Today we’re in the largest unincorporated community in Merced County. In 1912 their post office opened. It closed in 1918, ...

An infrastructure project aims to turn the home to remote Indigenous tribes into a Hong Kong-like industrial port city that could see the local population increase by 8,000 per cent. Activists ...

As Sardar KM Panikkar explained, India’s land-based invaders ultimately became natives. Its colonisers came by the sea—and they were successful because Indian rulers ignored the waters.

Hundreds died in a stampede at the first Kumbh Mela in independent India in Allahabad in 1954 – a disaster caused by ...

A new government in Nepal has usually been followed by a Nepali prime ministerial visit to New Delhi in response to an Indian ...

A stampede injured dozens of people early Wednesday as tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to take a holy bath in the river at ...

India successfully launched into orbit on Wednesday a new navigation satellite aboard a home-grown rocket, strengthening its ...

Explore India's architectural evolution post-independence: a blend of modernism and tradition shaping today's built ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto Djojohadikusumo was the chief guest at India’s Republic Day celebrations on January 26.

As we celebrate the birth of our Republic more than 75 years ago, it is but nature for our thoughts to turn to the founding ...

Maqbool Fida Husain, dubbed the “Picasso of India”, was one of South Asia’s most renowned artists but no stranger to ...

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