A court yesterday cleared controversial painter Maqbool Fida Husain of obscenity charges over his depiction of India as a nude woman. "The allegations made against the painter are baseless," said Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul of the Delhi High Court.
People sit in front of an election poster of Congress Party during a rally in BangaloreBANGALORE: More than 40mn voters in Karnataka are eligible to elect a new state assembly in three phases from tomorrow in an electoral battle that has assumed
Venugopal... court victoryNEW DELHI: The Supreme Court yesterday reinstated All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) director P Venugopal, almost six months after he was removed following a bitter turf war with Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss.
BANGALORE: Polling began in 89 constituencies across 11 districts in the first phase of assembly elections in Karnataka at 7 am today amid tight security.
Single page view LONDON: In next 50 years, India's growing wine industry is likely to challenge the supremacy of traditional wine-making countries, a report has said.
NEW YORK: With glitz and glamour, the multi-million-dollar Indian Premier League (IPL) is trying to spin off the country's colonial inheritance - the game of cricket - into a money-making symbol of a brash, emerging nation, reports the New York Times.
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