Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has gifted a special sandalwood box to US President Joe Biden containing an idol of Lord Ganesha and si...

With the state government focusing on creating good infrastructure to connect Ayodhya with main cities like Lucknow and Gorakhpur and other...

Recent years have witnessed an increasing demand for the repatriation of looted art objects globally. Even as the British Museum in London ...

Indeed, every time someone posts a photo of a Chola bronze or stone frieze depicting some Indian deity displayed in some museum-invariably ...

Sources in the governing body told PTI that the rough value of assets owned by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams across the country could ...

With encyclopedic command of the material, Kumar hunts for distinguishing marks on antiques, matching archival photographs with offerings i...

The 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...

“Has a question of this nature ever arisen in any other court?” Justice SA Bobde, the next in line to be CJI, asked Parasaran.

Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams has about 8.7 tonnes of pure gold, besides nearly 550 kg of gold jewellery set with stones offered by devote...

It is also gathered that efforts will now be made to prepare a draft action plan examining all possibilities of bringing back the famed dia...

In a statement, the government claimed it has not yet conveyed its views to the court "contrary to what is being misrepresented" in the med...

Close 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...

Critical awareness of wonderful creations – or even awareness of their very existence – remains, at best, in specialist, academic and minis...

During his meeting with Modi, Abbott returned the idols, one of which is a Nataraja --the dancing Shiva-- which belonged to the Chola dynas...

Guptipara is officially said to be where the baroari or community puja tradition began when 12 (baro) friends (yaar) pooled in to conduct a...

Experts at the Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple has catapulted the shrine located here to the country's richest, with reports claiming that the...

The erstwhile capital of Egypt, Memphis is still abundant in natural beauty and the contrasting arid desert of Saqqara - the necropolis of ...