Tag: Spring

#Pakistan News Ukraine appears to expose Russian air defence gaps with long-range strikes as fighting enters its 286th day and attention turns to use of drones in the conflict between the European neighbours. A local resident leaves his home after Russian shelling destroyed an apartment house in Bakhmut, Donetsk ...

An “adaptation limit” is a threshold beyond which risks and losses become “intolerable.” These limits can be “soft,” which means that new technologies might help deal with higher levels of risk, or “hard,” which means that avoiding risks becomes impossible. With air-conditioning, people can inhabit places that hit 122 ...

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted in a February report that intense, frequent heat waves will become more common across South Asia over the coming decades. And, the Indian government has said the country will see temperatures rise, on average, by over 4C by 2100. ...

LAHORE, PakistanStudents, professionals and families from Baltistan, a mountainous region in the Pakistani-administered territory of Gilgit-Baltistan, celebrated the Persian New Year Nowruz in the city of Lahore.Nowruz is a spring festival and new year celebration named for the Persian word meaning “new day.” It is celebrated all over Asia ...

Pic: Shakeel/Excelsior In a first, different varieties of local bread, traditional bakery put on display, evening rally of illuminated shikaras gives Dal a festive look SRINAGAR, MARCH 21: The Department of Tourism hosted a Tourism Festival at Zabarwan Park situated on the famous Dal Lake shore here this evening ...

LAHORE, PakistanTraders in Lahore, Pakistan have urged authorities to revive Basant, the annual kite-flying festival celebrated with the advent of spring.Before the 2007 ban on kite-flying in the province of Punjab, the walled city of Lahore was known for the festival, due in early February.People from all walks of ...

While recollecting memories of life in 1990s' Kashmir, however, Bashir does not leave her reader distraught, but instead delights them with the tenderness with which she brings together the Kashmiriness of the locals.By Reya MehrotraOne doesn’t need to be a Kashmiri to know the meaning of Agar firdaus bar ...

What I Want to RememberI started cleaning our apartment so I could take photos to remember it by. My husband was retiring, and we were moving from New York — leaving the place where two lonesome apartments combined into this one; where two single people combined as a pair; ...

TEHRAN, Iran Iranians on Sunday marked the beginning of the new Persian year, Nowruz, amid festivities dampened by restrictions against the novel coronavirus pandemic.Nowruz, which translates into "new day" in Persian, coincides with the spring equinox, which falls on March 21 every year.This year, the occasion also marked the turn ...

Here’s what you need to know:Ocean Drive in Miami Beach on Thursday. College students have arrived in the South Florida area for the annual spring break ritual.Credit...Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesThe city of Miami Beach, worried about big crowds filling the streets of South Beach and the threat of a resurgent ...