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PM Modi's gift to Biden highlights India's traditional respect for experience: OfficialsIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has gifted a special sandalwood box to US President Joe Biden containing an idol of Lord Ganesha and si...
5-stars to budget chain, hospitality industry flocks to Ayodhya to open new hotelsWith the state government focusing on creating good infrastructure to connect Ayodhya with main cities like Lucknow and Gorakhpur and other...
Of stolen art and looters' crafty craftRecent years have witnessed an increasing demand for the repatriation of looted art objects globally. Even as the British Museum in London ...
View: Indian idols need public supportIndeed, every time someone posts a photo of a Chola bronze or stone frieze depicting some Indian deity displayed in some museum-invariably ...
With net net worth of over Rs 2.5 lakh cr, Tirupati temple is richer than Wipro, Nestle, ONGCSources in the governing body told PTI that the rough value of assets owned by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams across the country could ...
An art sleuth from Chennai is taking on traffickers in a $10 billion black marketWith encyclopedic command of the material, Kumar hunts for distinguishing marks on antiques, matching archival photographs with offerings i...
PM Modi to bring back 157 antiquities handed over by USThe list of 157 artefacts includes a diverse set of items ranging from the one-and-a-half metre bas relief panel of Revanta in sandstone of...
Ayodhya case: Has any court dealt with the issue of birth of Jesus Christ? SC asks petitioners“Has a question of this nature ever arisen in any other court?” Justice SA Bobde, the next in line to be CJI, asked Parasaran.
TTD cash deposits in banks crosses Rs 12,000 crore markTirumala Tirupati Devasthanams has about 8.7 tonnes of pure gold, besides nearly 550 kg of gold jewellery set with stones offered by devote...
In a U-turn Narendra Modi government promises to take all steps to bring back KohinoorIt is also gathered that efforts will now be made to prepare a draft action plan examining all possibilities of bringing back the famed dia...
Government makes a U-turn on Kohinoor diamondIn a statement, the government claimed it has not yet conveyed its views to the court "contrary to what is being misrepresented" in the med...
Australian art gallery to return 2,000 yrs old Buddha idolClose on the heels of Germany returning an ancient Durga idol, an Australian art gallery has agreed to give a 2,000-year-old Buddha sculptu...
'Made in India' overdrive: How 16th century treasure in Kerala can teach importance of quality over quantityCritical awareness of wonderful creations – or even awareness of their very existence – remains, at best, in specialist, academic and minis...
Australian PM Tony Abbott returns 11th century stolen idols to ModiDuring his meeting with Modi, Abbott returned the idols, one of which is a Nataraja --the dancing Shiva-- which belonged to the Chola dynas...
- Authentic taste of the secrets of Guptipara
Guptipara is officially said to be where the baroari or community puja tradition began when 12 (baro) friends (yaar) pooled in to conduct a...
- Temple of boom: Rs 1 lakh crore and counting
Experts at the Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple has catapulted the shrine located here to the country's richest, with reports claiming that the...
- Pharoahs and fantasy in Egypt
The erstwhile capital of Egypt, Memphis is still abundant in natural beauty and the contrasting arid desert of Saqqara - the necropolis of ...