By the 18th and 19th centuries, the Persian Empire had weakened due to internal strife and had become a pawn in the hands of ...

India’s 'Golden Age' under the Gupta Empire was destroyed by a fierce nomadic tribe from Central Asia. This report reveals ...

Rottweilers originated from dogs used in ancient Rome to help manage cattle and were integral to cattle-raising in the town ...

From a subcontinent impoverished by centuries of exploitative and often brutal colonial rule, India is today once again the ...

Do you know the original name of Lucknow? Discover how it transformed from a legendary riverside mound to a royal capital.

Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...

The ‘Law of Fish’ (Matsya Nyaya) is an ancient Indian philosophical and political theory that generally means, ‘big fish eat ...

5th century BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from ...

Contemporary political realities, including centralisation, the use of constitutional provisions, and debates over secularism ...

As India and Oman mark seventy years of diplomatic relations, Kaundinya’s arrival in Muscat symbolises a partnership that ...

Tully was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1985 and received the Padma Shri in 1992. He was knighted in ...

The ancient name of the city is Prayaga (Sanskrit for “place of sacrifice,” Prayag in modern Hindi) and is believed to be the ...