MaLA confers lifetime achievement award on ex-British Library

On the eve of Harry Potter and its helmer J. K. Rowling?s birthday (on July 31), Karachi celebrated a birthday bash for the wizard at British Council Library here.

The British Library, which is leading an international partnership to digitise rare material from its South Asian printed book collection, has scanned 1,000 old and rare printed Bengali books of the 19th century, according to project co-ordinators.As part of ...

The culturally curious flocked to the British Library last weekend for the London leg of the popular ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival for sessions on a range of topics including travel writing, the constitution, P.G Wodehouse, the Raj, partition and Lutyen's ...

Two handwritten music manuscripts discovered in a library clearout at an amateur orchestra in New Zealand have been confirmed as the work of British composer Gustav Holst, untraced for more than a century.

The iconic British-era Town Hall building which has been the landmark of the walled city as well as the seat of power of the unified MCD till 2012 may finally see a makeover. The building in the heart of Chandni Chowk area has been in ruins since the MCD ...

Filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker has been invited for a masterclass on cinema by the prestigious British Film Institute (BFI) in London. According to a release, Gowariker will be delivering the lecture on June 23. The session is a part of the London Indian Film ...

Neyyattinkara: "My father was a very brave man. He used to intervene in social issues.” These are the words of Pushpamma, the daughter of freedom fighter Athazhamangalam Veeraraghavan, one of the martyrs of the Neyyatinkara police firing during the ...

Historian Mridula Mukherjee narrates how the Quit India movement swept across the country even in the absence of its leaders, convincing the British that they could no longer continue to rule India.   Bombay, August 9, 1942 The city awoke to news of the arrests of the entire Congress leadership. People in their hundreds of thousands rushed to Gowalia Tank (now August Kranti Maidan) where, a day earlier, Gandhiji had made his famous 'Do or Die' speech in an open session of the All India ...

Aundh was reorganised from the ground up, with local administration put in the hands of village panchayats with five elected representatives, voted through new voting rights given to all adults Aundh was one of the first princely states to put down the ...