Culture

UNITED NATIONS, March 19: Violence linked to culture was the main reason for a 20 per cent rise in deaths and injuries of females in Afghanistan last year, UN special envoy to Afghanistan Jan Kubis said on Monday. Despite an overall fall in annual civilian casualties in Afghanistan for the first time in several years, […]

A new study published in Nature Geoscience journal has shown that earthquakes can turn water into gold when there is intense pressure that vaporizes the water. This process leaves gold behind, attached to deposites of the mineral quartz, reported Isciencetimes.com. \”Researchers used a thermo-mechanical piston model to simulate the effects of earthquakes, where fluid-filled cavities

BBC Reported Dozens of people, including police officers have been injured in unrest in Bahrain, on the second anniversary of a Saudi-led intervention in the gulf island state. The Bahraini interior ministry reported that \”domestic terrorists\” had blocked roads and burnt cars. The main opposition group, al-Wefaq, said that at least 35 protesters had been

JOHANNESBERG, March 10: Nelson Mandela has left hospital after \”successful\” medical tests and returned to his home in Johannesburg. [caption id=\"attachment_8600\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\"] Nelson Mandela.[/caption] The 94-year-old former president and anti-apartheid leader was admitted to a hospital in Pretoria yesterday. \”The doctors have completed the tests,\” presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj said in a statement. \”He

ISLAMABAD, March 9, 2013: When we begin to preserve cultures, some of their essence dissipates, detracting the humanness of the language or tradition and replacing it with a nostalgic reverence of something that was, but is no longer tangible. It is for this reason that Richard Wolf, Professor of Music and South Asian Studies at