Marking the International Day of Non-Violence, the United Nations has released a stamp of Mahathma Gandhi on the occasion of his 140th birth anniversary.
Two words. It’s become as simple as that to find the answer to most of life’s questions. Hit Google and you’ll know the answer to everything under the sun. Internet turned 40 this week.
Ruchira Hoon pays tribute to Google, king of the Net.
American monologiust Josh Kornbluth, brings to India his critically acclaimed play "Citizen Josh", a comic act about a very passive person's journey towards becoming a political activist. After successful enactments of his play in various Indian cities Kornbluth is all set to show it in the Capital on 28 August.
World photography day, which was on Wednesday, probably saw a lot of people taking pictures. But with the digital world offering a multitude of ways to preserve happy memories, the family photo album might well be on its last legs, reports
Lina Choudhury-Mahajan.
A youth wing and a social networking site for them. This was the resolution of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet on Navroze, the Parsi New Year, reports
Joydeepa Sarma.
Comic book fans will be able to get their hands on a piece of superhero history when the suit late actor Christopher Reeve wore as 'Superman' will go under the hammer in Australia.
Soggy sandwiches will soon be history, for the world's first non-leaking tomatoes are about to go on sale in the UK.
Technology is looking to Indian tradition for newer inspirations. Forget car chases and rocket attacks, a new set of games for Playstation is based on
kabaddi,
kho-kho, gilli danda, patang bazi and
chausar.Prema K talks to Jyoti Tanna about ‘Each One Teach One’, the NGO she set up 25 years ago.
Prema K meets a 49-year-old man who’s passionate about his autograph collection.
The success story of a Bihar-based coaching institute will be telecast by Discovery Channel this weekend, showing how its underprivileged and marginalised students make their way to India's premier Indian Institutes of Technology.
Wikilengua.org, the Internet site on practical use of the Spanish language, is celebrating its first online birthday, having achieved 4.5 million page visits.
An art house in Switzerland will auction off this summer the doctorate diploma issued to Albert Einstein from the school of mathematics and natural sciences at Zurich University.
Decades after frustrating millions of people with his maddening multi-coloured plastic cube, reclusive Hungarian professor Erno Rubik is about to throw one more challenge to the world.
What does the phone sound like in different languages? David Sedaris, the wonderfully funny gay comic, once wrote about how he collected the sounds animals make in different languages.