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Young cartoonist seeks to revive Kashmir’s artistic heritage

Kashmiri cartoonist and artist Malik Sajad, who started working as political cartoonist for Great Kashmir newspaper in Srinagar since he was 14 years old, is keen to revive the lost forms of art and c

Cricket Cheats Jailed

Mazhar Majeed

Three Pakistani cricketers, Salman Butt, Mohammed Asif and Mohammed Amir, were sentenced to jail terms by Justice Jeremy Cooke at Southwark crown court on Thursday morning.

Indore art deco might fetch $2m

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TWO ART deco works, designed for Maharaja of Indore’s Manik Bagh palace in 1930s, are estimated to sell for more than $2 million in an auction later this month.

Pak Fixers Guilty

Pakistani cricketers Salm-an Butt and Mohammad Asif were found guilty Tuesday of spot-fixing in the fourth England-Pakistan Test match at Lord’s in August last year.

1,940 banks in India ‘de-listed’ for visas to U.K.

Britain has released a list of almost 2,000 banking institutions in India whose financial statements will not considered valid for the purpose of issuing student visas.

Ananthamurthy in race for lit award

Indian literary giant U.R. Ananthamurthy, who is famous for his seminal work on caste system in Kannada called Samskara, was on Monday night shortlisted for the $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.

Scotland now aiming at full independence

Scotland’s first minister Alex Salmond, who returned to a five-year-term with a majority of 69 out of 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament in the May 5 election, now insists that Scotland will soon become an independent nation.

India victimising me: Mirchi

Mohammed Iqbal Memon, better known by his alias of Iqbal Mirchi, who was arrested last week over threat to kill his 41-year-old nephew Nadeem Kader, on Friday issued a statement through his solicitor

Nominated thrice, Barnes gets his Booker

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BRITISH AUTHOR Julian Barnes on Tuesday night won the Booker Prize for his latest novel The Sense of an Ending after failing to win the prestigious annual award despite making the shortlist three time

Wall St stir hits London, Berlin, Rome

Scotland Yard managed to prevent the occupation of Paternoster Square, home to the London Stock Exchange and Goldman Sachs, in the City of London as protests against the global financial system spread from Wall Street in New York to London on Saturday.

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Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.