In the streets of Lahore, there are hints that the kite flying festival, Basant, has returned. Someone is fishing a kite from electricity cables, the distant sound of a drum beat, a flash of neon when ...

Pakistanis are taking to rooftops across Lahore as they again celebrate the Basant festival by flying colorful kites above their city. The event had been banned due to the many deaths and injuries.

The film has already been banned at Parliament House by bureaucrats on the grounds it might “cause offence” to members of the public. Now it’s set to mark its world premiere on Australia Day. But the ...

Every year around mid-January, as the cold winter air begins to soften, rooftops across Gujarat, Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra burst into colour. The sky fills with bright kites, ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz were seen flying kites together in Gujarat's Ahmedabad on Monday, just days before the festival of Makar Sankranti. The leaders flew ...

In a time when daily interactions are increasingly mediated by screens, the Great Indian Kite Festival, scheduled to be held on January 11, is positioning itself as a space for people to come together ...

Gandhinagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will inaugurate the International Kite Festival in Ahmedabad on Jan 12. A tourism department statement said that 135 kite ...

Every January, Gujarat looks up. From the first light of dawn to well past sunset, rooftops, terraces and streets across the state come alive as thousands of kites take to the sky. This is Uttarayan, ...

When President Donald Trump weighed in after the Seattle mayoral election to brand the winner, Katie Wilson, a communist, it was yet another example of national politics intruding on local political ...

We live in an age where superhero films dominate movie theaters. Almost everyone knows the difference between the Hulk and Captain America, and audiences turn up in droves to watch Deadpool (Ryan ...

The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration on Monday imposed a complete ban on kite flying and the sale of kites within the city limits, citing serious public safety concerns associated with ...

India’s Green Gold Animation has announced a major new international collaboration with U.K.-based Red Kite Animation on The Assassin, an animated feature unveiled at the Goa Film Festival and Waves ...