Dubai Municipality's Environment Department is organizing an art competition on wetlands for children of 5-18 years under the banner 'Healthy wetlands… Healthy people.' Two winning art works will represent the UAE and will be...
Fariba and her daughter Ava have travelled from Sari (near the Caspian coast) to Maydon Shoosh in working-class south Tehran to buy a dinner-service for Ava's wedding trousseau. They are determined to pick up a bargain today as...
The tenth Bridal Asia fashion show was held at the Hyatt Regency for two days and the capital was wowed by the luxurious garments by well-known designers from Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The first day was a...
Washington (UPI) Oct 3, 2008 - The August military confrontation between Georgia and Russia had a crippling collateral effect on Azerbaijan. In the wake of the conflict, which effectively shut in the majority of Azeri oil...
Patrons who had frequented the cinemas and particularly the multiplexes to watch the two Eid releases, DRONA and KIDNAP, were in for a pleasant surprise, as they ran into the first official poster of the next upcoming...
After weaving together the beautiful story of a dyslexic child in Taare Zameen Par (TZP), writer-actor Amol Gupte is now having a ball tormenting Priyanka Chopra in the forthcoming film Kaminey. "It’s nice to be on another...
By Jeremy Reynalds 9/29/08 Azerbaijan (ANS) -- Authorities in Azerbaijan have opened a new investigation into the June 22 arrest of a Baptist pastor, according to Rev. Ilya Zenchenko, president of the Azerbaijan Union of...
Amol Palekar staged Badal Sircar’s ‘Pagla Ghoda’ at the annual South Asian Theatre Festival, New Jersey, US, recently. Passionate about theatre: Amol Palekar Once a theatre man, always a theatre man. The passion runs deep. Take...
Livno, Bosnia-Herzegovina: What may be the world s largest karst polje a distinctive landscape shaped by water and soluble rocks has been officially recognised as a Ramsar wetland of international importance.
SANTA FE, Argentina, Oct 1 (Tierramérica) - Wearing a cap and a white apron, Melina Lucero cuts the heads and tails off fish caught in the Paraná River, before skilfully filleting them. Her co-workers will process and package...