National Customs Day: Housed in a 400-year old building, Goa’s Customs & GST Museum is the only one of its kind in India. Here’s a quick peek into this museum.

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It’s just that the term could be applied there very easily,” said historian Manu Pillai during an insightful discussion about his latest book Gods, Guns and Missionaries at the Hindu Lit for Life 2025 ...

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Melba Montgomery, a country singer known for her duets with George Jones, Gene Pitney and Charlie Louvin, has died. She was 86. Her death was confirmed by her ...

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As European power grew in the Indian subcontinent in the 16th and 17th centuries, the religion underwent yet another process of reimagination. Manu Pillai’s latest book, Gods, Guns and Missionaries ...

“I hate to use the word ‘hard-core,’” Mr. Jones once said, “but that’s what Melba is — a down-to-earth hard-core country singer.”Credit...United Artists Ms. Montgomery and M ...

It comes after Macy Gray snubbed both post-show interviews for The Masked Singer after her elimination, it has been revealed. The US soul singer, 57, was the latest star to be unmasked on the ITV ...

Another The Masked Singer UK contestant has been revealed as the hit ITV competition continues. And though they all blew us away with their singing, sadly, it was time to say goodbye to one of the ...

If any artist embodied a supernova in 2024, it was Chappell Roan. At once flamboyant and introverted, the pop singer from Willard, Missouri (population 6,300) burst into the mainstream with her ...

KN Chandrasekharan Pillai passed away on Friday at the age of 81.Dr Pillai hails from Alappuzha district in Kerala. He completed his degree from the University of Kerala and received his LLB and ...

He truly had one of the great voices in all music, with a resonant tone and high notes that roared with passion. The Russian baritone stormed the prestigious Cardiff Singer of the World competition in ...