Culture

<p> <strong>Usually, a father on his daughter’s marriage gives her ornaments, clothes, white goods, utensils and other household items as dowry. In Tamil Nadu’s Pudukkottai Tamil poet Thengam Murthy made …

<p> Going to any lengths to clean one’s house has got some limits and breaking them was a Ghaziabad woman who hung from her covered balcony railing on the fourth …

<p> <strong>A 13-year-old girl from Madhya Pradesh’s Raisen district, has set a stellar example for others to follow, including children. Reena, who is the daughter of a daily wage worker, …

<p> <strong>The space dagger — made with meteorites’ rocks — entombed with King Tutankhamen has always been an enigma for historians and archaeologists. Now a new study brings to the …

<p> Having fallen in an open 50-feet-deep well, a leopard was fortunately rescued in time saving it from drowning. The incident happened in Alkuti village located in Parner subdivision, Ahmednagar, …

<p> Forest rangers in West Bengal used their knowledge of physics and applied Archimedes’ principle to rescue a young wild elephant who had fallen into a deep pit.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> …

<p> <strong>There is one thing Indians are great at and that is inventiveness or ‘jugaad’, if you please. The latest example of this attribute comes from Bihar where Guddu Sharma …

<p> <strong>Tanzanian artist Kili Paul, whose videos of lip-syncing to popular Bollywood songs have gone viral on social media over the past many months, was honoured by the High Commission …

<p> <strong>With the Statue of Unity located at Kevadiya in Narmada district of Gujarat, attracting tourists from India and abroad in droves, the Western Railway has decided to provide another …

<p> <strong>It was a novel and pleasant experience for the deaf and mute residents of Jammu and Kashmir’s Dadhkai village in Doda district, as for the first time they had …

<p> <strong>Opening their hearts literally for the people in need, a couple in Hyderabad have opened a house for them. One is talking about an Open House or an initiative …

<p> <strong>In all aspects they are forced to share everything from bed to bathroom but when it came to voting they two decided on their own and kept secret their …

<p> <strong>At an age when most children would like to play outdoor or video games, Reyansh Surani practices and teaches Yoga. Making India and his parents proud, he has become …

<p> <strong>Now Indian Army will find mention in science books as Jayaditya Purkayastha, a herpetologist from Assam has named a new species of bent-toed gecko lizard, discovered at a military …

<p> <strong>Mumbai, the financial capital of India has been connecting with its past and last year the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation restored the 157-year-old Fitzgerald Fountain at the Metro Cinema Junction …

<p> An inspiring video posted by YouTuber Hirak J Das has taken the social media by storm as it conveys impactfully the age-old valuable lesson of saving driblets to create …

<p> <strong>Delhi is all set to see a riot of colours as thousands of new electric autorickshaws, in bright colours, will start plying on the Capital roads in the coming …

<p> India’s Harmanpreet Kaur was caught napping in the third women’s ODI cricket match versus New Zealand and ended up losing her wicket at a crucial juncture in a rare …

<p> <strong>In a significant move, the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams Board of Trustees have decided to shut down all the private eating outlets and restaurants at the hill-top temple town. Instead, …

<p> <strong>One look at the world’s heaviest strawberry, there is a desire to eat it! Recently, Ariel Chahi of Israel created a world record by growing a supersized strawberry that …

<p> <strong>While carrying out excavation of a buried temple on premises of Sari Deula temple in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, the Archaeological Survey of India found a slanting roof which has decorated …