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  • Painter Tyeb Mehta is no more

    Painter Tyeb Mehta is no more

    Painter Tyeb Mehta, 84 died at his residence in Mumbai on 2 July. He was suffering from heart trouble. He is survived by his wife, son and daughter. One of his painting sold for Rs. 3.1 crore in 2005. Last year his painting ‘Figure on a Rickshaw’ (1984) sold at the Christie’s auction for $ [...]

  • Same-sex ties decriminalised in India

    Colonial era law overturned

    New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has ruled that homosexual intercourse between consenting adults is not a criminal act. The ruling overturns a 148-year-old colonial law which describes a same-sex relationship as an “unnatural offence”. Homosexual acts were punishable by a 10-year prison sentence.
    Delhi’s High Court ruled that the law outlawing homosexual [...]

  • A data bank on Indians abroad

    New Delhi: The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) has launched an ambitious project to create a data bank of all those going abroad to ensure their well-being, a move triggered by recent incidents of attacks on Indians in Australia. The project, first of its kind, was taken up after the Ministry realised that there [...]

  • ‘Jacko loved India’

    CHENNAI: Music maestro A.R. Rahman, who is now in Los Angeles, said he was shocked at the “untimely passing away” of Michael Jackson, who he described as “one of the greatest musicians of our time.”
    In a tribute to the ‘King of Pop,’ Rahman said Jackson, for most of this generation, was an icon who made [...]

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