Society

AGRA - Instead of getting killed, he stormed off the battlefield, leaving the Ramayan saga incomplete at a famous Ram Lila here. But now the actor who played Ravan says he had a perfectly good reason for it - undue favours to Ram and his retinue at the cost of the king of Lanka and his army!

KATHMANDU - In 1957, when Ms H.S. Oliphant, a retired English headmistress, decided to buy the estate of a former nawab in northern India and start a boarding school for girls, she had no idea of the far-reaching wonders it would produce one day.

CAIRO - A 4,500-year-old tomb of a priest was discovered close to Egypt's Giza Pyramids, Xinhua reported Monday.

NEW YORK - A man, who buried his 61-year-old partner on top of his wife at a cemetery here, said that he doesn't regret it.