New Delhi: Publishing giants Penguin and Random House formally merged Monday and Gaurav Shrinagesh will be the head of India operations as the new global team executive was announced. Shrinagesh, pre

US publishing house John Wiley & Sons said on Monday it is selling all of its travel assets - including the well known Frommer's brand - to Internet titan Google.

The New Jersey-based company did not

Carefully avoiding any mention of the controversial Ram Sethu at a function centered on the epic Ramayana, Union corporate affairs minister Veerappa Moily on Monday said India must move from innovatio

For the generation that has known M.C. Raja as the name of hostel and Ayothiya Dasar as the name of a research centre, here comes the Oxford anthology of Tamil dalit writing. The anthology, to be rele

“Gangarams has been a constant milestone in my experience of Bangalore since I first came here. I shall miss it dearly.”

The words were written by Girish Karnad in the bookstore’s “final” guestbook.

Chennai’s first green library has come up on the CPR Foundation premises with more than 6,000 books and journals on environment.

The library has books on topics such as air pollution, biodiversity, e

British author Julian Barnes on Tuesday won the 2011 Man Booker Prize, one of the highest-profile awards in English-language literature, for his novel 'The Sense of an Ending'.

Barnes, who has been s

Where did life on Earth start? — this age-old question seems to have a new answer. Life may have originated between sheets of mica that were layered like the pages in a book, say scientists. A team at