Every spring, as the earth tilts toward balance, millions celebrate Nowruz—the Persian New Year—a 3,000-year-old festival rooted in Zoroastrianism that’s as vibrant as the season it ushers in. Known ...

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Festival organizers called Nowruz a “universal moment of rebirth and renewal,” a cultural welcoming of spring.

The festivities, which begin 25 days before Newroz, take place across various cities and towns in the region. This year, a large-scale carnival is being held in Deryaz, an ancient village located 10 ...

She was a well-known actress and the wife of legendary actor-turned-politician M.G. Ramachandran (MGR), who was a towering ...

Iranian celebrations are steeped in rituals ... There are also street performances of music and dance, public rituals involving water and fire, traditional sports and the making of handicrafts.

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a backlog of thousands of ...

Shengrong Bu remembers spending many happy hours in her father’s lab. It was there she discovered her love of engineering.

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President Donald Trump reversed course on a pledge to double tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum to 50 percent.

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