What you need to know about Buddhist capitalismA thousand years before that, the trading routes across the world were controlled by Buddhist merchant kings. This is one aspect of Buddhis...
06 Aug, 2022, 12.37 AM IST
Hazaras fear for the future as foreign troops exit AfghanistanAfghan security forces are struggling to hold off an increasingly powerful Taliban as international troops withdraw from the county, with p...
03 Feb, 2021, 03.38 PM IST
US-Taliban talks put India in tight spotThe Army chief, Gen Bipin Rawat’s bold suggestion that India steps on to the “bandwagon” by talking to the Taliban in Afghanistan because e...
29 Jan, 2019, 12.56 PM IST
Expert Blog: Afghanistan’s air corridor programme will help boost economyThe implementation of the first air freight initiative between Afghanistan and India in 2017 has given major impetus to increase its footpr...
17 Jul, 2018, 10.44 AM IST
View: India’s progressives don’t get the real reason for Lenin’s bulldozingThe Lenin affair won’t distract attention from the main lesson of northeast polls: that the BJP is now a truly pan-Indian party.
11 Mar, 2018, 11.39 AM IST
Why monuments would be worse off without the World Heritage statusThe World Heritage status does not mean much financially nor does it give UNESCO serious powers, but monuments and national parks would be ...
09 Oct, 2016, 10.37 AM IST
Congress wants to open sensitive areas for touristsThe underdeveloped and restricted areas in Kargil, could be promoted along with Kargil War Memorial, which is already famous and attracts t...
28 Jun, 2016, 12.54 AM IST
High-tech plan in place to save ancient sites from ISIS: ReportArchaeologists at Oxford and Harvard will flood the region with 3D cameras in a plan to create a full digital record of every threatened ar...
28 Aug, 2015, 08.27 PM IST
World-famous Buddhas of Bamiyan resurrect in AfghanistanFourteen years after the Taliban dynamited the world-famous Buddhas of Bamiyan, the giant statues were resurrected with 3D light projection...
14 Jun, 2015, 04.55 PM IST
Onions from Afghanistan, Egypt may bring down prices by 20 per centMore than 350 tonne of onions have arrived through Pakistan’s Wagah border to Attari in Punjab said an official at the Attari Post.
17 Sep, 2013, 01.11 AM IST
Amidst slowdown, SAIL on an expansion spree under chairman Chandra Shekhar VermaSAIL is in the process of executing an expansion that will take its capacity from 14 mn tpa to 24 mn tpa of hot metal by 2015.
18 Aug, 2013, 10.42 AM IST
India to seal deal on maiden Afghan steel project todayIndia will hold talks with a SAIL-led consortium of steel and mining companies to ease their entry into Afghanistan for the first-ever deal.
30 May, 2013, 09.04 PM IST
- SAIL upbeat on winning the iron-ore mining contract from Afghanistan
The contract in Afghanistan will give the state-run company an edge over rivals in bids for exploring other minerals in the war-torn countr...
18 Jan, 2012, 06.59 AM IST
- Monnet Ispat & Energy, JSW Ispat in team for Afghan mine bid
Seven-member consortium may bid for all four iron ore blocks, estimated to contain 1.8 BT reserves; Tatas exited the group last week.
01 Sep, 2011, 05.15 AM IST
- Bundelkhand: The vast sea of magnificent architectural and artistic masterpieces
Bundelkhand is arguably India's finest repository of architectural monuments, some of which are known while many are absolutely untouched.
21 Apr, 2011, 01.25 PM IST
- Should India Inc risk an Afghan adventure?
It's an upcoming question for Indian companies: should they risk life and money to corner a piece of the abundant mineral riches in Afghani...
30 Jun, 2010, 05.40 AM IST