Formal education in Africa begins early and decisively in Ancient Egypt. By the third millennium BCE, Egypt maintained schools for scribes trained in reading, writing, mathematics, law, and ...

For more than a century, the kilogram was defined by a physical metal object locked away like a treasure. The problem was simple but terrifying: that object could change over time, meaning the world’s ...

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What followed is a 55-year love affair with classical music — branching out to discover greats like Brahms, Bruch, Mahler, Chopin, Copland, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Elgar as well as lesser known ...

The Mahamagha Mahotsavam, which is described as the Kumbh Mela of Kerala, being held on the banks of Bharathapuzha (Nila ...

Organisers said more than three-and-a-half lakh people are participating in the religious congregation daily.

A Science You Use Every Day Did you know that every time you open a map app or check the weather, you are using a science that began thousands of years ago? Geography is not just about countries and ...

In many fields like athletics and performing arts, both students and teachers have to put in efforts for achieve excellence ...

A bus-size asteroid is racing through space on a trajectory that will bring it close to Earth, and NASA is watching it with ...

Pacific making significant, personal contributions to various charitable causes ...

Since Partition, waves of violence in the NWFP have forced members of the community to flee to Amritsar. Families arrived in small groups in 1997, 2002 and 2008, the last major influx coinciding with ...