Rakhigarhi Stadium confirms Harappan love for sportsArchaeologists at Rakhigarhi, the largest known Harappan site, have discovered a stadium with precise engineering, indicating advanced arch...
09 Jan, 2025, 11.09 PM IST
Largest Harappan metropolis struggling for preservationRakhigarhi, the largest known Harappan site, faces challenges in preserving its 5,000-year-old mud brick structures. The excavation team is...
09 Jan, 2025, 11.05 PM IST
What is the cost of holidaying in HaryanaIf, instead of foreign holidays, you prefer to travel within India, here’s a new series to help you plan the best vacations in each of the ...
09 Jan, 2023, 12.27 PM IST
India identifies 20 heritage sites for 'national importance' tagIndia has identified two ancient mounds at Haryana's Rakhigarhi, Anangtal in Delhi rock painting at Chintakunta, Andhra Pradesh; rock art s...
02 Aug, 2022, 11.14 AM IST
Ideological Push: Work soon on Indus Valley sitesIn keeping with the BJP’s ideological push to promoting the country’s culture and heritage, the culture ministry will also develop Shiv Sag...
02 Feb, 2020, 08.46 AM IST
Haryana CM Manohar Lal hails Union Budget for focus on farm, MSMECongratulating the Union Finance Minister for presenting a pro-poor, pro- farmers and pro-common man budget, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar...
01 Feb, 2020, 07.01 PM IST
Budget 2020: Govt proposes to set up Indian Institute of Heritage and ConservationFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday proposed the setting up of an Indian Institute of Heritage and Conservation under the Minis...
01 Feb, 2020, 03.15 PM IST
Steppe migration to India was between 3500-4000 years ago: David ReichHarvard geneticist David Reich breaks down the findings of two recent papers on the genetics of ancient Indians.
12 Oct, 2019, 09.09 PM IST
Scientists reconstruct faces of Indus Valley peopleA team of 15 scientists and academics applied craniofacial reconstruction (CFR) technique using computed tomography (CT) data of two of the...
10 Oct, 2019, 11.05 AM IST
Rakhigarhi DNA study questions Aryan invasion theory, claims authorThe findings are based on the study of the ancient genome in the skeletons excavated from Rakhigarhi.
06 Sep, 2019, 08.25 AM IST
What if the Rakhigarhians really did look like Hrithik Roshan?Theories will be upset if reconstructed ancient Indian faces vindicate Gowarikar.
31 Jan, 2019, 12.12 PM IST
In a first, ancient couple found in Harappan graveExperts infer from the way the two were buried that the Harappan people believed in life after death.
09 Jan, 2019, 01.20 PM IST
Harappan site of Rakhigarhi: DNA study finds no Central Asian trace, junks Aryan invasion theoryResearchers Vasant Shinde and Neeraj Rai said this establishes the fact that knowledge ecosystem in the Vedic era was guided by “fully indi...
13 Jun, 2018, 12.24 PM IST
What kind of cheese were our ancestors?DNA, science and human imagination are all thrown in the mix when it comes to answering this pressing question.
16 Feb, 2018, 11.28 PM IST
Shifting locals from Harappan site in Haryana may hit political hurdleUnder the Rakhigarhi mounds, lies one of the most endangered heritage sites of the world and the ASI thinks it’s time to launch a full-fled...
18 Apr, 2017, 01.51 AM IST
Renaming Indus Valley Civilisation will be correcting history: Haryana MinisterDiscarding suggestions that renaming the Indus valley civilisation reeked of "saffronisation", Vij said "We are not rewriting history but c...
02 Mar, 2017, 09.18 PM IST
State-of-the-art museum to come up in PanchkulaA state-of-the-art museum will come up at Panchkula in Haryana at a cost of around Rs 30 crore to display significant archeological finding...
13 May, 2015, 10.46 PM IST