The Pursuit Of Happiness
The Mona Lisa is often held up as a symbol of emotional enigma. The portrait appears to many to be smiling sweetly at first, only to adopt a mocking sneer […]
Kabul Museum Receives New Guest
An ancient statue of Lord Buddha is all set to make its public debut in Afghanistan’s National Museum. Having withstood time, the elements, looters and war, the spectacular statue of […]
Fossils Likely To Rewrite The Tree Of Life
Fossils discovered recently in the central Indian province of Madhya Pradesh, a good 400 million years older than the oldest plant-like fossils ever found, suggest that the complex organisms appeared […]
Buy Books & Not Bullets, Pak Girl Tells Indian PM
Aqeedat Naveed, an eleven-year-old girl from second largest Pakistani city of Lahore, sent a letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 13 in which she made impassioned plea for […]
NASA Finds ‘Lost’ Indian Spacecraft
NASA scientists have recently found that India’s first lunar mission – the Chandrayan-1 spacecraft (given up for lost) – is still orbiting the moon. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) […]
‘Inglorious Empire: What The British Did To India’
Shashi Tharoor, a member of the Indian Parliament, believes that India needs a museum on British colonisation of the South Asian country. In his latest publication ‘Inglorious Empire: What the […]
Study: Ostriches Inhabited India 25,000 Years Ago
A DNA study of some partly fossilised ostrich egg shells, conducted recently at the Centre of Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCBM), has found that the flightless birds inhabited India about […]
CPEC Won’t Affect Kashmir’s Status Quo, China Tells India
China has once again urged India to back the multi-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) – a collection of infrastructure projects with the South Asian country’s arch-rival, Pakistan. And as expected, […]
‘Rebel’ Latvian MEP To Meet Assad Again
Andrejs Mamikins, a Latvian Member of the European Parliament (MEP), has decided to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the second time (in four months), despite receiving a warning from […]
Boundless Ocean Of Politics 