Sunday, January 10, 2016

India's 1st World Music Festival

Udaipur will host India’s first World Music Festival on February 13 and 14 where more than 100 musicians from over 12 countries, including Spain, Ghana, Italy, France, Venezuela and India will perform. The festival will reportedly be held annually at the same time in Udaipur and will aim to make it a world music destination in South Asia.One of the most popular Fado singers from Portugal, Carminho will be performing for the first time in India at the event. 

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Swedish Cup Grand Prix



Indian shooter Apurvi Chandela shot her way to a second successive gold medal and emerged as the 'Shooter of the Tournament' she won her first gold medal of the tournament on 5 january 2015 with a world record score of 211.2.The silver and bronze went to Swedish shooters Astrid Steffensen (207.6) and Stine Nielsen (185.0).

World’s first slum museum



Dharavi in Mumbai is to get the world’s first slum museum,The museum will showcase some of the myriad objects that are produced every year in Dharavi.The small mobile museum will open in February for two months and display everything from pottery and textiles to recycled items.Following the success of Slumdog Millionaire,the slum has become a tourist attraction and guides offer tours of its hundreds of workshops.

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