Stories of life of African slaves owned by the Portuguese Christian sailors are remarkably different from stories of African slaves owned b...

"The grief of this day - felt not only by the late Queen's family but all round the nation, Commonwealth and world - arises from her abunda...

A crematorium east of Delhi built funeral pyres in its parking lot. A similar situation was seen in Aurangabad where 9 bodies were burnt at...

With the mobile internet suspended here for the past eight days, protesters have been spilling their anger and resentment against the highl...

Pfau, born in Leipzig, in 1929, arrived in Karachi in 1960 and volunteered at a local leprosy colony. She was a member of the Society of Da...

The commercial business of organising last rites is modernising as fast and as radically as many other enterprises in a society with growin...

The Mughal-style final resting places of many European adventurers bear testimony to the melting-pot culture of India, says Arjun Kumar

Jerusalem is one of the eternal cities of the world. Jewish lore dates it back to the ancient times when King David developed it as the fir...