Festival
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Navratri special food item: Sabudana khichadi in 6 easy steps
Lifestyle | Mar 26, 2015, 05:18 PM ISTNew Delhi: Navratri fasting takes a lot of courage to imply and effectively challenges your patience level. While you make sure that the time handles of your clock look briskly moving, you keep on thinking
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Unseasonal rains and board exams acts as dampener for the Holi sales
India | Mar 05, 2015, 09:45 PM ISTNew Delhi: This year the festival of colours was unable to bring smile on the faces of the sellers who were hoping to have a good season. The pre festival Holi shopping was less colourful
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Nail it on Holi: Six easy tips to protect your nails from colours!
Lifestyle | Mar 04, 2015, 03:05 PM ISTHow to protect your nails from damage on Holi from coloursNew Delhi: Stay healthy and completely nourished on Holi is a huge task to achieve. However, as we get too engrossed in seeking fun and
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Hair and Holi: Four easy tips to protect those beautiful tresses in harsh Holi!
Lifestyle | Mar 02, 2015, 05:22 PM ISTEasy hair care tips for HoliNew Delhi: Being Holi-ready is a great task one should spend plenty of time in to look perfectly set and done for the festival.While it is all about wild fun
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Holi: Savour exotic Paan ice-cream as a true dessert delight
Lifestyle | Mar 01, 2015, 10:27 AM ISTHoli special dessert: Exotic Paan ice cream Holi or the festivals of colours is around and all you do apart from delving yourself in happy hues is relishing your taste buds.While such a grand festival
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Puppetry “ an immortal art striving existence amid 'dead audience'
India | Feb 12, 2015, 08:54 AM ISTNew Delhi: Think of the place where you could enjoy the ‘innocent entertainment' and have your share of laugh which is genuine and triggered by your inner self. Well, Ishara International Puppet Theatre Festival 2015
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PVR to host Oscar film fest in 23 Indian cities
Bollywood | Feb 07, 2015, 06:33 AM ISTNew Delhi: Before Hollywood aficionados in India sit down to watch the forthcoming 87th Academy Awards ceremony on TV screens later this month, PVR Cinemas is offering fans a chance to watch a string of
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Jaipur Litfest: Engaging, mind-stimulating conversations on table
Lifestyle | Jan 21, 2015, 11:59 AM ISTJaipur: Every year, the annual literary pilgrimage Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) offers a fine balance among different writing genres that peacefully co-exist and give the audience an opportunity to deliberate on issues that usually don't
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Goa carnival to be held from Feb 14
Lifestyle | Jan 17, 2015, 07:00 AM ISTPanaji: Goa's popular Carnival festival will be held over four days from Feb 14, state tourism officials said Friday.The Carnival, a festival which is symbolic of Goa's Portuguese legacy will be held in six towns,
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Amitabh Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar, Sonakshi Sinha wish Happy Lohri!
Bollywood | Jan 13, 2015, 03:17 PM ISTMumbai: Peace, prosperity and happiness are what Bollywood stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini and Sidharth Malhotra have wished for their friends, family and fans this time on Lohri, the harvest festival celebrated Jan 13
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5 mouth watering Lohri recipes (see pics)
Lifestyle | Jan 13, 2015, 02:04 PM ISTNew Delhi: Lohri is the winter harvest festival in Punjab, celebrated widely throughout the country.As one gets ready to celebrate this festival, markets and by-lanes start getting decorated with number of small shops that sell
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Christmas special: Gift your loved ones a 3D Christmas tree
Lifestyle | Dec 18, 2014, 11:26 AM ISTToronto: Using an algorithm for automatically decomposing a three dimensional object into what are called pyramidal parts, researchers have revealed how to print a 3D Christmas tree efficiently and with zero material waste.A pyramidal part
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Is Diwali turning us into hypocrites?
India | Nov 06, 2015, 05:40 PM ISTMost of us have come across numerous heartening messages and videos giving sermons on how to celebrate our festivals.During such occasions esp. around Diwali & Holi, social media is flooded with endless posts & photographs
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Kandadevi temple festival: District collector asked to file counter
India | Mar 18, 2014, 06:49 AM ISTMadurai: Madras High Court bench yesterday directed the Sivaganga District Collector and Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment board to file a counter on a petition seeking permission to conduct the Kandadevi temple festival with car
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Modi inaugurates Garba festival in Gujarat
India | Oct 06, 2013, 06:42 AM ISTAhmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi yesterday said that festivals in the country should be encouraged because they showcase Indian's culture to the world.The BJP leader, who inaugurated the longest
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82 special trains for Puri chariot festival
India | Jul 04, 2013, 05:47 PM ISTBhubaneswar, July 4: The Indian Railways Thursday announced it would run 82 special trains to handle the rush for the famous Rath Yatra (chariot festival) of Lord Jagannath, beginning at Odisha's beach town of Puri
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The festival of Kartik Poornima
India | Mar 21, 2013, 05:59 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Kartik Poornima festival is considered very auspicious as it is believed that annually on this day, the gods come down on earth and make their homes in the sacred rivers. People take
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Big B, SRK, Katrina attend opening of Kolkata film festival
Bollywood | Nov 11, 2012, 12:52 PM ISTKolkata, Nov 11: Glamour partnered politics as Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan came together with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to inaugurate the 18th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) here Saturday.Bachchan,
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Gold rises to two-month high
Apr 24, 2012, 05:32 PM ISTNew Delhi, Apr 24: Gold today advanced further to hit a fresh two-month high of Rs 29,100 per 10 grams, driven by heavy buying by retail customers for the festival of ‘Akshaya Tritiya'.The yellow metal
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Karnataka Govt's Tourism Promotion Event Degenerates Into A Rave Party In Mangalore
India | Feb 07, 2012, 09:31 AM ISTMangalore, Feb 7: The Spring Zouk Island Festival 2012 hosted by the Karnataka tourism department recently has generated a controversy over use of drugs by foreign tourists who were found engaged in semi-nude frolic on