The British Museum curator stole nearly 2,000 items, but 356 have been recovered and displayed. The museum holds vast collections from arou...

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism, and Culture has submitted a report on the functioning of the Archaeological Sur...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman emphasized the need for collaboration between governments to exchange "actionable information" in order...

"The undercurrent of illegal trade in narcotics remains strong. Global drug trafficking is estimated to be worth USD 650 billion, contribut...

In Feb, a spectacular collection of jewelry returned from the estate of antiquities collector.

The October 23 Coimbatore car explosion in a communally sensitive area in the city, which witnessed deadly serial blasts in 1998 coinciding...

Egyptians have termed Britain's possession of the stone as an act of 'cultural violence'.

During his visit, Albares will hold talks with his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar on bilateral, regional, and international issues of mutu...

Both of the items were forfeited once the owners were presented with evidence that the artifacts were previously stolen from India.

The ASI said it can take up the issue of retrieval of only those antiquities, which have been illegally exported out of the country in viol...

EGYPT-CULTURE/COFFINS (TV,PIX):U.S. to help Egypt restore hundreds of pharaonic era coffins

Idol wing police, investigating the theft of idols, arrested Kapoor after his extradition from Germany with the help of Interpol in 2012.

A Singaporean museum today said it is returning to India an 11th-century bronze sculpture, dating back to the Chola dynasty which it had pu...

After items like antiques, narcotics, sandalwood or animal body parts, now it is the turn of live animals like snakes.

The West Bengal Police recovered a bronze idol of Goddess Durga on Thursday from Siliguri and arrested one in this connection.

While Sikkim, Tibet, Bangladesh or eastern India are in the supply side, wide Western world market via Nepal are there in the receiving sid...

The seized ivory, kept in a bag and weighing about 20 kg, was estimated to cost over Rs one crore in international market.