Tokyo, March 28 (IANS) Japanese tour agencies are bracing for an influx of millions of tourists nationwide during the annual cherry blossom season as enthusiasm around the flower-viewing festival has doubled since last year. In…
Thiruvananthapuram, March 27 (IANS) Christians in Kerala on Sunday celebrated Easter in all its splendour with a bit of everything — prayers, good food and drinks. From early morning, most homes saw activity as people…
Mexico City, March 27 (IANS) An effigy of US Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump was set on fire along with other figures during a traditional Easter celebration in Mexico, the media reported on Sunday. The…
Tral (Jammu and Kashmir), March 26 (IANS) A Class 10 student from this nondescript town in south Kashmir, notorious for as a militancy hotbed, has developed an online radio application all by himself to highlight…
Kochi, March 26 (IANS) Having turned a restaurateur after a five year stint with Citibank, Minu Pauline, 28, thought of those who are hungry but have no money to buy food. She mulled over the…
New York, March 26 (IANS) A name may have more to it than Shakespeare might have thought when he asked what’s in a name?. Researchers have now found that people with a conventional name, especially…
London, March 25 (IANS) Archaeologists who got permission to scan Shakespeare’s grave for the first time believe that the Bards skull could be missing from his tomb in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. A team…
New York, March 25 (IANS) Shedding new light on how status affects workplace relationships, a new study has found that workers are most likely to help colleagues who are moderately distant from themselves in status…
Thiruvananthapuram, March 25 (IANS) The one thing all Christians in Kerala eagerly wait for on Good Friday is ‘kanji’ — the steaming hot gruel made of rice and served immediately after the end of mass….
Amritsar: People celebrate holi in Amritsar on March 23, 2016. (Photo: IANS) By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, March 24 (IANS) It may not be related to the famous Tomatina festival in Spain’s Bunol town or the…
By Mudita Girotra New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) At a time of upsurge in religious symbolism in the country, is Bhagat Singh’s stand on atheism relevant? It would seem so, if one goes by the…
Port Louis, March 23 (IANS) Mauritius island has been ranked second in Africa in the World Happiness Report compiled by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network for the United Nations. The report, released on March 20,…
New York, March 23 (IANS) While many women gamers can shrug off much of the trash talk they hear while playing online video games, sexual harassment sticks with them even when they are offline –…
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Tuesday requested Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung to reconsider his decision to scrap the ‘thana’ (police station) level committees’. “I have learnt through media…
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) Around 59 percent of employees working in micro medium and small enterprises (MSMEs) are skilled, 21 percent are on job training and 20 percent are unskilled, says a collaborative research…
London, March 22 (IANS) An international team of archaeologists have revealed that culture played a major role in the significant increase of pottery production at the end of the last Ice Age. Invented in Japan…
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) IKEA Foundation has committed 12.4 million euro to Water.org to expand its WaterCredit model, helping one million people in India and Indonesia to have access to safe water and sanitation,…
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) Many areas of central and east Delhi witnessed heavy traffic snarls as a portion of Bhairon Marg connecting Mathura Road to Ring Road caved in on Tuesday. Delhi Traffic Police…
Guna (Madhya Pradesh), March 22 (IANS) Residents of a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna district have started utilising the money usually paid to organise the Mrityubhoj or, the feast held in the name of the…
By Ruwa Shah Lahore, March 22 (IANS) My fear was palpable as I entered this graceful and cultured Pakistani city that was quite high on my “I cannot ever go there” list because of its…