Steeped in excitement … Tad. Photograph: Benji Davies Spring is bursting with good books for five- to eight-year-olds, and newly independent readers will lap up the cat-and-dog tale of Jasper and Scruff (Little Tiger) by author-illustrator Nicola…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Close on the heels of University Grants Commission (UGC) framing a stringent set of regulations to the institutions under various universities in the country to achieve the deemed university status, no colleges in the…
Panaji, Mar 25 (KNN) To scrutinize and empanel institutes as skill training providers under a scheme that provides incentives to industries for training prospective employees, the department of industries has constituted a committee. The committee will…
The number of children’s books featuring African or African American characters rose from 172 out of a total of 3,000 received by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center in 2008 to 401 out of 3,617 in…
To become an IAS officer is a cherished dream of a lot of Indian students. Motivation, hard work, following the right course of preparation, expert guidance and support, and working with the right kind of materials and…
If you aspire to become an IAS officer in India, it is good to start your preparation when you are in high school. Even little things you do towards this end in a planned way can boost…
Anees Salim’s The Small Town Sea and Manu Pillai’s The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore – two of the most critically acclaimed books from Kerala – will soon be adapted to screen. On Monday, Harper Collins Publishers, India, released…
Upstaged dreams … Kate Winslet in the film adaptation of Revolutionary Road. Photograph: Allstar/BBC FILMS/Sportsphoto Ltd There are different kinds of loss – of self, of someone else, of a dream. Sometimes a book can…
GSLV- MK III NEW DELHI: Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Thursday kicked off a national programme under which it will tie up with institutes interested in developing space technology and application programmes to meet the development…
‘Brilliant eye for the absurd’: Beatrice Alemagna’s Harold Snipperpot’s Best Disaster Ever. Photograph: Beatrice Alemagna Poor Harold Snipperpot is about to turn seven and longing for his first proper birthday party. Normally too uptight for…