Tag: India

Pix: Edinburgh International Festival Programme launch

This year’s Edinburgh International Festival is to showcase the cultures of Asia. The programme for the three-week arts event was launched in the capital on...

Irvine Welsh hosts special screening for charity

By Amanda MacMillan BEST-selling author Irvine Welsh is hosting a special screening of his famous first novel to help raise funds for a Scottish charity...

Harris Tweed makers target India and America

By Michael MacLeod SALES of Harris Tweed are soaring in India, but the famous Scottish wool still can’t crack America. An unprecedented surge in demand has...

Rankin gears up for 2010 world tour and ponders Rebus return

By Michael MacLeod CRIME writer Ian Rankin has revealed his plans for a world tour in 2010 – and dropped another hint that his...

Grandson of Gandhi backs Kenny MacAskill over release of Lockerbie bomber

By Oliver Farrimond THE GRANDSON of Muhatma Gandhi has backed Kenny MacAskill’s decision to release Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi. Speaking just days before...

Scottish company use LEDs to fix potholes

  By Cara Sulieman A SCOTS company has harnessed infra-red technology to fix potholes without the usual noise and disruption of traditional road-works. And they have now...

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