Punkah' is a colonial-era anglicisation of the Hindustani term pankha, which referred to handheld fans. Punkah-pullers were ...

Punkah refers to a large, rope-pulled, swinging fan hung from the ceiling that became a staple for the British to withstand ...

Parvez Hossain Emon became only the second batter from Bangladesh to score a century in T20 Internationals during the first ...

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.

Controversy erupted during the IPL 2025 league clash between Gujarat Titans and Sunrisers Hyderabad, with Shubman Gill's innings cutting short in a rather dramatic fashion. The GT skipper led from ...

From the “Great Arab Revolt” against Ottoman rule in World War I to the upheavals of the Arab Spring, this text analyzes a century of modern Arab history through the lens of three intertwined notions: ...

In the last century only one federal government has failed to be re-elected for a second term, that of Labor Prime Minister James Scullin, who had the poor fortune of coming to power about five ...

A quaint 19th-century Cambridge house could be turned into a seven-person house of multiple occupancy (HMO). MATT Architecture Ltd proposes to turn Grafton House in Grafton Street, Cambridge ...

He wears an earring, his clothes seem to owe more to the 1980s New Romantic movement than 19th-Century costume, and from his affairs with women to his lack of deference to his so-called superiors ...

He's often credited as a founder of French gastronomy and of Grande Cuisine (classic French cuisine which was at its most lavish during the 19th Century). However, according to Paul Freedman ...

The United States finalizes the Louisiana Purchase from France, adding the land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains to its territory. Meriwether Lewis, of the legendary duo Lewis ...

Rajasthan Royals’ teenage sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi etched his name in the history books on Monday, becoming the youngest-ever batter to score a T20 century and the fastest Indian to achieve ...