Over two decades after Satanic Verses sparked a never-ending controversy and provoked a fatwa for his head, author Salman Rushdie has only one thing to say to his detractors: ‘I did not write it for t

A rare, 55-year-old bottle of Glenfiddich single malt whisky has been auctioned for approximately `35 lakh (£42,000). The money will help build a school for physically and mentally disadvantaged children in Uttarakhand.
The bottle was sold to the highest bidder, World Duty Free Group (WDFG).

A drug used to treat heart disease can affect a person’s subconscious attitudes towards race, a new study has claimed.
In the study at Oxford University, published in Psychopharmacology, researchers gave 18 people the drug propranolol and 18 people a placebo and found that the propranolol group scored significantly lower on the Implicit Attitude Test into subconscious racial bias, a standard test for testing subconscious racial attitudes.

Groups of chimpanzees within central Africa are more different genetically than humans living on different continents, a study has found.

Receiving a rejection letter from the University of Oxford is common, but one applicant has turned the tables by sending a “rejection letter” to the varsity on the ground that it is not up to the mark

Delighted that new stringent student visa rules were “beginning to bite”, the UK home office on Wednesday said a further tightening of the system was on the cards from April even as British universiti

Thousands of people have converged in Leeds to savour the spicy and sumptuous fare dished out by the three-day World Curry Festival, an event that celebrates Britain’s love affair with Indian food ove

As authorities scrambled hard to contain one of the worst riots in Britain, Premier David Cameron cut short his summer holidays in Italy and returned home today to deal with escalating violence that spread beyond London threatening tomorrow's third Test between India and England.

Pulitzer prize-winning author Jeseph Lelyveld, writer of a new book on Mahatma Gandhi that has generated a controversy in India, says that his work is “not sensationalist”, and is based on material that is already published and available in the National Archives of India (NAI).

JOHN LE CARRE, one of the world’s most celebrated authors, has offered his literary archive to Oxford University’s Bodleian Library with the intention that it should become its permanent home. Le Carre said: “I am delighted to be able to do this. Oxford was Smiley’s spiritual home, as it is mine. And while I have the greatest respect for American universities, the Bodleian is where I shall most happily rest.”