... read more

8 months ago
'Roadside Romeo' selected for Shanghai, Seoul film fests
Mumbai, May 26 - Yash Raj Films' animation flick 'Roadside Romeo' has been selected for the Shanghai and Seoul Film Festivals. While the film will be screened as part of the Panorama section of the Shanghai fest -, it has earned a place in the Invitation Section Out Of Competition category for the Seoul festival -, said a Yash Raj Films statement released here. Moreover, the movie has also rec ... read more

1 year ago
Downturn takes sheen off Indian art at Spanish fair
Madrid -, Feb 18 - Special invitee India's show at global art fair ARCO-Madrid 2009 was robbed of some of its lustre due to a wary market and a panorama section that had a narrow focuss on post-contemporary movements. The highlight of the five-day ARCO-Madrid this year was the India Panorama, an exhibition of works by 54 artists from 14 galleries across the country, the guest nation in 2009. But ... read more

1 year ago
Renaissance capitalist: New research answers mystery about illegitimate daughter of pope
In popular legend, Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara -, stands falsely accused of poisoning her second husband. Victor Hugo portrayed her in thinly veiled fiction as a tragic femme fatale. Buffalo Bill named his gun after her. But new research by USC historian Diane Yvonne Ghirardo reveals that the only sister of Machiavelli's Prince was less interested in political intrigue than in running a ... read more