From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes ...

Married women observe Vat Savitri Vrat, praying for their husbands' well-being. Rooted in the Savitri-Satyavan tale, rituals ...

The Bottle Brush Plant, also known as Callistemon, is a tree with bright flowers that have a cylindrical, bottle brush-like appearance ...

The nursery is one of four opened in the region last year as part of an ongoing effort to promote agroforestry—the practice ...

This is a good starting place for anyone creating a spice rack from scratch or interested in delving into a new cuisine.

While operators have historically served Western cuisines, a handful of modern safaris are offering local cuisines and native ...

If you love cooking, and would like to branch out from your normal spices, here's a long list of unique spices to tantalize ...

By Girija Madhavan Over the years our lives have been controlled by the seasonal and monthly cycles of earth, sun and moon.

Colonial powers once sought to wipe out cloves grown by locals on the eastern Indonesian island of Ternate to safeguard their monopoly over the prized crop. Today, farmers say the gravest threat ...

Cengkeh Afo, one of the world's oldest clove trees, in Ternate, North Maluku A worker shovels cloves into a sifting machine to remove impurities at a warehouse in Ternate, North Maluku Colonial ...

Ayurveda offers a natural approach to oral care, utilizing ingredients like neem, babool, clove, pudina, and vajradanti for ...

Compared to 2021, there is an increase of 1445 sqkm — an area as large as Delhi — in the total forest and tree cover of the country, the report said. The forest and tree cover of India is now ...