Without formal training or funding, they have braved rugged terrain, deciphered ancient scripts and uncovered hidden ...

A joint initiative undertaken by the Housing and Infrastructure Development Corporation (Hidco) and the West Bengal State ...

BENGALURU: For centuries, India was a textile powerhouse, its vibrant fabrics reaching distant corners of the earth. But ...

Early on Christmas morning in 1962, the Indian diplomat S.S. Banerjee heard a mysterious knock on his door in Dacca, East ...

India and the US will soon launch the joint microwave remote sensing satellite for Earth observation, named NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR). The spacecraft will orbit the Earth in a sun ...

As it readies its constellation of Earth observation satellites, Bengaluru-based startup Pixxel Space has plans to map the Moon and asteroids, and look for materials required to build settlements ...

Just Room Enough Island is the smallest pocket of inhabited land in the world and sees tourists heading out on the Saint ...

His book The Golden Road, released this week by Bloomsbury, shows a map of India covered in Roman coin hordes ... “The aspiration and desire for gold jewellery in Kerala, and later in Bengal, is ...

A survey of the Khalistan movement shows it has been driven by grievances, hatred, and distorted history rather than clarity of purpose ...

How much of history is ‘his’ story and how of it is ‘her’? The more aware we become of the sources of our knowledge about our ...

The Shibpur botanical garden, India’s oldest living plant repository housing 1,377 species and the legendary Great Banyan ...

New Delhi: Cyclone Dana hit the Odisha coast today, uprooting trees, snapping power lines in several areas and killing a person in West Bengal. The storm made landfall between Bhitarkanika and ...