Lunar New Year brings happiness with focus on family and food
To mark traditional holidays, many Asian cultures use a lunisolar calendar, which incorporates elements of both lunar and solar calendars. So, while a majority of the world's 6.6 billion inhabitants...
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The Year of the Ox begins Monday, according to the lunisolar calendar used by the Chinese. Also known as Spring Festival, Chinese New Year falls on the first day of the first lunar month in the...
View ArticleReminding religious harmony
Month of September has brough together religious festivals of Jews, Muslims and Hindus in the world. On September 18, 2009 Jewish population around the world celebrated Rosh Hashanah, while Muslims...
View ArticleCatch a ‘Conjunction Triple Play’ on February 20th as the Moon Meets Venus &...
Fear not, the chill of late February. This Friday gives lovers of the sky a reason to brave the cold and look westward for a spectacular close triple conjunction of the planets Mars, Venus and the...
View ArticleHere are some interesting facts about ‘Chinese New Year 2018’
New Delhi With the world celebrating the biggest New Year celebration – Chinese New Year, here are some important points to understand the so as to what exactly is this spring festival about: 1.Chinese...
View ArticleWhat Will You Do This Easter Week/Weekend?
For those of you who are wondering about the historical background of Easter (in the West, Easter falls on April 1, 2018 and in the East it falls on April 8, 2018), let’s take a look at what wikipedia...
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