The Latest Breaking News from New Year

Opponents of military rule in Myanmar have urged residents to boycott the country's traditional New Year celebrations, as activists and Buddhist monks defied security forces by staging small protests against last year's coup in some areas.

Baisakhi, also called Vaisakhi or Vaisakh Sankranti, is an annual festival which is celebrated with great enthusiasm and fervour by Sikhs and Hindus. It is a spring harvest festival and so it generally falls in mid-April every year. Many Hindus also believe that Baisakhi marks the beginning of the New…

The start of Songkran, the traditional Thai New Year, also marks a celebration of family as most people take advantage of the long holiday to return home.

The hearts of all Thais are blessed and looking forward to Wednesday when the five-day Songkran holiday begins. It will be the first time in three years for us to celebrate the traditional New Year known for joyous water splashing at the hottest time of the year.

KOLKATA: After two years of struggle with Covid, Telugus celebrated Ugadi, Marathis Gudi Padwa, Sindhis Chetti Chand and Marwaris and Gujaratis Navratri in a grand manner on Saturday. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee, too, wished the communities on the occasion of the New Year festivities.

Today marks the arrival of the traditional New Year for Telugus – Ugadi. On the auspicious occasion, several Tollywood celebrities took to their respective social media handles to share their desi avatar. Have a glimpse:

"I'm sorry I seem so … sad," said the young man on the stage. Dressed in a voluminous dark hoodie, he both did and did not look like a filmmaker introducing his award-winning documentary on the first night of the True/False Film Fest in Columbia, Missouri. The film, "Where Are…

Work to dry Pacific cod in cold outdoor weather is fully underway in Wakkanai, Hokkaido. A local specialty called bodara is made by drying cod both indoors and outdoors, exposing it to cold winds and sunlight from autumn to spring until there is no moisture left inside. The fish shrinks…

Norwich are out to maintain their strong start to the New Year by earning a shock result against Manchester City tonight.

China returned to work Monday after a weeklong Lunar New Year holiday muted by the pandemic — and even more so for the thousands of people inside a Winter Olympics bubble

Love Seafood has teamed up with highly rated southside food spot The Real Wan to offer a discounted or even a free seafood meal to celebrate the Lunar New Year.