The Ganges is more than a river. It is a lifeline, a sacred symbol, and a cornerstone of South Asian civilisation. But it is ...

The Ramayana is one of India's greatest epics, a timeless tale of virtue, devotion, exile, and triumph. Its verses trace the contours of human courage and divine destiny, weaving forests, rivers, ...

The paths on Google Maps would have looked significantly different a thousand years ago. India was a country with a network of dusty trails, twisting hill routes, and seaside lanes that transported ...

NEW DELHI: Flooding across northern India killed at least five people on Wednesday (Sep 3), officials said, with more thunderstorms expected and local media reporting that 10,000 people have been ...

VRINDAVAN, India (RNS) — When the protests against a state government plan to redevelop a world-renowned Hindu temple began in May, Varsha Otwani, a 64-year-old homemaker, joined the women’s chorus, ...

In northern Iraq, receding water levels in the Mosul Dam reservoir have revealed approximately 40 ancient tombs dating back over 2,300 years to the Hellenistic-Seleucid period. The discovery, made by ...

The Lava River Cave exhaled chilled air. I put on my sweatshirt, despite the hot July day. Though I'd been warned about the sudden drop in temperature to a crisp 42 degrees, it was hard to believe I'd ...

Shobha Rao’s new novel, “Indian Country,” is a crime story as well as a multilayered saga of white empire in India and America. By Gaiutra Bahadur Gaiutra Bahadur is the author of “Coolie Woman: The ...

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India has recovered a set of relics linked to early Buddhism more than a century after they were removed from the country during the British colonial period ...

Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers report in Nature Geoscience. The team used radio echo sounding, a technique ...