Indian artist Husain to paint 100 pieces in one year for 22 million dollars
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India's best known artist Maqbool Fida Husain has struck a deal with a millionaire businessman to give him 100 paintings for one billion rupees (21.73 million dollars) in a year's time.
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One of the countryâs biggest insurance firms today announced plans to transfer more than 1,100 jobs to India over the next few years, sparking fears of a âcrisisâ in the UK.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Cult British graffiti artist Banksy secured his place among the country's art elite on Wednesday when one of his works fetched a record 102,000 pounds ($201,100) at a Sotheby's auction.
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A historic painting of a meeting between Indian and British officials during the Raj is sold for a record price.
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A diamond-encrusted skull by British artist Damien Hirst sold on Thursday for 100 million dollars (75 million euros), a record price for work sold by a living artist, a London gallery announced.
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Indian guru Mata Amritanandamayi pledges $23m to help tsunami survivors rebuild their homes.
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Javed Akhtar, poet, lyricist and screenplay writer turns 63 on Thursday.
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The actor will join the likes of Amitabh Bachchan, Ash and SRK.
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The famed composer seeks out some NRI performers for his concerts.
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Fifty impressionist masterpieces by Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and other French artists are headed for China for a unprecedented three-city, six-month tour due to begin next month.
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The actor pays as much as Rs 26 crore in income tax.
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Shah Rukh Khan posed and artist Maqbool Fida Hussain painted at Bonhams, London. The painting was called "Art For Freedom".
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Despite the shaky state of world financial markets, there are still plenty of people willing to spend millions of dollars to put Impressionist, Modern or contemporary art on their walls.
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Artist Atul Dodiya is feted at galleries in New York and London where his paintings sell for six figure sums. But it's in Mumbai where he chooses to create art reflecting the tumultuous changes his native India is undergoing.
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Nearly 1,100 diplomats would be added as part of a plan to double the corps' size to 22,000 by 2018.
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Mukta Arts makes an unusual announcement.
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A diamond-encrusted platinum skull by artist Damien Hirst has been sold to an investment group for the asking price of $100 million, a spokeswoman for Hirst's London gallery White Cube said on Thursday.