by Spectrum | May 26, 2020 | Cultural
In recognition of efforts by Sharjah, UAE in promoting books and literacy, it was named as the ‘World Book Capital’ for the year 2019-2020 by UNESCO on World Book Day, April 23, 2019. The UN’s cultural agency announced this under the recommendation of the Advisory...
by Spectrum | May 26, 2020 | Cultural
A school, Akshar Foundation, established in 2016 by Mazin Mukhtar and his wife Parmita Sarma in Gorchuk area of Guwahati, Assam, accepts plastic wastes as the only form of fee from its students. The students are taught to recycle and reuse the collected plastic waste...
by Spectrum | May 26, 2020 | Cultural
A cave-like chamber with a totally different rock formation has been discovered near Raulake, 15 kilometres from Ukhimath, in Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand. The cave, whose front portion is less than 2 feet in height, was found when road construction work from...
by Spectrum | May 26, 2020 | Cultural
Palanpur is a small village in Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh. However, it has a special place in development economics because of research projects that have stretched for over six decades. The various research projects by economists have made it the “most...
by Spectrum | May 26, 2020 | Cultural
Stromboli, a part of the Aeolian Islands, just off the northern coast of Sicily, is a tourist destination in Italy. Located on the island of Stromboli in the Tyrrhenian Sea, it houses one of the three active volcanoes in the country and one of the most active in the...
by Spectrum | May 26, 2020 | Cultural
The Khera Khap of Haryana’s Jind district, after a meeting in June 2019, decided not to use their caste as their surnames. Khera khap makes up 24 villages of Uchana town in the state, which comprise some major ones like Nagura, Badoda, Badhana, Karsindhu,...
