Bhubaneswar
The Odisha government is exploring the possibility of introducing an electronic hundi system to enable devotees to make donations online to the reve...
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New Delhi/Ulaanbaatar
India on Saturday transported the sacred relics associated with Lord Buddha to Mongolia for a 10-day public exposition, underscoring the strong ...
Jafri Muddasr Nafil
Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, who died in 2018, once said, "The food we eat represen...
Adelaide
Scientists have uncovered a 500-million-year-old fossil in Canada that could help explain a puzzling gap in Earth’s evolutionary history known as the &...
Srinagar
Eid-ul-Azha was observed across Kashmir on Wednesday with thousands of worshippers gathering at mosques, shrines and eidgahs to offer special prayers marking the fest...
As Eid al Adha or the Feast of Sacrifice comes, my thoughts turn to Hebron or Al Khalil, a sprawling town in the southern West Bank in the Palestinian Territories. The Eid commemorates the sacr...
Basit Zargar/Srinagar
Markets across Srinagar are witnessing a massive rush of shoppers ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, with commercial hubs packed from morning till late evening as peo...
Zeba Naseem
“In the morning, we arrived in Mecca, the city of peace. May Allah exalt its honour.”
These words, written near...
Shillong
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Friday welcomed the inclusion of Khasi and Garo languages in the CBSE’s three-language framework, describing ...
Mansooruddin Faridi/New Delhi
In ancient times, pilgrims often travelled for months, sometimes even years, to reach Makkah for Hajj. Some crossed scorching deserts on camels, while others walked thousands...
New Delhi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi exchanged a range of culturally significant gifts with Nordic leaders during the third India-Nordic Summit in Norway, highlight...
Bhopal
The Central Zone bench of the National Green Tribunal has sought replies from the Central and Madhya Pradesh pollution control boards over allegations that thousands of...
Delhi
Droupadi Murmu will confer the Padma Shri posthumously on noted agricultural scientist Gopal Ji Trivedi on May 25 in recognition of his lifelong contributions to agricul...
Carrying shallow wicker baskets in their hands, hundreds of villagers from Panzath vil...
Pallab Bhattacharyya
Some writers observe the world from a safe aesthetic distance, while others walk into its burning edges with memory and responsibility. Shehnab Sahin belo...