Exquisitely carved interiors, intricate gold tapestry, crisp white curtains and shimmering bejewelled walls - not for nothing is India's Palace on Wheels one of the top 10 luxury trains in the world. And now it offers more.

The 700-year-old glass art of Ferozabad in Uttar Pradesh came to the centre-stage of global contemporary art  with the unveiling of a 4.2 metre high futuristic glass installation "The Precious Stonewall" conceived by French glass artist Jean-Michel Othoniel.

India will revisit a slice of history next year when it takes a specially curated show of paintings by Rabindranath Tagore to Paris after 81 years to mark his 150th birth centenary in 2011, Culture Secretary Jawahar Sircar said in the capital Sunday.

It was a day of desires being fulfilled for residents of south Delhi with the opening of the Metro's Central Secretariat-Qutub Minar section, connecting north Delhi to the satellite town of Gurgaon.

Former cricket captain Imran Khan believes that the Pakistani High Commissioner to Britain Wajid Shamsul Hassan had made a premature statement of calling Salman Butt, Muhammad Asif and Muhammad Aamer, currently under probe for spot-fixing in England, as innocent.

US-based Hindus want high-speed internet access as a universal fundamental right.