The previous article on Chittagong highlighted its nature as a frontier town in Harikela. The Markandeya Purana, one of the earliest of the major Puranas, validated Chittagong’s marginality from South ...

Gazing at the heavens arrayed before us—at least as pictured in a 1690 Polish volume on display in a fascinating exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art—we see Urania, the goddess of astronomy, ...

Cartography is cool. Where would we be without it as a species? I, personally, wouldn't know that my country looks like a tiny Africa and would get lost driving in any new city that I visit. We can ...

Actor of the Year (Olivier Awards) for Pravda, The Observer Award for Outstanding Achievement (Olivier Awards) for Pravda, Outstanding Actor - Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Equus and Best Performance ...

KOTA KINABALU: A senior state civil servant has been slapped with a fine of three buffaloes and RM3,000 by the native court in Sabah for enticing the wife of Datuk Claudius Roman, president of the ...

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On the 15January 2026, the ‘Dhaka Declaration’ was adopted with eight strategic commitments, aimed at building a stable, inclusive, innovative and globally acceptable higher education system in the ...

The Ptolemaic empire is one of the Greek states which took shape out of the disintegration of the empire of Alexander the Great. Foreign politics in the third century BC concentrated on the expansion ...

Livia Drusilla was the third wife of Augustus, the first Roman emperor. Prior to her marriage to Augustus, she was married to a Roman politician by the name of Tiberius Claudius Nero. Through this ...