By ISHA SODHI
​I have been asked multiple times to write a blog post on how to inject an ethnic flavour, especially Indian, into personal home decor. It is a fabulous idea for a post, however, also a particularly hard one as home decor is a very personal style statement and as such no set rules apply. In the end, we all have individual tastes and...

BY CATE KORTZEBORN
As a person with Medicare, you have important rights. One of them is the right to appeal. An appeal is the action you can take if you disagree with a coverage or payment decision by Medicare or your Medicare health plan. For example, you can appeal if Medicare or your plan denies: % A request for a health care service, supply, item, or prescription drug that you think you should get.

U.S. experts believe they have found Christopher Columbus’s vessel Santa Maria on the ocean floor near Haiti in what could be one of the most important underwater finds ever made, British newspaper The Independent reported. A team headed by underwater archaeologist Barry Clifford believes that the remains of the approximately 19-metre-long vessel are lying north of the coast of Haiti in 10 to 15 feet of water, 

LONDON - Contemporary Indian master F.N.Souza's 1957 painting, estimated between $1.7 million to $2.5 million, is leading at the Modern and Contemporary South Asian art sale at Christie's slated for June 11, the organizers said June 4. The painting "Man & Woman Grinding Their Teeth" borrows from traditional African art and cubism with both figures painted with mask-like faces and elongated features.

I write this as a reflection of my summer in the beautiful city of Bengaluru (in the state of Karnataka, India), working for an NGO called Youth for Seva (YFS). For more information about this internship, log onto http://www.sewausa.org/yuva-sewa-international-summer-youth-internship-program. This experience had many flavors weaving in and out of each other, creating a rich and vibrant combination...

A short film based on stories of success of ordinary and celebrated women in India was released  by the European Union in collaboration with UN Women. Ranging from tales of a mango orchard owner who helps local women set up small businesses to a visually-impaired mountaineer to a pioneering women’s rights activist, the film “Women who Inspire” is filled with candid interviews of those...

Ever since he tamed a cheetah in Bahrain last year, an animal trainer from India has become a much sought-after name in the Gulf countries for taming wild beasts.
“I am flooded with offers from Oman. I have already received orders to train five cheetahs and four leopards,” Christo Babu, a graduate in business management, said. His ability to tame fierce animals into exotic pets...

nly makes song-and-dance spectaculars, according to a British film scholar. “After Satyajit Ray there is hardly any Indian filmmaker whom people know of in the rest of the world, Europe in particular,” UK-based film historian and author Geoffrey Nowell-Smith said. He said Ray has been the most famous Indian filmmaker globally and now the general perception in the rest of the world is that India makes...

“Ashes were found in a green marble box (manjusha) kept in a box of stone from Sarnath Stupa during the digging carried out by Jagat Singh, diwan of Raja Chaitsingh of Benaras in 1798.
It is believed that the ashes were immersed in river Ganga and manjusha was handed over to a museum in Kolkata,” the eastern region of Archaeological Survey of India said. Meanwhile, between 1958 and 1981, K P Jaiswal Institute in Patna started an excavation around the Stupa in Vaishali of Bihar under the supervision of A S Altekar, wherein they found another manjusha with remains of Lord Buddha, which is now kept in the Patna museum. During the British Raj, in the West-North part of Nagarjunakonda Buddh Mahachait, a coolie found a small broken pot containing the remains which were confirmed of Lord Buddha after examinations.

A century-old shady tree, planted by British settlers at a famous park in Udhagamandalam during the colonial period, was uprooted in heavy winds and rains. According to local historians, the 123-year-old tree, named as Rhopalia Crelata Myrtaceae in scientific parlance, was planted at the famed Sims Park at nearby Coonoor in 1890 by some colonial botanical enthusiasts.
The 150-feet tall tree was brought from Australia and planted by the Britishers in 1890 and was one of the 160 saplings planted from as many countries during different period in the Park, horticultural department sources said. According to Park authorities, a few branches of the tree had fallen during the last seasonal rain but it was being maintained properly. There could have been casualties had the tree fallen during the day time when the park is thronged by tourists in large numbers, park sources added.