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Senior doctor to probe kids’ deaths at Srinagar hospital

Srinagar, May 16: Director of Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) will probe the deaths of 15 children at G.B.

Indophile, writer, collector Lance Dane passes away

New Delhi, May 16: Aesthete, collector, writer and numismatics scholar Lance Dane, a close collaborator of Mulk Raj Anand, passed away at the Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai Wednesday.

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Kuwait brings middle-eastern culture to India

New Delhi, May 16: A week-long panorama of Kuwaiti culture which opened in the capital May 15 has for the first time brought arts, crafts and performing traditions of the ancient port-nation to India to strengthen people-to-people cultural ties between the two countries.

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New Indian novels mirror contemporary man-woman relationships

New Delhi, May 16: Contemporary Indian popular fiction that narrates ‘desi’ cosmopolitan stories has been mirroring the changing man-woman relationship in a more open and accepting urban India, a leading literary agent says.

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Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes is dead

Mexico City, May 16 (IANS/EFE) Carlos Fuentes, a towering literary figure in the Spanish-speaking world, died Tuesday at a hospital in the Mexican capital.

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A ‘Kahaani’ of Indian bureaucracy, corruption, redemption (IANS Books)

New Delhi, May 15: His surname inspired a key character in the hit Bollywood film ‘Kahaani’.

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When Benazir enjoyed ‘Pakeezah’ in Shimla

New Delhi, May 13: When her father Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto discussed peace with Indira Gandhi in Shimla, his daughter Benazir was busy viewing the Meena Kumari-starrer ‘Pakeezah’.

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Solo theatre reflects on life and times of Manto (With Image)

New Delhi, May 12: When he does not wield a pen, he is Saadat Hasan, just another man pilloried by the wars of survival.

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Indian books on spirituality a big draw

Shimla, May 12: Books on Indian spiritualism are in great demand in foreign countries, and even the Chinese are impressed, National Book Trust (NBT) director M.A.

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