The General Assembly hall, where world leaders come together every year for the high-level UN session, was packed with UN diplomats, officials, yoga gurus and practitioners, children and people from various backgrounds as India's Permanent Mission to the UN organised the commemoration of the 5th International Day of Yoga Thursday.
The focus of the festival is to raise the cultural profile of India in Europe in general.
Meanwhile, noted artists, including Padma Shree awardee Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, Nilima Sheikh and Surendra Nair have criticised the police action.
'Greek Landscape' is now the most expensive painting by Akbar Padamsee.
Arshad Warsi on working in Golmaal Again, gearing up for the third part in Munnabhai series and more...
Get your selfie sticks out, because believe it or not, there's now a museum of selfies!
Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games organisers unveiled the medals to be awarded
Kanna aims to be subtle, sweet and deliver a message into the bargain -- but ends up reaching only the halfway point for each.
Barcelona talisman has become just as dangerous from dead ball situations too
If you have a 15-to-17 year old looking to fly off to the land of opportunity, Anjuli Bhargava tells you how you could secure admission into an Ivy League college.
Thursday will be former President APJ Abdul Kalam's second death anniversary.
'If we keep losing such institutions, we will soon become a city and culture of short-term memory.' 'Nothing to remind us of the years gone by and eventually with nothing to remember.'
Gifted writer Pico Iyer and filmmaker Martin Scorsese in a discussion on Kundun, the film on the life of the Dalai Lama in New York.
An alien monster to begin with, the Kochi art biennale has slowly wormed its way into citizens's hearts, says Anjuli Bhargava.
Kishore Singh on Jean-Michel Basquiat and his worth.
'I felt like I was very focused today. Every match I've played this year, I've been pretty good. It's probably because of everything going on'
The sculpture will be exhibited for public viewing on February 1, the day Kalpana Chawla and six others perished in the Columbia Space Shuttle tragedy last year.
Her train was 8-foot-long and a limousine wasn't enough to carry it! Read on to find out how she finally arrived at the venue.
Travelling to Rajasthan this month and haven't planned your itinerary? We'll help you out!
Curriculum manager Tanvi Khemani explains how these courses and skills can help you achieve your immediate and long term career goals.
When Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje Scindia decided to convert her government's capital outpost into a hub of culture, she transformed Bikaner House into Delhi's premier cultural space, notes Kishore Singh.
A thrilling vertical manoeuvre by Su30 fighter jets and performance by motorcycle-borne soldiers among a host of other activities today cast a spell over thousands of people who attended the carnival 'Indradhanush' at the Rajpath in New Delhi to commemorate the golden jubilee of the 1965 Indo-Pak War.
Events that shaped the nation in the past 48 hours in images.
'I sat down and asked them what they would want in their new school. One student said a football field, another one asked for computers. One little girl came and sat next to me and said, "A separate toilet for the girls." I think these small things make a huge difference in the future of education in India,' Nita Ambani tells Aseem Chhabra/Rediff.com
These 10 images prove that we live in a crazy, bizarre world.
The city-state is trying to shed its rigid image.
Between that constant feeling of I've seen it all before and inability to balance comedy and darkness, Ludo wobbles towards its finish, sighs Sukanya Verma.
'I have always believed that life doesn't get easier or more forgiving; we only get stronger and more resilient.'
History can actually be fun, discovers Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com
Here's your weekly digest of odd, crazy moments from around the world.
Dayanita Singh, artist and curator, is giving photography a new art form.
As many as 54 boats, including 19 snake boats, took part in the race that is considered the country's biggest watersport event.
Painter-filmmaker, M F Hussain to attempt a comedy with Urmila Matondkar in lead.
Heart beats talent says a recent research. Do you agree?
Wahab's celebration style was the talk of the PSL after he exhibited it in the first match but has now tapered down his aggression.
Martand Singh, the master of weaves, took India to the world.
