A landmark excavation has offered unprecedented historical insights. Set to conclude in the coming months, ToI gets a sneak ...

Local Persian community celebrates their New Year 'Nowruz' in San Diego. Nowruz means 'Happy, New Day' in Farsi.

Nowruz, which translates to “new day,” falls on the first day of spring each year, as the Persian calendar follows the vernal ...

From the early 16th century to the 19th century, the Mughal Empire ruled large areas of the Indian subcontinent, which highly ...

The 21st day of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan coincides with the martyrdom anniversary of the First Imam of Shia ...

Spring cleaning time is back again and while how and what we clean has differed, better mental health remains the ultimate goal.

On Thursday 20 March at 09:01 the sun crossed the equator going north to mark the vernal equinox. This was the point in the year at which day and night became of equal length and, going forward, will ...

Purim is hardly over, and the true faces of the haters and loathers have already been revealed. Not so long ago, it was considered best to hide behind a mask and express slanderous incitement against ...

An Iranian man jumps over a firework celebrating Chaharshanbe Souri, or Wednesday Feast, an ancient Festival of Fire on the ...

Hundreds of people gathered in Srinigar, Indian-administered Kashmir, on Friday, for a leech therapy clinic. Friday is the start of Nowruz, the Persian New Year, and it is traditionally believed that ...

Every Newroz has been a bittersweet time for us, a time we’ve wished for peace. Today, we renew that hope. We want to live in ...