English literature, both prose and poetry, has always had a strong connection to the geographical features and landscape of the UK.

British Hindu and Sikh groups have joined the growing debate on the grooming of young girls by complaining against the use of the term “Asian” to describe the men involved in these cases.

The Beau Sancy diamond, which is thought to be a product of the Indian diamond mines of Golconda, was auctioned for $9.7 million by the Sotheby’s as part of its jewellery sale in Geneva on Tuesday.

Marylebone Cricket Club, the spiritual guardian of the laws of cricket, has issued a guide with pictorial examples on dress regulations in parts of Lord’s cricket stadium.

A series of special performances by horses and dancers from across the Commonwealth were held at the four-day Royal Windsor Horse Show, which ended on Sunday, to mark the diamond jubilee of Queen Eliz

London: An impressive collection of photographs of India, dating more than a century ago, have been discovered in a shoebox in an Edinburgh institute. However, identity of the photographer is a mystery.
The rare and fragile glass plate negatives, which date back to around 1912, show life on the subcontinent at the high point of the British Raj and mostly detail life in Kolkata, which was a major commercial hub.
The plate-glass negatives were found by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland in Edinburgh.

London has fallen in love with street food in these times of economic austerity. The buzz around street food has boosted Indian street food, which was relatively unknown to a vast majority of Londoners, to the front of the race.

Norwegian artist Edvard Munch’s iconic pastel drawing, The Scream, made history on Wednesday evening as it was auctioned for $119.9 million by Sotheby’s in New York.

Multi-talented Leonardo da Vinci (April 1452-May 1519) is primarily known as a painter, but the new exhibition at the Buckingham Palace of his studies of the human body will show his genius as an human anatomist.
The largest-ever exhibition of Da Vinci’s anatomical work, which takes place almost 500 years after his death, features 87 pages from his notebooks, including 24 sides of previously unexhibited material.

In strong criticism of US-Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch, the House of Commons select committee on culture, media and sport said in its phone-hacking report Tuesday the News Corporation chairman was “not a fit person to exercise stewardship of a major international company”.