AMERICAN WRITER Madeline Miller beat favourites like Ann Patchett and Cynthia Ozick to win the Orange prize for fiction, exclusively for women writing in English, for her debut novel The Song of Achil

THE SEASON of auctions in contemporary Indian art starts in London in June and the three main auction houses, Christie’s Sotheby’s and Bonhams, have major sales coming up in the first half of the mont

NEW DELHI-BASED former cricket journalist Rahul Bhattacharya was on Monday night awarded the Ondaatje prize, administered by the Royal Society of Literature, in London.

Queen Victoria’s private journals, which she wrote daily from age 13 till her death at 81 on January 22, 1901, reveal her love and passion for her husband, Prince Albert, with whom she had nine childr

Britain’s foreign office minister Jeremy Browne, who is the lead minister in the FCO on India, said on Thursday that “political factors” had led the UK not to consider upgrading its trade mission in G

Amnesty International, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, expressed disappointment that India along with other emerging global powerhouses Brazil and South Africa, with all their newly-gained

British singer and songwriter Robin Gibb, who formed the famous Bee Gees group with his brothers Maurice and Barry, passed away on Sunday night after a long battle with cancer. He was 62.

The new book by investigative journalists Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark, The Meadow: Kashmir 1995 — Where the Terror Began, has made a controversial claim about the Indian government’s hand in

The new book by investigative journalists Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark, The Meadow: Kashmir 1995 — Where the Terror Began, has made a controversial claim about the Indian government’s hand in the killing of four Western tourists abducted by Al-Faran in Kashmir in July 1995.

The right ingredients for a royal success story are crowns, diamonds, ballgowns and shoes, as Cinderella and other fairytale royal characters will agree.