Holi, a popular ancient Hindu festival mainly celebrated across India, Nepal, and South Asian diaspora, including Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, Mauritius, Fiji, Malaysia, Singapore, Netherlands, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United States and the UK.by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists across March 17 and 18, signalling the arrival of spring, blossoming of love,…
St Patrick’s Day also known as the Feast of Saint Patrick or in Irish La Fheile Padraig, sees a celebration of the heritage and culture of the Irish. St Patrick’s Day commemorates St Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland, a 5th century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. His father was a deacon, and his…
Nazanin Zaghari- Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori, British- Iranian nationals, jailed in Iran, touched down at RAF Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, just after 01:00GMT on Thursday. Ms. Zaghari- Ratcliffe was accused of plotting to overthrow Iran’s government and Mr. Ashoori had been held for allegedly spying claims denied by both of them. The International Revolutionary Guard…
India’s greatest cultural ambassador sitarist Ravi Shankar, ten years after his death which fell in 2020 is being marked by the pandemic-delayed Shankar 100, two months events began in February in London’s South Bank Centre, in which his daughter, sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar, was among the family and students paying tribute. Anoushka was the heart…
The International Women’s Day on 8th March, join UN women and the world in coming together under the theme Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”. We now understand the vital link between gender, social equity, and climate change and recognize that without gender equality today, a sustainable future, an equal future, remains out of…
The Cloaca Maxima, ( Cloaca, Roman goddess), one of the world’s earliest sewage systems and a sacred symbol of Roman culture and Roman engineering, was built during either the Roman Kingdom or the early Roman Republic, around 600 BC, under the orders of the King of Rome, Tarquinius Priscus, to drain local marshes and remove…
Great Britain ended the Beijing Winter Olympics with two medals – a gold for Women’s curling and silver for Men’s curling. Eve Muirhead’s fourth attempt, after heart-breaking near misses and career-saving surgery on an arthritic hip, finally has her Olympic curling gold medal, said “ Without these girls being so strong, this dream would not…
Colin Barrett, a regular in the New Yorker, a prize-winning author of Young Skins, in 2013, introduces chronicler of small-town County Mayo, in rural west Ireland with a serious prose style, brings eight stories, and takes us back to the barren backwaters of County Mayo, via Toronto, and illuminates the lives of outcasts, misfits, and…
India achieved the feat after defeating West Indies by 8 runs in the second T20I of the three-match series at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Full-time Indian captain Rohit Sharma is yet to lose a single game. Pakistan is the only other team to have won more than 100 T20I, by winning 118 T20Is.