Filmstar Aamir Khan’s wife Kiran Rao, who has completed her directorial debut Dhobi Ghat, revealed here that she is open to acting in films, if she gets a good offer.

London author and newspaper columnist Howard Jacobson defeated the bookie predictions and won the £50,000-Booker Prize for Fiction for his latest novel The Finkler Question on Tuesday night.

INDIAN-BORN chef Hrishikesh Desai, head chef at the Brasserie restaurant at Lucknam Park Hotel in Wiltshire, has been named the winner of the UK’s National Chef of the Year competition. Thirty-year-old Desai, who was born and brought up in Pune, was named the winner after a live cook-off at the Restaurant Show at Earls Court in

Australian writer Peter Carey has a chance of making Booker history on Tuesday night, but British author Tom McCarthy is the sweeping favourite of British bookies to win the prize for his novel C.

Twenty-seven-year-old Somen Debnath has had an adventurous journey from India to Britain: Cycling with the aim of creating awareness about HIV/AIDS all over the world, he has battled wild animals, bee

Twenty-seven-year-old Somen Debnath has had an adventurous journey from India to Britain: Cycling with the aim of creating awareness about HIV/AIDS all over the world, he has battled wild animals, bee

Two Manchester University professors, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, both of Russian origin, were Tuesday awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”, described as the world’s thinnest material.

Indian history enthusiasts are in for a momentous week as photographs of Mahatma Gandhi and mid-19th century Karnataka will be auctioned in London on Tuesday. The sale of the photographs comes just before two auctions this week of artefacts linked to Tipu Sultan, Tiger of Mysore.

Intelligence agencies in Western Europe have uncovered an Al Qaeda terror plot, involving Mumbai-style attacks across Europe — in British, French and German cities.
The Islamist-linked terror plot was hatched in Pakistan, according to reports in Britain. The plan involved simultaneous commando-style raids in London and cities in F

A set of 24 paintings, which depict Tipu Sultan’s victory over the British at the Battle of Pollilur in 1780, will be auctioned by Sotheby’s as part of its Arts of the Islamic World next week.