Category: Culture and History
September 5, 2019, marks the 114th anniversary of the infamous Treaty of Portsmouth. This treaty was formally signed between Imperial Japan and Imperial Russia to end the 1904–05 Russo-Japanese War. It was signed on...
Africans are making French a truly global language. French has moved up a place to become the world’s fifth most spoken language, thanks largely to the millions of Africans who speak it each day....
Before his death 2,000 years ago in August AD 14, the ageing Roman emperor Augustus composed a political statement that recorded his unprecedented bid for power, half a century earlier. “At the age of...
El 21 de mayo de cada año desde 2001 la UNESCO conmemora el Día Mundial de la Diversidad Cultural para el Diálogo y el Desarrollo. Esta celebración tiene como objetivo ayudar a comprender el valor de la diversidad cultural y a mejorar la convivencia. El objetivo de la conmemoración de este día es, precisamente pasar de la concepción clásica de una integración de tipo económica y social (a nivel de clases sociales y de ascenso económico) para arribar a un concepto más abarcador, como plantea Alain Touraine, viabilizando no solo el progreso económico sino también un desarrollo e integración de tipo “cultural”.
Aamir Khan released his film ‘Dangal’ around the at the time of border standoff in Doklam and scored smashing records in China’s Box Office. Suddenly, the Chinese stopped worrying about border issues and...
Indian Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar will inaugurate the 17th World Sanskrit Conference to be held at Vancouver, Canada from 9th July to 13th July 2018. More than 500 scholars and delegates from over 40 countries...
Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensemble of Mumbai declared as a World Heritage Property by UNESCO in Manama, Bahrain today In yet another landmark achievement, India’s nomination of the “Victorian and Art Deco Ensembles...
Washington President Donald Trump today said he wants foreign workers to come in the US through a merit-based immigration system so as to meet the demands of companies that are moving into America in greater...
Putting a spotlight on the latest European cinema, the European Union Film Festival (EUFF) will premiere in New Delhi on 18th June 2018 at the Siri Fort Auditorium. With a selection of 24 latest European films...
The question today is: Can the Sufism survive in UAE with all these socio-economic and cultural transformations and political and religious challenges, especially with the dominance of Wahhabism in the Gulf states and the...