Tata Motors-owned Jaguar has confirmed its plan to build a new F-Type sports car in Britain.

Mahatma Gandhi’s distinctive round steel rimmed spectacles, soil from the spot of his assassination, a prayer book written in Gujarati, his charkha and a bunch of letters are being sold on April 17 by

The fate of the four Western tourists abducted by terrorists in Kashmir in June 1995 has never been known for sure.

Superstar Rajinikanth is getting an animation makeover. He will play an ancient era warrior in a period animated film, Kochadaiyaan — The Legend, directed by his younger daughter Soundarya R.

Britain on Thursday paid homage to Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his team, which made it to the South Pole on January 18, 1912 only to learn they had been beaten by the Norwegian explorers, led by Roald Amundsen.

Jewellery collections of Huguette M. Clark, described as one of the last great heiresses of America’s gilded age, and philanthropist Lily Safra, who was married to banker Edmond J. Safra, are being auctioned by the Christie’s in New York and Geneva.

Yet another work of Indian painter Tyeb Mehta was auctioned for over $1 million as Untitled (Figures with Bull Head), which he painted in oil on canvas in 1984, was sold by Christie’s in New York for

Former debutante, Ursula Graham Bower, from a upper-class British family, found fame across the world in the turbulent years of World War II as the “Naga queen” for leading some 200-odd Naga warriors to repel Japanese incursions in Northeast India.
Born on May 15, 1914, Ursula first visited Nagaland at the invitation of a friend and fell in love with the place so much that she went back to England and prepared to come and live on her own in the area.

English playwright William Shake-speare is getting a language make-over at the Globe Theatre in London. For the first time, it is hosting 37 international companies, including two from India, to present all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in 37 different languages. Theatre companies from Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas will present plays in 37 different languages during the six-week drama festival, Globe to Globe, which is part of the World Shakespeare Festival due to run till November. The plays will be in languages as diverse as Maori, Korean, Shona, Arabic, Japanese and Zulu.

Eyebrow threading may be commonplace in India, but it took an ingenious Indian-origin entrepreneur, 43-year-old Vanita Parti, to introduce the popular Indian grooming essential to upmarket Londoners.