I was a student of class six in a remote village in Odisha A few months before the national flag was hoisted in our school by Headmaster to our chanting of Jana Gana Mana And now came the news that Ga ...

The gods on assuming various forms in this mortal world could in no way escape death They propitiated Ashutosha Shiva and requested his help in keeping death at bay Shiva took the crescent moon from h ...

Dehradun: Uttarakhand high court has halted the expansion of stone crushing units and directed the state to identify fixed zones for crushing and dumping river-bed material (RBM) in every district ...

Its unique chemical composition, rich in sodium carbonate, eerily preserves animal remains, turning them into stone-like figures. We all love to consume soft drinks, but at the same time we know ...

LOS ANGELES, CA (IANS) – As ‘RRR’ emerges as a season favorite across America, with the Pakistani Punjabi film, ‘Joyland’, giving it close competition, the influential Rolling Stone ...

In the late 17th century, European soldiers sailing up the eastern coast of India referred ... Three types of stone went into the making of the temple: Chlorite, Laterite and Khondalite.

During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans’ neighbors, new technologies meant something quite different: new kinds of stone tools that were smaller but could be used for ...

The first day of spring was a fitting debut for ABC Stone’s new exhibition celebrating the dynamic relationship between stone and nature. Stone in Landscape Architecture: A Sensory Journey, on view ...

The artist was involved in a fatal car accident early Saturday morning. Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone, who founded an early female rap group and later helped pioneer the neo-soul sound ...

R&B singer Angie Stone died in a car crash early Saturday. She was 63. Stone was traveling with members of her band from Mobile, Alabama to Atlanta when their van collided with a semi-truck on ...

Dedicated to the Hindu solar deity Surya, the Konark Sun Temple is a 13th-century relic of Kalinga architecture that looks like an 100-foot-tall chariot carved from chlorite, laterite, and khondalite ...

Officers were called for reports of a suicide just before 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at an apartment complex in the 18700 block of Stone Oak Parkway. The following officers were shot by Brandon Scott ...