UK museum to return over 2000 historic manuscripts to Jain communityThe Wellcome Collection in London is returning over 2,000 Jain manuscripts to the Jain community. These sacred texts, held for over a centu...
16 May, 2026, 12.04 AM IST
Prez Murmu cites Macaulay's 'conspiracies' in her Parl speech, hails Somnath's enduring spiritPresident Droupadi Murmu highlighted the government's efforts to counter colonial-era inferiority. She emphasized national self-respect and...
28 Jan, 2026, 06.57 PM IST
Request Sonia Gandhi to return Nehru's letters to Prime Ministers' Museum: ShekhawatUnion Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has asked Sonia Gandhi to return Jawaharlal Nehru's personal documents to the Prime Ministers' Muse...
28 Dec, 2025, 05.15 PM IST
Getting India’s history right: Culture ministry asks all arts and heritage bodies to link digital data to ambitious projectApart from 6,300 manuscripts and 32,000 rare books, thousands of archival documents, photos, newspaper clippings, museum collections and ca...
09 Aug, 2021, 08.51 AM IST
How the overseas college experience is changing for Indian studentsEven as a whole industry grows around as support system, things are not the same for desi students.
15 Sep, 2018, 06.19 AM IST
How Dakshayani Velayudhan broke the iron ceiling of caste to become the only Dalit woman in Constituent AssemblyDakshayani recalls in her manuscript one particular professor who refused to let her touch the lab equipment. She had to watch the experime...
15 Aug, 2017, 06.43 AM IST
Rare pencil portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, worth over £8,000, and his hand-written letters to go under the hammerThe sketch that shows Gandhi writing something whilst seated on the floor.
11 Jul, 2017, 09.09 AM IST
Go back in time and reconnect with the glorious past on your next heritage holidayA journey that depicts intricate temples, majestic hilltop forts and ornate palaces built by imperial kingdoms.
27 Apr, 2017, 10.23 AM IST
Hinduism is based on logic; Sabarimala shrine must allow entry of women: Swami Bhoomananda TheerthaBhoomananda’s public interventions began with a protracted struggle to put an end to the popular ritual of singing obscene songs during the...
26 Jun, 2016, 12.34 PM IST
Soon, digitalised unpublished version of Jawaharlal Nehru's handwritten autographyPeople across the globe would soon be able to read the unpublished handwritten autography of first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru titled `...
14 Nov, 2015, 12.07 PM IST
Government spends Rs 25 lakh this fiscal for archives' digitisationNoting that some documents were in good shape, Sharma said the government would work towards ensuring the safety of manuscripts and old doc...
02 Mar, 2015, 03.48 PM IST
For Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi was an anti-apartheid icon: Abdul KalamNelson Mandela always considered Mahatma Gandhi as pioneer of apartheid movement in South Africa, recalls former President A P J Abdul Kala...
06 Dec, 2013, 06.41 PM IST
- Does Mahatma Gandhi need a law to protect image?
Numerous books have been written on Gandhi. The most recent one by Joseph Lelyveld has allegedly given some titillating insight into Mahatm...
04 Apr, 2011, 04.21 AM IST
- Gandhiji's manuscript not to be auctioned
The manuscript of a letter Mahatma Gandhi wrote 19 days before his assassination in 1948 will not not be auctioned here on Tuesday, Indian ...
02 Jul, 2007, 06.43 PM IST